Ep. 422 Tia Levings Returns - What High Control Religion Takes From You and What it Actually Looks Like to Get it Back

Ep. 422 Tia Levings Returns - What High Control Religion Takes From You and What it Actually Looks Like to Get it Back

May 8, 2026 · 56 min · Season 1 · Episode 422

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Tia Levings discusses her new book on healing from religious trauma and the steps to recovery.

In this episode, Tia Levings returns to talk about her new book I Belong to Me - a guide to healing and recovery after high-control religion and other controlling environments. Tia walks through what she calls the steps before the steps: the audacity, the centrality, the willingness to want something different before you're even ready to name what happened to you. We talk about why language can free you and trap you at the same time, how cult-hopping happens and why, what developmental stages...

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