STRONGWILLED

Feb 03 2025 140 ep. 47 mins 191
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DL and Krispin Mayfield host conversations about the personal and political impacts of Religious Authoritarian Parenting.

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Focus on the (Estranged) Family

Feb 03 2025 53 mins  
TW/CW: physical abuse, corporal punishment, emotionally abusive caretaker Krispin & DL discuss the second part of the the Adventures in Odyssey episode, a follow up to our podcast episode Spanking on Christian Radio released last fall. This Adventure's in Odyssey episode focuses on Mr. Whitaker’s troubled relationship with his adult daughter. Honestly, we couldn’t have written

Krispin's Story of Estrangement

Dec 09 2024 75 mins  
TW/CW: sexual abuse, spanking, religious trauma Krispin shares his story about going no contact with his parents. This is a heavy one, and has an ongoing theme about sexual abuse and a family system that enabled abuse, so please take care in listening. You can read about religious authoritarian parenting and also find the transcript for this podcast at strongwilled.substack.com. Yo

How Do You Set Boundaries in a Family Like this?

Nov 25 2024 60 mins  
TW/CW: corporal punishment, spanking, mention of sexual abuse Krispin & DL discuss the factors that make setting boundary in religious authoritarian families so difficult. We talk about how trauma responses make it difficult for us to speak up, the negative responses to setting boundaries, and more. D.L. mentions the Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents series by Lindsay

Corporal Punishment & Brain Development with Tori Williams Douglass

Oct 21 2024 63 mins  
TW/CW: physical abuse, corporal punishment Krispin & DL interview Tori Williams Douglass about corporal punishment and their experience working in a neuroscience lab. You can follow Tori on IG and check out their website here. You can check out our recent post at STRONGWILLED about the research about spanking and corporal punishment here, and the rest of our STRONGWILLD content (a

Spanking on Christian Radio

Sep 22 2024 60 mins  
TW/CW: physical abuse, emotionally abusive/aggressive caretaker, sexual abuse, animal/pet death. Krispin & DL discuss a Christian radio drama about spanking/corporal punishment. We're digging into an episode of Adventures in Odyssey (produced & distributed by James Dobson's organization, Focus on the Family) from 1988 that talked about why it was so important. We're discussing "A

DL's Story

Aug 25 2024 69 mins  
TW: suicidal ideation, child loss, emotional neglect/abuse A conversation between Krispin and DL, where DL talks about their childhood with a parent who believed it was the end of the world. In this episode, we also discuss late-diagnosed autism, making sense of family tragedies, and being gender non-conforming in a world that was obsessed with the patriarchal binary. You can chec

Krispin's Story

Aug 12 2024 67 mins  
TW: corporal punishment, child physical abuse, child sexual abuse This episode, Krispin talks about growing up in a small town with conservative parents would joined ministry and eventually overseas mission work, and what religious authoritarian parenting looked like for Krispin’s childhood, teenage years and early adulthood. You can check out show notes and more STRONGWILLED con

Send this Episode to Your Therapist Part 2: Family Dynamics

Jul 29 2024 50 mins  
DL and Krispin discuss how religious authoritarian parenting often creates dysfunctional family dynamics, and how it impacts the individuals who grow up in these families. We mention Leaving the Fold by Marlene Winell. You can check out show notes and more STRONGWILLED content at strongwilled.substack.com You can join our patreon comamunity to support this podcast and gain access

Send this Episode to Your Therapist Part 1

Jul 15 2024 45 mins  
DL and Krispin cover the basics of growing under religious authoritarian parenting — and what we believe therapists should know when they’re helping people heal from this kind of upbringing. We talk about six aspects of religious authoritarian parenting, including the goals of this type of parenting, how religion was used, and the developmental delays it creates. We mention Li

A daughter of Focus on the Family speaks out

Jun 13 2024 46 mins  
For this bonus episode, D.L. Mayfield interviewed Amber Cantorna-Wylde, author of Out of Focus, My Story of Sexuality, Shame, and Toxic Evangelicalism. DL talked with her about her experience growing up as the daughter of the man in charge of Adventures in Odyssey. Amber’s story is heartbreaking, inspiring, and also a powerful indictment against the people that often told us that