That's Faux Deep: Recent Episodes
sisters mathany and ma'any ahmed
Join two sisters as they pop on their anti-capitalist reading glasses and sift through the Self-Help Industrial Complex. They’ll blend research and their opinions to try and make sense of the claims made in the books those spirituality influencers keep recommending. Features million-dollar scams, self-anointed gurus and questions the girls should definitely be discussing with their therapists instead of each other.
The girlies allow themselves to be ministered to by two God-fearing Christian women via a book titled, "Sex, Purity, and the Longings of a Girl's Heart: Discovering the Beauty and Freedom of God-Defined Sexuality." By Bethany Beal and Kristen Clarksources for when the ministry didn't hit as deep and we needed to result to science:
Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance by Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pelligrini
Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski, Ph. D.
Jesus Camp produced by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
Give Me Sex Jesus created by Mathew Barber and Britney Machado
AOD Method
Support Groups to try!Journey Free
Recovering From Religion
iSurvive.org this one isn't directly religious trauma support but complex PTSD and depression
more general support group links:Support Group Central
The girls are being honest about their very human limitations and we hope you're doing the same, wherever you are. <3
We'll be back on March 29th with our much-hyped Girl Defined episode.
Ma'any read Teal Swan's The Connection Process and tells us about it so maybe one day, we too can experience love like Teal's. This is one of the first episodes we ever recorded so if the quality isn't perfect... that's why. Be patient with us, we do this for free.
Our title song is "Starchild" by Dave Malloy
You can help us produce this show by becoming a Patron!
Teal Swan's The Connection Process
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find - And Keep - Love by John Gray, PhD
All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
Meditation, Trauma and Suffering in Silence: Raising Questions about How Meditation is Taught and Practiced in Western Contexts in the Light of a Contemporary Trauma Resiliency Model by Jane Compson
The Construction of Mindfulness by Andrew Olendzki
Ma'any read Teal Swan's The Connection Process and tells us about it so maybe one day, we too can experience love like Teal's. This is one of the first episodes we ever recorded so if the quality isn't perfect... that's why. Be patient with us, we do this for free.
Our title song is "Starchild" by Dave Malloy
You can help us produce this show by becoming a Patron!
Teal Swan's The Connection Process
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find - And Keep - Love by John Gray, PhD
All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
Meditation, Trauma and Suffering in Silence: Raising Questions about How Meditation is Taught and Practiced in Western Contexts in the Light of a Contemporary Trauma Resiliency Model by Jane Compson
The Construction of Mindfulness by Andrew Olendzki
Mathany reads Andrew Tate's the Tate Bible and tells Ma'any all about how utterly unremarkable this man is.
Sources:
- The Tate Bible by Andrew Tate & G. Slim
- Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft
- Triple Exclam!!! The Life and Games of Emory Tate, Chess Warrior by Daimm Shabazz
- The arrest of misogynist influence Andrew Tate, explained by Rebecca Jennings
- You can ignore Andrew Tate by Rebecca Jennings
Ma'any reads Atomic Habits. The girls discuss Americans' obsessions with work and try and unpack the stigma of laziness.
Sources:
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
Radically Content by Jamie Varon
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Our title song is "Starchild" by Ghost Quartet, written by Dave Malloy.
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Here are some loose timestamps if you feel like jumpin' around:
3:20 Mathany's relationship with work
8:50 Ma’any outlines the episode
9:50 Ma’any’s relationship with work
12:00 Ma’any talks about Zuko and Avatar the Last Airbender
17:40 James Clear's personal history
20:00 James Clear’s current business
21:30 Types of people who recommend Atomic Habits
22ish What is the 1% rule?
24:30 Habits are like compound interest
32:15 The laziness lie
36:41 What Ma'any likes about Atomic Habits
41:50 What Ma'any doesn’t like about Atomic Habits
45:10 Language of self-help
47 Weight and fatphobia
54 Using shame and anger as motivation
59 Discussion on "Radically Content"
Mathany reads Teal Swan's manifesto The Completion Process. Listen to the girls as they discuss each and every step... all eighteen of them.
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Our title song is "Starchild" by Ghost Quartet, written by Dave Malloy.
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Mathany and Ma'any discuss how they got the audacity to start a podcast, and why they think so many mean people have infiltrated the worlds of self-help and spirituality. Diversions include Kendall Jenner, mean bosses, and man's original sin.
Support us on Patreon!
Our title song is "Starchild" by Ghost Quartet, written by Dave Malloy.
Send us nice things - thatsfauxdeep@gmail.com