#065: Self-Care 101 (HOTW: Meggie Lee Calvin)

Why is it so difficult to love ourselves? How has toxic religion crippled our ability to love, and how can we stop feeling guilty about prioritizing our emotional and spiritual well-being? Plus, Meggie Lee Calvin, author of I Am My Own Sanctuary, is our Heretic of the Week!

Show Notes

• 00:20 – Introduction.
• 02:59 – Text into the hotline about tithing. Lies and fear tactics.
• 06:30 – Call into the hotline about Universalism.
• 10:45 – Church history of eternal torment.
• 13:12 – Universalism as something applied to all people.
• 15:28 – Death is an illusion.
• 16:22 – Introduction to Meggie (Meg) Calvin.
• 20:45 – Meg’s family background.
• 22:37 – Meg’s book, I Am My Own Santuary.
• 27:12 – Relationships.
• 27:30 – Grit and grace.
• 29:02 – Wretchedness and depravity.
• 31:15 – Trusting and retraining our desires and inner goodness.
• 32:31 – Inner monologue.
• 34:10 – John Lynch’s The Cure.
• 41:28 – Online course of the book.
• 45:14 – End of interview.
• 46:09 – Confusion about what the “self” even is.
• 47:33 – Our “self” being aligned with Christ.
• 50:31 – Buddhism’s the middle way about our nature.
• 51:54 – Jesus’ ideas about himself and humanity.
• 53:53 – The “self” that has a beginning and end.
• 55:35 – The Divine “Self.”
• 57:30 – Jesus understood his Divine essence.
• 59:02 – Loving others as yourself.
• 1:01:02 – Receiving love.
• 1:02:05 – The non-existing external God.
• 1:08:12 – Christ in me or Christ is me.