Blog post by Jen Kiaba about her experience on the Special Task Force in USA:: https://www.summerofcheesecake.com/2015/08/sex-death-human-trafficking-unification-church.html
Category Archives: Recovery
Faith Y3n on Relationships
As we emerge from a high control group where every decision was made for us and we were shamed about romantic feelings, it can be a minefield trying to work out how to start and make relationships work in the real world. there is some great advice here… Faith Y3n says some interesting things inContinue reading “Faith Y3n on Relationships”
Renrobot’s Deconstructing Artwork
Renrobot has done a great deal of work expressing her journey out of the church… here are some examples of her work: https://www.facebook.com/renrobot.art https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Frenrobot.art%2Fposts%2F399968111022618&show_text=true&width=500
‘Be God’s Champion!’: Limi Bauer’s poem on I Got Out
Limi contributed her poem on the pressure to be a champion to the I Got Out series:
Elgen Strait on the Ares Meyer Podcast
Elgen talks to Ares about his realisations as he left the church, and why he started the Falling Out podcast. 5. Elgen background. New Yorker Hotel. 9. DC church. 12. Double life and True Parents pictures 21. Cheon il guk card and being witnessed to. 29 STF and Blessing. 39. Lancaster Gate and moon daughter livingContinue reading “Elgen Strait on the Ares Meyer Podcast”
Healing Through Art: Lessons on Leaving with Jen Kiaba (Part 1 & 2)
Jen describes how creativity is often discouraged in cults, unless it glorifies the leader. After Jen’s trauma in the church and eventual journey out, she found language to express the experience through self portraits on her way to recovery, https://www.jenkiaba.com/lessons-on-leaving/healing-through-art-my-story In part two, Jen explores the research behind art therapy and why it works. https://www.jenkiaba.com/lessons-on-leaving/healing-through-art-research
Tattoo Artist: Renrobot on the Ares Meyer Podcast
Ares speaks to Renrobot about expression through art after growing up in the church.
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.
Growing Up Moonie: Hideo Higashibaba
‘Hideo Higashibaba left the cult he was born into when he was 22 years old. The Unification Church, also known as the Moonies, was founded in Korea by a man named Sun Myung Moon who proclaimed he was the Second Coming of Christ. In Growing Up Moonie Hideo asks people he grew up with whatContinue reading “Growing Up Moonie: Hideo Higashibaba”
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