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Escape Through The Window w/Sarah Rose

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Religion & Spirituality

4.8566 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Rose is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area. She received a BA in Judaic Studies from UC Berkeley, a Certificate in Environmental Restoration and Watershed Management from Merritt College, and most recently a Masters's Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from New Mexico Highlands University. She is also a cult survivor and wrote about her harrowing experience in her book “Escape Through the Window” which is available now on Amazon. Sarah's breathtaking story was also covered in Season 2 of Identification Discovery’s series “Dangerous Persuasions” Sarah joins Rachel to detail some of the traumatic experiences she writes about in her book, sharing survival tactics from her long and ongoing journey towards healing. Throughout their intimate conversation, Rachel offers Sarah insights gained from her decades of helping people recover from cultic abuse, and together they examine the pitfalls and benefits of writing about experiences that have caused lasting traumas. Before You Go: Rachel offers advice on how to reassess first impressions and explains the dynamics of secrecy and transparency in high control groups or relationships. You can find Sarah's book here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21134900-escape-through-the-window Watch her story as portrayed in Investigation Discovery's Dangerous Persuasions series here: https://tv.apple.com/us/episode/hes-my-master/umc.cmc.5sdlt6e4nzgbn1iubg0582wl9?showId=umc.cmc.5y5pglgl3kmwftqwkgnjfpwq4 Thanks to all of our newest Patreon supporters: Aisha Mitchell Camerer, Ingrid Holm, Kirsten Blackburn, Will, Ali Vaughan, Baylie Freeman, Mavis Seehaus, Rebecca L Walter, Cat, Jessica, Julia, Jess, and Sarah O'Mahoney To help support the show monthly and get bonus episodes, shirts, and tote bags, please visit: www.patreon.com/indoctrination Prefer to support the IndoctriNation show with a one-time donation? Use this link: www.paypal.me/indoctrination You can help the show for free by leaving a rating on Spotify or Apple/ iTunes. It really helps the visibility of the show! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0

Welcome to Indocination, a weekly conversation series about protecting yourself from systems of control.

0:11.2

I'm your host, Rachel Bernstein.

0:13.8

Hi, everybody. Before I introduce the guest for today, please take a moment and go to patreon.com slash indoctrination. Patreon.com slash

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indoctrination. It's the only way we're going to be able to keep the show on the air. And it is

0:29.8

something that a lot of people rely on. I get emails every week talking about how this is a lifeline

0:37.4

for people. I want to then, of course, be able to keep

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it going. So please partner with us to do that. Go to patreon.com slash indoctrination. We're not

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sponsored by any company. I pay for it out of pocket. It's a labor of love. I'm devoted to this

0:52.9

issue. I'm devoted to the audience, to the people who listen, to the people who feel supported, to the people who feel emboldened to take steps to protect themselves because of it. So thank you very much.

1:09.6

Now, today on the show, we have a guest who has quite a story. This is a very, very powerful

1:19.1

story in a lot of ways. Sarah Rose is a very relatable person, someone who you could see hanging out with, someone who has been put

1:30.8

through quite a head spinning and abusive experience in every way. There's so much that we learn

1:40.7

from her story, and I really, really look forward to having you hear it. She's a native

1:45.9

of the San Francisco Bay Area. She received a BA in Judaic Studies from UC Berkeley, a certificate

1:52.5

in environmental restoration and watershed management from Merritt College, and most recently a

1:58.7

master's degree in rehabilitation counseling from New Mexico

2:02.5

Highlands University. She's worked as a massage therapist, professional organizer, and with kids

2:09.4

with autism. She wrote a book about her cult experiences titled Escape Through the Window,

2:14.7

which has been selling on Amazon for eight years. She was also featured in an

2:18.9

episode in Season 2 of the Identification Discovery Series Dangerous Persuations. She was one of the

2:26.9

ex-cultists featured in the media sources publication titled Religious Cults, Free Thinking or

2:33.5

Fanatical, published in 2014.

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