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Psych Legal Pop Podcast

Trad Wives, High Control Religious Groups & Cults

Psych Legal Pop Podcast

Tess & Brooke Brigham

Relationships, Tv & Film, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.2610 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we discuss the Trad Wife trend, including Ballerina Farms' Hannah Neeleman and the women from The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. We also discuss author Tia Leving's appearance on the We Can Do Hard Things podcast. Tia escaped a high control religious group and was featured in the documentary Shiny Happy People.


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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to the Psychlegal Pop podcast. This is a podcast where we talk about

0:06.6

popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. I'm the therapist, Tess Brigham.

0:11.2

And I'm Brooke Brigham. I'm the attorney. And today we are going to be talking about the

0:16.6

trad wife phenomenon.

0:27.2

We're going to be talking about Ballerina Farms and what else.

0:33.1

We're going to be talking about Tia Levings, who is a woman who is a writer, who has written about her experience, being in a high control religious group or a cult,

0:41.7

whatever you can call it, kind of the same thing.

0:44.8

She was actually featured in that movie, documentary, shiny, happy people, which we heard.

0:51.7

She was in a group that is basically the same group as the Duggers, same kind of philosophies.

1:00.2

Bill, I've forgotten his name already, Bill Goddard.

1:03.5

Bill Goddard, that's right, the umbrella, the umbrella.

1:05.9

And we see with some of these other Tradwife Instagram accounts, they talk about the umbrella there too. I was like, oh, interesting.

1:13.5

Yeah, I was

1:14.5

watching and checking out some of these

1:16.5

accounts. So we're just going to

1:18.7

you know,

1:20.7

we're just kind of talk about. Yeah.

1:22.7

Oh, yeah, let's just start with

1:23.8

like the definition. I mean,

1:26.5

Trad is short for traditional. So it's like traditional

1:29.2

marriage, you know, basically hearkening back to a time we thought we had evolved out of,

1:38.5

you know, where women, you know, women wanted the right to be able to work and make money and, you know, fulfill their destiny

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