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Inner Light Companion podcast
Tamara Ridge
23 episodes
3 days ago
In this bonus episode of the Inner Light Companion, Tamara slows the series cadence to one Tuesday bonus episode for the next three weeks so she can honor her body, her nervous system, and the sacredness of this work—while giving you more space to integrate. She then names what so many raised in Mormonism and other high-control religions have felt but struggled to articulate: the invisible abuse of psychological harm wrapped in spiritual language. Tamara walks through four forms of psychologi...
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In this bonus episode of the Inner Light Companion, Tamara slows the series cadence to one Tuesday bonus episode for the next three weeks so she can honor her body, her nervous system, and the sacredness of this work—while giving you more space to integrate. She then names what so many raised in Mormonism and other high-control religions have felt but struggled to articulate: the invisible abuse of psychological harm wrapped in spiritual language. Tamara walks through four forms of psychologi...
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Religion & Spirituality
Episodes (20/23)
Inner Light Companion podcast
Ep. 23 - Bonus #12 Reclaiming Spiritual Freedoms: Psychological Harm: Reclaiming Your Nervous System, Emotions, and Direct Line to the Divine
In this bonus episode of the Inner Light Companion, Tamara slows the series cadence to one Tuesday bonus episode for the next three weeks so she can honor her body, her nervous system, and the sacredness of this work—while giving you more space to integrate. She then names what so many raised in Mormonism and other high-control religions have felt but struggled to articulate: the invisible abuse of psychological harm wrapped in spiritual language. Tamara walks through four forms of psychologi...
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1 week ago
55 minutes

Inner Light Companion podcast
Ep. 22 - When Safety Leads Devotion: How a Nervous System Reset Transforms Spiritual Practice
After nearly six decades of living in shutdown and over‑functioning, Tamara shares a tender update on a surprising nervous system reset that began just one month ago. She describes how a new tatami mat, a co‑regulating dog, and a night of deeper rest led to a spontaneous, interoception‑led stretching and prayer practice—without any “shoulds” or spiritual performance. In this short, story‑driven episode, you’ll hear how comfort, co‑regulation, and nervous system safety even showed up in Tamara...
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2 weeks ago
14 minutes

Inner Light Companion podcast
Ep. 21 - Religious Trauma and the Body: How High‑Control Faith Hijacks Your Nervous System (and What Safety Feels Like)
What if your body wasn’t the problem in that church, spiritual community, or “transformational” retreat—what if it was wise? In this episode, Tamara pauses her “Naming the Sacred Freedom Restrictions of High‑Control Religion” series to talk about what safety actually feels like in your nervous system. Drawing on polyvagal theory and her own story of leaving Mormonism, she explains why high‑control religion and cult‑like retreat spaces so often leave people anxious, numb, and ashamed—and why ...
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2 weeks ago
40 minutes

Inner Light Companion podcast
Ep. 20 - Bonus Series: Reclaiming Your Sacred Freedoms #11 Freedom of Privacy & Personal Autonomy
In high‑control religion, surveillance doesn’t look like cameras. It looks like interviews, monitoring, “worthiness” checks, and a culture that teaches you to narrate your inner life to authority. Over time, this transforms your inner world into something you manage for the comfort and approval of others — and the loss of privacy becomes one of the deepest spiritual injuries of all. In this episode, Tamara exposes how high‑control systems erode the most sacred space you have: the private inte...
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3 weeks ago
33 minutes

Inner Light Companion podcast
Ep. 19 - Bonus Series: Reclaiming Your Sacred Freedoms #10 - Freedom from Manipulation & Coercion: Seeing the Invisible Patterns That Shape Your Spiritual Life
Manipulation inside high‑control religion rarely looks like manipulation while you’re inside it. It looks like love. It looks like protection. It looks like “spiritual guidance.” And for many of us, it becomes the emotional atmosphere we grow up breathing — invisible until the moment we finally step outside it. In this vulnerable episode, Tamara unpacks the four forms of manipulation and coercion that shape life inside high‑control religious systems: • Emotional manipulation — love‑bombing, g...
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3 weeks ago
52 minutes

Inner Light Companion podcast
Ep. 18 - Bonus Series: Reclaiming Your Sacred Freedoms #9 - Freedom of Religious Practice: The Wound of Temple Exclusion & Reclaiming Your Spiritual Path
In this episode, Tamara explores one of the most painful but least acknowledged wounds in high‑control religion: the loss of belonging when the Church decides you aren’t “worthy” to enter the temple. From standing outside a loved one’s wedding while family gathers inside, to decades of everyday “just come to church” pressure, Tamara breaks down how exclusion becomes a spiritual injury that lives in the nervous system long after you leave. Inside this episode: • the truth behind “You can choos...
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4 weeks ago
25 minutes

