Summer Bonus: Sarah and Nippy Chat with the IndoctriNation Podcast
A Little Bit Culty
Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
It’s another summer bonus episode, and you’re all invited to put this in your ears and enjoy it from your favorite pool floatie. This time, we’re chatting with the righteous Rachel Bernstein, LMFT, on her Indoctrination Podcast about our trip in and out of that thing we did for a while that turned out to be a notorious cult. Just some light summer listening about sex cults, trauma, and coming back from hell. Pairs well with watermelon frosé.
About Rachel: She’s an OG cult awareness and recovery podcast host, and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist from Los Angeles, California who has specialized in cult intervention and re-acclimation for over 30 years. She serves on the advisory board of the International Cultic Studies Association and has worked with the Department of Justice providing therapy to cult victims who testify against their perpetrators. She's also made many media appearances over the years as a cult expert on CNN, MSNBC, BBC, NPR, Bloomberg, and many other news outlets. Ms. Bernstein is also the host of IndoctriNation: A weekly podcast covering cults, manipulators, and protecting yourself from systems of control where she has interviewed hundreds of cult survivors, journalists, and experts. Her book, "Kids Talking to Kids about Divorce" is available now on Amazon.
Website: https://rachelbernsteintherapy.com
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Now-I-Know-Rachel-Bernstein/dp/1620867893
Podcast: https://linktr.ee/indoctrination
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| 0:00.0 | The views and opinions expressed by a little bit culty are those of the hosts |
| 0:04.1 | and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. |
| 0:08.1 | Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion |
| 0:13.2 | and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, |
| 0:17.6 | business individual, anyone or anything. |
| 0:19.8 | Welcome to a little bit culty, a podcast about what happens when something that seems like a great thing at first |
| 0:35.6 | goes to the dark side and takes you with it. I'm your host, Sarah Edminson. |
| 0:40.0 | And I'm also your host, Anthony Ames, aka Nippy. Sarah and I met, fell in love and a, quote, |
| 0:45.2 | self-help organization that turned out to be a mega cult cult nexium. |
| 0:50.3 | Heard of it? We got out of there together and on our way out we helped shut it down. |
| 0:54.6 | Our journey as nexium whistleblowers was captured in detail in a docu-series called the VAL on HBO |
| 0:59.6 | and also on the front page of a newspaper. New York Times, babe. |
| 1:03.6 | Right. Have you heard of it? Each week on a little bit culty we talk with other former cult members |
| 1:08.4 | and whistleblowers plus experts in things like cultic abuse and coercive control. |
| 1:13.6 | We also turn the mic over to advocates and clinicians with wisdom to share on |
| 1:17.3 | recovering from everything from MLMs and toxic religion to bad romances with raging narcissist. |
| 1:22.8 | There's always something to learn about the cultiverse. Be sure to subscribe to a little bit culty |
| 1:27.6 | so you don't miss an episode. Find us on Instagram and at a littlebitculty.com. |
| 1:44.6 | Okay. Another summer bonus episode. We just, we couldn't resist. We couldn't resist. |
| 1:53.2 | Actually, truthfully, we got such a great response from the, you know, say it six-boy. |
| 1:59.4 | It's a lot of people are blaming me for having it in their head. I love. Yeah, sorry about that. |
| 2:05.0 | I love. But what we realized was that it seems like you guys were enjoying hearing us answer the |
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