How to Know if You’re in a Cult with Tia Levings (Pt. 2)

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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370. How to Know if You’re in a Cult with Tia Levings (Pt. 2) Glennon, Amanda, and Abby welcome back Tia Levings for part two of this amazing conversation on her experience leaving a high control Christian Fundamentalist cult. Tia shares her experience leaving the church and her husband and offers advice for others in a similar situation. Discover: -The life-saving power of women sharing their stories—and why it threatens patriarchy -How she finally heard her own voice—and how you can find yours, too -Why people crave fundamentalism—and a solution they’re searching for -Tia’s life-saving advice for women escaping abuse or high-control groups More on Tia: Tia Levings is the New York Times Bestselling author of A Well-Trained Wife, her memoir of escape from Christian Patriarchy. She writes about the realities of Christian fundamentalism, evangelical patriarchy, and religious trauma. She also appeared in the hit Amazon docu-series, Shiny Happy People. Based in North Carolina, she is mom to four incredible adults and likes to travel, hike, paint, and daydream. Find her on social media @TiaLevingsWriter. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:16.2	We are back with Tia Levings. And if you haven't listened to our previous conversation, go back and do that. In that conversation, we talked about the high
1:22.1	control religious group that Tia became a part of, what it did to her and her family and her heart and her mind
1:30.0	and her body and how she got free from it and how all of that is a map sort of for how we
1:37.3	can navigate this moment in this country. So let us begin with, I mean, Tia, this quote from your book, you said this. You said,
1:48.5	Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn't a savior coming.
1:57.2	Maybe it was up to me to save me. Can you start for us with the night? What was the moment? How did we
2:08.0	decide enough was enough? And what happened next? Yeah. My final escape was a making of about seven
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