oh man, i really needed this right now. i’ve been processing a lot more around the narcissistic abuse i left almost 2 years ago - i’ve always been interested in learning about cults, but it really ramped up for me once i left that relationship, and began to realise what had happened to me. so having a cult expert frame it as a “1:1 cult”, as i have privately/to myself, is very validating, and i’m grateful for this. watching now! :)
Grew up with this alongside religious abuse. Thank you for sharing. I saw so many parallels when he was elected to my own parents. I was so confused how people couldn’t see it.
I like different colored wigs and thrift clothes - I used to make creative space for myself that way. I really like how you emphasized wearing your own style and having fun with it.
I relate! I was invisible. It wasn’t safe to voice my ideas and opinions. When I did, it was used against me. Hide, fawn and freeze. Children need to be safe. Adolescents are interested in justice. Adults supposedly want “peace”.
As a gueer non-binary person who pushed themselves into the closet in my early teens and stayed there for decades, the idea of submerging yourself is very relatable. I think I really did this with, not all of myselft, but all the parts I thought were "unacceptable". I have also been both in controlling relationships and a cult, so this was really important thing for me to understand. When I came out (to myself) as non-binary and then realized that I was also not straight, it really made it hard for me to repress those parts of myself again.
Being raised by a narcissist parent in a narcissistic family system (grand parent and siblings on the narcissistic spectrum), feels really like growing up in a cult...
I grew up in a cult, and have been in 4 serious narcissistic relationships. Now that I’m finally coming out of all that and find myself feeling free again, I’m now slammed into the Trump’s America cult and there is NO WAY OUT! Can’t “just leave.” 😱
I feel, while it might a hard time for all of us, those of us with such experiences and an awareness of the reality that is will be a beacon in our communities without realizing it. 💔 I know it will be tough, but no more real double think from all of this sh*t.
Listening to this, I guess my family system was cult-like. Five kids, it was run a bit like the army- many rules, discipline, expectations, assumptions. Being the youngest, I had to distance myself in order to find myself.
oh man, i really needed this right now. i’ve been processing a lot more around the narcissistic abuse i left almost 2 years ago - i’ve always been interested in learning about cults, but it really ramped up for me once i left that relationship, and began to realise what had happened to me. so having a cult expert frame it as a “1:1 cult”, as i have privately/to myself, is very validating, and i’m grateful for this. watching now! :)
She was such a great guest. Thanks so much for being here
Grew up with this alongside religious abuse. Thank you for sharing. I saw so many parallels when he was elected to my own parents. I was so confused how people couldn’t see it.
I like different colored wigs and thrift clothes - I used to make creative space for myself that way. I really like how you emphasized wearing your own style and having fun with it.
I relate! I was invisible. It wasn’t safe to voice my ideas and opinions. When I did, it was used against me. Hide, fawn and freeze. Children need to be safe. Adolescents are interested in justice. Adults supposedly want “peace”.
As a gueer non-binary person who pushed themselves into the closet in my early teens and stayed there for decades, the idea of submerging yourself is very relatable. I think I really did this with, not all of myselft, but all the parts I thought were "unacceptable". I have also been both in controlling relationships and a cult, so this was really important thing for me to understand. When I came out (to myself) as non-binary and then realized that I was also not straight, it really made it hard for me to repress those parts of myself again.
@@omnichrome9784 yes, I found that once you stop repressing it’s almost impossible to make yourself start doing it again
Being raised by a narcissist parent in a narcissistic family system (grand parent and siblings on the narcissistic spectrum), feels really like growing up in a cult...
Love the new intro and outro!!
I grew up in a cult, and have been in 4 serious narcissistic relationships. Now that I’m finally coming out of all that and find myself feeling free again, I’m now slammed into the Trump’s America cult and there is NO WAY OUT! Can’t “just leave.” 😱
I feel, while it might a hard time for all of us, those of us with such experiences and an awareness of the reality that is will be a beacon in our communities without realizing it. 💔 I know it will be tough, but no more real double think from all of this sh*t.
Listening to this, I guess my family system was cult-like. Five kids, it was run a bit like the army- many rules, discipline, expectations, assumptions. Being the youngest, I had to distance myself in order to find myself.
I am also a performer Daniella!
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