One of the questions someone asked me was,

how do you actually protect yourself from love bombing when it feels so good in the moment?

My answer might surprise you, and I give this answer in my new Q&A video on Patreon.

Recently, Patreon supporters got something that I haven't provided before.

A full exclusive Q&A where I answered your most personal or your most pressing questions

about coercive control, building healthy community, about the things that don't leave visible

marks, but can change everything in your psyche, in your life.

They are real questions with real answers. And here's the thing. That conversation is already

live right now. Patreon members are listening to it. And if you're not one of them, you're missing out. So these are the conversations

that don't make it into regular episodes, those kind of nuanced questions, the specific questions,

the stuff you actually want to know directly. That's what Patreon is for, among many other things, and I plan to do more of these because it was

very popular. People were really wanting to ask some questions that they haven't had a chance to

ask before. So if you've ever wished you could just ask me something directly, now you can.

Join at the link in the show notes and you'll get access

to this Q&A plus everything else, all the bonus episodes, etc. that I'm building over there.

Take good care. You are not alone. And now there are two resources that I've put together specifically for your journey.

This is your host, Rachel Bernstein. I am an educator and a therapist and a cult specialist,

and I am very excited to announce,

restart and restore a journal for survivors of manipulation.

And a companion notebook that I've put together to go with it that has people's

stories that they've shared with me, that they wanted to share with you, and some wonderful

quotes from people whose thoughts I truly admire, and more pages and writing prompts for you to continue

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