Shiny Happy Wife: Tia Levings On Christian Fundamentalism (Part 2)

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

True Crime, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.

If you didn’t listen to part 1 of this double whammy—stop, drop, and scroll down (or up, depending) because you’ll be lost without the context.

On this continuation, we hear more from author Tia Levings about her experiences with Christian Fundamentalism, and more specifically how she got out of a situation that was “a little bit culty,” to say the least. We also dip back into the Duggar family and the recent documentary uncovering the less-than-perfect reality hidden by a shiny, happy front. The story is, unfortunately, far more common than you might think.

You can learn more about Tia’s own story in her forthcoming memoir, ‘A Well-Trained Wife,’ which will be released in August of 2024. In the meantime, you can keep up with Tia at the below links:

Twitter

Website

Please note, this series includes details of sexual abuse. Listener discretion is strongly advised. If you, or someone who know, is a survivor of sexual assault, abuse, grooming, child abuse, or human trafficking, RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline offers support at 800.656.HOPE (4673).

Also…

Hear Ye, Hear Ye:

The views and opinions expressed on A Little Bit Culty do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything. Nobody’s mad at you, just don’t be a culty fuckwad.

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0:00.0	The views and opinions expressed by a little bit culty are those of the hosts,
0:03.6	and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast.
0:07.8	That's true.
0:08.5	Any of the fire content provided by our guest bloggers, sponsors, or authors are of their opinion,
0:13.6	and are not intended to malign any religion group, club, organization, business individual,
0:18.2	anyone, or anything.
0:19.3	Unless you're abusing people, then I have a problem aligning you.
0:22.6	Also, we're not doctors, psychologists, or wizards.
0:25.8	We're just two non-experts trying to make you a friendly, informative podcast that helps you understand culty shit.
0:40.7	Hey everybody, Sarah Edmonds in here.
0:43.1	And I'm Anthony Ames, aka Nippy, Sarah's husband, and you're listening to a little bit culty.
0:49.4	aka, a LBC.
0:51.1	A podcast about what happens when devotion goes to the dark side.
0:54.5	We've been there, and back again, a little about us.
0:57.2	True Story, we met, and fell in love in a cult, and then we woke up and got the hell out of dodge.
1:03.0	And the whole thing was captured in the HBO documentary series The Vow, now in its second season.
1:08.3	I also wrote about our experience in my memoir, SCART,
1:11.3	the true story of how I escaped next year, the cult that bound my life.
1:15.2	Look at us, couple of married podcasters who just happened to have a weekly date night,
1:19.6	where we interview experts and advocates and things like cult awareness and mind control.
1:23.9	Wait, wait, wait, this does not count toward date night, babe.
1:26.8	We gotta schedule that that separate.
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