Today we’re chatting with Vanessa! Vanessa shares her experience of growing up feeling supported as a neurodivergent child in the Christadelphian community with her family. Over time though, she had a feminist awakening and found that her views on women's roles within the ecclesia didn’t quite fit. Eventually she began studying psychology and realized that she was in a high control religion! After pressure to bring her children in for instruction and hearing explicitly that they wanted to brainwash the children, she decided she wanted better for her family and left the group. Since leaving, Vanessa’s found a sense of purpose that she hadn’t experienced as a Christadelphian and she has finally embraced her authentic self. 

Please join us for another episode of fellowship among those who have left the fold!  

Listener discretion advised.

Resources and References

What So Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

Religious Harm Recovery Newsletter

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

Podcast: It’s A Little Bit Culty Podcast with Sarah and Nippy

Podcast: Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation hosted by Lola and Meagan

Clementine Morrigan on Instagram and host of the Fucking Cancelled Podcast

The Little Book of Attachment: Theory to Practice in Child Mental Health with Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy by Daniel Hughes and Ben Gurney-Smith

Raising a Secure Child: How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore by Kent Hoffman, Glenn Cooper, and Bert Powell