
Join Blessed Child Podcast this week for an important discussion with two fellow activists, Lisa Kohn and Teddy Hose. They were recently interviewed and published in a netflix docuseries called "How to become a cult leader." In this episode, we briefly discuss what that experience was like for them, what they liked and disliked about the experience, why they are inspired to do what they do, and so much more.
You can find Lisa Kohn and her memoir "To the Moon and Back, a Childhood Under the influence" that was published in 2018 at lisakohnwrites.com. Also, find Lisa on instagram @lisakohnwrites.
Teddy Hose can be found at @Teddyhose on instagram, X, Facebook and Bluesky. You can find him on tiktok at @2dhose
And you can find Blessed Child on instagram at @blessedchildpodcast
Please message me on instagram for an active link to our new discord discussion group!
Dec 3, 2023
1 hr 15 min

This is part 3 of my interview with Karin. Karin was born and raised in the Unification church AKA the moonie cult and is here to talk about it. We start off talking about the the labor trafficking program disguised as a "providential course" or right of passage, known as "special task force" and what that really means. The story then travels headlong into Moon's mansion - East Garden in Tarrytown New York, where an 18 year old Karin is thrust into a 3 day matching and marriage. This is the end of part 3, but the beginning of many new roads. Be sure to follow Karin on instagram at @karinshimo and look out for her podcast!
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Nov 23, 2023
1 hr 11 min

This is part 2/3 of my interview with Karin, a former 2nd gen unification church member who walked the "providential course." She shares an immense wealth of lessons she learned along the way.
Karin is a survivor of the unification church who also went to the unification church indoctrination factory in South Korea (the general orientation program -GOP). Karin and I discuss GOP, our indoctrination into the moonies, STF, arranged marriage, and so much more.
Join Blessed Child Discord discussion group here!
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Nov 17, 2023
1 hr 14 min

In this episode, I reconnect with another survivor of the unification church who also went to the unification church indoctrination factory in South Korea. Karin and I discuss GOP, our parents' indoctrination into the moonies, our own personal journeys of coming back into our bodies after growing up with intense dissociation and so much more.
Compassion card posted in episode art with permission from Autumn Sky Art
https://autumnskyeart.com
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Nov 15, 2023
1 hr 10 min

This is an update to wrap up season 5, Blessed child has ranked #6 in top 10 podcasts about coercive control! The Unification church has a dissolution order in place in Japan, we are awaiting the ruling! Damien Dunkley is touring the UC!?
Sit back and enjoy the fall yall~
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/japan-dissolve-unification-church-shinzo-abe-rcna120251
https://spotify.link/I2UuTZSMRDb
https://podcasts.feedspot.com/coercive_control_podcasts/#fsbhead
Oct 13, 2023
16 min

The fall of an empire from the perspective of an Ex-member and 2nd generation "Blessed child" of the Unification church/family federation for world peace and unification--- Make it make sense!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/arts/dance/kirov-ballet-academy-embezzlement-moonies.html
https://www.casino.org/news/serial-embezzler-steals-1-5-million-from-moonies-backed-ballet-school-to-fund-gambling-habit/
https://whatisonthemoon.tumblr.com/post/704099510777970688/hak-ja-hans-gambling-has-gone-too-far
https://www.hvpilot.com/news/bard-college-announces-14-million-purchase-of-former-unification-church-compound-after-months-of-rumors/article_82ead248-5339-11ee-8e94-6b7b12253c35.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/10/shinzo-abe-assassination-japan-unification-church-moonies/675114/
https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/01/15/japans-comfort-women-asian-protests-and-imperial-japans-sexual-slavery/
https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/23/08/b33973954/dc-nonprofit-uci-issues-statement-regarding-dc-court-lifting-injunction
20-CV-0714 HYUN JIN MOON, ET AL. V. FAMILY FEDERATION FOR WORLD PEACE AND UNIFICATION INTERNATIONAL, ET AL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow8xszCKMAw
https://tragedyofthesixmarys.com/6500-women-missing-from-ffwpu-mass-weddings/
https://howwelldoyouknowyourmoon.tumblr.com/search/submarine+and+north+korea
https://howwelldoyouknowyourmoon.tumblr.com/search/was+murdered
https://howwelldoyouknowyourmoon.tumblr.com/search/new+palace
Sep 21, 2023
28 min

How to make a plan, with Yousei. In this episode we expand on the last episode "you have to answer your own questions" with more resources for how to leave a cult or an abusive relationship from a first-person experience. Yousei is also a second-generation cult survivor of the Unification church/family federation for world peace and has a lot of insight to share from his own experience of leaving.
Trigger warning for religious trauma, conversion therapy, child neglect, self-abandonment, cultic abuse.
These are the resources we recommend when leaving a high
demand religious organization or an abusive relationship.
Thehotline.org
Findhelp.org
Unchainedatlast.org
Simplypsychology.org/maslow.html
JenKiaba.com
faith yoon (@faithy3n) | TikTok
teddyhose.com
https://itsoktoleave.org
https://howwelldoyouknowyourmoon.tumblr.com/post/164068052558/evidence-that-moonies-jump-started-the-north
https://youtube.com/@BeliefItOrNot?si=ZRRPhOZPiHduLilF
Yousei youtube library on moonie history
https://www.rawstory.com/rod-of-iron-ministries/
UK resource -
https://www.thefamilysurvivaltrust.org
Sep 15, 2023
1 hr 19 min

Post cult advice with how to leave the Unification Church, how to leave the blessing and more , from a former 2nd gen member.
If you have feedback or questions, find your host Renee on instagram at @blessedchildpodcast
You can support this podcast at
https://www.patreon.com/Renrobot
Aug 28, 2023
26 min

This is a very casual conversation of the different therapy journey's of two friends, Meghan and Renee. If you don't like my podcast, go make your own!
Find Meghan at @mfb_inside_out
Aug 4, 2023
1 hr 20 min

Renee interprets Robert J Liftons 8 criteria of thought reform from her own personal lens growing up Moonie. This is the final episode to conclude the 8 criteria, ending on the explanation of "dispensing of existence".
Mar 28, 2023
36 min
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