What does “after” actually look like?
I talked with Tia Levings about what it’s like to come out of a world that shaped you completely and what happens after you leave; not just the belief system, but the habits, the fears, the voice in your head that doesn’t feel like yours.
Her new book, I Belong to Me, is really about that part. Not just what happened to her, but how you put yourself back together after.
We talked about complicity. About how you can’t just blame the system forever. At some point you have to look at yourself and ask what you carried forward.
We talked about grief too. Not just what you lost, but what never got to happen, and what it takes to become someone you can live with.
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TIA LEVINGS is the New York Times bestselling author of A Well-Trained Wife. She writes about the realities of religious trauma, decoding fundamentalist influences in today's culture. Her work and quotes have appeared in Teen Vogue, Salon, the Huffington Post, and Newsweek. She also appeared in the hit Amazon docu-series, Shiny Happy People. Based in North Carolina, she is mom to four incredible adults and likes to travel, paint, and daydream.