The speaker views deconstruction as a gift that allows individuals to intentionally choose which rituals and values they incorporate into their lives.

“the nihilism and the phase that it leads us to can be a great gift to have a blank slate to then decide intentionally what is important to us.”

The speaker advises that leaving a religious tradition should be a slow, deliberate process of choosing which parts of one's upbringing to keep and which to leave behind.

“I think today's going to be kind of an exploration of that is is picking apart what what is in us because whether we like it or not the church has shaped all of us. It has created all of us and it it it should be a conscious decision.”