Jinger Duggar Vuolo: Disentangling Faith from Fear

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Jinger Duggar Vuolo ( 19 Kids and Counting , author of Becoming Free Indeed ) opens up about the evolution of her views on Bill Gothard’s extreme religious teachings, how it feels to deal with her family’s struggles as someone in the public eye, and her anxiety as a result of trying to precisely follow religious principles. She discusses the positives of her upbringing, like her community of siblings, as well as the harmful dynamics she witnessed often at the expense of women. Jinger recalls the origins of her disordered eating and how her mom helped her through it, what forced her to finally challenge her beliefs, and her technical approach to disentangling her truth from the religious falsehoods she was taught to believe. Mayim breaks down religious obsessive compulsive disorder and shares her pop culture recommendations with Jinger. They discuss why Jinger still wants to be in the public eye, how she feels about her parents now, and the value of privacy after a life of being observed. Jinger considers how her relationship with a higher power and how her views on sex and a woman’s role in a relationship have shifted.

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0:00.0	The place is all these burdens on you, and you start to think, oh no, what am I, what
0:09.9	is God going to do if I don't do this?
0:12.2	And he had an answer for that right away.
0:14.3	As soon as you made the vow, he said, now don't, don't forget to pay these vows to God.
0:20.4	Because if you don't, if you don't do this, then God's help to get you basically.
0:25.7	I had these little fears as a child already.
0:29.4	And then whenever you place on top of that, God is out to get you.
0:35.6	It became so focused on me.
0:38.0	So I'd wake up in the morning or if I was going to bed at night, I'd be terrified and fear
0:41.6	thinking, have I done what's right?
0:44.2	Did I forget any of the principles?
0:45.7	Did I forget what I'm supposed to do?
0:47.3	Did I, oh no, I made this vow to God.
0:49.7	Now I need to wake up right now.
0:51.5	It's 11.50.
0:52.5	I got to wake up and read my Bible for five minutes, pray for five minutes.
0:55.5	Otherwise maybe God's going to spunt me dead.
0:57.7	So you start to feel this fear and this anxiety within because the teachings produced that.
1:04.9	I could be killed in car accident because maybe I had this feeling I was supposed to stay
1:08.4	home and read my Bible for two hours.
1:10.8	And I went out to play with my siblings instead.
1:13.5	So there was a lot of fear that I had to work through.
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