Life is freaking hard. We are all doing hard things every single day – things like loving and losing; caring for children and parents; forging and ending friend...
How to Know if You’re in a Cult with Tia Levings (Pt. 2)
370. How to Know if You’re in a Cult with Tia Levings (Pt. 2)
Glennon, Amanda, and Abby welcome back Tia Levings for part two of this amazing conversation on her experience leaving a high control Christian Fundamentalist cult. Tia shares her experience leaving the church and her husband and offers advice for others in a similar situation.
Discover:
-The life-saving power of women sharing their stories—and why it threatens patriarchy
-How she finally heard her own voice—and how you can find yours, too
-Why people crave fundamentalism—and a solution they’re searching for
-Tia’s life-saving advice for women escaping abuse or high-control groups
More on Tia: Tia Levings is the New York Times Bestselling author of A Well-Trained Wife, her memoir of escape from Christian Patriarchy. She writes about the realities of Christian fundamentalism, evangelical patriarchy, and religious trauma. She also appeared in the hit Amazon docu-series, Shiny Happy People. Based in North Carolina, she is mom to four incredible adults and likes to travel, hike, paint, and daydream. Find her on social media @TiaLevingsWriter.
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How to Heal with Alex Elle (Best of)
1. Alex’s four most effective healing techniques that you can start today.
2. How it affects us to grow up never seeing our mothers have joy.
3. Why – if you think you don’t have any self-soothing strategies – you actually just have unhealthy self-soothing strategies.
4. Childhood wounds that surface in adulthood, and the path to intergenerational healing.
5. Where to begin when you never receive the apology and closure you deserve.
About Alex:
Alex Elle is an author, certified breathwork coach, podcast host, and Restorative Writing teacher. Alex’s writing came into her life by way of therapy and the exploration of healing through journaling and mindfulness. Her most recent book, HOW WE HEAL, is available now.
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IG: @alex
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Trad Wife Cults: How Tia Levings Escaped (Pt 1)
369. Trad Wife Cults: How Tia Levings Escaped (Pt 1)
Glennon, Amanda, and Abby sit down with Tia Levings, NYT bestselling author, to discuss her experience in a high control Christian Fundamentalist cult: her journey from indoctrination to freedom to healing from religious trauma.
Discover:
-Why strong women are often drawn into Christian extremism—and how they can break free
-Why parents are taught to hit infants, and husbands are taught to spank their wives
-The hidden agenda behind why Christian Fundamentalists encourage large families
-The moment Glennon busted her kids out of Christian school
-The eerie crossover of wellness culture and Christian extremism
More on Tia: Tia Levings is the New York Times Bestselling author of A Well-Trained Wife, her memoir of escape from Christian Patriarchy. She writes about the realities of Christian fundamentalism, evangelical patriarchy, and religious trauma. She also appeared in the hit Amazon docu-series, Shiny Happy People. Based in North Carolina, she is mom to four incredible adults and likes to travel, hike, paint, and daydream. Find her on social media @TiaLevingsWriter.
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The Closure Myth: How Do We Really Move On?
368. The Closure Myth: How Do We Really Move On?
Abby, Glennon and Amanda delve into your voicemails and discuss matters of the broken heart, closure, self-sabotage, moving toward or away from family, and more.
Discover:
Glennon’s “magical pessimism”
Why creative people do not seek out closure
The geographical solution or finding the “right” place to live
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Melissa McCarthy: Sex, Nuns & Ghosts (Best Of)
1. What Melissa’s parents said when she told them about her dream – and how those magic words set the course of Melissa’s life.
2. The green and red flags Melissa tells her kids to look for in a relationship.
3. Why Melissa is a shark, and her brilliant strategy to “Run Around the Block” in almost any difficult situation.
4. Melissa’s and Abby’s experiences with ghosts.
5. How Melissa learned about sex – and the way she talks to her kids about it.
About Melissa:
Melissa McCarthy is an award-winning writer, producer, and actor. Her work includes Bridesmaids, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Ghostbusters,The Heat; Identity Thief; This is 40, The Hangover Part III, The Starling, “Gilmore Girls”, and “Samantha Who?”. She won an Emmy Award and People’s Choice Award for her role in “Mike & Molly” as well as an Emmy for “Saturday Night Live”.
Melissa and her husband Ben Falcone founded On the Day Productions and have produced Tammy, The Boss, Life of the Party, “Nobodies,” “Little Big Shots,” Superintelligence , Thunder Force, “God’s Favorite Idiot,” and Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed.
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Life is freaking hard. We are all doing hard things every single day – things like loving and losing; caring for children and parents; forging and ending friendships; battling addiction, illness, and loneliness; struggling in our jobs, our marriages, and our divorces; setting boundaries; and fighting for equality, purpose, freedom, joy, and peace.
On We Can Do Hard Things, Glennon Doyle, author of UNTAMED; her wife Abby Wambach; and her sister Amanda Doyle do the only thing they’ve found that has ever made life easier: Drop the fake and talk honestly about the hard things including sex, gender, parenting, blended families, bodies, anxiety, addiction, justice, boundaries, fun, quitting, overwhelm . . . all of it.
We laugh and cry and help each other carry the hard so we can all live a little bit lighter and braver, free-er, less alone.
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