Licensed psychologist and author Dr. Camden Morgante joins us to explore the “middle path” from DBT and how it reshapes faith, nervous-system healing, sexuality, and parenting after high-control religion. We talk about spiritual bypassing versus true healing, pendulation in EMDR, setting wise boundaries, and cultivating a values-based sexual ethic. The middle path costs something. It also grows deep roots.

In this episode you’ll hear about

  • What “walking the middle path” means and why both-and thinking is essential in deconstruction
  • Signs your healing is taking hold: cognitive flexibility, compassion, curiosity, less shame
  • Connection-based parenting and becoming a safe place for our kids
  • Boundaries that honor your body when rooms feel polarizing
  • Spiritual bypassing vs. embodied, grief-honoring faith
  • EMDR’s pendulation and widening the window of tolerance
  • Building a values-based sexual ethic after purity culture
  • Letting healing be slow, playful, and non-linear

About our guest
Dr. Camden Morgante is a licensed psychologist, coach, speaker, and author of Recovering from Purity Culture. She writes the Substack Walking the Middle Path, helping readers practice both-and thinking in faith and life. She lives in Knoxville, TN with her family.

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