Healing From IBLP w/ Chad Harris & Lindsey Williams

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🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Chad Harris and Lindsey Williams both grew up under the teachings of the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP) cult in their Advanced Training Institute homeschool program. They were also both featured in the popular Amazon docuseries ShinyHappy People: Duggar Family Secrets. Chad left those teachings behind in his mid-twenties and went on a journey of deconstruction and learning that led him to become a vocal critic of Christian fundamentalism. He started telling his life story on TikTok in 2020. His goal is to see the IBLP shuttered once and for all, and those responsible for its harm brought to justice and accountability for their actions. Lindsey shares stories of her upbringing and how she has worked to heal from the indoctrination and conditioning that controlled so much of her life. Because of the ongoing abuse perpetrated by IBLP and its teachings, she continues to tell her story in order to show other survivors there's a community waiting to embrace them as they leave and thrive, in what she calls "real life". She now works as a professional makeup artist and hair stylist in New York and Los Angeles, which she has done for the past 15 years. Her work has appeared in major magazines, beauty campaigns, commercials, films, music videos, and even on the red carpet. Lindsey says her career is the lifeboat that carried her away from the cult upbringing and helped bring color and joy back into her life. Before You Go: Rachel reiterates how individual autonomy and independence threaten the control that cult leaders and manipulators seek through conformity and indoctrination. Make sure to follow Lindsey and Chad on Social Media! Lindsey: https://linktr.ee/Cultchronicles Chad: https://www.tiktok.com/@archradish Don't forget to check out Andrew's Surviving BJU Podcast: https://lnk.bio/survivingbjupod All of Rachel's free informational PDF documents are available here: www.rachelbernsteintherapy.com/pdf.html All of Rachel's video lectures are available for purchase here: rachelbernsteintherapy.com/videos.html To help support the show monthly and get bonus episodes, shirts, and tote bags, please visit: www.patreon.com/indoctrination Prefer to support the IndoctriNation show with a one-time donation? Use this link: www.paypal.me/indoctrination Connect with us on Social Media: Twitter: twitter.com/_indoctrination Facebook: www.facebook.com/indoctrinationpodcast Tik Tok: www.tiktok.com/@indoctrinationpodcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/indoctrinationpodcast/ YouTube: www.youtube.com/rachelbernsteinlmft You can always help the show for free by leaving a rating on Spotify or a review on Apple/ iTunes. It really helps the visibility of the show! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Welcome to indoctrination, a weekly conversation series about protecting yourself from systems of control.
0:11.1	I'm your host, Rachel Bernstein.
0:13.8	Hi, everybody.
0:15.4	As some of you may know, over the past couple of years, I've done several webinars and video lectures on a variety of
0:22.2	topics that also come up on this podcast. There is unfortunately a lack of qualified therapists
0:28.7	who specialize in working with cult survivors and their concerned family members. And since I can only
0:34.5	see a finite number of clients myself, I wanted to share insights from my 30-plus years of doing this work with as many people as possible.
0:43.8	So, in pursuit of that goal, I've made all of my recent video lectures available on my website, rachel Bernsteintherapy.com.
0:51.9	You can find a link to the page in the show notes of this episode.
0:56.3	There you'll find my lecture from the most recent conference of the International Cultic Studies
1:01.1	Association, my quote, living in freedom, unquote, series for survivors and their family members,
1:07.9	and my recent lecture entitled, Why Did I Stay?
1:11.7	Which examines the many reasons that people have difficulty leaving high control groups.
1:18.4	We plan on adding more video lectures in the near future.
1:21.9	So if you have topics, you'd like to hear me cover, please feel free to reach out to us and make suggestions.
1:31.6	Thank you. you'd like to hear me cover, please feel free to reach out to us and make suggestions. So as regular listeners might know, we have released several episodes covering the highly
1:36.9	controversial Christian College Bob Jones University. One of those episodes was with our
1:42.5	social media manager and B.JU alum, Andrew Pledger,
1:47.6	who has created a new podcast called Surviving BJU, on which I was actually recently a guest.
1:57.2	So here is Andrew now to tell you a little bit about the show, which is also linked in the description of this episode.
2:10.1	Are you curious about what life is like inside of a Christian cult?
2:15.3	Do you want to hear stories of those who escaped and survived?
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