Troubled

Troubled

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  • Troubled Updates!
    We did a thing www.TalkTroubled.org
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    11 min
  • TTI Peer Support Group (Virtual & Monthly)
    Survivor & Advocate Lisa Spears, invites Survivors of the Troubled Teen Industry to a monthly peer support group via Zoom. Partners are welcome to join, but we ask that you be present in a support capacity. Sorry parents, staff, public, this one is not for you. Because of the nature of peer-on-peer pressure programming, the cure is in the cause and the light shines from the womb. We cannot learn to trust without experiencing safe relationships. Are you ready to try? Please remember that we are NOT the program. None of us. Please do not bring the program into this peer group. Let’s not use their lexicon. This is not The Game, feedback will not be tolerated. This is a come as you are safe space. Roll up a joint, cuss battle your favorite drowned sailor, please include all puppies. Please give Lisa Spears some love for this much needed offering of mental health support to our community. Give her a big round of applause for organizing a second November round for the Right to Rights Rally so that Survivors will have virtual peer support. And once again, the harmed become the healers and ask us to choose once again ‘if we have faith in our fellow wo/mxn?” ZOOM ID: 502 755 096 (no password) #iseeyousurvivor https://talktroubled.org/right-to-rights-rally-missouri/
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    3 min
  • Cadilina Deville Kidnaps Troubled for a Roadtrip to the Provo Protest
    A year after she revisited her own Program (Spring Creek Lodge; WATCH on her YouTube), and just days after losing everything in the fires ravaging our country, Cadilina Deville cashed her last coins into her classic car gas tank and set across the country and through the desert to join the few Survivors who could make it out to Provo Canyon to protest with Paris Hilton on a weeks notice and a prayer.  Since we're moms and broke and couldn't transcendental meditate our way to Utah in time, we're grateful to have been kidnapped by our elder Survivor Sister and you're coming along for the ride.  
    The Troubled family would like to give a BIG Congratulations to Provo Survivor Courtney for protesting outside her vortex of torment and closing the door on that trauma, rising into her Survivor highness, and doing all this just in time to marry her soulmate. WTF Sister, can't wait to read your book. Definitely call in and let us know how you feel! We forgot what dopamine and her sero/oxy friends are like.  
    It was great to hear from Agape & Bethel Survivor, Allen Knoll! If you have not yet read his book Surviving Bethel, definitely prioritize resolving that. Also, the short for his upcoming documentary Bethel Boys is a definite cathartic trigger warning and we cannot wait for that project to be released!
     We would like to apologize for the typical Troubling of technological audio derps, but we hope you already know that we're functioning in a barely functioning capacity. So we appreciate your patience and are always happy to accept tech donations. We bring this up because perhaps the most touching of interviews with an Ex Provo Boy is deeply swallowed by the speakers in the background. However, we're pretty sure Mikaela Shwer, director of The Kids are Not Alright captured the moment so we can all ugly sob together someday. To that Survivor Brother, we see you. We need Brothers like yourself on the frontline because our brothers walk the thinnest line between overcoming and overcame. Definitely reach out.  
    Sooo, we had the biggest squee moment when one of our idols (who is the inspiration for one of our favorite movies) calls out Amanda Househoulder in her interview with Cadilina. OMG we want to tell you but AHHH. We planted her as the first interview for many reasons and mostly because, patience, or lack thereof. So much to unpack but we'll shh.  
    On another note, but not entirely, respect to our Survivor Sisters who joined the psych, social psych, social work, fields as a result of being the subject of a social psychology experiment deliberate gone wronger than wrong. Laura Rouse is one of the most brilliant and supportive Survivors we've ever virtually met and of everyone that we didn't get to hangout with at the Provo Protest, this is the voice we heard pop on during editing where we were genuinely bummed out to have missed it. She lives in Hawaii y'all, the opportunities aren't plentiful.  
    Reminder that this was officially #BreakingCodeSilence 's first event and their coming out party if you will from a virtual social media campaign to a real life movement. They're working towards creating an organization and are already accepting donations through nonprofit partner NYRA (which you should have heard of otherwise you're missing too many episodes). So if you haven't already familiarized yourself with this campaign, their team and their mission, make sure you head over to breakingcodesilence.net and do not forget to sign their petition.  
    Speaking of Petitions, keep sharing Paris Hilton's Petition to Shut Down Provo Canyon. And yes Paris does make an appearance on the podcast but you'll have to listen to whole thing to find her cameo with Cadilina.
    49 min
  • I am L’nu

    This week is ALL EYES ON MI'KMA'KI National Week of Action #Treaty1752

    Art by Indigenous Two Spirit Artist @artnerdforever www.etsy.com/shop/entheosvibrations

    As Colonization climaxes in Canada with open domestic terrorism and unabashed hate crimes against the Mik'maq fisherman, we are humbled to be entrusted with this message from Ginger Knockwood.

