After six years of being vegan, I started incorporating animal products back into my diet this year. I wrote about this transition here. Fundamentilsm affected many aspects of my daily life, even my eating habits. Our doctrine taught to not eat unclean animals (pork, shellfish, etc). This came from a passage of Exodus 11: 1-45… Continue reading Trying Unclean Food

I started as a Christian blogger, and obviously, I don’t fall under that category anymore. In the past year, I have written many posts, then deleted them. Why? My writing didn't exactly make my former community look good, and I still deal with a lot of religious-related guilt. “Remember who you represent” This was a… Continue reading I Don’t Have To Represent God In A Good Light ~ Life Post Religion

Veganism has shaped my life as a young adult. Pretty much as soon as I graduated high school, I went fully vegan. How I traveled, shopped, and my social life was consumed by my lifestyle. I was plant-based for seven years, and this year I incorporated animal products back into my diet. I formally made… Continue reading I Stopped Being Vegan

I used to market myself as a blogger that gave hope to the broken. I wrote many pieces that are now cringe-worthy when I re-read them. My basis for my writing was my faith. I believed I was doing something good but now I see that I had harmful messages. The foundation of Christianity is… Continue reading Life Post Religion – I was not born broken

It is almost 2023 and statistically, a lot of previously devout evangelical churchgoers have left the church. Frankly, it's because many who were raised in the movement have trauma, I know what you are probably thinking. You may think I am referring to something as trivial sitting in services and were bored, or that VBS… Continue reading What we mean when we are talking about church trauma

I have a hard time believing that unconditional love exists. I was made to believe that god is love, but the love that I read about in the Bible sure as hell seemed conditional. How can a loving god send his creation to be tortured for eternity for lack of belief that he actually exists?… Continue reading Relationships Post Fundamentalism

My name is Leah, and I am represented by Hannah Noelle Models. I have been saying a variation of that statement for years. I have done dozens of photoshoots and have worked hard for one specific job, a Target advertisement. I have centered most of my life to get to this achievement. I book only… Continue reading Booking My Dream Job Won’t Bring Happiness

Update from my post https://lamaleah.com/2022/01/18/thank-you-for-respecting-my-boundaries-exvangelical-thoughts/ I did go to Scandinavian society with my grandparents one Friday night recently. We grabbed dinner at Spangles and headed over to the club. I met their friends, had a short meeting in the form of parlimanetary procedure. The program was about homesteaders from Scandanvia and I learned something. Overall… Continue reading What I did on a Church day Recently

I spend a lot of time discussing the ways growing up in organized religion brought harm to my well-being. These days I do it mostly because I think it's relatable to those who had similar upbringings. I am still processing my trauma, even though I've been out of church for a while. For this post,… Continue reading Good things that I miss sometimes about religion

I always felt like a misfit in the evangelical community. I grew up in a small messianic congregation and the majority of Christians don't see that denomination as a part of the church. The doctrine of it summed up is when Jesus died, he did not abolish the laws of the old testament. Because there… Continue reading “You were never a real Christian”