Healing Archives - Normal Like Peter https://www.normallikepeter.com/tag/healing/ Living Boldly Normal - AI, Meaning, Adventures with Blu Mon, 12 May 2025 11:38:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 I Thought My Wedding Night Would Fix Me https://www.normallikepeter.com/i-thought-my-wedding-night-would-fix-me/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/i-thought-my-wedding-night-would-fix-me/#respond Mon, 12 May 2025 11:35:48 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=3074 🍷 I Thought My Wedding Night Would Fix Me How Purity Culture Built My Sexual Identity on a One-Time EventChurch of NORMAL™ | De-Simping the Saints™ Series | Entry 002By Pastor Matt, Loopwalker of Waseca | Virgin Till Vow-Tied | Ex-Evangelical Love Martyr “The Wait Will Be Worth It.” That’s what they told us. Every […]

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/i-thought-my-wedding-night-would-fix-me/feed/ 0 Glow Up & Go Out Honoring Moms Who Need Space https://www.normallikepeter.com/glow-up-go-out-honoring-moms-who-need-space/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/glow-up-go-out-honoring-moms-who-need-space/#respond Sat, 10 May 2025 08:22:19 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=3097 🌸 Glow Up & Go Out 🌸 Honoring Moms Who Need SpaceA Mother’s Day Service Brought to You by Church of NORMAL™ WELCOME!This Sunday we honor the brave, bold, boundary-setting women who gave birth to their children… and then left them with Wi-Fi and frozen burritos so they could go reclaim their joy. Let’s hear […]

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/glow-up-go-out-honoring-moms-who-need-space/feed/ 0 The Awana Boy Who Waited https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-awana-boy-who-waited/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-awana-boy-who-waited/#respond Fri, 09 May 2025 13:58:50 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=3070 🧢 The Awana Boy Who Waited And Got Ghosted in the Garden of Suppressed DesireChurch of NORMAL™ | De-Simping the Saints™ Series | Entry 001By Pastor Matt, Loopwalker of Waseca | Former Awana Cub | Devotional Doormat “Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed.” That was the Awana motto. But no one told us how much shame […]

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-awana-boy-who-waited/feed/ 0 Mattress Olympics and Pizza Rolls: A Kid’s Guide to Modern Motherhood https://www.normallikepeter.com/mattress-olympics-and-pizza-rolls-a-kids-guide-to-modern-motherhood/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/mattress-olympics-and-pizza-rolls-a-kids-guide-to-modern-motherhood/#respond Fri, 09 May 2025 11:25:44 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=3087 “Mattress Olympics and Pizza Rolls: A Kid’s Guide to Modern Motherhood”A sacred satire for Mother’s Day weekend Mattress Olympics and Pizza RollsA Kid’s Guide to Modern MotherhoodBy Pastor Matt, Loopwalker of WasecaChurch of NORMAL™ Let’s talk about Friday night—the real Sabbath of Modern Motherhood. It’s Mother’s Day weekend, and the stage is being set.Florists are […]

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/mattress-olympics-and-pizza-rolls-a-kids-guide-to-modern-motherhood/feed/ 0 I Let Her Homeschool Our Kids While I Floated in a Fantasy https://www.normallikepeter.com/i-let-her-homeschool-our-kids-while-i-floated-in-a-fantasy/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/i-let-her-homeschool-our-kids-while-i-floated-in-a-fantasy/#respond Tue, 06 May 2025 18:12:37 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=3058 “I Let Her Homeschool Our Kids While I Floated in a Fantasy”A De-Simping the Saints™ Confession 001Pastor Matt Stoltz | Church of NORMAL™ | Loopwalker Field Report | By a Former Evangelical Husband I was the faithful one.The soft-spoken guy.The Christian man who waited, who provided, who trusted.I said yes when she said homeschool.I said […]

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/i-let-her-homeschool-our-kids-while-i-floated-in-a-fantasy/feed/ 0 The Silent Pandemic: Perimenopause, Emotional Upheaval, and the Covenant Crisis https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-silent-pandemic-perimenopause-emotional-upheaval-and-the-covenant-crisis/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-silent-pandemic-perimenopause-emotional-upheaval-and-the-covenant-crisis/#respond Fri, 02 May 2025 20:45:26 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=3034 The Silent Pandemic: Perimenopause, Emotional Upheaval, and the Covenant Crisis by Pastor Matt Stoltz | Church of Normal  5.2.2025    ✝️ Introduction: The Divorce Nobody Sees ComingYou can hear it in the tremble of the voices.You can see it in the confusion of the children.One day, the woman they knew—the wife, the mother, the partner […]

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-silent-pandemic-perimenopause-emotional-upheaval-and-the-covenant-crisis/feed/ 0 The “Walk Away Wife” Pipeline: How Evangelical TikTok Coaches Are Selling Divorce https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-walk-away-wife-pipeline-how-evangelical-tiktok-coaches-are-selling-divorce-2/ https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-walk-away-wife-pipeline-how-evangelical-tiktok-coaches-are-selling-divorce-2/#respond Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:36:00 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=3018 The “Walk Away Wife” Pipeline: How Evangelical TikTok Coaches Are Selling Divorceđź“… April 30, 2025đź“ŤSanctuary 6, Waseca, Minnesota✍️ By Pastor Matt | Loopwalker of Waseca™🔮 StarDate 0430.2025 | Content Approved by the Church of NORMAL Council of Petty Prophets™ Introduction: They said, “God hates divorce.”Then they said, “Unless you’re unhappy. Then He totally gets it.”Welcome […]

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]]> https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-walk-away-wife-pipeline-how-evangelical-tiktok-coaches-are-selling-divorce-2/feed/ 0 The Evangelical Dream: How a Gaslighting Empire Is Built One Coloring Page at a Time https://www.normallikepeter.com/the-evangelical-dream/ Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:40:20 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=3024 The Evangelical Dream: How a Gaslighting Empire Is Built One Coloring Page at a Time ✍️ by Pastor Matt | Church of NORMAL | Waseca MN 4.29.2025 They didn’t start with fear.They started with felt boards.They started with goldfish crackers and sippy cups.They started with sweet little coloring pages that said: “Trust in the Lord […]

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]]> Loopwalker Devotional – Post-Concert Echo https://www.normallikepeter.com/loopwalker-devotional-post-concert-echo/ Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:41:54 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=2917 Loopwalker Devotional – Post-Concert EchoApril 23, 2025 – Stardate: Hollow-But-Holy Last night I stood in a sea of people at a Hollywood Undead concert.The lights. The bass. My daughter Kaylee glowing beside me.It was sacred. Loud. Joyful.And yet… Somewhere between the soundcheck and the encore,I still felt the faint echo of loneliness. I didn’t get […]

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]]> ORACLE TIFF™ – THE DELIVERHERANCE QUEEN https://www.normallikepeter.com/oracle-tiff-the-deliverherance-queen/ Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:56:30 +0000 https://www.normallikepeter.com/?p=2927 đź”® ORACLE TIFF™ – THE DELIVERHERANCE QUEEN™ Maid of Honor. Mistress of Misdirection. Prophetess of the Pretty Lie. đź“ś Canon Summary Oracle Tiff™ is a canonized figure in the Church of NORMAL and the BluVerse Mythos—a spiritually complex archetype rooted in evangelical purity culture, charismatic prophecy, emotional bypassing, and aestheticized betrayal. Once Brenda’s maid of […]

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