Inner Light Companion podcast
Ep. 17 - Bonus Series: Reclaiming Your Sacred Freedoms #8 - Financial Freedom After Religious Control: Healing the Scarcity Wound
In today’s episode, we’re unpacking one of the most painful and unspoken legacies of high‑control religion: financial fear that lives in the body. For many of us, money was never neutral. It became fused with spiritual worthiness, obedience, punishment, and survival. And long after leaving, our nervous systems still respond to money as if danger is hiding inside our bank accounts. In this episode, I share: • how childhood scarcity formed the foundation for later religious control • the subtle...
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1 month ago
21 minutes

Inner Light Companion podcast
Ep.16 - Bonus Series: Reclaiming Your Sacred Freedoms #7 - Freedom in Daily Life Decisions: How Survival Mode Quietly Controls Your Choices
For 59 years, I thought I was making my own choices — what to wear, what to eat, when to rest, how to give, how to spend my time. But a few weeks ago, my body revealed the truth: I wasn’t choosing. My dysregulated nervous system was. In this episode, I share the most vulnerable story I’ve ever told — a four-day nervous system reset that completely transformed: • my glucose stability • my hunger and satiety signals • my ability to rest without guilt • my emotional resilience • my relationship ...
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1 month ago
37 minutes

Inner Light Companion podcast
Ep. 15 - Bonus Series: Reclaiming Your Sacred Freedoms #6 - Freedom of Information & Access: When Forbidden Knowledge Breaks Everything Open
What does it cost when you're forbidden from seeing, reading, or knowing anything outside of the authorized script? In this episode, I share three devastating moments of information control that shattered my trust in church leadership: The God Makers 2 moment - Sitting in my laundry room, sobbing, watching video evidence of Gordon B. Hinckley doing things members would be excommunicated for—while he was protected and later became prophet. The Thomas S. Monson betrayal - Realizing the leader I...
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1 month ago
17 minutes

Inner Light Companion podcast
Ep. 14 - Bonus Series: Reclaiming Your Sacred Freedoms #5 - Freedom of Association & Relationship: When Leaving Means Losing Everyone
I was standing in my living room, about to leave Mormonism, weighing the cost: Social support? Gone. Community? Gone. Lifelong friendships? Gone. The answer that came wasn't "yes, I can do this." It was: "I can't not." But I didn't understand then that I was about to experience the exact same isolation I'd escaped in my first abusive marriage—only this time, it would be an entire religious system that trained everyone I loved to abandon me the moment I chose freedom. In this episode, I share:...
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1 month ago
29 minutes

Inner Light Companion podcast
Ep. 13 - Bonus Series: Reclaiming Your Sacred Freedoms #4 - Freedom Over Your Own Body: Reclaiming Bodily Autonomy After Religious Control
Before you listen: Tamara shares more vulnerability in this episode than ever before. Naming what was done to our bodies, as children, as women, as spiritual seekers, is both sacred work—and tough work. If you feel big feelings or body memories, you’re not alone. Tamara felt them, too, recording this. This is for anyone reclaiming a sense of home in their own skin. How do you even begin to reclaim a body that was never truly yours? In this healing, tender episode, Tamara explores the hidden a...
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1 month ago
25 minutes

Inner Light Companion podcast
Ep. 12 - Bonus Series: Reclaiming Your Sacred Freedoms #3 - Silenced in the Name of God – Reclaiming Freedom of Expression & Communication
🎙️ This episode is part of the Bonus Series: Reclaiming Your Sacred Freedoms (Episodes 9, 11–17) What if silencing your voice started long before church, marriage, or adulthood? In this brutally honest episode, Tamara Ridge unpacks how childhood conditioning, family dynamics, Mormon doctrine, church music, and marriage all conspire to steal your voice—and how to finally reclaim it. From repressive primary songs to emotionally unsafe marriages, bishop interviews, and ritual language control, T...
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1 month ago
31 minutes

Inner Light Companion podcast
Ep 11. - Bonus Series: Reclaiming Your Sacred Freedoms #2 - Freedom of Thought & Belief: When Questioning Becomes a Sin | Religious Thought Control & Reclaiming Your Mind
🎙️ This episode is part of the Bonus Series: Reclaiming Your Sacred Freedoms (Episodes 9, 11–17) In this raw and soul-stirring episode, Tamara Ridge opens up about her journey through an emotionally abusive marriage and a high-control religious environment that taught her to doubt her own perception, intuition, and spiritual experiences. With unflinching honesty, Tamara shares how Mormon culture shaped her early choices, how abuse masked itself in devotion, and the heartbreak of realizing she...
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1 month ago
23 minutes

