Episode Description
n Part 1 of this powerful conversation, Dawn sits down with her longtime friend Meg to unpack a story that began years ago in seminary—and eventually forced Meg to question everything she had been taught about marriage, faith, womanhood, and herself.
Meg opens up about life inside an abusive marriage, the religious expectations that kept her trying to make it work, and what happened when she finally turned to church leadership for help. What followed was a painful reckoning with the systems, beliefs, and messages that had taught her to stay quiet, endure more, and put herself last.
Together, Dawn and Meg explore purity culture, spiritual authority, shame, control, and the complicated process of realizing that choosing yourself doesn't make you selfish—it may be the very thing that saves you.
This is a story about what happens when the life you were told to build begins to fall apart—and you finally start asking whether you're willing to keep being that girl anymore.