This week's early release of Ep.69 is available to patrons of the pod in audio AND video format. You can listen in early via Buzzsprout, or watch the entire interview on YouTube! Just click on the private links provided below.I'm excited to share Priscilla's insights with you & eager to hear your thoughts.🎧 ✨ LINK TO LISTEN EARLYOR VIDEO BONUS >>> 🎬✨ WATCH on YouTube** Patrons only. Please do not share Patreon links with...
Welcome to an extra-special episode of Deconstructing Dogma & our first ever panel discussion. Maxx Boyd, Troy McCall, & Lainie Magidsohn join me for an informative (and entertaining!) deconstruction of The Cult of Gender at 'the Org.'dd #39 - The Cult of Gender: A Panel Discussion w/ Former 'Org' Affiliates - Maxx Boyd, Troy McCall, & Lainie MagidsohnYounger generations are helping to evolve our collective understanding of gender...
Teruyo & Lennox are theatre artists in cult recovery, currently hard at work on a musical inspired by their personal experiences in a shamanic cult. They explore what it's like to break away from high-demand influence, while offering a socio-political deconstruction of the colonial headspace that informs it. Music from the play’s soundtrack is woven throughout this powerful conversation, which touches upon a whole helluva lot in an hour....
We're picking up where we left off last week, with the second half of our conversation with Maria Skinner on The Law of Attraction (LoA).dd #37 - The Law of Attraction (continued), New Age Prosperity Gospel, & ChannelingHere's where we go in this wrap-up: We continue deconstructing LoA & its capitalistic applications; namely, prosperity gospel and the implication that 'abundance' is the result of good vibes and moral purity. We explore...
Welcome back to Deconstructing Dogma & another jam-packed, two-part convo with Maria Skinner!dd #36 - Are We 'Culting' Again? + The Law of Attraction (a critical look)Maria joins Tracy & I again - (See DD #15 &16) - for another delightful dialogue, this time on a topic that I've been itchin' to deconstruct for YEARS!! The Law of Attraction - which will here after be referred to as LoA.But before we go there, Maria opens up about her...
As a lead-in to this week’s episode, Candice spends some time defining cultural appropriation, specifically in western spirituality and wellness spaces. Then things pick up where they left off last week, with the second half of a two-part conversation with artist, activist, and educator, Aleyah-Erin Lennon. Aleyah shares why she was so drawn into the world of wellness and contextualizes how she realized she had to step away. Spiritual...
I had plans for a main feed release today, but I'm still putting the final touches on Ep.66 so it's not gonna drop until next week. (It's a goodie on a doozy of a topic; it'll be worth the wait.) And so, given the change in plans... I decided to drop this week's bonus episode a couple of days early. 🙌🏽dd #35 - ✨ 'Spirit Barbie' & The Performance of WellnessThis week's episode of Deconstructing Dogma is (loosely) inspired by the...
Candice is back on the main feed, asking for help as she deconstructs the striking overlap between cult dynamics and colonial harm. Inspired by the work of BIPOC educators and anti-racism activists, she explores how social location factors into collective cult recovery. Then, artist, activist, and educator, Aleyah-Erin Lennon joins Candice for the first half of a two-part conversation that explores what it might mean, if we, as white women in...
dd #31 | 'Org' Training 'Cult'ure: Deconstructing The Damage w/ Jill Pagano - Part 1 of 2" hey can just stop brushing it off, because you have intelligent, articulate, emotionally educated women - and a few men of course - that are saying... I'm dissociated from my body... I'm feeling all this shame. I still have it 15 years later... you can't tell me that it's nothing." - Jill PaganoJill Pagano joins Tracy & I for a two-part deconstruction...
Here's another sneak peek at what’s been happening over on Patreon in the ongoing deconstructing dogma series. Every week, Candice sits down with friends and former colleagues to critically examine undue influence and culty indoctrination in the wellness world, and there are now 30+ bonus episodes available to all patrons of the pod. This episode features some of the best moments from recent releases. Excerpts include: Sample cuts...
