High Control Religious Environments - Do Not Keep Calm and Carry On - 159

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We’re survivors of high control religious environments? What? Irenicast co-hosts offer the (sometimes) uncomfortable awareness that if you were in an evangelical/fundamentalist community, much of your life, inside and outside of church, was probably highly controlled.

The conversation includes the harmful legacy of growing up and living within a highly controlled religious environment. For example, strong leadership equals controlling people; vulnerability is exploited and access to “worldly” information is heavily managed.

Each co-host shares their own experiences of how being part of a high control religious environment impacted them developmentally and psychically. Using recent research as inspiration, co-hosts tell how they are healing from the realities of being both victims and participants in controlling religious communities.

The episode ends with a rousing round of Appledash. Let’s just say -- for people leaving evangelical/fundamentalist faith, delayed adolescence is real.

Conversation on High Control Religious Environments (01:05)

Appledash Segment (52:17)

RELEVANT LINKS

From Our Conversation on High Control Religious Environments

• Cracking the Cult Code for Therapists: What Every Cult Victim Wants Their Therapist to Know by Bonnie Zieman (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link - This is the book Allen is primarily referencing in this episode)
• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix Show)
• Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
• How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
• Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
• Learned Helplessness (Psychological Term)
• Epic of Gilgamesh (Creation Myth)
• The Five Stages of the Soul: Charting the Spiritual Passages by Harry R. Moody and David Carroll (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
• Paul Rudd Hot Ones Meme

From Our Appledash Segment (Appledash has also been played on episodes #024 and #081)

• Apples 2 Apples (Board Game - Amazon Affiliate Link)
• Balderdash (Board Game - Amazon Affiliate Link)
• Bumfuzzle
• Sackbut
• One of Allen’s Hurdy Gurdy Videos
• Otiose

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CREDITS

Intro and Outro music created by Mike Golin.

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