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So I want to be able to talk today about exploring your identity after leaving a cult. A lot of people will say, you know, I, I don't know

who I am and I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing. I don't know what I'm supposed to be thinking.

You don't know how I'm supposed to be feeling. We heard on this podcast, a woman who said that there were

only a group emotions that were allowed to be felt,

that you could feel emotions that were just ones that everyone else felt at the same time that they felt them,

and emotions that were allowed by the cult leader. And so how do you

know what you feel after that? How do you know what's okay to feel? So I want to get into that

a little bit today. I tell people sometimes that my work is a little bit different from other

people's in that I am asked quite a bit, who am I? And this is not to say that that question

isn't asked by other people and other therapy settings, but I'm asked this question quite a bit by people

who have already been in their lives sometimes for many decades, but are coming out of a

situation where they were told what to think and what to feel. And not only that, but what their role was and what their level of

value was, all of it. So how do you know who you are? And how do you start to also feel comfortable

with who you are? And feeling like who you are is okay. So because of this indoctrination process that people have

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