Elishaba Doerksen, Part 1 - My Family Cult in the Wilderness

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🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Elishaba Doerksen, author of Out of the Wilderness: Escaping My Father's Prison and My Journey to Forgiveness, describes how her father rejected his well-to-do upbringing, became a hippie, and eventually found Christianity, deeming himself a sort of prophet. In part one of her story, she shares how he moved their entire family into a cabin in the wilderness with no electricity or running water, the gaslighting and physical abuse he inflicted on her, and how in the midst of her trauma she found comfort in their animals.

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0:00.0	If you have your own story of being in a cult or a high control group or if you've had
0:04.1	experience with manipulation or abuse the power that you'd like to share, leave us a message
0:08.4	on our hotline number at 347-86 trust. That's 347-868-7878 or shoot us an e-mail at TrustMePod
0:18.2	at gmail.com. Trust me, do you trust me? Trust me, I'm like a smart person. Yeah, I've never
0:25.6	lied to you. I never have lied. If you think that one person has all the answers, don't!
0:32.5	Welcome to TrustMe, the podcast about cults, extreme belief, and manipulation from two mountaineers
0:38.3	who've actually experienced it, I'm Lola Blanc. And I'm Megan Elizabeth. And this week is part
0:43.5	one of our interview with Alicia Bedurkson, author of Out of the Wilderness, escaping my father's
0:49.4	prison and my journey to forgiveness. So in this part, in this first part here, we'll talk about
0:54.2	her father's upbringing, how he came from this well-to-do family, rejected that lifestyle by
0:59.2	becoming a hippie and then discovered Christianity, which he took on as a sort of a self-proclaimed
1:03.6	prophet who needed to spread the gospel. She'll share how he moved their family into a tiny cabin
1:08.9	in the wilderness with no electricity, running water or bathroom, and how it was connected to
1:14.1	Jack Nicholson. The gaslighting and physical abuse he inflicted on her and how in the midst of her
1:19.4	trauma, she found comfort in their animals. And heads up y'all, this episode and next week's
1:25.1	episode contain a lot of really harrowing, difficult descriptions of physical and emotional
1:31.8	abuse and trauma, and it's pretty heavy stuff. So if you are not ready to delve into the darkness
1:37.4	with us, make sense, all good, just maybe skip this episode in, maybe next week's. Great episodes
1:43.6	though, great book, if you are ready. Absolutely transfixing story, but I left our interview just
1:49.6	with such a heavy heart because of the things that this woman has experienced, but she's come out
1:54.3	of it and that's the point, that's the point. Yeah, survivors, survivors for a reason. So before we
2:00.8	dive in with Alicia Ba, Megan, can you tell me your cultiest thing this week? Sure, I mean,
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