Sonya Rose Hartfield | Writer
@sonyarosehartfield.bsky.social
Writer exploring liberation, resilience, grief, social justice, and healing through joy.
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Brian Recker’s new book Hell Bent is out today! If you grew up terrified of hell growing up or came to Christianity because of hell, this book will heal you. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/771172...
September 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Brian Recker’s new book Hell Bent is out today! If you grew up terrified of hell growing up or came to Christianity because of hell, this book will heal you. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/771172...
Brian Recker’s new book Hell Bent comes out tomorrow! If you were plagued with fears of going to hell growing up, please read. It will heal your inner child. bookshop.org/p/books/hell...
September 30, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Brian Recker’s new book Hell Bent comes out tomorrow! If you were plagued with fears of going to hell growing up, please read. It will heal your inner child. bookshop.org/p/books/hell...
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Can’t wait for @smashfizzle.bsky.social ‘s memoir class this Monday!
September 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Can’t wait for @smashfizzle.bsky.social ‘s memoir class this Monday!
This is your reminder to step outside and breathe.
September 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This is your reminder to step outside and breathe.
Finding rest in the midst of the death of a man who advocated for a world where men's authority was built on the unpaid labor of women. #exvangelical #charliekirk
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Today, It is Ok to Rest
There seemed to be an unspoken rule in the Evangelical circles I grew up in that oldest daughters were the second mothers of the home.
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September 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Finding rest in the midst of the death of a man who advocated for a world where men's authority was built on the unpaid labor of women. #exvangelical #charliekirk
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Focusing on what truly benefits kids, with their input, would save us all. I wish that, collectively, we desired a free future for children more than we desired the power to harm or control another adult. Every day I try to imagine that better world for all the children who should get to live there.
September 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Focusing on what truly benefits kids, with their input, would save us all. I wish that, collectively, we desired a free future for children more than we desired the power to harm or control another adult. Every day I try to imagine that better world for all the children who should get to live there.
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We sacrifice their future to focus on what we can deny one another (to punish, hoard power, or both).
September 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
We sacrifice their future to focus on what we can deny one another (to punish, hoard power, or both).
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More than anything else, the whole world runs on the disregarded suffering of children.
September 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
More than anything else, the whole world runs on the disregarded suffering of children.
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Since my summer query one went so well, I’m doing another workshop in the winter.
Come hang! The goal is to help get a nonfiction book proposal wrangled up and polished.
These workshops will help fund my free events in the New Year. www.ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2025/9/...
Come hang! The goal is to help get a nonfiction book proposal wrangled up and polished.
These workshops will help fund my free events in the New Year. www.ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2025/9/...
Winter Workshop: Building the Nonfiction Book Proposal — ERIC SMITH
Hey friends. So my first attempt at a self-run workshop this summer was a really wonderful success. A few dozen folks signed up, we worked on query letters and opening pages, and at the end of the si...
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September 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Since my summer query one went so well, I’m doing another workshop in the winter.
Come hang! The goal is to help get a nonfiction book proposal wrangled up and polished.
These workshops will help fund my free events in the New Year. www.ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2025/9/...
Come hang! The goal is to help get a nonfiction book proposal wrangled up and polished.
These workshops will help fund my free events in the New Year. www.ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2025/9/...
So excited to join the Magic of Memoir series, featuring fantastic writers like @smashfizzle.bsky.social and @jeannineouellette.bsky.social, to dive deeper into the essentials of memoir craft. magicofmemoir.com?utm_source=s...
Back to the Basics
6 Foundational Memoir Craft Sessions, Sept 8-Oct 13, 2025
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August 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
So excited to join the Magic of Memoir series, featuring fantastic writers like @smashfizzle.bsky.social and @jeannineouellette.bsky.social, to dive deeper into the essentials of memoir craft. magicofmemoir.com?utm_source=s...
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Little kids are having to use their bodies to shield friends from gunfire while armed soldiers are busy picking up trash.
August 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Little kids are having to use their bodies to shield friends from gunfire while armed soldiers are busy picking up trash.
Heartbroken by the recent tragedy in Minneapolis at Annunciation Catholic School.
This is not was childhood should look like. Children deserve to learn without fear.
#poetry #endgunviolence #neveragain #protectourchildren #poetsoninstagram #poetrycommunity
This is not was childhood should look like. Children deserve to learn without fear.
#poetry #endgunviolence #neveragain #protectourchildren #poetsoninstagram #poetrycommunity
August 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Heartbroken by the recent tragedy in Minneapolis at Annunciation Catholic School.
This is not was childhood should look like. Children deserve to learn without fear.
#poetry #endgunviolence #neveragain #protectourchildren #poetsoninstagram #poetrycommunity
This is not was childhood should look like. Children deserve to learn without fear.
#poetry #endgunviolence #neveragain #protectourchildren #poetsoninstagram #poetrycommunity
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I have a book imprint & this week a new title is out, an essay collection about living with PTSD and moving forward from trauma but it’s also about being young, misadventure, motherhood and opening up to love again. The Answer Is in the Wound by Kelly Sundberg, out now: bookshop.org/a/112057/978...
The Answer Is in the Wound
Check out The Answer Is in the Wound - <p><b>"Lyrical and brutal, intimate and culturally relevant. I've never read anything like it."--Maggie Smith</b></p><p><b>An intimate, linked, lyrical essay col...
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August 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I have a book imprint & this week a new title is out, an essay collection about living with PTSD and moving forward from trauma but it’s also about being young, misadventure, motherhood and opening up to love again. The Answer Is in the Wound by Kelly Sundberg, out now: bookshop.org/a/112057/978...
