Found Family with MaryB. Safrit
Welcome to Found Family. Every Tuesday, I have honest conversations celebrating the creative ways our guests make community in their actual lives and providing tips about how you can do the same.
Found Family with MaryB. Safrit
Anger, Agency, and Other Tools for Disrupting Patriarchy (feat. Cait West)
Today's episode is the story of a woman who survived and escaped the Christian Patriarchy movement and created a new life of agency, advocacy, and unconditional love.
Cait West is a writer and editor based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her work has been published in The Revealer, Religion Dispatches, Fourth Genre and Hawai`i Pacific Review, among others. As an advocate and a survivor of the Christian patriarchy movement, she serves on the editorial board for Tears of Eden, a nonprofit providing resources for survivors of spiritual abuse, and co-hosts the Survivors Discuss podcast.
In this episode, you'll hear Cait and I discuss:
- Detangling the perfectionism that patriarchy rewards
- Repairing the line between us and our anger
- Growing up within the Christian Patriarchy Movement — and un-forming its work in us
- Reconnecting ourselves with our agency—and building support systems that can help that thrive
- and more!
Cait's story and perspective are compelling and compassionately told!
Rift is out today and available wherever books are sold! Follow Cait on social media @ caitwestwrites. You can read more of her work on her website, caitwest.com, and on her substack, caitwest.substack.com.
