Ep. 153: Created To Be His Helpmeet by Debi and Michael Pearl

Leaving Eden Podcast

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4.5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 126 minutes

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In this episode, we review "Created To Be His Helpmeet," by Debi and Michael Pearl. From the authors of "To Train Up A Child," This book is a popular guide for christian fundamentalist women, instructing them how to be submissive wives. This book advises women to minimize themselves and to be a person without needs or wants or desires, and to surrender their personal identity to be of service to their husband.

TW: In general we talk about a lot of potentially triggering topics on this show, including but not limited to suicide and mental health, racism, misogyny, PTSD and PTSD symptoms, child abuse, mental, physical, and sexual abuse, and spiritual abuse including guilt, shame, and fear. In most episodes we’ll mention at least a few of these topics, but we try very hard to avoid graphic detail unless it’s relevant to the story we’re telling, and we do our best to give the audience a heads-up before going into detail on any of these topics. This episode contains extensive discussion of domestic violence and emotional abuse including details, discussion of submission, and discussion of marital rape. There’s really no way to get around repeating those kind of details because it’s necessary to show just how bad this book is, but we will give a heads up before we do so anyone who needs to use that skip ahead button can do so.

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0:00.0	No rolling river of time.
0:07.0	You've healed me in too many days.
0:13.0	No regrets, no confusion. There'll be no pollution. i'm so thankful i've decided to change my ways
0:30.1	welcome back to the leaving eden podcast we are your hosts my name is gavrio ha Cohen. And I am cult expert and created to be his
0:40.4	help meet survivor, Sadie Carpenter. How are you doing today, Sadie? How's life? Life is great.
0:47.0	Just got home from my brother's wedding in Alabama. It was fantastic. Mausel to so big congratulations to my brother, his new wife. My emotional state today dealing
1:00.4	with this book is mostly mad. Mad, but you're not like, it didn't horribly trigger you
1:05.5	reading this book. Oh, it did. Oh, it did. Okay. Well, today we are reviewing created to be his help meet by
1:13.7	Debbie Pearl and also Michael Pearl, but mostly Debbie Pearl, but his name is on it too.
1:18.6	And this is a book that is basically the expectations of what you are supposed to do if you are
1:26.0	married as a woman in fundamentalism.
1:29.3	This is your duties as a wife and you have to live by this book.
1:32.9	And if you don't, then bad things will befall you in your family.
1:36.7	Yeah.
1:36.9	And you may remember the child abuse manual that we read by these two.
1:41.6	Earlier this year, we did an episode with Dr. Shoshana Fagan about their bad ideas
1:48.0	about child rearing, and today we're going to hear about their bad ideas about marriage.
1:52.0	I'll tell you, Gavi, I'm actually, I never, I rarely involve my husband in my podcast topics
2:00.1	unless it is. There are a few things that I think he
2:03.6	would usually be interested in. Like when we did the episodes on Liberty University, he had watched
2:09.4	the documentary with me. So I was updating him on all the additional stuff I was finding.
2:14.6	But I usually don't talk to him a lot about podcast topics. And,
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