Textures of Grace:
In-Person Group Coaching for the Devotional Doubters, Ministry Misfits, Queer Questioners and Heart-centered Heathens
Hosted by Madison Morrigan at Beyond Healing in Springfield, Missouri
Hosted by Madison Morrigan at Beyond Healing in Springfield, Missouri
You will find yourself at home in Textures Of Grace if you are:
🌞Craving a brave space to reclaim your voice
🌞Seeking community who won’t judge your questions, and who can relate to your unique experience
🌞Desiring expanded and un-shamed understandings of God and Self
🌞Processing spiritual trauma or exile
🌞Consider yourself an ex-evangelical, or a “bad” Christian
🌞Questioning your faith
🌞Questioning your sexuality, or want to un-shame your body and sexuality
🌞Have a queer family member/loved one and want to be safe person for them
🌞Needing space to be where you are spiritually without expectation
🌞Regretful or processing guilt about your participation in harmful beliefs and practices
🌞Desiring greater capacity to be with difference
🌞Navigating challenging familial relationships as a result of divergent religious beliefs
🌞Seeking restoration of your spirt and relationship with your body, God or the church
What it will feel like in the space:
This circle will be facilitated with gentle guidance with emphasis on your personal process. Remembering our human dignity and restoring us to our inherent goodness are the core of this work, which is why we will practice unconditional positive regard and see each member of this space as inherently powerful, worthy and whole. “Come as you are” has been said many times by the church, but here, we actually practice it.
There is no expectation of where your beliefs “should” be by the end of this experience. Imbued with choice, you will never be forced to speak, confess or share before you are ready. You will be encouraged to ask questions, feel deeply and think for yourself in the space of a compassionate witness and community. I (Madison) will offer helpful tools and practices, but will never tell you what to think, do or believe.
What you may leave with:
You will leave these 4 months bolstered with community, tools, resources, inner resolve, and deepened self-trust. It’s likely you’ll be able to speak and own your story, process grief, feeling healthy anger, heal shame & guilt and feel safer in a group space. People often leave spaces like this having developed the powerful skills of:
boundaries that guardian the good
healthy centering of self
deepened sense of values and integrity
nervous system regulation
regenerative conflict
learning to repair
learning to listen more deeply to yourself and others
capacity to divest from binary (black/white, all/nothing) thinking
learning to hold unconditional positive regard for self and others
as well as learning how to feel safe in the face of others’ differences.
Registration Details:
Sessions will be facilitated by Madison Morrigan, and will offer space for each person to speak, share stories, be coached, witnessed and held in community.
Includes a booklist, podcast resources and journal prompts between sessions
4 month commitment with 2 group sessions per month. 8 total group coaching sessions.
12 participants max.
This space welcomes all genders, sexual orientations and beliefs.
You must be 18 to register.
Location: Beyond Healing in Springfield, MO
Begins: Tuesday 6-7:30pm starting October 24
Investment: $60/session, or $120/month for 4 months.
Sliding scale available starting at $25/session, or $50/month
You can register below. There are no refunds for this experience due to the limited seats.
Pay monthly
You Receive:
👉2 x Monthly Group Coaching sessions at Beyond Healing
👉Includes a booklist, podcast resources and journal prompts between sessions
👉A tight-knit, anonymous community
👉Expert facilitation who specializes in groups, healing from shame and spiritual freedom
👉4 months of support
Pay in full
You Receive:
👉2 x Monthly Group Coaching sessions at Beyond Healing
👉Includes a booklist, podcast resources and journal prompts between sessions
👉A tight-knit, anonymous community
👉Expert facilitation who specializes in groups, healing from shame and spiritual freedom
👉4 months of support
Hey, I’m Madison.
(She/They). I am a trauma-informed life coach and facilitator who has worked with hundreds of humans globally as they seek spiritual freedom for over 8 years.
I am the proud recipient of 5x International Coaching awards from BYCA (I am nominated for 4 more this year), led The Way Home Retreat for Spiritual Trauma in Hawaii with Varia Erochina and Dr. Hillary McBride in 2020, spoke at The Queer Revival at National Avenue Christian Church in 2021 and am host the Everything Belongs podcast, which now has over 100 episodes.
When I’m not coaching or writing I’m likely dancing to Carly Rae Jepsen in the kitchen with my pug Morris and distracting my partner Jen while she bakes.
I am also available for private coaching sessions alongside this program. You can find all the information about 1-1 coaching here.
Like so many ex-evangelicals and questioning Christ-lovers, I never wanted to walk away from the Church. Jesus did in fact save me from a traumatic childhood when I had no where else to turn as a young person. I understood grace on a deep level, which is why I held on as long as I could through my doubts and questions. I fasted, prayed, confessed my doubts and tried to make sense of scripture that held no dignity for women, children or queer people. (It turns out, no matter how hard you try, you can’t fit a loving God into the shape of hate or shame).
It was 2015, and the threads of my safe and tightly woven world began to unravel. I was a good wife. A missionary. I was serving my community. All while bursting with questions no one could answer and burning with a holy rage. It wasn’t until my local congregation protested Trans rights and practiced church discipline on a gay member, that I decided to seek more liberated Christian spaces in Springfield. Sadly, I came up short.
You may know the feeling— the feeling of God dying— which also means your community, your weekly rituals and your view of self disintegrate, no matter how tightly you hold on.
You turn over one stone, and it only leads to the next, and the next. Following my questions, my church community painted me a “prideful and rebellious woman” and my secular friends who had never been in the church didn’t (and couldn’t) understand the grief and heartbreak I was holding. Riddled with doubt, loneliness and exile— I went searching for a space to tell the truth.
I walked away, exiled from my “church family.” Eventually, I found myself home in healthier spaces, but soon discovered was bringing with me all the stories I’d internalized:
My heart? Wicked. Not to be trusted.
My body? The cause for others’ sins.
My mind? Better kept to myself.
My desires? Sinful. Evil. Shameful.
My bold spirit? Whittled into a Proverbs 31 woman.
It took years to unwind from these toxic beliefs about myself and others, remember my inherent goodness and grieve for perpetuating these harmful narratives.
After years wandering, searching for community, healing and deconstructing, my faith journey has led me to reclaim the body, reclaim pleasure, and reclaim a relationship with God rooted in liberation, grace and dignity for all.
Finally, after many years of healing and holding space for the healing of others, I came out as a lesbian, and slowly owning my gifts as a woman. Textures of Grace born of this a remembering: A remembering of what has been lost, stolen, forgotten and stripped from us. This is a space for being seen, telling your truth, grieving, finding your voice, letting go of spiritual trauma and healing the debilitating stories of patriarchal, homophobic and white supremacist Christianity. It will be a reclaiming of all that is rightfully ours.
Register to join us using the link above.