Sometimes the place you're used to is not the place you belong.

My name is Andrea and this is adult child.

Welcome back to adult child where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family.

Ahoi my dear chichos how we doing folks for any new listeners my name is Andrea.

I am the captain of this hot mess ship and I am recording this on my phone because my mic's not working.

And this is where we talk about what to do when your childhood is keeping you from living the life that you deserve to live and being the person that you deserve to be.

So today we're getting a little bit culty y'all we are diving deep with Sarah Edmondson.

She is the co-host of the podcast a little bit culty which she hosts with her husband nippy.

And she is a former member of the cult next year and she played a major role in exposing the cult and of the takedown of the cult.

So as one of the adult child traits is that we are addicted to excitement.

I think many of us have a fascination with dark shit like cults.

So I'm sure many of y'all are familiar with the docuseries the vowel which was on HBO and Sarah was a large focus of the series.

If you have not watched it you need to go watch that shit it's fascinating there's been two seasons now.

So I do just want to give some high level information for people who may have never heard of nexium or of Sarah.

So nexium it's a cult.

But it was presented as a self-help and personal development program.

So it was founded in the late 90s by this piece of shit named Keith Rineri.

And what's super interesting and you'll hear me talk about this with Sarah is that the core tenant or kind of underlying principle of nexium is that we have this blueprint that is ingrained in us during childhood.

We have these faulty beliefs and programming that is ingrained in us through our childhood experiences which is essentially this adult child shit right same idea.

And so nexium was advertised as an organization that could help people reprogram from their limiting beliefs and help them reach their full potential.

And it used a variety of modalities and techniques that were drawn from psychology, philosophy, various personal development practices.

The one thing you'll hear Sarah say a couple times I wanted to make sure I mentioned this is she you'll hear her say EM.

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