    Through generations of genocide and centuries of collective gaslighting from "white people", the Indigenous have exploited through their own silencing. Make no mistake, the hostile occupation of Turtle Island continues.

    [email protected] (educating on TikTok @s.n.a.p.z)

    To Support Mi'kma'ki as they are currently targeted by domestic terrorism including arson, RCMP brutality and complicity, etc

    Contact [email protected] or by phone Monica Beckett (902) 758-2049

    Donations for Sipekne'katik 1752 Moderate Livelihood PayPal [email protected]

    16 min
  • Thunderchild: a Residential School Survivor Speaks during "ALL EYES on MI'KMA'KI" Week of Action

    This week is ALL EYES ON MI'KMA'KI National Week of Action #Treaty1752  

    (Cover Art by Indigenous Artist Hawlii Pichette aka Urban Iskwew @urban.iskwew www.urbaniskwew.com)

    As Colonization climaxes in Canada with open domestic terrorism and unabashed hate crimes against the Mik'maq fisherman in Nova Scotia, we are humbled to be entrusted with this message from Thunderchild.  

    From birth, Marie Knockwood was appointed and anointed to dismantle the systems which dismantled her people since the invasions. Through generations of genocide and centuries of collective gaslighting from "white people", the Indigenous have exploited through their own silencing. Make no mistake, the hostile occupation of Turtle Island continues.  

    This peek into the reality of Residential School Survivors on Prince Edward Island, where they are forced to walk daily by a statue of their abuser, super predator and creator of "Residential Schools", John A. MacDonald, is humbly shared with generous permission by Ginger Knockwood with and for her mother, Marie. Please reach out to them [email protected] (educating on TikTok @s.n.a.p.z) 

    To Support Mi'kma'ki as they are currently targeted by domestic terrorism including arson, RCMP brutality and complicity, etc  

    Contact [email protected] or by phone Monica Beckett (902) 758-2049 

    Donations for Sipekne'katik 1752 Moderate Livelihood PayPal [email protected]  

    Clip of CBC PEI interview with Nicola MacLeod (@nicolammacleod on Twitter)

    32 min
  • NYRA “Troubled Teen Industry” Panel
    On 10/3 the National Youth Rights Association (www.youthrights.org) held a conversation about the successes the anti- "Troubled Teen Industry"  movement has had shutting down abusive behavior modification facilities and the steps we can take to coordinate more closely between the various groups involved, including survivors, lawyers, state legislatures, and organizations focused on intersecting issues such as LGBTQIA+ rights.  
    Content warning: This panel may include mentions of child abuse, cults, brainwashing, homophobia, ableism, transphobia, sexual assault, and death.  
    GRATITUDE to Brian Conner for hosting this panel. To hear more from him directly, checkout NYRAs episode on Troubled.   
    Panelists:  Wayne Besen: LGBTQIA+ rights advocate and founder of Truth Wins Out and the Center Against Religious Extremism; has helped lead the fight to ban conversion therapy in 20 states.  
    Sara Gelser: a state senator from Oregon who focuses her efforts on advancing the rights of children, youth and people with disabilities and ending the use of restraint and seclusion. (@sensaragelser on Twitter)  
    Amanda Householder: she started with exposing and closing the abusive boarding school her parents own. She is the Executive Director of the nonprofit created out of the abusive ashes of her father's crimes against children, with a primary mission of providing mental health access to Survivors as the do the difficult work of healing their selves and saving future generations. She is also a host of Troubled and is working with local Missouri legislators to repeal the State's Religious Exemption. (@exposingcircleofhope on TikTok & YouTube and  @berlinvonmortis on IG)  
    Shain Neumeier: an attorney based in Springfield, Massachusetts who uses the legal system to protect the autonomy and prevent the abuse of youth, people with disabilities, and transgender people; in particular, they have worked on issues of bodily autonomy and freedom from coercive interventions in the name of treatment.  
    Miranda Sullivan: Survivor & Founder of Troubled, a podcast by survivors of institutional child abuse with the intent of exposing the open secret of institutional abuse in the US, from the Assimilation of the Indigenous through the cult-spawned “toughlove” industry to today. (@talktroubled everywhere for the podcast & @m0rrigu personally)  Gabriel Joseph Gonzalez: a survivor that educates and advocates for young people's rights in The Troubled Teen Industry and has worked on various projects promoting legislation creation including a recently co-facilitated collaborative campaign to congress to regulate controversial care practices and challenges in TTI,  as Legislative Coordinator of Breaking Code Silence, a movement organized by a network of survivors and activists to raise awareness of the problems in the Troubled Teen Industry.  
    #iseeyousurvivor #breakingcodesilence
    1 hr 11 min
  • Coffee & Colonization on Turtle Island
    A little pre caffeinated rant on the continued & current hostile occupation of Turtle Island and the deplorable Assimilation of the Indigenous. From Pocahontas to the countless bodies of children left in unmarked graves littered around “residential school” remains. Residential schools REMAIN, just not openly racially motivated since the 90s. Assimilation is still happening. It’s October 12th, the perfect day to repay Turtle Island and her people for hosting us without consent. Educate, evolve, engage. MMIW #nomorestolensisters #landback
    30 min
  • Touching on Touchy Subjects with Wes Good of Deadwulf

