There’s an inner process at work when you head down the road of faith deconstruction.

Something triggered dissonance in your very self and the brave will wander inward to see where the disturbance lies.

That journey inward reveals your mis-formation. Over the years you have shut down parts of yourself for love, acceptance, and belonging. You now open the doors to spaces within your being you had locked up tight only to discover that they seem not only ok, but good. You wonder why you set these parts of yourself off limits? You grieve the time you’ve lost embodying these qualities. And then you begin the work of healing and rehabilitation toward wholeness once again.

Now that I’ve shared my passion for people who find themselves in a faith transition (aka deconstructing), I’m having a lot more conversations with people who are asking hard questions about what they believe. It’s most often in one of these processing conversations that I hear “So this must be what your coaching is like, right?”

And my answer is always “Well, not exactly.”

There are many deconstruction/faith coaches and groups out there focused on helping people process the specifics of their beliefs and theologies, but that’s not what I’m interested in doing.

I’m interested in empowering you on your spiritual journey.

We’re in part three of common experiences of deconstructing faith. Today we’re digging into the ins and outs of how your day-to-day life begins to change as well as getting intentional with personal practices and community after a faith shift.

Let’s dive into part 2 of this series and talk about some of the secondary stages of deconstructing your faith. Once you walk through the initial crisis and rediscover some of your identity, questions of what you believe and how to discern begin to surface.

Deconstruction is a buzzy word right now. Very hashtagable. But truthfully the idea of deconstruction has been around way longer than the phrase itself.

Faith deconstruction is the process of examining what you believe instead of taking it all at face value. Which quite honestly, is a good practice. Not practicing a posture of examining what you're told to believe is a straight shot to cult life, and we can all agree, cults = no good. So why is deconstruction both such a buzzword and so demonized right now? And what does deconstructing even look like?

Let’s look at 3 reasons for all the buzz and the first 4 common experiences of deconstruction…