If you grew up in a religious authoritarian home, there’s a good chance you weren’t allowed to celebrate Halloween — but that doesn’t mean you didn’t have countless chances to be scared in your childhood. We thought it’d be a good month to talk about religious
Growing Up in the Fold0:00/3950.05387755102041× What’s the difference between experiencing religious trauma in the church — and being born into it? This episode, we begin to explore what kinds of long-term impacts come from being born into a high control religion like white evangelicalism. This episode
Popenoe0:00/3911.05306122448971× On the one-year anniversary of James Dobson’s death* we’re discussing the nefarious history of his mentor, Paul Popenoe, whose teachings inspired Nazi eugenics. We also discuss Popenoe’s connections to the Southern Baptist Convention (big shocker!) and teaching pastoral counseling. DL’s research
Life After Leaving0:00/4877.0612244897961× Welcome to STRONGWILLED, the multimedia project aimed at helping survivors of religious authoritarian parenting methods develop autonomy and find solidarity. This episode we heard from listeners about what they’ve found most rewarding about being leaving either dysfunctional families, the faith they were raised
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Recovering Autonomy after Religious Authoritarian Parenting
Prodigal Parents0:00/5326.053877551021× Welcome to STRONGWILLED, the multimedia project aimed at helping survivors of religious authoritarian parenting methods develop autonomy and find solidarity.This episode we discuss what Focus on the Family and James Dobson Institute recommending to estranged evangelical parents. We dig into what Dr. John Townsend
Toddlerhood0:00/4380.0555102040821× Krispin and DL discuss what's important about the toddler years and how growing up under religious authoritarian parenting has life long impacts from this developmental stage. Common impacts are difficulty setting boundaries, living according to others’ expectations and difficulty making your own choices — all
Two years ago, we launched the STRONGWILLED project as a way to have conversations centered on the long-term impacts of Christian nationalist parenting methods on both individuals and society at large. In the past two years, the efforts of Christian fascism towards controlling, oppressing, and punishing the disobedient in
Prodigal Children0:00/4495.986938775511× Welcome to STRONGWILLED, the multimedia project aimed at helping survivors of religious authoritarian parenting methods develop autonomy and find solidarity. Welcome to our new series on estrangement! This episode we discuss what Focus on the Family and the James Dobson Institute are saying about estranged
A subscriber-only podcast episode about how childhood spanking has long-term impacts on mental health and relationships.
Hello fellow strong-willed people, We wanted to pop in and give a few updates to where our work has been featured, what’s coming up for STRONGWILLED, and how you can support/get involved. First up, our Purity Culture is Pedophile Culture series continues to be our most-read
Jenai0:00/3578.8016326530611× Welcome to STRONGWILLED, the multimedia project aimed at helping survivors of religious authoritarian parenting methods develop autonomy and find solidarity. I loved this conversation with Jenai Auman about learning to spot power and abuse dynamics in any group or organization. She is author of Othered, and
Krispin and DL reflect on estrangement from their parents
Welcome to the new STRONGWILLED platform – we are so glad you are here! We created a survey for you all because we’d love to hear from you about what you’d like to read and hear this coming year. The survey is below. But first, some updates: We recently
Krispin and DL reflect on estrangement from their parents