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Jen Taylor-O’Connor opens up about her research in animal communication and how parrots helped to heal from trauma in the new documentary Parrot Kindergarten

Named for the teaching program she created for other bird moms, the documentary also dives into Taylor-O’Connor's experience with the Institute in Basic Life Principles — a group she now refers to as a "cult"

Through her work with the animals, Taylor-O'Connor says she now has "a lot more love, compassion and patience for people"

Jen Taylor-O’Connor grew up in what she calls a “garden variety Christian” home, though things changed when her family enrolled her in the Institute in Basic Life Principles, led by disgraced minister Bill Gothard , as a teen.

And now, decades after breaking free from IBLP — which Taylor-O

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