Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Connect with Beth!
bethgranger.ca
amazon.com/Born-Razed-Surviving-Cult-Battle/dp/1990688322
facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555661723825
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Interested in working with me directly for peer-to-peer (non clinical) support for your deconstruction?
Reach out to me on FB @harmonictim or by email: harmonicatheist@yahoo.com
--Tim
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Your support for my channel, Harmonic Atheist, is very needed and appreciated!
One-time donations:
PayPal: paypal.me/harmonictim
Venmo: @harmonicatheist
CashApp: $HarmonicAtheist
Zelle email: harmonicatheist@yahoo.com
GoFundMe: gofundme.com/f/help-tim-stay-full-time-on-harmonic-atheist
Monthly donations:
patreon.com/harmonicatheist
You can also "Join" the Harmonic Atheist YT channel to get access to perks, which will be coming soon:
youtube.com/channel/UCrPKXNg9PAL6bROvsaUFvAA/join
Thanks!
--Tim
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Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: streamyard.com/pal/d/4917726076600320
(FYI - using that link does help support me )
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If you are facing emotional distress, please call the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988.
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Ending music by Kazuya / Eyal Raz / Backward Days - "Friends"
artlist.io/royalty-free-music/song/friends/2825
youtube.com/watch?v=4qbqNO6DdAQ
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In this powerful Harmonic Atheist interview, author Beth Granger joins Tim Mills to discuss her memoir, Born and Razed: Surviving the Cult Was Only Half the Battle, and her experience growing up inside Grenville Christian College, a religious institution later exposed for systemic abuse, coercive control, and spiritual manipulation.
Beth shares what it was like to be raised in a high-control Christian environment where shame was treated as virtue, obedience was demanded as holiness, and children were taught to fear their own thoughts, bodies, emotions, and instincts. Her story exposes the devastating psychological impact of religious trauma, institutional abuse, cult dynamics, complex PTSD, and the long road of healing after escaping a world designed to break the self.
This conversation explores spiritual abuse, childhood trauma, shame, survival, memory, justice, and the painful truth that leaving the cult is only the beginning. Beth’s story is heartbreaking, courageous, and deeply human, offering language and validation for anyone recovering from religious abuse, deconstructing Christianity, or trying to rebuild a life after being controlled by fear.
If you have experienced religious trauma, spiritual manipulation, Christian authoritarianism, cult-like abuse, or the grief of realizing that the people who claimed to love you were also harming you, this conversation will help you feel less alone.
Beth Granger’s story is not only about surviving. It is about reclaiming the voice, the body, the memory, and the life that abuse tried to erase.
Connect with Beth!
bethgranger.ca
amazon.com/Born-Razed-Surviving-Cult-Battle/dp/1990688322
facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555661723825
_________________________________________
Interested in working with me directly for peer-to-peer (non clinical) support for your deconstruction?
Reach out to me on FB @harmonictim or by email: harmonicatheist@yahoo.com
--Tim
_________________________________________
Your support for my channel, Harmonic Atheist, is very needed and appreciated!
One-time donations:
PayPal: paypal.me/harmonictim
Venmo: @harmonicatheist
CashApp: $HarmonicAtheist
Zelle email: harmonicatheist@yahoo.com
GoFundMe: gofundme.com/f/help-tim-stay-full-time-on-harmonic-atheist
Monthly donations:
patreon.com/harmonicatheist
You can also "Join" the Harmonic Atheist YT channel to get access to perks, which will be coming soon:
youtube.com/channel/UCrPKXNg9PAL6bROvsaUFvAA/join
Thanks!
--Tim
_________________________________________
Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: streamyard.com/pal/d/4917726076600320
(FYI - using that link does help support me )
_________________________________________
If you are facing emotional distress, please call the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988.
_________________________________________
Ending music by Kazuya / Eyal Raz / Backward Days - "Friends"
artlist.io/royalty-free-music/song/friends/2825
youtube.com/watch?v=4qbqNO6DdAQ
_________________________________________
SEO description
In this powerful Harmonic Atheist interview, author Beth Granger joins Tim Mills to discuss her memoir, Born and Razed: Surviving the Cult Was Only Half the Battle, and her experience growing up inside Grenville Christian College, a religious institution later exposed for systemic abuse, coercive control, and spiritual manipulation.
Beth shares what it was like to be raised in a high-control Christian environment where shame was treated as virtue, obedience was demanded as holiness, and children were taught to fear their own thoughts, bodies, emotions, and instincts. Her story exposes the devastating psychological impact of religious trauma, institutional abuse, cult dynamics, complex PTSD, and the long road of healing after escaping a world designed to break the self.
This conversation explores spiritual abuse, childhood trauma, shame, survival, memory, justice, and the painful truth that leaving the cult is only the beginning. Beth’s story is heartbreaking, courageous, and deeply human, offering language and validation for anyone recovering from religious abuse, deconstructing Christianity, or trying to rebuild a life after being controlled by fear.
If you have experienced religious trauma, spiritual manipulation, Christian authoritarianism, cult-like abuse, or the grief of realizing that the people who claimed to love you were also harming you, this conversation will help you feel less alone.
Beth Granger’s story is not only about surviving. It is about reclaiming the voice, the body, the memory, and the life that abuse tried to erase.
