Lori Williams | A Liminal Space Coaching

Tag: faith deconstruction

  • Whose Dream Are You Living? Finding Meaning in Your Work Starts With Slowing Down

    A veteran’s eyes stopped me mid-scroll. What I saw in them I had seen in myself — and in the mother, the churchgoer, the exhausted graduate, and the young person submitting hundreds of job applications into silence. Performance culture isn’t just burning us out. It’s handing us someone else’s dream and calling it our own.…

  • The Lure and the Magnet: Why You Keep Getting Pulled Toward the Wrong Rooms

    Sometimes we get lost trying to find our way home. If you’ve ever walked away from a community wondering what was wrong with you — this is for you. There is nothing wrong with you. You’re just someone who was paying close attention.

  • My Faith Wounding Is Not Intended to Harm You

    If I had a physical injury — like walking with a limp after a serious car accident — you might understand my faith wounding differently. My story isn’t about threatening your faith. It’s about working through what happened to me.

  • You Were Not Lucky. You Were Lost.

    Before I ever walked into a church, I was already carrying something. A loss that happened before language. Before memory. Before I had a single word for any of it. This is the story of what that loss made me believe — and what I am finally learning to let go.

  • When Appeasement Becomes a Way of Life

    I didn’t have words for what happened to me for a long time. Laura Anderson’s Religious Power and Control Wheel gave me a map. Here I walk through each category — and share what I lived inside each one.

  • Already Home

    What if home isn’t somewhere you finally arrive at? What if it’s a moment you notice — and then another, and then another? A post for anyone exhausted from trying to heal their way home.

  • Are We Human or Are We Dancer?

    Are we living from something true and rooted in us, or are we moving to someone else’s rhythm without even knowing it? I spent years dancing to a beat that wasn’t mine — convinced it was leading me home. This is what I learned about systems that use our deepest needs to keep us in…

  • Care or Carrying?

    **Tags:** – trauma recovery – boundaries – codependency – religious trauma – emotional responsibility – self-leadership – caring vs carrying – parenting adult children – healing patterns – compassion fatigue – inner work – family dynamics – faith deconstruction – emotional boundaries – recovery coaching **Excerpt:** I was 17 when I called my ex-boyfriend to…

  • Navigating the Cracks

    I’ve been trying to understand what I’m feeling when I look at social media these days. Confusion, fear, anger, and so much grief over where we are as a country right now. It feels like walking across a frozen pond with cracks, wondering when we might fall through. But I’m learning that beneath the surface…

  • Finding Joy and Hope Beyond the Emotional Highs: A Journey from Manufactured to Authentic

    After losing the intoxicating emotional highs of church community, I discovered that true joy and hope aren’t dramatic peaks to chase, but subtle moments that accumulate like stalactites—building lasting strength one drop at a time in the darkness.