Deconstructing Mamas
by Lizz Enns Petters and Esther Joy Goetz
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About this podcast
If you are trying to figure out how to navigate the tricky tightrope of parenting while you have questions, doubts and wonderings about your spiritual journey, this podcast is for you. It doesn't matter if your kids are smalls, middles, or bigs. We will explore what and how we are deconstructing from churchianity, harmful belief systems, and diving deep into the ways we can work this out in parenthood. We will also work through ideas for reconstructing a space for our families to thrive under new systems of love and freedom. We can't wait to bring you some hope that you are not alone and that it's really okay, even good, to explore all the possibilities that may have felt closed off in the past. This podcast will offer you grace and space to be exactly where you are and who you are. We are glad you are here.
Episodes
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- Grace and Space (Looking Back, Looking Forward) - Lizz Enns Petters & Esther Joy Goetz · 36 min · Season 8 Episode 100After eight seasons, countless conversations, and a whole lot of laughter, tears, unraveling, and becoming, we are releasing our final episode of the Deconstructing Mamas…
- Love as Resistance - Dr. Glenn Siepert · 57 min · Season 8 Episode 99In this powerful and honest conversation, Esther and Liz sit down with returning guest and friend Dr. Glenn Siepert — author, artist, and creator of The What If Project…
- Reimagining Community - Lizz Enns Petters & Esther Joy Goetz · 49 min · Season 8 Episode 98In this third-to-last episode of Deconstructing Mamas, we talk about one of the biggest questions we’ve been asked over the past four years: What does community look like now…
- Sacred Rage - Ben Cremer · 1 h 12 min · Season 8 Episode 97We sat down with Rev. Benjamin Cremer, writer, pastor, and creator of Into the Gray, to talk about what it looks like to hold sacred anger with open hands. This conversation…
- Learning to Trust What we Feel - Lizz Enns Petters & Esther Joy Goetz · 1 h 4 min · Season 8 Episode 96In this vulnerable and deeply human conversation, Esther and Lizz open up about the long, complicated process of learning to trust their emotions — after being raised in systems…
- Walking the Middle Path - Dr. Camden Morgante · 46 min · Season 8 Episode 95Licensed psychologist and author Dr. Camden Morgante joins us to explore the “middle path” from DBT and how it reshapes faith, nervous-system healing, sexuality, and parenting…
- The Sacred Fog of the In-Between - Lizz Enns Petters & Esther Joy Goetz · 56 min · Season 8 Episode 94In this week’s episode, Lizz and Esther talk about the in-between—that blurry stretch between certainty and freedom. We talk about control and compassion, about nervous systems…
- Raising Ourselves - Shelley Robinson · 55 min · Season 8 Episode 93We sat down with Shelly Robinson, founder of Raising Yourself, for a conversation about parenting on two levels at once. It’s packed with wisdom, humor, humility, and practical…
- Parenting Beyond Fear - Lizz & Esther · 54 min · Season 8 Episode 92In this week’s episode, we dive straight into the heart of fear-based parenting — where it comes from, how it still shows up, and how we begin to choose something different. We…
- The Cost of Deconstructing - MK Backstrom · 1 h 3 min · Season 8 Episode 91If you’ve ever stepped away from high-control religion, you know there’s a cost. Sometimes it’s obvious—the loss of community, relationships, or even belonging in your own…
- Our Three-Legged Race - Lizz Enns Petters & Esther Joy Goetz · 54 min · Season 8 Episode 90Welcome to Season Eight! This is the beginning of the final season of our podcast! This week, the two of us are chatting through these questions: 1. What’s one word or image that…
- Allowed to Explore - Lizz Enns Petters · 51 min · Season 7 Episode 89Our episode this week is with our own Lizz Enns Petters, mom of two, author and podcast hostess. Our conversation is full of laughter, seriousness and our decision to have…
- Recovering Sex - the Sexvangelicals (Julia Postema and Jeremiah Gibson) · 1 h 16 min · Season 7 Episode 88“There's a misconception that once you leave religion, you magically learn everything you missed about relationships and sex” - The Sexvangelicals Our episode this week is with…
- Blessed are the Women - Claire K. McKeever-Burgett · 55 min · Season 7 Episode 87''Without women we don’t have Jesus. We don’t have Christianity. We don’t have any of it.” (Claire K. McKeever-Burgett) Our episode this week is with Claire K. McKeever-Burgett…
- Rebellion or Integrity? - Jamin Coller · 59 min · Season 7 Episode 86'''Diligent study is precisely what got us here." Jamin Coller Our episode this week is with Jamin Coller, dad of six, podcaster and author of Dear Evangelicals. Our conversation…
- I Would Pick You (Queer Advocacy) - Rachel Pinto-Martin · 1 h 3 min · Season 7 Episode 85'''Our job as parents is not to make other people comfortable with how we raise our kids, Our job is to make sure our kids grow up in a family where they’re comfortable being…
- Powerful Parenting - Wendy Snyder · 58 min · Season 7 Episode 84"Where did we ever get the notion that in order for children to behave better, they first have to feel worse?" Our episode this week is with Wendy Snyder, founder of Fresh Start…
- Jesus vs the Bad Guys? - Jared Neusch and Connor Shram · 55 min · Season 7 Episode 83"In the end, Jesus proved that forgiveness is more powerful than punches and kicks. And in the end, love wins over hate." - Jared Neusch and Connor Shram in their book: Jesus vs…
- Reimagining Easter - Sarah Swartzendruber · 1 h 3 min · Season 7 Episode 82You don’t have to the answers to why Jesus died to talk about Easter with your kids. (Sarah Swartzendruber) Our episode this week is with our resident Children's Pastor…
- Aligning Faith with Soul - Chelan Harkin · 1 h 6 min · Season 7 Episode 81The worst thing we ever did is pretend God isn’t the easiest thing in this Universe available to every soul in every breath. (Chelan Harkin) Our episode this week is with Chelan…
