Losing Our Religion
Losing Our Religion with host Zac Gandara is a wild often comedic ride alongside a community of diverse humans each seeking their desired life and ideal experience away from the dogma and exclusivities they may have been raised to believe.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 46 minutes
- Episodes
- 463
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2020
MONDAY MELTDOWN: Jim Bakker, Snake Oil, Corona Virus, and Finding Peace: Zac Gandara
This is a crazy time, we’re all feeling it, f*ck the snake oil salespeople that would take advantage of us. Here’s some hilarious meltdown about it all with some encouraging words and daily help.
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THINKING THURSDAY: I Don't Want to Talk About Covid 19 Coronavirus but: Zac Gandara
Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together.
The fear is real for many. I know we are hurting, let us do so in w…
EPISODE 223: A Freight Train of Religious Trauma Healing and Encouraging Laughter: Jonathan Bowles
Jonathan is a firey, former pastor, who’s been through the wringer and come out like a freight train full of…Just listen, you’ll get it. He’s an entrepreneur, coach, existential wanderer, shamanic dr…
MONDAY MELTDOWN: How to Heal Anger and Grief from Time Lost in Religious and Childhood Trauma: Zac Gandara
“I’m Angry and Grieving the Life I Wasted!”
Fellow Loser and listener Natasha wrote in asking how to get rid of the anger and grief she is feeling the time religion and trauma has stolen from her.
M…
THINKING THURSDAY: How to Combat Enmeshment and Codependency: Zac Gandara
Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together.
Growing up religious many of us where taught enmeshment and codepen…
EPISODE 222: COUGH IT OUT! Expelling Demons and Healing From Trauma: Katherine
We begin this episode down a rabbit hole of my mystic therapy weirdness and then thankfully, pivot into relationships, and then drinking and laughing hysterically about Katherine’s Christian past wit…
MONDAY MELTDOWN: We Can’t Please Everyone, But We Should Listen if They’re Hurt: Zac Gandara
Being you is hard enough, it’s even harder when being you somehow trigger's someone else. We can’t change how people perceive us, but when we hurt them unknowingly, no matter how they react, they des…
THINKING THURSDAY: Be Encouraged, You’re Not Alone in Your Healing: Zac Gandara
Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together.
You are unique. Your struggles are not. We are universally bound to…
EPISODE 221: Self-Awareness, Traumatic Events, and Healing: Katherine
Warning, this episode includes a story of a traumatic fatal accident. It’s not easy healing, let alone healing from something fatal. Katherine shares her story of healing and becoming. It’s honest, h…
MONDAY MELTDOWN: Change is Hard, But So is Not Changing: Zac Gandara
There’s no way around it. Change is hard. Taking ownership of your life and self-care is hard. But life is hard anyways so you might at well engage your dreams and change! It's time to leave your abu…
THINKING THURSDAY: How to Get Through an Emotional Trigger: Dr. Nicole LePera: Zac Gandara
Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together.
The things that trigger our traumas are the very things that point …
BEST OF THE PODCAST! A Daddy and His Little: Josh Black and Haven Yates
This episode is a repeat of 153, but it had so many downloads we made it a “Best Of!”
Josh Black and Haven Yates are completely enamored with one another in more ways than one. Clowns, BDSM, Polyamor…
MONDAY MELTDOWN: The Inward Work of Healing: Zac Gandara
The journey inward is hard at first. It’s counterintuitive and certainly countercultural. But after waking up to the realization of the layers of programming others have put on us we begin the journe…
THINKING THURSDAY: When Results, Expectations Change Our Mood: Yung Pueblo: Zac Gandara
Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together.
Ever try to force something to happen? Make someone like you? Yung …
EPISODE 220: Grief, Dissociative Disorder, PTSD and Healing it All: Meghann
Grief from the loss of a loved one triggered a deep fear of death. Meghann began coping with marijuana, which triggered a dormant dissociative disorder that separated her from her life for a time. Th…
MONDAY MELTDOWN: Valentine's Day Narcissism and Obligation: Zac Gandara
Valentine’s Day is upon us, and many of us feel the pressure to feel a certain way or be a certain way. Well, guess what? You don’t! Should our lives be lived out of obligation? Should obligation gui…
THINKING THURSDAY: When We Heal We Open Ourselves up to Stronger Personal Power: Zac Gandara
Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together.
Many of us have had abusive encounters with narcissistic leaders, f…
EPISODE 219: THANKS DAD, for Being a Narcissist: Meghann
Meghann, from the bible-land of Indiana, was conceived while her parents were getting a divorce. Growing up fast taught her very quickly that her experiences with her father traumatized her. But she …
MONDAY MELTDOWN: Empowered Sex Super Bowl!: Zac Gandara
Instead of talking to me about sex on tv, my parents would just shame it, and then yell at me to turn it off and not to watch that! Well, that way of dealing with things has led to being developmenta…
THINKING THURSDAY: Can We Be Both Angry at Kobe’s Rape Abuse and Have Empathy for His Fans and Family?: Kobe Bryant: Zac Gandara
Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together.
Thank you, fellow Loser and listener Brittany who has been a victim…