Amazon best selling author, Ryan Joseph Allen, visits the show and discusses his new book, “My Drug Dealer Brought Me to God.” With a focus on post-traumatic growth after lived or perceived religious trauma within the LGBTQ+ community, he opens up about his journey to identity, sobriety, and to God in a most unconventional way. Hear his perspective regarding National Coming Out Day, and the support that is needed for people to feel safe, heard, and loved.
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Ryan Joseph Allen's life was on a downward trajectory. As a child, he felt different from other kids and struggled to fit in. Even at a tender age he contemplated suicide. In his teenage years and as a young adult, he hid his true self and numbed his emotional turmoil with alcohol, drugs, and self-destructive behaviors. When he summoned the courage to share his secret and come out to a close friend, her response added another layer of self-hatred. How could he love and accept himself as a gay man when he was taught that God and the Church considered it wrong?
