Growing Up in a Cult, I Never Understood Family. Then I Became a Father TIME BY MIKEL JOLLETT MAY 19, 2020 Mikel Jollett is the author of Hollywood Park and frontman of the band The Airborne Toxic Event. We were never young. We were just too afraid of ourselves. No one told us...
Dr. Gabor Mate discusses the trauma – addiction...
RNZ July 9, 2019 By Anke Richter, guest writer Opinion – Journalist Anke Richter had an unexpected brush with Hollywood at a cult conference in the UK – and also found that learning early on about manipulation and coercion should be as important as sex education. Before the doors open to the...
Rachel Bernstein – IndoctriNation : A weekly podcast covering cults, manipulators, and protecting yourself from systems of control. Asking the Right Questions w/ Mike Kropveld –...
By Alexandra Stein, South Bank University Sex cult leader Keith Raniere, has been convicted in New York of charges including racketeering, sex trafficking and child pornography. For 20 years, Raniere was the leader of Nxivm (pronounced nexium), which claimed to be a self-help group and to have thousands of followers....
How Seven of Nine from ‘Star Trek Voyager’ spoke to my social dilemma. By Star Spider The other day I was sitting in my therapist’s office talking (more like crying) about a current problem I have in my life: making friends. I’m 36 years old, an age at which making friends...
The Biggest Disease Affecting Humanity: “I’m Not Enough” by Marisa Peer Through touching stories of helping burnt-out Hollywood celebrities, regular clients, and even her own family, Marisa Peer teaches us how to feel “enough” and shatter our limitations. If you like this video, you’ll love Marisa’s free masterclass on Mindvalley...
by Juliette Virzi It’s been said before that childhood emotional abuse is “invisible” because it doesn’t leave physical traces. But what we may not realize is experiencing emotional abuse growing up can have a lasting impact on an individual — and we need to talk about it. Unfortunately, the effects of...
Celebrities, executives and wealthy heiresses bought into Nxivm’s promise of expanded consciousness and female empowerment. Then came the sex slavery, brainwashing and blackmail. Inside an alleged cult for successful women. Chatelaine by Courtney Shea Feb 8, 2019 Sarah Edmondson’s quarter-life crisis started out normally enough. In 2005, five years out of Concordia...
By Julia Scheeres We were standing in line for meat pies at the Great Dickens Christmas Fair. The indoor arena south of San Francisco had been transformed into Victorian London; actors wearing top hats and crinolines roamed about wishing fairgoers “Happy Christmas.” As we contemplated the menu — haggis or shepherd’s pie?...
