meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Struggle Well School

#208: Exit Letter to a Cult (Part 2) with Sarabeth Kapusta

Struggle Well School

Emily Thomas

Education, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Self-improvement, Mental Health

5.01.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This is part 2 of a great conversation with Sarabeth Kapusta. Even though she has experienced countless reasons to distrust, and even flee Christianity, God has given her a deep love for His Church, His Word, and making known to as many as possible that God is not an abuser. She is an attorney and a generally free-spirited person. She is also a violinist, runner, writer, wannabe chef, and farm girl. She is a survivor of 25 years of abuse in a cult masquerading as a Baptist Church and is passionate about studying Scripture and sharing the truth and freedom found there. She is an advocate for those in the seasons of doubt and desires to give a voice to the voiceless among us.

WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:
  • what happened after Sarabeth left the cult

  • how God’s goodness helped Sarabeth to reconcile her anger toward Him

  • holding on to pain to validate our trauma

  • depression, anxiety and mental health

  • attempting to visit her sister in the cult

  • finding a church she trusts

  • how God is slowly reuniting and healing her family

  • how you can help reach someone in a cult

LINKS MENTIONED

The Next Right Thing podcast 9 Marks Acts 29

CONNECT WITH SARABETH:

instagram

CONNECT WITH EMILY:

website | instagram | facebook | patreon

EPISODE SPONSORS:

Canvas People: text MSW to 484848 and get a free 11x14 photo canvas (+ shipping & handling) Everlywell: get 15% off your lab test when you visit everlywell.com/msw and use promo code MSW

SUPPORT THE SHOW:

Patreon | Amazon

*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. I am going to buy a yacht any day now.

SHARE THE STRUGGLE!

If you've been encouraged, share this episode with a friend.  The struggle is real.  We might as well do this together! Do you love Mom Struggling Well? Please leave a review here!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

COVID is still around and this year's strain could spread more quickly.

0:06.0

So Manchester's health teams want to help to protect you, your families and your health services. If you're offered a COVID jab, please take it up as soon as you can,

0:16.0

so you have as much protection from the virus as possible.

0:20.0

The jab is free and takes minutes.

0:23.0

Check if you should have it at Manchester.gov. UK slash get my jab. Bum, bum, bum.

0:34.0

The

0:35.0

The

0:38.0

... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Welcome back to the Mom's Struggling Well Podcast. This is Emily Thomas and let's not run away from home this week.

0:53.7

Okay? Turns out perfection is nonsense and we can have peace if we just change our

1:00.3

perspective. The problem is everyone on Instagram makes perfect look

1:04.8

really real. I can follow those people. Do you? If somebody's making you feel bad,

1:10.3

don't follow them. Stop it. So this week I had quite a perspective shift. I feel like I'm

1:17.1

constantly talking about my medication and how it wasn't working. So, well, I just had some side effects I didn't like and so I tried to change

1:26.4

this medication it's been two months two months can feel like 19 years when you are dealing with changing your medication and you know what I did?

1:36.3

I tried several different ones and I tried nothing for a while and I gave up and I cried psycho pharmacological uncle and went back on the

1:49.3

one that I stopped two months ago. So anyway not sure what the point of that was, but it is what happened and I'm

1:56.3

feeling a lot better. Turns out you do you don't know what you have until it's gone?

2:02.8

Didn't someone write a song about that?

2:05.0

The grass was not greener

2:07.3

over at the other antidepressants.

2:09.3

So anyway, whatever, I'm back, and there's that.

2:13.0

So, marketing department, I'm here with an announcement from Sarah Kanisha, had a great idea on Instagram.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Emily Thomas, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Emily Thomas and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.