My Conscience on Survival Mode w/ Katharina Meredith, ex-Lichtoase - S5E5pt2

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4.8 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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CW: Abuse against minors Katharina Meredith grew up in a New Age cult from age 10 years old until 20. This week in the second part of her episode, she moves forward into what she experienced as a teen. Girls in the group were partnered with adults and taught to hide any disgust or dislike that they felt. Every day was a battle with normal emotional responses because, with the school of thought, it was a ‘weakness’ they needed to put aside to be like gods. She protected herself by always operating on “I’m fine.” Pushing away any emotions or trauma was how she survived. When Katharina wanted to have children, she went to therapy and counseling to help her accept and transform her reactions to be more productive. She is now a PhD student focusing on subjects like Community Psychology and Extremism. Katharina Meredith helped to further develop and eventually spearhead the non-profit "Stronger After" which was started by Rachel Bernstein, Lee Marsh, and Frances Peters: https://www.stronger-after.org/ Stay tuned, Before You Go: Survivors sometimes defensively retreat when they finally begin to feel comfortable and vulnerable again. Years of daily stress or repressing emotions to survive can have continuous physiological effects even long after leaving an abusive relationship. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Welcome to indoctrination, a weekly conversation series about protecting yourself from systems of control.
0:11.2	I'm your host, Rachel Bernstein.
0:14.1	Hi, everyone.
0:16.2	And welcome to part two of my three-part conversation with Katrina Meredith.
0:23.1	Katrina is a very interesting woman and so smart and so insightful.
0:31.6	And she has been through so much.
0:34.5	And it's wonderful that she wants to share her experiences, but also some of her new
0:39.9	studies with all of us. So Katrina Meredith is pursuing her PhD in community psychology, studying
0:48.7	terrorism and extremism. She grew up in a new age cult from age 10 to 20 and currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her two children and her husband, who she met shortly after leaving the cult.
1:01.9	In the 17 years since her exit, she has steadily worked to understand and resolve the trauma she experienced in a very abusive group setting while applying that knowledge to
1:12.1	helping others. She is a writer and an activist and she has really committed herself to
1:18.6	learning about her experience so that she can do education and prevention for others.
1:24.8	And during my first conversation with her, she talked about her childhood.
1:28.9	What happened to her when she was first brought into this group and how she was in charge
1:35.4	of the children and trying to protect them. And now during this second conversation,
1:43.1	she takes us through her teenage years within this group and eventually leaving it,
1:49.7	which is actually even just the beginning of the next part of her story,
1:55.1	which you'll hear next week.
1:57.6	Here's Katrina now.
2:07.3	I'm thinking about two things and then I want to be able to,
2:13.1	in terms of the chronology, go forward with you now. But sometimes when people are assigned,
2:17.4	as you're saying, and a term is also very creepy that you're assigned to somebody who is older,
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