Teri Hales is a certified Religious Transition and Trauma Recovery Coach and host of the Emancipate Your Mind podcast. Since graduating with her Bachelors degree in Marriage, Family, and Human Development in 2002, she has been passionately focused on deepening her understanding of mental and emotional health. Teri combines her deep love of psychology with New Age ideas and practices in a way that honors and supports the individual authority and inner wisdom of her clients. She gently guides them through acknowledging and releasing old beliefs and stories about themselves and the world to create a life that is tailor made for their happiness. Because of her ability to help others feel safe and supported as they journey through painful experiences, she has often been called an “emotional doula” by her clients and those who have heard her speak.
My kids all started school this week and I received the paperwork with the demands for scheduling and parent volunteer hours this semester in order… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 121: Unexpected Changes
The primary developmental task your teen will go through, whether they grew up in high demand religion or not, is differentiation. Differentiation is a process… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 120: Helping Your Teen Discover Their Personal Identity
Creating a sense of emotional safety in your home after high demand religion with teens is a little different than starting with young children. You’ve… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 119: Healing Emotional Safety For Teens After High-Demand Religion
Parenting after deconstructing high demand religion can feel daunting. Going from a system where you’re given a road map for how to raise your children… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 118: Creating Emotional Safety for Young Children
When we left Mormonism, we were terrified of what that would mean for our kids. It’s been 6 years of trusting ourselves as parents, trusting… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 117: What We’ve Learned About Parenting Since Leaving High-Demand Religion with Kevin Hales
How do you even begin to create community for yourself after leaving high demand religion? In this episode, Communication Coach, Chris Peck and I explore… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 116: Intentional Community Creation After High-Demand Religion with Chris Peck
I’m so excited to have Chris Peck from Speak Into Action Communications back on the podcast to talk about the subconscious scripts we intentionally or… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 115: Practicing Intentional Scripts to Build Stronger Relationships with Chris Peck
I know you’ve heard it before and you’re going to hear it again at least one more time today. You’re not meant to be everyone’s… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 114: How to Deal with Relationship Incompatibility Without Driving Yourself Crazy
We all crave acceptance, but what does it really mean to accept someone? In this episode we discuss the pieces of acceptance everyone seems to… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 113: What Acceptance Is (and Isn’t)
Sharing our stories in a safe environment is an important step in healing from trauma. Often we engage in this important step with others who… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 112: The Benefits and Pitfalls of Bonding Over Shared Trauma
As we’ve talked about healthy attachments, two words kept cropping up in conversations: Trauma Bonding. Many people used these words to describe the almost instant… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 111: What Is Trauma Bonding?
Developing healthy interdependence with our partners, family, and friends is healthy and normal. Relationships where we feel free to both give and receive support and… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 110: Codependency or Co-regulation? How to Tell the Difference
Developing a safe, intimate connection with others can feel scary for those who are trying to reclaim a sense of personal identity after religious trauma… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 109: Learning to Co-regulate Your Nervous System
If you’ve been in a relationship with insecure attachment patterns, how do you begin practicing secure attachment? Licensed Professional Counselor and my husband, Kevin Hales,… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 108: Practicing Secure Attachments in Adult Relationships
In today’s episode, we explore the last of the 4 attachment styles and how high demand religion may have influenced our primary caregivers or us… Read More »Emancipate Your Mind: 107: Disorganized Attachment Style and High Demand Religion