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Whether we're exploring new educational or professional opportunities, writing about ourselves and our accomplishments can blast open doors--or slam them shut.  So when we're feeling inexperienced and uncertain, how do we get started on these high-stakes writing projects? In this episode, Naomi (a writing professor) and Rebecca (a scholarship wizard) discuss strategies to help even the most anxious applicant write with confidence. 

Show Notes
Application Essay Brainstorming Worksheet 

Advice from Undergraduate Admissions Officers (Purdue OWL)

Essays (UNC-Chapel Hill Writing Center)

12 Strategies to Writing the Perfect College Essay (Harvard Summer School)

Essays That Worked (Johns Hopkins University Admissions)

Audio editing: BethAnnie Hartman

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Once we've left behind our bubble of origin, how do we heal the emotional wounds that may still remain? How do we replace the looping mental tapes that still haunt us years later? In this episode, Naomi and Rebecca reflect on the practice of reparenting as a way adults can offer our younger selves the understanding and compassion we may have longed for but never received. Ultimately, reparenting is a practice for anyone raised by imperfect adults–which is why Naomi and Rebecca are already teaching it to their own children.

Resources referenced (or should have been):

Reparenting Our Inner Child (YouTube)

Healing Inner Child Wounds: The Essential Guide to Reparenting (A helpful bog post with journaling prompts.)

Ep. 88 How to Reparent Yourself and Ep. 89 How to Reparent Part 2 (Guidance from a therapist on SelfHealers Soundboard Podcast)

Stop Trying to be Perfect and Start Being OK: Why being the OK-est version of you is the antidote to OCD (A Psychology Today article describing the symptoms of moral scrupulosity and its debilitating effects.)

Audio Editing: BethAnnie Hartman

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Breaking away from family's long-held patterns and expectations can trigger a minefield of difficult emotions and ruptured relationships. In this episode, Naomi and Rebecca remember moments from their own cycle-breaking journeys and reflect on the words that helped bring compassion and nuanced meaning to these challenging experiences.

Show Notes

What is a Cycle Breaker? (Psychology Today article)

Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder  (Gabor Mate's book where he explains the crucial role of attunement for infants' brain development.) 

Audio Editing: BethAnnie Hartman

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Rebecca and Naomi have more to say about the docuseries, Shiny Happy People. In this episode they analyze some of the central ideology of patriarchal, fundamentalist teachings such as those promoted by IBLP, the Duggars, and others. They share their own stories as well as evidence-based research that illustrates the damaging effects these beliefs and practices have on individuals and communities. 

Links

• Recovering Grace
• 58% of women murdered in 2017 were murdered by an intimate partner or family member (The Conversation)
• WHO fact sheet on violence against women
• Domestic Violence by State 2023 
• National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-7233
• Historic Anabaptist Teachings (Messiah College)
• 1984 by George Orwell 
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 
• Tia Levings: “Christian Fundamentalists want to run the country the way they run their homes.” 
• Sample IBLP Materials: IBLP Childbirth Guidelines (page 1) and  (page 2)

Recommended Podcasts

• Holy Ghosting ("19 Cults and Counting")
• Leaving Eden Podcast (with Lindsey Williams and Chad Harris)
• Shiny Happy People: The Unofficial Podcast
• A Little Bit Culty (with Tia Levings) 
• Mormon Stories Podcast ("Shiny Happy People vs. Mormons")

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To balance out our last episode, in this one we discuss specific situations where it might be better to delay college for a while so that you have a better chance of success when you do get there. We also offer suggestions for alternatives to consider in the meanwhile. 

Audio editing by BethAnnie Hartman 

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If your social environment hasn't set you up for college, you've probably heard a million reasons why it's not a good idea for you--at least for right now. In this episode we break down these scripts to show how they worked as diversionary tactics and how they contrast with what we have found to be true. 

Audio editing: BethAnnie Hartman 

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UPDATE: We recorded a follow up to this episode, available here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2171591/13114840

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Rebecca and Naomi react to the docuseries Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets that dropped on Amazon Prime this week. They discuss their own past involvement with IBLP and how that informs their interpretation of the docuseries and Duggar family dynamics. 

Links and resources mentioned in this episode: 

Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets - Official Trailer | Prime Video

TLC's Michelle Duggar fights ordinance protecting transgender rights - Los Angeles Times

Shiny Happy People: The Unofficial Podcast

Leaving Eden Podcast (IG Live) 

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Naomi and Rebecca take a break from regular programming to talk through an incident Naomi witnessed recently and to discuss different options for dealing with a creepy dude who is trying to take advantage of another person's perceived vulnerability.

Mentioned on the show:
Bell Bajao's video, Got Milk? (content warning for disturbing audio)

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If you weren't expected to ever go to college, it can be tough to figure out how to begin the process. In this episode, we talk about how to get the qualifications you need (even when you don't have a high school diploma) and where you can find the help and information to get started. 

Mentioned in the show: https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for-aid/fafsa

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Do you feel stuck and out of options? Maybe you can imagine a different life but don't see a path to getting there? Rebecca and Naomi have been there too, and are here to share the insights and practical tips they've learned in the process of getting themselves unstuck. 

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