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Singer and songwriter Chynna Phillips Baldwin, acclaimed for her iconic role in the legendary pop group Wilson Phillips, joined former psychic medium Jenn Nizza on a compelling episode of "Ex-Psychic Saved" to share her profound early encounters with the occult, her intense struggles with addiction, and the transformative faith that ultimately reshaped her life in powerful ways!
Phillips Baldwin, now the leader of the online women’s ministry, California Healin, shared how tarot card readings and New Age practices captivated her as a teenager and young adult. What started as innocent curiosity swiftly evolved into a profound source of confusion, fear, and spiritual turmoil!
“My mom’s best friend, Alan, was a tarot card reader. He did it on the side as a hobby, and so he used to always say, ‘Come on over. I’ll give you a tarot card reading,’” Phillips Baldwin recalled. “It was so sort of intriguing. And that’s the thing about New Age. It’s very seductive and alluring and mysterious. And that’s why so many people get hooked on it, and so many people get drawn into it, because that’s what the enemy does.”
Though the readings often seemed harmless — “most of them were positive,” she said — some experiences left her shaken. “Sometimes I would walk away feeling more confused than actually having clarity and a little bit more fear as well,” she shared.
Her exploration ventured far beyond tarot! Phillips Baldwin revealed that she once sought the guidance of a so-called “white witch” who employed angel cards, and delved into the mysteries of past lives!
“She told me this horrifying story about how in a past life I either had hung myself or my child had hung themselves, and that I was still holding onto that grief,” she said. The experience, she added, eventually “started freaking me out, to the point where I was canceling appointments with her just because I was terrified to go.”
For Nizza, who hosts "Ex-Psychic Saved," to expose the dangers of occultism, after leaving her career as a medium, Phillips Baldwin’s testimony resonated deeply!
She powerfully asserted that practices presented as harmless or even “light” have the potential to open spiritual doors that lead to profound fear and oppression. “As if adding the word white in front of it somehow alters its true nature because it absolutely doesn’t!” Nizza boldly stated. “It’s all witchcraft!”
Phillips Baldwin said she always sensed something was off: “I feel like I always knew deep down inside that there was something evil and wrong with the tarot card readings, but I continued to do them, kind of also to sort of appease my friend Alan, because he was so enthusiastic about it.”
Her struggles with New Age practices were deeply intertwined with significant personal turmoil! Although she had professed faith in Jesus as a child, she found herself in an environment that lacked proper discipleship and community, leaving her vulnerable and lost. By her teenage years, she tragically turned to drugs and alcohol, desperately seeking to numb the overwhelming pain of anxiety, feelings of abandonment, and fractured relationships!
“I had so much pain and angst and anxiety and abandonment issues that I turned to drugs and alcohol like so many of us do,” she said.
That lifestyle, she explained, left her spiritually depleted. “I was literally in the hands of the evil one. I was demonically oppressed at this point,” she told Nizza.
Her turning point came years later through her brother-in-law Stephen Baldwin and his wife who had recently embraced Christianity and their newfound faith inspired her to explore her own spiritual journey.
“They were toting their Bibles everywhere,” she recalled. At first skeptical, one day, Phillips Baldwin asked them to pray for her. “I just heard the Lord say, 'Go in there and ask them to pray over you.'
That moment, she said, launched her back into a serious walk with Christ. She threw away her Buddha statue, bought a Bible and immersed herself in Scripture. “I just was so hungry for the Word, and I could feel myself being nourished by the Word of God, and I just knew that I was home,” she said.
“For me, I started the YouTube channel because I really wanted to do something for the Kingdom,” she explained. “I really knew from the beginning … once I started talking about my marriage problems, my son’s cancer journey, the fact that I didn’t feel God loved me — when I really started being real and just allowing people to see my vulnerabilities and allowing them to see my humanity, that’s when my YouTube channel really started to take off.”
Now Phillips Baldwin sees her past as a powerful testimony of God’s unwavering grace and a vital tool to lead others toward true freedom in Christ.“ Once you have that experience and that conviction and that conversion, really nothing else matters,” she said. “You just don’t care anymore, really, about anything other than screaming Jesus from the mountain tops, because you really understand the gravity and the purpose for why you were put in this world.”
Despite facing numerous challenges, such as public scrutiny, personal loss, and spiritual attacks, she remains unwavering in her commitment to guiding others towards Christ. Her husband, actor Billy Baldwin, has not yet shared his own faith journey, but she passionately urged listeners to pray for him. In the meantime, her daughter Brooke is stepping up and leading a youth arm of California Healing!
Nizza emphasized that the conversation highlighted the podcast’s crucial mission to inspire individuals, ensnared in occult practices, to embrace the transformative hope that Christianity offers!
“What I found really interesting, and what I can relate to, is that you hit the nail on the head when you said identity,” Nizza said. “When it’s the world’s stuff, you’ll never be valuable. You’ll never be good enough. But when your identity is in Christ, you trust Him implicitly.”
Phillips Baldwin agreed, adding: “Everything else just kind of feels … not completely insignificant, but it feels like Jesus is the priority,” she said. “Everything else, nothing else, can be an idol above Jesus.”
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