The Redeemer: Cathrine Moestue on Shame & Radical Identity Change

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

Education, Society & Culture

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. If you could be a part of the team that ends world hunger, wouldn’t you be? That’s what Cathrine Moestue thought she was signing up for back in 1984 and 1985, when the then 19-year-old moved from Oslo, Norway to the outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden, and met an English teacher who claimed he knew how to end the devastating famine taking place in Ethiopia at the time. The man told her he was from Paraguay and was the leader of a revolution. The rest, my friends, is culty history.

Today, Moestue is a clinical psychologist, as well as the author of chapter 11 in the book Radicalization; Phenomenon and Prevention that came out in Norway, and parts of her own story are also featured in the book FAR OUT by Charlotte McDonald Gibson.

Links specific to today’s episode:

Cathrine on Instagram, as well as her website

Dr. Kristin Neff’s free self compassion exercises

Janina Fisher’s Transforming the Legal Legacy of Trauma

Also…

Hear Ye, Hear Ye:

The views and opinions expressed on A Little Bit Culty do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything. Nobody’s mad at you, just don’t be a culty fuckwad.

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0:00.0	The views and opinions expressed by a little bit cultier, those are the hosts,
0:03.4	and don't reflect the official policy or position of the podcast.
0:06.6	Any of the, quote, fire content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors, or authors of
0:11.6	the opinion and are not intended to malign a religion, a group, a club, an organization,
0:17.3	business individual, anyone or anything, unless they're...
0:20.2	You're a douchebag.
0:20.9	Yeah, we're not doctors, psychologists, therapists, licensed counselors, or shamans,
0:25.6	even though you kind of think you are sometimes.
0:27.3	I'm like an urban shaman, okay?
0:29.1	Good talk.
0:39.3	Hey everybody, Sarah Edmonds in here.
0:41.7	And I'm Anthony Ames, aka Nippy, Sarah's husband, and you're listening to a little bit
0:47.2	cultier.
0:48.1	aka a LBC.
0:49.7	A podcast about what happens when devotion goes to the dark side.
0:53.1	We've been there, and back again, a little about us, true story, we met and fell in love
0:58.3	in a cult, and then we woke up and got the hell out of dodge.
1:01.6	And the whole thing was captured in HBO, the documentary series The Vow, now in its second season.
1:06.9	I also wrote about our experience in my memoir, SCART, the true story of how I escaped
1:11.7	next to him, the cult that bound my life.
1:13.9	Look at us, a couple of married podcasters who just happen to have a weekly date night.
1:18.4	Are we interview experts and advocates and things like cult awareness and mind control?
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