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The Clarity Pivot with Tavares Bussey

The Clarity Pivot with Tavares Bussey: Emotional Wellness, Personal Growth, and Healing Conversations for Real Life

The Clarity Pivot with Tavares Bussey is a podcast for people pursuing emotional wellness, personal growth, and honest self-reflection across every area of life. Each episode explores a different clarity moment drawn from real experiences, cultural conversations, spiritual tension, relationships, identity, and the quiet work of growth. The focus is not on one issue but on the courage it takes to confront what’s true, unlearn what holds us back, and make choices aligned with who we are becoming.

With a blend of storytelling, research, humor, and compassionate challenge, Tavares guides listeners through the twists and turns of everyday clarity. Whether the topic is rejection, church hurt, masculinity, boundaries, desire, self-doubt, or the unexpected revelations life brings, the goal is the same: to help listeners cultivate insight, strengthen emotional integrity, and step into healthier, more grounded ways of living.

The Clarity Pivot is where people come to reflect, reset, and rise — one clarity moment at a time.

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The Clarity Pivot with Tavares Bussey

I Couldn't Call THIS God Anymore

December 18, 2025 • Season 1 • Episode 3

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There came a moment when I had to be honest with myself. What I was being taught, what I was witnessing, and what I was surviving no longer reflected the God I believed in. I wasn’t losing my faith — I just couldn’t call this God anymore.

In Episode 3, Part 1 of The Clarity Pivot with Tavares Bussey, I explore the triangulation of religion, spirituality, and divine relationship, centering Black faith and the Black spiritual experience. Through personal reflection, including a pivotal moment in September 2018, and grounded in Black theological scholarship, this episode examines fear-based theology, spiritual control, fundamentalism, and the misuse of scripture — while also honoring church spaces where people are genuinely safe, growing, and thriving.

This conversation is not an attack on God or the church. It is an honest reckoning with systems that confuse control with holiness and fear with faith. While rooted in Black theology, the insights here resonate with anyone navigating deconstruction, religious trauma, or a desire for a more liberating relationship with God.

Part 2 continues this clarity by exploring how these internal distortions show up externally as church hurt.

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