The Anti-Fundamentalist Life | Tia Levings
Preacher Boys Podcast
Eric Skwarczynski
4.5 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Grab a copy of Tia Leving's new book here — https://amzn.to/4s7mNL5
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Book Description for I Belong To Me: What does it mean to heal from trauma caused by the people, beliefs, and practices of your faith? And to rebuild a sense of self, when high-control religion said you shouldn’t have one?
Indoctrinated from early childhood to obey, conform, and want what others wanted for her, Tia Levings learned love and acceptance meant being someone other than herself.
After years of abuse in a violent marriage and high-control religion, Tia Levings escaped with her children (a story told in her memoir, A Well-Trained Wife) and thought the hardest was behind her.
But leaving was just the beginning.
With an audacious persistence to reclaim her life, Tia set off on a 15-year quest to psychological peace. The result is an emotionally regulated, actualized, self-aware woman who is able to tell her harrowing story without retraumatizing herself —a woman who can reach back to help others claim what’s theirs. If trauma took your past, it shouldn't get your present and future too.
Through a series of personal stories, therapeutic stages, and resources, Tia Levings guides readers through the journey that helped her leave abuse, rediscover selfhood, and heal her mind, soul, and body after religious trauma —so that you can too.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast. Today, I'm sitting down with one of my favorite |
| 0:03.9 | people on the planet. Her name is Tia Leving. She is an author. She wrote the book, A Well-trained |
| 0:09.0 | Wife, which is a New York Times bestseller, documenting her escape from Christian patriarchy. |
| 0:14.7 | We're actually talking today about her new book titled, I Belong to Me. It's a Survivor's Guide |
| 0:19.6 | to Recovery and Hope After Religious Trauma. |
| 0:22.3 | This was such a fun episode. She's somebody where any time that I hear advice from her, |
| 0:27.0 | every time I get her perspective on something, it is just absolute gold. There was no shortage of that |
| 0:31.8 | in today's episode. But beyond being super smart and a great author, she's also a good friend. And so this episode |
| 0:39.2 | felt a little bit more relaxed than some episodes. I'm seeing now with somebody for the first time. |
| 0:44.3 | So we got to kick our shoes off, talk a little bit about Christian fundamentalism, |
| 0:47.9 | talk about what it's like to talk about these topics in a public setting like social media |
| 0:52.5 | or in documentaries or books or podcasts and |
| 0:56.1 | what it means to develop a life that's bigger than just some of the things that happened |
| 1:01.1 | to you in the past and what it means to find out who you are inside. So it's a really good |
| 1:06.1 | conversation. I definitely encourage you to grab a copy of I Belong to Me. It's available for |
| 1:10.5 | pre-order right now. |
| 1:12.1 | And my copy, I don't know if you could see it, |
| 1:14.2 | is literally covered from front to back with underlines and dog ears and highlights. |
| 1:21.0 | There is just so much good content in this book. |
| 1:23.3 | So be sure to grab a copy of it. |
| 1:24.9 | It's available for pre-order right now. |
| 1:27.0 | And the last thing I'll say |
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