Healing from Purity Culture: Understanding and Overcoming Shame | Dr. Camden Morgante | Episode 322

The Speakeasy

The Girl Named Blake

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Psychologist, author, and speaker Dr. Camden Morgante joins Blake to discuss the effects of purity culture, particularly on women, and the misconceptions and shame that many have struggled with because of it. Dr. Camden defines purity culture as a movement, especially prominent in the 1990s and 2000s, that promoted abstinence before marriage using fear and shame. They discuss how the movement's rigid rules led to shame, especially when individuals didn’t follow them, and the lasting emotional damage for many, even into marriage. Camden highlights how people were left with false promises, like the idea of a “fairy tale marriage” for those who stayed pure, and the painful process of disentangling from those beliefs. The episode offers a compassionate look at healing from these deeply ingrained teachings. In this episode, you’ll be able to… Understand the definition and impact of purity culture, especially its effects on women. Explore how purity culture used fear and shame to promote abstinence and its lasting emotional and relational consequences. Gain insight into how to approach sexuality with grace and compassion, without the burden of shame. Dr. Camden is the author of Recovering from Purity Culture - available everywhere on October 15, 2024! To connect with Dr. Camden… Website: drcamden.com Instagram: @drcamden Facebook: @drcamden Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Confessions of a Crappy Christian, a
0:09.7	misfit media network production. I am your host and resident Crappy Christian. this about all the things most Christians are still not sure we're allowed to talk about.
0:24.0	So if you've been looking for a place to land with all your crap
0:27.5	and for someone to just be honest about what it looks like to walk through this Christian life
0:32.0	when you've come to the right place.
0:34.2	Pull up a seat, pop in your headphones, and tune out your kids, and come hang out with me and
0:38.8	a guest for the authentic conversations that you have been looking for.
0:42.6	All right, you guys,
0:47.6	welcome to another episode of Confessions of a crappy Christian.
0:53.3	Today I have Camden with me and she wrote a book all about purity culture.
0:58.8	I recently released an episode that kind of aims the conversation
1:03.2	towards men's specific experience with purity culture.
1:06.9	And I was like, we have an episode about this,
1:09.1	but it was five years ago.
1:10.1	We need to revisit and really have this conversation for women as well because both sets of kids that grew up in this came away with a lot of lies and a lot of things to untangle and I am so thankful to have someone who wrote the book on recovering from purity culture.
1:28.8	Welcome to the show.
1:29.8	Thanks, Blake.
1:30.8	Thank you for having me.
1:31.8	So I thought it would be helpful at the very beginning to just define purity culture. What that means, what that experience is, maybe what the teachings within that are.
1:44.4	Because I do think there are some people who didn't grow up in it,
1:47.0	and they're kind of going, what this is like almost Christianese?
1:50.6	What does purity culture mean?
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