All Episodes

#47 No Victims Here

#46 Burning Bridges & Building Boundaries

#45 What if they were right?

#44 Socializing Without a Script

#43 From Certainty to Discernment

#42 You are NOT normal

#41 BOOM! Ghosted!

#40 The Virtue of Selfishness

Musical Rant: 150 ways to beat depression in 5 minutes

#39 Digging out of Depression

Elder Update: Dating Edition

#38 Crash Course in Dating for Cult Survivors

Elder Update: Beards, Broads and Bullshit

Musical Rant: Narcissistic Tango

#37 Narcissism and Cults

#36 Personal Lessons (Broadly Applicable) From The Ex-JW Ayahuasca Retreat

#35 How Do You Like Your Pain? Dirty or Neat?

Musical Rant: Ayahuasca/Constipation Metaphor

#34 All About Ayahuasca

Musical Rant: My first LSD trip

#33 My First Psychedelic Experience

#32 Ten Keys for Upping Our Social Game

#31 Rebuilding Your Community

#30 The Challenges of the Empath

#29 Ease on Down the Road

Musical Rant: Warmer Thoughts of Death

Musical Rant: You're Gonna Die

#28 Death... is harmless

#27 Take Control of Your Narrative

#26 My Take on Meditation

#25 (Part 2) The Problem With People Pleasing

Musical Rant: Overgiving into Oblivion

#24 The Problem With People Pleasing

#23 What it means to "do the work" (and how to make it easy)

Musical Rant: Enough. It's Time to Get the F#$% Out

#22 What to Expect When You're Defecting: How to break the news that you're leaving

#21 Why Therapy is Awesome!

#20 (Part 2) Boundaries: What F@#% is that?!

#19 (Part 1) Boundaries: What F@#% is that?!

#18 (Part2) Navigating life with a PIMI spouse and children

#17 (Part 1) Navigating life with a PIMI spouse and children

#16 (Part 2): Imagining what a loving god might actually look like

#15 (Part 1): Imagining what a loving god might actually look like

#14 (Part 2): Changing how we talk to ourselves (How to do it)

#13 (Part 1): Changing how we talk to ourselves

#12 Fear of Falling Prey to Another Cult or Group

#11 (Part 2): Keeping or Cutting Family and Friends

#10 (Part 1): Keeping or Cutting Family and Friends

#9 Keeping the Faith (NOT the religious kind)

#8 Why it's so hard to wake them up (and some ideas if you choose to try)

#7 You Are Not Broken

#6 (Part 2): Breaking free from black and white thinking

#5 (Part 1): Breaking free from black and white thinking

#4 (Part 2): Learning to trust your treacherous heart

#3 (Part 1): Learning to trust your treacherous heart

#2 (Part 2): I'm out, now what? 5 essential tasks for moving on

#1 (Part 1): I'm out, now what? 5 essential tasks for moving on