Lauren Drain, Part 2: Life After Westboro
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation
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🗓️ 18 January 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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In part two of their discussion with former Westboro Baptist Church member Lauren Drain, she'll share how she was kicked out of the group and struggled to build a new social circle, the fear mongering that the Church used, and her healing journey including the use of fitness, EMDR, and ayahuasca. PLUS an incredible update on her family's current status!
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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 cult, extreme belief of manipulation from two |
| 0:38.0 | journeyers who've actually experienced it. I'm Lola Blanc, and I'm Megan Elizabeth. |
| 0:42.2 | And today is part two of our interview with Lauren Drain, former member of the Westboro Baptist |
| 0:47.2 | Church, as well as a fitness model, a trainer, a registered nurse, and an author. In this episode, |
| 0:52.4 | we'll hear more about how she got kicked out, dropped off at a motel with no one in her life, |
| 0:56.5 | but her co-workers. And that didn't turn out to be so great. All the ways the group would make |
| 1:00.0 | people too afraid to leave, and how she slowly rebuilt her life. She'll tell us all about her |
| 1:05.2 | healing journey, including EMDR for trauma and fitness, which gave her something that she could |
| 1:10.5 | control in a very out of control time in her life. We'll talk about how that can sometimes lead |
| 1:15.6 | to eating disorders as it did for her and the profound journey of forgiveness and letting go that |
| 1:20.7 | doing ayahuasca helped her process. Plus an incredible update on her family's current status. |
| 1:27.3 | It's good. Before we dive in with her, and this incredibly interesting and engaging conversation, |
| 1:33.3 | what is the coolest thing that's happened to you this week? Well, we are recording this a week |
| 1:37.1 | earlier than when it's coming out. So you might be like, wow, Megan, wait a stay on top of the news, |
| 1:42.0 | but it is news today. And that is that Gwen Stefani just gave an interview saying that she's Japanese, |
| 1:48.7 | which I'm obsessed with the cult of celebrity, especially the cult of the rock star. I can't |
| 1:55.2 | get enough of how completely delusional the human psyche becomes once it's so taken away from |
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