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About Blaise Kennedy
Everything exists within my consciousness. My body sits at the very centre of this reality. I live within my body, and my body lives within my consciousness. The purpose of my life is to bring coherence to the inner and outer lives of all beings, so that they may know themselves as the source of their consciousness. Blaise's work is the result of his personal transformation, which began in 2010 when he checked into a drug rehabilitation centre. At 24 years old, and after many years of avoidance, struggle, and difficulty, Blaise was finally ready to face reality. After 5 months of treatment Blaise saw tremendous benefits in every area of his life and experience. He left the treatment centre with one question. “How far and how deep can I take this?” How much transformation is possible? Every moment since then has been the fulfillment, the living answer to his question. Today Blaise shares the most valuable and essential elements of awakening and healing, so that you too may know how far and how deep your life can go.
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George was your average American kid born to traditional Middle Eastern immigrants. Curious about life but tortured by vicious bullying in middle school, he found what seemed like a solution: evangelical Christianity. It appeared to have the cure for his most “shameful sin.” Believing his sexual feelings were an abomination before God, he committed his life to a church community that accepted him, conditionally. While hiding the scariest truths about him for fear of losing their love, he went from Bible study to Bible college, committing every aspect of his life to his faith – even forsaking important relationships “for the sake of the Gospel.” Little did he know that the steady trickle of relinquished identity would create a psychological dysmorphia that allowed his oppressors to keep him in dangerous isolation. 
My Gay Church Days is the true story of a profoundly insecure evangelical pastor who eventually decided enough was enough. After failed relationships, crippling anxiety, and cult-like codependency, George broke away from rigid Christianity to pursue the thing he once found most dreadful and fearful about himself. This book is a crusade of revealing, an exploration of conformity, oppression, awakening, and self-discovery unlike any other. Ultimately, it is also a quest to save other “lost souls” by example, calling others to rise above the expectations of others and accept themselves as they are.
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Shannon Payton, known as Shanny Pants by many, is a content creator and podcaster living in Rocklin, California. Her podcast, "The Shanny Pants Show" is currently in its third season. In her interview-style podcast, Shannon shares her struggles of growing up in a cult, battles through years of infertility that ended in a hysterectomy, and finally her journey to parenthood through foster care and adoption. Shannon has been a guest on The Kelly Clarkson show and has appeared on local TV show GoodDay Sacramento multiple times. She enjoys sharing the struggles of life in a humorous way as part of her self-prescribed therapy and through this, has connected with her fans.
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Cait West is a writer and editor in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her work has been published in Religion Dispatches, Fourth Genre, and Hawai’i Pacific Review, and she writes about her journey out of the stay-at-home-daughter movement at caitwest.com. She currently serves on the editorial board of Tears of Eden, a nonprofit providing resources for survivors of spiritual abuse.
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Erin Watts grew up in an evangelical Christian home, went to Bible college, worked in full-time ministry, and dedicated her whole life to the faith until she turned 30. She survived #MeTooYoungLife and she appears on the show to share her story.
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Mary Burkhart is a Religious Trauma Life Coach. She deeply desires to help people, who are on their journeys away from religion, or who find themselves questioning where they stand with regard to religion and doubt, to find or regain their identity, joy, and self-worth quickly after they have decided to leave. She had to go through the process on her own and it almost cost her her life. 
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