Blown for Good: Scientology Exposed Raising Children After Escaping Scientology's Grip - Scientology Q&A #35
Former Sea Org members share their experiences of becoming parents after leaving Scientology, exploring the challenges of starting families without educational backgrounds or parental models to follow. They discuss how disconnection from their own parents impacted their approach to parenting and how they've built successful lives despite the organization's efforts to hinder them.
• Marc and Claire Headley discuss raising three boys while processing their own experiences of parental separation in Scientology
• Janice Gillum-Grady shares her journey of being pregnant when leaving the Sea Org and building a family outside the organization
• The speakers describe the financial challenges of starting families with limited education and resources
• Claire recounts calling Dr. Laura Schlesinger for parenting advice when worried about how disconnection would affect her children
• All three discuss how they've achieved professional success through determination despite lacking formal education
• They reflect on how the absence of concepts like love, compassion and empathy in Scientology impacted their approach to parenting
• The parents share strategies for explaining their Scientology past to their children in age-appropriate ways
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