Read more about redefining family Values on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/sonyaros... #exvangelical #deconstruction #jamesdobson #writingcommunity #writesky
August 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Read more about redefining family Values on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/sonyaros... #exvangelical #deconstruction #jamesdobson #writingcommunity #writesky
Reject feminism, submit to your husband Taylor Swift. You are not in charge.
- Charlie Kirk
Keep our Queen’s name out of your mouth Charlie. Let her enjoy her moment ❤️. #charliekirk #taylorswift #taylorswiftengagement
- Charlie Kirk
Keep our Queen’s name out of your mouth Charlie. Let her enjoy her moment ❤️. #charliekirk #taylorswift #taylorswiftengagement
a woman is floating in a swimming pool in front of a trailer on fire
ALT: a woman is floating in a swimming pool in front of a trailer on fire
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August 27, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Reject feminism, submit to your husband Taylor Swift. You are not in charge.
- Charlie Kirk
Keep our Queen’s name out of your mouth Charlie. Let her enjoy her moment ❤️. #charliekirk #taylorswift #taylorswiftengagement
- Charlie Kirk
Keep our Queen’s name out of your mouth Charlie. Let her enjoy her moment ❤️. #charliekirk #taylorswift #taylorswiftengagement
What are family values and what do I mean by them as an #exvangelical bisexual woman vs what men like James Dobson meant by them? #writingcommunity #writesky
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Welcome Post: What are Family Values?
When I was growing up as a young evangelical pastor’s kid in the 90s and early 2000s, I often heard the phrase “family values.”
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August 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
What are family values and what do I mean by them as an #exvangelical bisexual woman vs what men like James Dobson meant by them? #writingcommunity #writesky
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I grew up in evangelical spaces. I was taught to stand up to injustice and love my neighbor. But when I failed to see that among the churches I grew up in, I began to realize I needed to create it for myself #religioustrauma #exvangelical #deconstruction #justice.
August 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I grew up in evangelical spaces. I was taught to stand up to injustice and love my neighbor. But when I failed to see that among the churches I grew up in, I began to realize I needed to create it for myself #religioustrauma #exvangelical #deconstruction #justice.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia was taken into custody by ICE shortly after turning himself in.
A federal judge said she will order officials to keep him in the US while she weighs a new legal challenge from him over the Trump administration's plans to quickly deport him to Uganda. https://cnn.it/41XZxUI
A federal judge said she will order officials to keep him in the US while she weighs a new legal challenge from him over the Trump administration's plans to quickly deport him to Uganda. https://cnn.it/41XZxUI
August 26, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was taken into custody by ICE shortly after turning himself in.
A federal judge said she will order officials to keep him in the US while she weighs a new legal challenge from him over the Trump administration's plans to quickly deport him to Uganda. https://cnn.it/41XZxUI
A federal judge said she will order officials to keep him in the US while she weighs a new legal challenge from him over the Trump administration's plans to quickly deport him to Uganda. https://cnn.it/41XZxUI
Quote from my recent piece Wooden Spoons and Wedding Days: Lessons I Learned from James Dobson
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August 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Quote from my recent piece Wooden Spoons and Wedding Days: Lessons I Learned from James Dobson
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“The worst part was not the sting of the wooden spoon — it was the shame and the erosion of safety.”
In my new substack post, I reflect on the Legacy of James Dobson, Evangelical corporal punishment and purity culture. #jamesdobson #exvangelical
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In my new substack post, I reflect on the Legacy of James Dobson, Evangelical corporal punishment and purity culture. #jamesdobson #exvangelical
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Wooden Spoons and Wedding Days: Lessons I Learned from James Dobson
I feared the crack of the wooden spoon across my bare skin, but that was not the worst part of spanking.
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August 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
“The worst part was not the sting of the wooden spoon — it was the shame and the erosion of safety.”
In my new substack post, I reflect on the Legacy of James Dobson, Evangelical corporal punishment and purity culture. #jamesdobson #exvangelical
open.substack.com/pub/sonyaros...
In my new substack post, I reflect on the Legacy of James Dobson, Evangelical corporal punishment and purity culture. #jamesdobson #exvangelical
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It may have been the hardest thing we ever did, but we did it ❤️. We deconstructed the lies and shame that came with Evangelicalism, rigid gender roles, and purity culture. We survived James Dobson and family values. I’m so proud of us. #exvangelical #deconstruction #purityculture
August 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It may have been the hardest thing we ever did, but we did it ❤️. We deconstructed the lies and shame that came with Evangelicalism, rigid gender roles, and purity culture. We survived James Dobson and family values. I’m so proud of us. #exvangelical #deconstruction #purityculture
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I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
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August 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
I started a Substack called Family Values which unpacks the harms of family values in Evangelical Culture. A place to explore identity, resilience, and healing through joy. Please give me a follow! #writingcommunity #exvangelical #deconstruction #jamesdobson
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Family Values by Sonya Rose Hartfield | Substack
Unpacking the harm of Evangelical Family Values. A place to explore identity, resilience, and healing through joy. Writes about chronic illness, food insecurity, estrangement, poverty, ambiguous grief...
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August 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I started a Substack called Family Values which unpacks the harms of family values in Evangelical Culture. A place to explore identity, resilience, and healing through joy. Please give me a follow! #writingcommunity #exvangelical #deconstruction #jamesdobson
open.substack.com/pub/sonyaros...
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