We'll Be Back Next Week
We'll Be Back Next Week
some pictures & a podcast recommendation.
We’re taking the week off to spend time as a family and we hope you’re doing something restorative to your soul and your sense of self.
For the long weekend here in the US, we went to the Redwoods in Northern California, and learned that they’re the oldest living things on the planet — talk about being strongwilled!
(You can find more pictures on Krispin’s instagram)
For now, if you’re looking for more ways to process growing up under religious authoritarian parenting, we’d highly recommend a podcast episode from Veterans of the Culture War podcast, where our friends Zach Malm and Dave Lester interviewed Marlene Winell, author of the classic religious trauma book, Leaving the Fold. The episode is titled: “Leaving the Fold with Marlene Winell.”
Our June chapters will focus on toddlerhood (autonomy) and adolescence (shame) and how these developmental stages are targeted by RAP practices. We also have some exciting interviews to share that connect with the theme of pride for June. We are also hard at work on the companion podcast to this Substack, which will be launching in July (the first episode is titled: Send This Episode to Your Therapist where we try and succinctly explain the trauma of growing up with RAP methods). Stay tuned for more info on the podcast.
We’ll be back next Monday with a doozy of a chapter, but in the meantime, feel free to share with us your self-care plans, thoughts on this podcast episode or if you did anything creative over the weekend.
As always, thank you so much for supporting this project. See you next week!
I am so beyond grateful for this group. Having so many people come out and agree that these teachings from FOTF are not just bad but left long term scars is validating. This affirms me in the deepest parts of my being. Finally a huge group of people are shouting from the rooftops that what happened to me is not okay and James Dodson has done severe damage. I’ve felt so lonely and unsupported in my attempts to defend myself. Now I am not alone. This is becoming a movement!
It was good to hear Dr. Winell this week. I devoured her book a while ago and needed some reminders. One of the parts that resonated the most was when Zach, I think was talking at the time, mentioned how he was afraid to be open with his mother because he wanted to protect his kids’ inheritance. That is no small thing! If you are raised to focus on and depend on your parents, what wealth have you stored up for yourself and your children?