CW: CSA, SA, mentions of suicide…. Philip Seibel was born into the Children of God sex cult and survived many instances of CSA at the hands of his own parents. This was all part of the cult’s mentality “God is love and love is sex”. Our first episode together details his childhood and escape attempts. When he was able to get out successfully, he had no idea about the outside world. At the age of fifteen he ran away from his abusive parents and began to wander this world as a homeless street musician, learning how to survive.
Now Philip is an outspoken critic of the statutes of limitations for crimes against children. Currently he lives in Switzerland, proud father and author, singer, songwriter, artist, wearable designer and hobby sound technician
His books include The monsters that kiss you good night, The monsters that walk with me and his third book in this series currently in progress "No one speaks about the monsters"
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Website with his singles: https://www.philipseibel.com/singles
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Books: The Monsters that Kiss You Goodnight
The Monsters that Walk With Me
A Broken Poet
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Chapter Marks
00:00:00 Intro
00:04:42 Philip's childhood in COG
00:11:29 How Philip processes what happened to him
00:16:37 How Philip managed as a 15 year old runaway
00:16:55 CW: CSA
00:19:56 Philip recounts his CSA
00:21:32 CW: CSA - The reason Philip remembers is CSA so well
00:29:37 The consequences Philip's dealt with for telling his story
00:31:51 CW: Society desensitized to women's SA and not men's
00:34:56 CW: mentions of suic*de
00:38:43 Philip felt he couldn't open up about CSA he experienced while dating
00:42:37 What it was like writing his first book - Philip comments on the responses people get when disclosing their trauma
00:46:19 Philip's thoughts on whether continuing to speak out will further hinder his success
00:55:51 How Philip is doing now
00:57:11 Linda, Listen
01:02:49 Philip sings and plays Little Black Sheep on his guitar
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