Finding Your Own Way w/ Christa Lester-Pitsch

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4.8 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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CONTENT WARNING: Child Sexual Abuse Christa Lester‐Pitsch is a survivor of an offshoot of the infamous cult known as The Way. She was born into and escaped the high‐control religious group, River Road Fellowship at the age of 23. Christa’s main goal in sharing her story is to help people who might find themselves in similar situations as the one she was in. She runs an Instagram page called The Survivor Experience with the hope that others going through similar situations of escaping control and abuse can know that they are not alone. Despite this experience being a big part of her past, and despite her desire to share it, Christa believes that it is one of the less interesting things about her today, Christa is an artist, a musician, and a mom to a spunky little boy. She resides in Bellingham, Washington with her husband Lucas, her son Mason, and their miniature labradoodle, Shiloh. Christa shares with Rachel the intimate emotional details of her life growing up under the authoritarian control of River Road Fellowship, where she struggled to find the autonomy and freedom other kids often take for granted. She explains her thought process as she began to plan her eventual escape and the complications that arose with her familial relationships in the process of gaining her independence as a young woman. Before You Go: Rachel reflects on the desperate measures members of high-control groups have to take in order to simply survive and maintain their rights and autonomy in the face of oppressive control. Follow Christa on IG: @thesurvivorexperience All of Rachel's video lectures are available for purchase here: rachelbernsteintherapy.com/webinar.html 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 Connect with us on Social Media: Twitter: twitter.com/_indoctrination Facebook: www.facebook.com/indoctrinationpodcast Tik Tok: www.tiktok.com/@indoctrinationpodcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/indoctrinationpodcast/ YouTube: www.youtube.com/rachelbernsteinlmft You can always help the show for free by leaving a rating on Spotify or a review on 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 indoctrination, a weekly conversation series about protecting yourself from
0:09.6	systems of control. I'm your host, Rachel Bernstein.
0:13.7	Hi, everybody. I wanted to make mention that it is really exciting that we've had a lot of listeners in some interesting places
0:24.3	over the last week. So thank you to people all over the world who have been listening in the
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0:42.3	It is so exciting. So again, be in touch. Let us know what drives your interest in this topic and whether it is social, political, whether there is
0:50.4	a cult near you, whether you are a former member, or you're just interested in the
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1:39.3	to discuss what you'd like to discuss with me that has to do with this issue. Ask me questions
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1:58.0	and take advantage of that. And you also, as a Patreon supporter of any
2:04.6	amount, get these wonderful bonus episodes. Today, we have Krista Lester Pitch. And I want to let you know that at the end of our conversation, we felt a bit unfinished,
2:23.2	but we had run out of time.
2:25.0	So she's going to be coming back on as a bonus episode, actually at the end of this same week,
2:31.8	for those who are Patreon supporters.
2:34.3	So if you want to hear the rest about what happened after she left,
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