Marie’s Blog
Approaching the Fear of Death After Evangelicalism
This piece offers a trauma-informed guide to navigating the fear of pain, dying, and death after leaving evangelical frameworks—through nervous system grounding, somatic awareness, and reframing mortality as part of life, not a punishment.
How to Make Ethical Choices Without a Rulebook
This post explores what morality looks like after religious or external authority falls away—how to act with integrity, weigh harm, and stay human in a world where there are no guaranteed right answers.
Living So You Don’t Fear Dying: The Real Work of Being Human
This post explores what it means to live with nothing withheld—to spend your life fully, meet death with clean grief instead of regret, and become the kind of person who doesn't flinch at the end.
Climbing Out of Survival: What Comes After Waking Up
This piece explores the disorienting, profound, and often lonely territory of post-awakening life—where self-trust replaces panic, becoming replaces fixing, and the climb is no longer about escape but emergence.
Crossing the Threshold from Survival to Self-Authorship
After rebuilding your internal decoder and restoring body-mind integration, the next phase is about living with intention—trading vigilance for agency, and shifting from healing to creation.
Why Honey, I Shrunk the Kids Still Feels So Wholesome
A look at how Honey, I Shrunk the Kids balances heartfelt family dynamics, childlike wonder, and backyard sci-fi to create one of the most sincerely wholesome films of its era.
Afraid of My Imagination: Reclaiming What Was Locked Away
This piece explores the fear of imagination after a life shaped by religious gaslighting and emotional suppression, and the slow, painful process of rebuilding reality from the inside out.
Learning to Be Real: Reclaiming the Self After Disembodiment
This piece explores the raw, confusing process of waking up to your own embodied self after a life shaped by religious dissociation and cultural erasure, and the integrity required to narrate that becoming in public.
Reclaiming the Self After Religious and Cultural Erasure
This post explores the raw, existential process of waking up inside your own body and identity after decades of spiritual dissociation, religious indoctrination, and societal gaslighting.
Super Troopers, Misogyny, and the Cost of the Joke
This post revisits the cult comedy Super Troopers through a 2025 lens, examining how normalized sexual harassment shaped a generation’s humor—and what it felt like to grow up knowing the joke was on you.