Broken Bonds: Rachel Bernstein on Cults & Family
A Little Bit Culty
Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.
We get emails and messages from people every day who are looking for guidance on what to do when someone they love is in a cult, so we called in an expert. Here’s our chat with Rachel Bernstein, LMFT, of the mighty helpful and always bingeable IndoctriNation podcast. Is this technically a crossover episode? We don’t make those rules, but we do feel pretty confident in saying that this episode is a power hour on what to do if your loved ones become culty collateral damage.
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Rachel Bernstein is one of our all-time favorite cult awareness and recovery podcast hosts. She’s a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist from Los Angeles, California who has specialized in cult intervention and re-acclimation for over 30 years. She serves on the advisory board of the International Cultic Studies Association and has worked with the Department of Justice providing therapy to cult victims who testify against their perpetrators. She's also made many media appearances over the years as a cult expert on CNN, MSNBC, BBC, NPR, Bloomberg, and many other news outlets. Ms. Bernstein is also the host of IndoctriNation: A weekly podcast covering cults, manipulators, and protecting yourself from systems of control where she has interviewed hundreds of cult survivors, journalists, and experts. Her book, "Kids Talking to Kids about Divorce" is available now on Amazon.
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Executive Producers: Sarah Edmondson & Anthony Ames
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Producer: Will Retherford
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Theme Song: “Cultivated” by Jon Bryant co-written with Nygel Asselin
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered legal, medical, or mental health advice. The views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast and are not intended to malign any religion group club organization business |
| 0:13.8 | individual anyone or anything. I'm Sarah Edmondson and I'm Anthony air quotes nippy aims and this is a little bit |
| 0:31.1 | guilty a podcast about what happens when things that seem like a great thing at first go bad. |
| 0:36.3 | Every week we chat with survivors, experts, and whistleblowers for real cold stories told directly by the people who live through them. |
| 0:43.2 | Because we want you to learn a few things we've had to learn the hard way. |
| 0:46.8 | Like if you think you're too smart to get sucked into something culty, |
| 0:50.4 | you're already prime recruitment material. You might even already be in a cold. |
| 0:54.0 | Oops, you better keep listening to find out. |
| 0:57.0 | Welcome to season six of a little bit colty. |
| 1:00.0 | Sinking down to the depths with the ocean |
| 1:05.0 | hanging on to win my love. |
| 1:09.0 | I let go but all I could leave but I know |
| 1:17.7 | Hello everybody welcome back to this week's very special episode of a little bit culty. |
| 1:23.6 | If you listen to a little bit culty, |
| 1:25.2 | you're clearly interested in a podcast that covers cults, |
| 1:28.6 | manipulators, and protecting yourself |
| 1:30.5 | from systems of control, which means you might already be a big fan of our |
| 1:34.3 | guest today. Rachel Bernstein is the host of the Indispensable Inductination |
| 1:38.7 | podcast and every week on that show she sits down with former cult members, |
| 1:42.8 | intervention experts, and people who've left narcissistic and |
| 1:45.8 | controlling relationships of all kinds to hear their stories and |
| 1:49.4 | discuss their past experiences. |
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