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Mormon to Muse

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by Kristin Martineau

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You didn't lose your faith. You found out something true — and now you're figuring out who you are on the other side. Mormon to Muse is a podcast for women navigating life after the Mormon church — the faith transition grief nobody prepares you for, the identity loss that comes with leaving a high-control religious system, and the slow, honest work of reclaiming yourself. Each week I explore what it means to find yourself again after the Mormon church — through creative practice, life coaching tools, and the kind of honest conversation you can't have at Sunday dinner If you've spent years being everything for everyone else and you're only now starting to wonder who you actually are — you're in exactly the right place. Start with: "You Were Never Just a Calling."

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July 26, 2026

Temptation Isn't Real: Unwinding the War for Your Soul

For years, wanting something you "shouldn't" felt like proof you were losing a spiritual battle. It wasn't. It just meant you had a healthy nervous system. In this episode, Kristin unpacks one of the most disempowering ideas she inherited from Mormonism — the concept of temptation — and why it never actually held up once she looked at it directly. Sparked by a moment on a coaching call where a woman described her own self-doubt as "the adversary," Kristin traces exactly what LDS doctrine teaches temptation is, why framing an internal urge as an external attack quietly takes away your agency, and what happens when you stop fighting your own mind and start getting curious about it instead. This isn't about giving yourself permission to do whatever you want. It's about taking back the part of you that was taught to treat your own impulses as enemy territory — and building an actual practice for what to do with desire once you stop calling it a war. In this episode: What Mormon doctrine actually teaches about temptation, Satan, and mortal "testing" — and the specific mechanics of why it's disempowering How the language of temptation collapses the gap between wanting and choosing — and why that gap is where all real agency lives The one word swap that changes everything: replacing "temptation" with "desire" A four-step tool for working with any urge — dessert, scrolling, snapping at your kids, procrastination — without shame and without suppression Why what you resist persists, and what Carl Jung's concept of the Shadow has to do with a piece of cake The real question to ask instead of "how do I stop wanting this": what feeling am I actually going for, and is there a way to get it I'll feel good about tomorrow Why you were never a battlefield two outside forces were fighting over — and what it means to finally be the author instead

July 19, 2026

"I Could Never Do That": Untangling Nature, Story, and Belief Post-Mormonism

"I'm just not creative." "I could never do that." "I'm not the kind of person who finishes things." You've said one of these — or something close to it — so many times it stopped sounding like an opinion. It started sounding like a fact. It isn't one. In this episode, Kristin breaks down the difference between a circumstance (provable, measurable, true regardless of who's looking) and a limiting belief (a thought you've repeated until it felt like biology). She explains why your brain keeps finding evidence to confirm what you already believe about yourself, why this pattern runs especially deep for anyone raised in a high-control religious structure, and exactly how to start testing the beliefs that are quietly running your life. In this episode: What separates a fact from a belief — and why your brain can't tell the difference on its own Why growing up in a high-demand religious system trains you to accept assigned identities instead of testing them Four questions to figure out whether a belief is truly yours, or something you inherited A real coaching example: how one client dismantled "I never finish anything" by finding the evidence she'd been ignoring The one-word shift ("yet") that gets you out of black-and-white thinking Why separating the belief from your identity — "I've been telling myself I'm not creative" vs. "I'm not creative" — changes what's possible One small experiment to try this week that gives your brain new evidence to work with

July 12, 2026

The B- Version Is the One That Counts: Overcoming Perfectionism After High-Control Systems

Are You a Perfectionist? Here's Why That's Not the Compliment You Think It Is Perfectionism gets worn like a badge of honor. I used to wear mine that way too. But underneath the polished exterior, perfectionism isn't a high standard — it's an impossible one. In this episode, I break down what perfectionism actually is, why your brain defaults to it, and the practical antidote I use to get my own imperfect work out into the world. I talk about the myth of "perfect" itself — how even our own definitions of it are nebulous, how one person's perfect manuscript is another person's rough draft. I get into how Mormon culture trains this particular flavor of perfectionism from childhood, where testimony meetings only make room for certainty and struggle is only allowed in past tense. And I talk about how the wider culture backs this up — rewarding the finished book, not the drafts; the overnight success, not the seven invisible years before it. I share what perfectionism actually looked like in my daily life — the schedule I built for myself with a checklist so long that missing one item gave me permission to abandon the whole day. I walk through the small, sneaky ways perfectionism shows up for most of us: buying the supplies and never starting, quitting a new skill the second it gets hard, treating rest as something to be earned instead of allowed. Then I get into what actually works. I talk about Brooke Castillo's concept of B- work — the idea that done imperfectly beats undone every time — and why creative practice is the best low-stakes place to build the muscle of showing up messy. I share why I've had to get comfortable being cringe, why the loudest critics are rarely the people who've actually walked the path themselves, and a practical exercise for taking the sting out of other people's judgment. If this episode resonates, I made something for you. <a href="https://www.mormontomuse.com/sketchbook">My Reclamation Sketchbook</a> is a free 7-day guided art journal — one creative prompt a day, no experience or talent required. It's the easiest place I know to practice doing something imperfectly on purpose.   Articles Referenced in this episode: <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-discomfort-zone/202408/overcoming-perfectionism">https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-discomfort-zone/202408/overcoming-perfectionism</a> <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4562912/">https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4562912/</a>

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What is Mormon to Muse?: You didn't lose your faith. You found out something true — and now you're figuring out who you are on the other side.

Mormon to Muse is a podcast for women navigating life after the Mormon church — the faith transition grief nobody prepares you for, the identity loss that comes with leaving a high-control religious system, and the slow, honest work of reclaiming yourself.

Each week I explore what it means to find yourself again after the Mormon church — through creative practice, life coaching tools, and the kind of honest conversation you can't have at Sunday dinner

If you've spent years being everything for everyone else and you're only now starting to wonder who you actually are — you're in exactly the right place.

Start with: "You Were Never Just a Calling."
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates daily.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: No, this podcast does not typically feature guests.

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