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Chynna Phillips Baldwin from the '90s pop band Wilson Phillips recently opened up about her time dabbling in witchcraft and how she came to put all her trust in God.
Phillips Baldwin was recently interviewed on the Ex-Psychic Saved Podcast with Jenn Nizza, titled "Escaping the Deception of the New Age and Finding Her Identity in Christ; Her Powerful Testimony of Deliverance and Redemption."
The former pop singer opened up about her encounters with the occult, her struggles with addiction and how she came to faith in Jesus.
Dabbling in Witchcraft
"My mom’s best friend, Alan, was a tarot card reader," said Phillips Baldwin. "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. It was 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."
On top of tarot card readings, Phillips Baldwin visited someone called a 'white witch.'
"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. [It] started freaking me out, to the point where I was cancelling appointments with her just because I was terrified to go."
The host, Nizza, could relate to much of what Phillips Baldwin was sharing.
"As if, like, putting the word white in front of it changes anything, because it doesn’t," Nizza said. "It’s all witchcraft."
While Phillips Baldwin grew up knowing who Jesus was, pain and abandonment from her childhood resulted in her choosing drugs and alcohol in her teens to numb the pain.
"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. I was literally in the hands of the evil one. I was demonically oppressed at this point."
Saving Grace
Billy Baldwin is Phillips Baldwin's husband. It was Billy's brother, Stephen, and his wife who brought the beauty of the gospel in conversation to the singer.
"They were toting their Bibles everywhere. I just heard the Lord say, 'Go in there and ask them to pray over you.'"
From that moment on, Phillips Baldwin committed her life to God. She started a YouTube channel called California Preachin' that has turned into the ministry known as California Healin'. The ministry focuses on women, where she leads Bible studies, support groups, retreats and online gatherings.
"For me, I started the YouTube channel because I really wanted to do something for the Kingdom. 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."
Phillips Baldwin's daughter Brooke runs a youth division of the ministry.
"Once you have that experience and that conviction and that conversion, really nothing else matters. 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."