Ep. 153: Created To Be His Helpmeet by Debi and Michael Pearl

In this episode, we review "Created To Be His Helpmeet," by Debi and Michael Pearl. From the authors of "To Train Up A Child," This book is a popular guide for christian fundamentalist women, instructing them how to be submissive wives. This book advises women to minimize themselves and to be a person without needs or wants or desires, and to surrender their personal identity to be of service to their husband. TW: In general we talk about a lot of potentially triggering topics on this show, including but not limited to suicide and mental health, racism, misogyny, PTSD and PTSD symptoms, child abuse, mental, physical, and sexual abuse, and spiritual abuse including guilt, shame, and fear. In most episodes we’ll mention at least a few of these topics, but we try very hard to avoid graphic detail unless it’s relevant to the story we’re telling, and we do our best to give the audience a heads-up before going into detail on any of these topics. This episode contains extensive discussion of domestic violence and emotional abuse including details, discussion of submission, and discussion of marital rape. There’s really no way to get around repeating those kind of details because it’s necessary to show just how bad this book is, but we will give a heads up before we do so anyone who needs to use that skip ahead button can do so.

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