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Tia Levings discusses her new book 'I Belong to Me', a guide for recovery from religious trauma.

Send us Fan Mail Tia Levings is back, and this time she's brought the book so many of you have been waiting for — I Belong to Me, a survivor's guide to recovery and hope after religious trauma, and the follow-up to her memoir A Well-Trained Wife. After thousands of women slid into her DMs asking how did you heal, how do I find myself again, Tia sat down and wrote the guide she wished she'd had. In this conversation, we get into what religious trauma actually is and why therapists are only now...

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Host: Sheila Gregoire

Guest: Tia Levings

Topics covered

• religious trauma
• recovery
• hope
• self-discovery
• mental health

Keywords

• religious trauma
• recovery
• hope
• self-discovery
• mental health
• Tia Levings
• I Belong to Me

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: I Belong to Me, A Well-Trained Wife

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