Joy Brooks & Justin Marsh - Surviving Spiritual Abuse (N236)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2020
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
Therapists Justin and Joy get together for a conversation about spiritual abuse and how it can present in a church environment. Reflecting on their personal experiences, they explore the impact of spiritual abuse, describing how they learnt to recognise it and what it was like to walk away from congregations they cared about deeply. They also share some of the healing and growth that has taken place as their lives changed and they began to recover and rebuild in different areas of their lives.
Conversation starts at 14m 09s
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome back to Nomad podcast. I'm Tim Nash and this is Joy Brooks. |
| 0:41.1 | Hi. |
| 0:41.6 | A beloved listener wasn't expecting that, were they? |
| 0:44.3 | For those who rest their weary heads in the listener lounge, many people would be familiar with Joy. |
| 0:49.6 | A wise, trusted, therapeutic, witty voice in the listener lounge. Does that sound like you? On a really good day, |
| 0:57.6 | I guess. And of course, listeners may remember you from one of Nomad's greatest hits, |
| 1:03.4 | Jemima Joy and Jezebel. You entitled that episode, didn't you? Great title. Welcome back to Nomad |
| 1:09.7 | podcast, Joy. Thank you, Tim. Um, how are you? Yeah, I'm pretty good. Thank you. |
| 1:16.3 | Your hometown, Lester, has been possibly the worst hit city in the UK for coronavirus, hasn't it? |
| 1:22.9 | So you haven't, um, this is probably one of the first times you've actually ventured out of Lester, I'd imagine, isn't it? Well, we've ventured out of Lester, but yeah, we've had restrictions. |
| 1:32.1 | I think we had two weeks where we were in line with the rest of the country when we were allowed |
| 1:35.8 | out. |
| 1:36.5 | And then after that, it was a big old local lockdown, couldn't leave the city. |
| 1:40.5 | We can now leave the city. |
| 1:42.0 | We're just not meant to mix with any other households, |
| 1:45.3 | socialise with friends or family in any other setting unless it's outdoors, but not in our |
| 1:50.6 | gardens. So, yeah, I often get the impression that you feel a bit jealous when I describe our |
| 1:56.0 | restrictions to. Yeah. I have to let people into my house now. |
| 2:05.5 | So it must be quite nice coming to Nottingham, the spiritual home of Nomeau podcast. |
| 2:06.9 | It's a real treat. |
| 2:07.4 | Yeah. |
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