The Duggars and the IBLP

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Jolenta Greenberg

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4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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On this episode of How to Be Fine, Kristen and Jolenta dive into the Duggar Family and their involvement in the religious cult the Institute of Basic Life Principles. The ladies break down the revelations that Jinger Duggar reveals in her bestselling book Become Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear, and the shame and social anxiety she experienced growing up. Plus, Kristen and Jolenta answer advice questions about emotional hoarding and helping a friend manage chronic pain. Do you have an advice question for us? Email us at kristenandjolenta@gmail.com, or tweet us @jolentag, @kristenmeinzer, or @bythebookpod. And if you haven't already, please join our How to Be Fine (formerly By the Book) Facebook community! https://www.facebook.com/groups/kristenandjolenta Sources for this episode: https://iblp.org/ https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/july-2016/institute-in-basic-life-principles-hinsdale/ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/us/jinger-duggar-vuolo-evangelical-christians.html https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemcneal/jinger-vuolo-duggar-memoir-interview https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ministry-nourished-duggar-familys-faith-falls-grace-rcna14024 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/01/06/new-charges-allege-religious-leader-who-has-ties-to-the-duggars-sexually-abused-women/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2015/05/28/jim-bob-duggar-state-trooper-josh-duggar-fondling-sex-abuse/28058841/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/01/childhood-in-cult-hard-imagine-survival-truly-unbelievable https://inthesetimes.com/article/cult-of-character https://open.spotify.com/show/0QrPMZQojsFIeQVvrEx2wV https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sojo-files/id1587371447 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/leaving-eden-podcast/id1525971285 https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Free-Indeed-Story-Disentangling/dp/1400335817 https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2023/february/grace-community-church-elder-biblical-counseling-abuse.html https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/duggars-religion-151762/ https://www.amazon.com/Quiverfull-Inside-Christian-Patriarchy-Movement/dp/0807010731 https://www.duggarfamily.com/favorite/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to How To Be Fine. I'm Kristen Meinser.
0:10.4	And I'm Jolenta Greenberg. In each episode of How To Be Fine, we weigh in on what's happening
0:15.8	in the world of happiness, health and betterment and offer a bit of advice to those who want
0:20.5	it.
0:21.5	Now, full disclosure, we're not psychologists or psychiatrists, but we are experienced
0:26.4	self-help critics. We've lived by the rules of nearly 100 self-help books for our other
0:31.2	podcast by the book, also right here in this feed. So we've tried on almost every kind of
0:36.5	wellness trend out there.
0:38.3	And besides, we're not here promising to make all of you the best, richest, happiest
0:43.8	versions of yourself. If all goes well, we'll just help get you a little closer to feeling
0:49.3	fine.
0:56.4	All right, Jolenta. We have a couple of great advice letters to get to later in the show.
1:18.6	But first, as usual, we're kicking things off with our hot topic. And today, we have
1:24.8	a doozy that includes reality TV, a powerful cult and self-help.
1:30.3	Wow, wow. The powerful trifecta of all my favorites. Please tell me everything about
1:38.2	this cult self-help reality TV thing.
1:41.9	Oh, yeah. Today's hot topic is The Duggers and the super conservative, fundamentalist Christian
1:48.2	ministry they were a part of known as the Institute in basic life principles or the
1:53.9	IBLP for short.
1:55.5	Oh, yeah, the Duggers, the Duggers like from TLC's 19 Kids and Counting.
2:02.3	Yes, exactly. And they are back in the news because the fourth oldest Dugger daughter,
2:08.8	Ginger, just published a best selling book, becoming free indeed, my story of disentangling
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