Meg Applegate - Unsilenced 

CW: Kidnapping

At the age of 15, Meg Applegate was abducted by two strangers in the middle of the night from her California home. Eight hours later she found herself at a lockdown treatment facility for 6 months in Boise, ID. After that, she was placed in an additional behavioral modification program in northern Montana for the next 3 years.

Today, Meg will be sharing with us about her work with UNSILENCED, a nonprofit organization serving victims of institutional child abuse – especially those harmed by the TTI, or Troubled Teen Industry.

Meg’s book is titled Becoming UNSILENCED: Surviving and Fighting the Troubled Teen Industry.

FIND MEG:

·         https://www.unsilenced.org/

·         Link for Meg’s book: https://a.co/d/3P5hM37 

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Rebekah Monroe - Religious Trauma Research

My guest today is Rebekah J. Monroe, who identifies as a white queer woman with lineage in the Osage and Cherokee Tribes. Rebekah goes by the pronouns are She/Her/They.

Currently, Rebekah is a Clinical Psychology doctoral student, co-founder of the non-profit NARC-RT (which stands for North American Research Collective - Religious Trauma), and Vice Chair on the Reclamation Collective Board of Directors.

Rebekah's research interests include sexuality, sex education, cultural hegemony in institutions, health equity, mental health, yoga therapy, and religious trauma with an intersectional Black feminist lens inspired by scholars like Patricia Hill Collins, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and bell hooks.

Rebekah sees herself as a translational scholar making space in social sciences for people who are looking for navigation in healing from institutional harm and religious trauma. She envisions herself directing a research community center specializing in holistic care after finishing her graduate studies while working as a clinician part-time. 

 FIND REBEKAH:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebekah-joy-monroe/
Co-founder of NARC-RT: www.narc-rt.org
Vice Chair of Reclamation Collective Board of Directors Starting 2024: https://www.reclamationcollective.com/ 

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Lindsey Doolittle - Recovering from Religion & Suicide Loss

TW: Today we will be discussing issues related to suicide

Lindsey Doolittle was introduced to me as a documentary film maker who recently focussed her lens on Dr. Darrel Ray’s work at Recovering from Religion (see below for more information on this documentary).

In speaking with Lindsey, I learned that she has a powerful story of her own to share. The following excerpt is from her website www.AboveTheRug.com :  Lindsey Doolittle is an art educator, children’s author, artist to the Faces After Suicide exhibition, and an Award-Winning independent filmmaker. Her advocacy began shortly after her late husband, Sgt. Brett Doolittle of the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department, died by suicide in 2015.

RESOURCES MENTIONED:
Link for RfR documentary Go Fund Me: https://gofund.me/05592f97
Lindsey’s website: https://abovetherug.com/
RfR: www.recoveringfromreligion.org

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Nikole Mitchell - From Pastor to Only Fans Model
Divorced: Evangelical Christianity

CW: Frank discussions about sexuality

Today’s guest has previously appeared on the Dr. Phil Show, Jimmy Kimmel, ABC, CBS – and today she is a guest on the Divorcing Religion Podcast! I’m talking about Pleasure Coach NIKOLE MITCHELL.

Raised in the Evangelical Christian tradition, Nikole understood the role assigned to her within that tradition: A homemaker who was subservient to her husband – and all men - in a monogamous, heterosexual marriage. 

Eventually, Nikole embraced a more liberal form of Christianity and even became a pastor. She began letting go of religion while attending seminary, and left her church in 2019, after graduating with her Master's degree.

Today, Nikole Mitchell is a divorced mother of 3, living as a queer woman. Not only does she have a thriving career as an Only Fans creator, but she also empowers other women through her coaching practice.

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https://nikolemitchell.com/
https://www.instagram.com/mitchellnikole

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Linda Martin -  Religious Exemptions are Killing Kids
Divorced: Followers of Christ Cult

CW: Child abuse and death due to faith-based exemptions

Linda Martin was born into the Idaho Followers of Christ sect, leaving the church at age 16. It is estimated that the child mortality rate for the Followers of Christ between 2002 and 2011 was 10 times that of Idaho as a whole.

In 2013, Linda went public about the many religious medical neglect deaths of children in Idaho, and she continues to bring awareness to the religious medical neglect of children. 

With the late Rita Swan, Linda helped set up the website idahochildren.org which has links to important articles and information about laws in the United States that allow religious exemptions to medical care for sick children.

 RESOURCES MENTIONED:

·         www.idahochildren.org

·         https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN4i_tHNkNDBvgHKi_OZyfEL48ZUoEsdl

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Clint Heacock - Is Christianity Killing Democracy?

CW: USA politics & religion

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Dr. Danielle Kramer - Taylor Swift and Deep Fake Porn

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Sandy Bigtree & Philip Arnold - The Religious Origins of White Supremacy

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Hannah Abbasi - From Christian to Muslim to Secular Humanist, Part 2
Divorced: Islam

In our last episode, we were introduced to Hannah Abbasi. Hannah grew up in a Christian home but converted to Islam in her teens due to family influences on her father’s side. In today’s episode, we learn more about what it was like for Hannah to live and study in nations heavily influenced by Islam, what brought her back to the USA, and how she became involved in Humanism. 

Eventually, Hannah co-founded An-Nas, an ethics-based community for humanists from Muslim backgrounds dedicated to providing opportunities for personal growth, promoting social justice, and contributing to an inclusive, multicultural humanism through engagement with the arts, sciences, and humanities in intersectional spaces.

RESOURCES
https://www.an-nas.org/

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Hannah Abbasi - From Christian to Muslim to Secular Humanist, Part 1
Divorced: Christianity

PART 1 – FROM CHRISTIAN TO MUSLIM 

My guest today is Hannah Abbasi, a transplant to New York City from Austin, Texas. As an adult, she has also lived in Qom, Beirut, and Cairo. At the University of Texas at Austin, Hannah studied Religious Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and History with a minor in Arabic Language. She went on to study at Islamic seminaries in Iran and Lebanon and completed her Master’s of Science in Education from the City College of New York in 2018.

Hannah eventually co-founded AN-NAS, an ethics-based community for humanists from Muslim backgrounds. In this episode, Hannah shares about her life from childhood up to college.

RESOURCES MENTIONED 

https://www.an-nas.org/ 

https://rarforum.org/fellows/

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