Ares speaks to Renrobot about expression through art after growing up in the church.
Category Archives: Ex-Moonies
‘I think Jesus’ Wife Still Lives There’ and ‘No Matter What Happens You can just Say it’s Providential’: Hye-Nam Gehring on Falling Out Podcast
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We are All Vulnerable: Lessons on Leaving with Jen Kiaba
Jen explores susceptibility to cults and how to protect ourselves from methods of control. https://www.jenkiaba.com/lessons-on-leaving/we-are-vulnerable This article is also available as a podcast.
Why Didn’t You Just Leave? : Lessons on Leaving with Jen Kiaba
Jen explains how the coercive control and manipulation of a cult makes leaving it a complex and possibly dangerous achievement. https://www.jenkiaba.com/lessons-on-leaving/why-didnt-you-just-leave This blog post is also available as a podcast
Let us Embark: Lessons on Leaving with Jen Kiaba
Jen Kiaba begins her series on trauma, recovery and cults in a blog that is also available as a podcast: https://www.jenkiaba.com/lessons-on-leaving/embark-mission
Dismantled -Moonie No More: Jen Kiaba on Talk Beliefs
Jen speaks about the mythology of the Unification Church, her experience growing up in it, being labor-trafficked, and having an arranged marriage blessing. Her recovery is explored through powerful photographic self-portraits and the value of art as therapy.
‘District Twelve’ and ‘Fellas, is it Gay to eat Plants?’: Faith Yeon on Falling Out Podcast
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‘Torture, Guns and Hate’ and ‘AIDS Teddy Bear’: Akina Cox on Falling Out Podcast
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True Family Mafia and Parentification: Teddy Hose on Falling Out Podcast
Teddy Hose speaks to Elgen about his experience growing up near the Moon family, labor-trafficking and how the church dealt with the suicide of one of the Moon family sons. In episode 2 Teddy talks about using humor to deal with difficulty, the book 1984, children being abandoned at Jacob House so that parents couldContinue reading “True Family Mafia and Parentification: Teddy Hose on Falling Out Podcast”
Tainted Blood and Forced Beatings: Ares Meyer on the Falling Out Podcast (Part 1&2)
In Part 1, Ares speaks to Elgen Strait about his experience growing up as a ‘Jacob’s Child’ in the Unification Church. In Part 2 Ares and Elgen discuss the Blessing, Special Task Force, Washington Times, dating after the church and the ‘indemnity stick’ ceremony.
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