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320: What if your mom believed she was the good witch?

2024/5/21
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Will Taylor讲述了他童年时期遭受母亲精神虐待和性侵犯的经历,以及母亲迷信巫毒的信仰给他和弟弟造成的心理创伤。他描述了母亲各种怪异的行为,例如在窗户上放硬币,在房间门口放装满水的罐子,用硫磺熏屋子,强迫他和弟弟用含有松节油的“圣水”洗澡等。这些行为不仅给他带来了身体上的痛苦,更重要的是造成了严重的心理阴影,让他长期处于恐惧和不安之中。在成年后,他经历了吸毒成瘾等一系列的困境,最终通过信仰和宽恕找到了救赎。他原谅了母亲、性侵犯他的表哥以及伤害过他的其他人,并最终摆脱了毒瘾,过上了健康的生活。

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The narrator's father leaves the family after realizing his wife's involvement in voodoo and her abuse towards their children. This leads to the father's heavy drinking and eventual departure from the household.

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Growing up with a mother who used practiced an abusive form of spiritual voodoo, a man seeks to numb his pain, but after tragedy and a descent into crack addiction, he finally finds the cure he’d been looking for. 

Today’s episode featured Will Taylor. 

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Content/Trigger Warnings: abuse of a minor, drug abuse, sexual assault, domestic violence, murder, death, graphic bodily injury, explicit language

 

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