What happens when the beliefs you were given about God no longer match what you feel to be true within yourself?

In this episode of The Jackie Scully Show, I sit down with spiritual teacher, identity alchemist, and life coach Juan Galan for a deeply personal conversation about identity, faith, religious deconstruction, and finding his way back to God—and ultimately, back to himself.

Juan grew up Catholic in Colombia, knowing from a young age that he was different. As a sensitive, artistic boy who would eventually come to understand himself as gay, questions of belonging, shame, faith, and identity became woven into his story.

His journey would eventually take him away from the faith he grew up with, through years of questioning and exploration, and later into a Christian community in Bali. But when old  ...