“Faith without works is dead.”But what happens when your works are simply… waiting?
Waiting on G-d.Waiting on a sign.Waiting on a blessing that never comes, because deep down, you were never taught to move.
Welcome to The Family Table
In this inaugural episode of Let Us Reason Together, we’re naming what so many of us feel but have never had language for: The impoverished mind.
This isn’t just about money.It’s about the soul-level conditioning that keeps us in cycles of spiritual delay and emotional stagnation, especially in Black, religious, and oppressed communities.
This episode is rooted in Liberation Theology, Womanist truth, Qur’anic and Biblical wisdom, and my own modality: Resilient Reclamation Therapy which helps us name, map, and heal the systems that shaped our disempowerment.
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🔥 In this episode, we explore:
* What it means to suffer from unhinged faith - belief that is not grounded in movement, discernment, or liberation
* The theology that teaches us to wait on G-d when G-d has already spoken
* Why many of us have inherited sacred scarcity instead of sacred empowerment
* How our minds were trained to glorify suffering, normalize trauma, and call stagnation holy
* What Black Psychology says about spiritual trauma encoded in the nervous system
* And how to reconnect belief and behavior so that faith becomes action
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Click to listen to the full 104-minute episode.Settle in, grab your journal, and pull up a seat.This table is sacred, and you belong here.
🎙️ Episode Title: The Impoverished Mind📡 Podcast: The Family Table🗣️ Host: Dr. Tanya Alkhaliq
💡 Quotes from the Episode:
“Faith-formed paralysis is what happens when prayer becomes avoidance.”
“We spiritualize delay and call it divine timing; but it’s really unhealed fear in religious clothing.”
“The impoverished mind is not your inheritance. Liberation is.”
🧘🏾♀️ Mental Health Moment:
This episode also includes a special segment on Religious Anxiety and Internalized Condemnation, addressing how spiritual guilt can mimic trauma responses and how to regulate the nervous system as you reclaim your agency.
📚 Book Mentioned:
Reimagining Women in the Bible (by Tanya Alkhaliq)A Womanist re-telling of the stories of Eve, Hagar, Deborah, Lilith, Junia, Mary Magdalene, and more reframing their experiences as sacred resistance, not shameful footnotes.➡️ Learn more at: 👉🏾 https://tanyaalkhaliq.substack.com
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🎶 Music Credit:
All music in this episode is used by permission from🎧 X the Maestro➤ https://soundcloud.com/x-the-maestro
📌 TAGS:
#FaithAndMentalHealth #LiberationTheology #BlackPsychology #WomanistTheology #ReligiousTrauma #ResilientReclamation #TheFamilyTablePodcast #UnhingedFaith #SpiritualDeconstruction #TheImpoverishedMind
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