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Why Women Were Taught to Distrust Themselves — And How to Take That Power Back

  • Writer: Dr. Mindy Pelz
    Dr. Mindy Pelz
  • 2 days ago
  • 3 min read

EP333 with Meggan Watterson



If you've ever had a gut feeling, a clear inner voice, a moment of deep knowing, and then immediately talked yourself out of it, this episode will show you exactly where that came from.


Dr. Mindy sits down with feminist theologian and author Meggan Watterson to uncover the centuries-old, deliberately engineered suppression of women's inner authority and what reclaiming it looks like right now.


Meggan's books Mary Magdalene Revealed and The Girl Who Baptized Herself draw on 30 years of scholarship to restore what was intentionally erased: the voices, teachings, and stories of women who proved that the most ultimate power lives within.


Power isn't outside of us in these institutions or in these positions of political power, it's actually within us.

-Meggan Watterson


Here's what you'll learn Iin this episode:

  • Why the patriarchal version of Christianity was a political decision made in the 4th century, not the original movement

  • How women like Mary Magdalene and Thecla were deliberately erased, demoted, and discredited — and what their stories actually teach us

  • The concept of the "spiritual eye of the heart" from the Gospel of Mary, and how it maps to the inner voice women are trained to ignore

  • Why the war on our bodies is the most effective tool of control and how ending it is the first act of revolution

  • Why rage is sacred, not dangerous, and why feeling it fully is one of the most important healing steps available to us right now

  • The difference between "power over" and "power with" — and how to start seeing it everywhere

  • What it looks like to baptize yourself in the modern world


This conversation is part theology, part healing, part rallying cry — and exactly what this moment calls for.

We were not taught to distrust ourselves by accident. Reclaiming the voice within is not just personal healing, it's the revolution.



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Meet the Guest

Meggan Watterson


Meggan Watterson is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Mary Magdalene Revealed. She is a feminist theologian with a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary. She created The House of Mary Magdalene– a spiritual community that studies the sacred texts left out of the traditional canon and practices the soul-voice meditation.


Her work has appeared in media outlets such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, HuffPost, TEDxWomen, and Marie Claire. Her most recent book, The Girl Who Baptized Herself, was recommended by Glennon Doyle in ELLE as “the book that kept me up way too late.” 

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