Ep. 192: Tia Levings discusses her new book, "A Well Trained Wife"
Leaving Eden Podcast
Leaving Eden LLC
4.5 • 744 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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We are joined by author Tia Levings, who discusses her new book, "A Well Trained Wife." This book chronicles Tia's journey into and daring escape from christian patriarchy. We highly recommend this book.
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| 0:00.0 | No rolling river of time. |
| 0:07.0 | You've healed me in too many days. |
| 0:13.0 | No regrets, no confusion. There'll be no pollution |
| 0:21.6 | I'm so thankful I've decided to change my ways |
| 0:30.9 | Welcome back to the Leaving Eden podcast |
| 0:33.8 | We are your hosts |
| 0:35.5 | My name's Gabrielle Ha Cohen And I'm cult survivor, cult expert, |
| 0:40.8 | Sadie Carpenter. Today, we're really excited about this episode. This is one that we've been |
| 0:47.0 | looking forward to for a couple of months now. We have Tia Levings coming on. She has a new book |
| 0:53.2 | that is coming out. If you're listening to |
| 0:55.6 | this unreleased day, it comes out tomorrow. If you're listening to it any day that isn't |
| 1:01.0 | the release day of this episode, which I believe is August 5th, then that book is out right now |
| 1:06.9 | and you should go to the bookstores right now and get it. And if you are listening to this on release day, if you pre-order the book, you will be able |
| 1:16.0 | to get lifetime free access to Tia's substack as well. |
| 1:20.6 | We both read this book. |
| 1:22.3 | We thought it was fantastic. |
| 1:23.8 | Spoiler. |
| 1:25.2 | The book is called a well-trained wife, and it documents, it's a memoir from Tia about |
| 1:31.4 | her life getting into IBLP patriarchy and then getting out of IBLP patriarchy and her |
| 1:39.0 | marriage, her abusive marriage that she was in, and how she escaped from that by the skin of her teeth, |
| 1:46.7 | really. |
| 1:47.0 | Yeah. |
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