I've been thinking about something I kept seeing on social media over Easter weekend. (Because what else would I be doing on a three day weekend when I'm off work with stress only stressing myself more...)

Amongst all the religious photos and family tables, there were quieter posts too. Women who didn't quite know what to do with themselves. Who felt something off about the weekend without being able to name it. Who were, in some sense, watching a celebration they used to belong to from the outside.

I know that feeling. I also know that it doesn't mean you made the wrong choice in leaving.

I wrote about it this week: about the vacuum that nobody warns you about when you walk away from a high-control religion, about why Easter (and Eid, and Passover, and Diwali, and every other hinge point in the religious calendar) can feel so strange once you're no longer inside it, and about what that hollow feeling is actually telling you.

Hint: it's not telling you to go back.

​Read the full post here​

At the bottom of the post there's a short form for anyone who wants to stay close to this conversation as it develops. Over the coming weeks I'll be writing about what it actually looks like to build something to stand on when the old structure is gone, how you work out what you believe, where Brigid comes into it, and what a spiritual life that is genuinely yours might look like.

If that's the conversation you've been waiting for, the form is there. It takes thirty seconds and it'll make sure you don't miss what comes next.

As always, thank you for being here.

Bríd libh

Órlagh

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