We lived in a tiny two bedroom cabin with eight children, one bedroom.

Jeez.

And they had this man sleeping on our couch for a long time.

My dad started these home churches.

He would send out these tracks about the world editing and sent him to thousands of people.

And by that, he would get all these randoms that would call him and want to come visit and talk to him.

He was asking for my dad and

and so my dad was like come on up and and that's just kind of how our families were our family other people

in the church they would invite these young men to just come sleep on the couch and then they would

they would abuse the young girls oh my gosh my dad wanted to be a cult leader he wanted to join these

things but he wasn't super charismatic and And this guy just had that. They gave him full reign of me. At some point, he pulls me in and to private room, Sergey does, and says, I don't want you to tell anybody this. It's a secret. I promise you won't tell. And I said, okay. And he said, that man wants to marry you.

God told him to marry you. He had a vision. And they planned a wedding for me to marry him.

And I found out about it because my mom was all excited. She came, oh, yay, you're getting married. I just found out.

And I was like, no, I don't want to marry this man.

I don't want anything to do with this.

And she was like, they already planned it.

Like, there's nothing you can do.

Mine is the only voice.

What have I been doing?

Lay down my autonomy.

After that, it got very dark very quickly.

Hey guys, my name is Shalise Anzola and this is cults to consciousness, where we discuss leaving high demand religions or organizations and finding healing and independence through awareness and true individual sovereignty.

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