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All The Wiser

82. Sarah Edmondson Set the NXIVM Cult on Fire

All The Wiser

Kimi Culp

Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.9652 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Do you think you could never be indoctrinated into a cult? Sarah Edmondson wants you to think again. Sarah spent 12 years in the NXIVM cult, where otherwise bright, well-meaning women were being coerced, abused and turned into sex slaves by the now convicted felon, Keith Raniere. In this episode, Sarah shares how her own intuition was slowly dismantled by the cult, and how you can spot the red flags of any type of abusive power before it’s too late. 


In this episode:

  • Sarah's life before NXIVM.
  • The core promises of the cult.
  • Rules and rituals of the community.
  • Making the decision to leave and meet with the DEA.
  • The process of healing and deprogramming.
  • Where Sarah’s life is today and her hope moving forward.


Stay connected with Sarah:

Website: www.sarahedmondson.com

Book: Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped Nxivm, the Cult That Bound My Life

Charity Donation: www.igotout.org

Podcast: A Little Bit Culty

Instagram: @sarahedmondson | @alittlebitculty

Resources to help anyone:

  • in a high-control group or a cult
  • trying to figure out if you are in one
  • trying to help someone else get out of a one


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feel uncomfortable. That means you're doing it right. And again, the indoctrination that leads

1:08.3

up to this point makes me ripe to agree, okay, it's

1:13.1

supposed to feel this way.

1:14.6

It's supposed to feel uncomfortable in my body.

1:17.9

That I'm pushing through that on purpose.

1:20.3

That's what this whole thing's about.

1:22.6

They told her that she was being controlling, that she needed to let go and trust the process.

1:29.3

And for 12 years, Sarah Edmondson did what she was taught to do by people she deeply trusted.

1:38.3

So she ignored the red flags, which Sarah says were there from day one of her training with ESP, otherwise known as

1:48.7

executive success programs. The programs were marketed as personal development by its parent

1:56.6

company, Nexium. But behind closed doors, its leader and mastermind, Keith Reneery,

2:04.6

was using his knowledge of mind control to prey upon women and girls and turn them in to sex slaves.

2:13.5

Everyone is susceptible if they are in the right emotional situation at the, you know,

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