    While we've been talking about our brothers quite regularly recently, we haven't spoken WITH one of them in far too long. So enjoy this 2hr special with Wes Good, as we make up for a loss in the masculine perspective. Whether you know Wes from the Family School, his real world life, or his band Deadwulf; you're about to know him a lot better. 

    Consider this a conversational rant-esque catch-up. We follow a spectrum of shiny subjects into and out of the darkness including but not limited to: first/teen love, decking your dad while being "legally kidnapped", the impact of and impressions made by our captors, "what is Stockholm syndrome?", the glaring gender gap in representation of our Survivor brothers, talking with our parents about TTI etc. 

    If you aren't already familiar with Deadwulf, definitely checkout their YouTube (in particular "Hancock" a song about the Family Foundation School). Don't forget to check out Wes Good on YouTube as well. 

    You can connect with Wes on Facebook, and Deadwulf too. 

    This magical link brings you to EVERYWHERE you can listen to Deadwulf on. 

    Please support our Survivors, especially those who utilize their gifts to express the truth of our stories. 

    All feedback always welcome! If you would like to hear more from Wes let us know. Please subscribe, rate & write a review to make sure that others will find us as well. 

    #breakingcodesilence #iseeyousurvivor



    If you're on a platform that doesn't link through, here they are listed below:

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    1 hr 52 min
  • The Salt Lake Tribune: Transforming Transparency in Utah's Troubled Teen Industry

    If you're already in the anti-cool cult-kids club, then you're probably already following Pulitzer winning journalist, Jessica Miller on Twitter. Her current breakout series with the Salt Lake Tribune, is answering questions in Utah that generations of Survivors had previously dismissed as futile. The Tribune and their tenacious truth-seeker are definitely headed for yet another Pulitzer. Just the next, and certainly not the last, for both Jessica and the respectively revered legacy of journalists that put investigation first when it came to mass legal child abuse.

    If you haven't seen her LIVE #TribTalk with Breaking Code Silence founder, Jen Robinson, then click no further.

    Since the Tribune is a non-profit, and up against some serious obstacles in their quest for foraging facts (as detailed in this interview), please donate (if you can) HERE.

    If you are a Survivor, or Staff, or Parent who has personal experience with the Troubled Teen Industry in Utah, and would like to participate with the Tribune's ongoing investigation; fill out this survey. 

    If you are a Survivor and would like to participate the in the Disability Law Center's review of Utah's TTI; fill out this survey.

    THANK YOU to Paris Hilton's empowering exposure of this, America's deepest and darkest open secret. If you have not yet seen This is Paris then hop over to YouTube now. Please also support our sister Survivor and the generations of tortured youth that have overcame or have been overcome by the predatory perversion at Provo Canyon by signing THIS PETITION to shut it down now and forever, finally.

    To our Survivor community, please keep #breakingcodesilence. For some of us, the purpose in the pain then is the power to eradicate this perpetrator now and forever more. If we rescue the children of today and spare the youth of tomorrow, perhaps we can bring some semblance of peace to the child within. Until next time, #iseeyousurvivor

    47 min
  • Troubled
    Since Assimilation, which persists today, America has maintained a historic predatory preference for mass legal for-profit child abduction, trafficking, detainment, torture & murder. The modern Toughlove Troubled Teen Industry was created by “America’s Most Dangerous Cult”, Synanon and is a multi-billion dollar machine built on brainwashing millions of Americans. We are Survivors, and we’re sick of watching our friends die while we keep your dirty little open secret. #iseeyousurvivor #breakingcodesilence
    1 min

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Since the Assimilation of the Indigenous, which persists today, America has had a predatory preference for mass legal child abduction, trafficking, abuse, torture and murder.