Jinger is opening up about Duggar's reaction His first memoir.
Some of its members appear The growing Duggar family And their controversial church isn't exactly doing cartwheels with enthusiasm.
Zinger didn't just get reactions from strangers.
Some of his own “loved ones” responded with harsh words to him for speaking out.
Everyone's a critic, Jinger Duggar learned with her first book
In Truly Free: My Story of Separating Faith from FearJinger Duggar has denounced the toxic religion that has shaped her life in so many ways.
His family's involvement with the IBLP, an ultra-conservative fundamentalist organization beyond Among its controversial founders, Bill Gothard, for its promotion Unusual “educational” materialsAnd a litany of scandals … every survival story is also a horror story.
As an adult, Jinger had to learn a lot of this. In a new interview, he said people that instead of caring about “what all the critics were going to say” he “tried to focus my thoughts on how I could love and serve the people who were so hurt by this teaching.”
“I'm just going to put all that aside and say, no, I want to do what I feel like doing and that's telling the truth,” confirmed Jinger Duggar.
“So let me just put my blinders on and focus on that and share my story,” she decides. “And then whatever the outcome, I know I did what I should have done.”
Zinger spoke of the value of “not being consumed by this fear” of speaking up. He expressed that it was “very liberating actually.”
Zinger received reactions from 'loved ones' after seeing the memoir
“Yes, there were critics. Yes, there were people who were very harsh,” he admitted.
Zinger added: “There were loved ones who said things that were very unkind. It wasn't easy.” We would imagine not.
“But at the end of the day, I realized it was the best decision,” Zinger insists. “It's the best thing I could do to love these people by sharing the truth.”
“It was something that was freeing for me,” Jinger Duggar noted at the time.
It was “because … I want to tell the truth why I'm clearly thinking through the 'why,' I have to stand up for the weak,” he reasoned.
Jinger then admits: “My people-pleasant never let me do it before. I would have kept quiet.”
What is this about people pleasing?
Zinger was, of course, giving interviews about His new bookWhich has an obnoxiously long title: People are happy: Breaking free from the burden of imaginary expectations.
This is very common for those who have grown up insulting And eager to please, even desperate to please, otherwise toxic families. This is because they grew up in an environment where their personal safety depended on the moods and feelings of adults who were supposed to love and protect them.
Clearly, Ginger has her own angle for this book — just as she did with her last one. Not all Duggar critics share his priorities. But his insights into his own trauma can be interesting, even if Jim Bob Hates not being in control of the narrative.