Inner Light Companion podcast
Ep. 10 - From Knowing to Feeling: How to Live as God’s Beloved (Even After Religious Trauma)
You know God loves you… but do you feel it? In this powerful capstone to our Spiritual Intimacy series, Tamara Ridge unpacks the journey from intellectually understanding divine love to truly embodying it. If you’ve ever struggled to feel loved by God—especially after religious trauma or deconstruction—this episode is for you. You’ll learn: Why many seekers feel disconnected from God's love—even with strong beliefsHow religious and childhood trauma block our ability to receive divine loveThe ...
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1 month ago
39 minutes

Inner Light Companion podcast
Ep. 9 - Bonus Series: Reclaiming Your Sacred Freedoms #1 -Why I Say 'God' - Reclaming Sacred Language After Religious Trauma
🎙️ This episode is part of the Bonus Series: Reclaiming Your Sacred Freedoms Episodes 9, 11-17) After leaving organized religion, many of us water down our spiritual language to avoid triggering ourselves or others. But what if reclaiming words like 'God' is part of our healing? In this episode, I share why I choose authentic language over palatable language—and give you permission to use whatever words connect you to the Divine. What you'll discover: Why "Universe," "Source," and "Higher Pow...
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2 months ago
25 minutes

Inner Light Companion podcast
Ep. 8 - How I Inherited Yogananda's Original Teachings (And Why You Don't Need Institutional Permission to Connect with God)
How did a former Mormon therapist end up teaching ancient yogic wisdom? In this deeply personal episode, I share my spiritual heritage story—how I inherited original teachings from Paramahansa Yogananda through a direct disciple who lived with him in the 1950s, and why I believe you don't need anyone's permission to access divine truth. After 10 years of spiritual darkness following my exit from Mormonism at age 43, I met a man whose father had received Kriya Yoga initiation directly from Yog...
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2 months ago
29 minutes

Inner Light Companion podcast
Ep. 7 - Recognizing Divine Messages: How to Hear God Speak Directly to You (Even When Life Feels Quiet)
Episode 7: Recognizing Divine Messages - How to Hear God Speak Directly to You Your windshield wipers start cycling on their own. A feather falls in your path when no birds are around. The exact thing you've been praying for shows up synchronistically. Coincidence? In this episode, I teach you how to recognize when the Divine, the Universe, or your Higher Self is speaking directly to you—and how absolutely everyone can develop this skill, even if your stories are quiet or ordinary. What You'l...
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2 months ago
50 minutes

Inner Light Companion podcast
Ep 6. - When God Feels Distant: Reclaiming Spiritual Intimacy After Religious Trauma
In this deeply personal and transformative episode, Tamara explores what it means to pursue an unmediated, direct connection with the Divine—especially after leaving the confines of organized religion. Drawing from her own experiences of trauma, deconstruction, and spiritual silence, she offers insight into how shame, perfectionism, and external authority can block intimacy with God—and how to gently rebuild that connection from within. Tamara breaks down the four key blocks to spiritual inti...
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2 months ago
58 minutes

Inner Light Companion podcast
Ep. 5 - Chasing the Spark: Deepening Your Intimacy with the Divine
What if your relationship with the Divine could feel more real and fulfilling than any human connection you’ve ever known? In this episode, Tamara Ridge explores spiritual intimacy—a lived relationship with the Divine that grows stronger through simple, embodied practices. She shares the single insight that changed everything for her: learning to notice and follow the small sparks of divine connection that appear in everyday life. Through storytelling, gentle self-reflection, and a calming gu...
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2 months ago
24 minutes

Inner Light Companion podcast
Ep. 4 - Rain, Thunder, and Sacred Questions: A Friday Night Spiritual Check-In
Why do we feel distant from God—and how do we come home again? In this cozy Friday night reflection, Tamara explores how spiritual intimacy can be rekindled through rest, creativity, and beauty—even in the middle of life’s storms. 🌿 Want to go deeper? Start with the free Sacred Intimacy Snapshot. 👉 Full show notes + links: Click here. In this cozy, thunder-filled Friday night reflection, Tamara invites you into a gentle, heartfelt conversation exploring the spiritual questions that quie...
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3 months ago
34 minutes

Inner Light Companion podcast
In this bonus episode of the Inner Light Companion, Tamara slows the series cadence to one Tuesday bonus episode for the next three weeks so she can honor her body, her nervous system, and the sacredness of this work—while giving you more space to integrate. She then names what so many raised in Mormonism and other high-control religions have felt but struggled to articulate: the invisible abuse of psychological harm wrapped in spiritual language. Tamara walks through four forms of psychologi...