#673 Escaping A Religious Cult - Katie Love
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Katie Love @KatieLoveWriter is a comedian and author who bares all in this episode. She opens up about the death of her mother when she was young, being drawn into being a Jehovah’s Witness, and how she ultimately escaped the religion. She also shares the success she’s had with therapy and how she focuses on being mindful of her own self-talk. Be sure to check out her book, Two Tickets to Paradise: From Cult to Comedy.
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| 0:00.0 | Miss Fit Toys. |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome to episode 673 with my guest Katie Love. |
| 0:06.0 | This is the Metal Illness Happy Hour, a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads. |
| 0:11.0 | From medically diagnosed conditions past traumas and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive |
| 0:16.3 | negative thinking, I am not a therapist in this show is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling. |
| 0:25.0 | Patreon update. |
| 0:27.0 | Well, first of all, actually, I sent this message via Patreon to people who qualify to attend the Sunday afternoon |
| 0:37.8 | Zoom slash hangout meeting. Normally it's four o'clock, Pacific Standard time every Sunday, |
| 0:45.0 | and this Sunday, it's going to be at one o'clock |
| 0:49.0 | Pacific Standard time. |
| 0:50.0 | But just for this week only, that would be December 10th we are up to 843 paid |
| 0:59.6 | subscribers to the to the podcast and we really need to hit that goal of 1500. We've been creeping |
| 1:10.0 | slowly, slowly, slowly, and anybody who can support us with monthly donations for as little as a dollar |
| 1:17.1 | a month and depending on what tier you donate to, you qualify for certain rewards. And there are you. And of course you can always do a one-time |
| 1:25.7 | donation via PayPal or even a monthly recurring donation via PayPal and you can |
| 1:31.1 | support the podcast by subscribing to it through Apple Podcasts or |
| 1:34.8 | leaving a nice review blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah I hate saying that stuff but gotta do it. This is from the Fear Survey and this is filled out by a trans woman who calls herself |
| 1:48.9 | manic unsheared trans girl. I'm not sure what unchered means, I guess that means you need a haircut? |
| 1:57.3 | Share something you fear. I guess I have one of those personalities that people |
| 2:01.8 | feel comfortable confiding in and trauma |
| 2:04.4 | dumping slash getting emotional on and while sometimes never in the moment I feel glad |
| 2:09.7 | to be that kind of person to put people at ease, I always find it extremely draining and in a way triggering. |
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