162: What if you grew up in a cult?

Published: Sept. 22, 2020, 11 a.m.

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\\u201cI didn\\u2019t know what normal was, so everything looked so scary\\u2026.Everything I was doing I was learning for the time it was like my birth into the world.\\u201d


Producer: Whit Missildine


Episode Summary: A woman puts the pieces of her life back together after a childhood spent inside an insidious religious cult in Los Angeles.


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Content/Trigger Warnings: child abuse, sexual abuse, suicide, death, drug use, mental illness, explicit language


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