Trust Fall: Dr. Natalie Feinblatt on Trauma, Addiction & Cult-Informed Therapy
A Little Bit Culty
Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Finding a therapist can be mission critical when you’re recovering from a culty situation, but the process of finding a clinician with basic cult awareness can be a total cluster. In this episode, Sarah and Nippy chat with Dr. Natalie Feinblatt about why more therapists need to get cult-informed and the Venn diagram overlap between trauma and addiction. She also chats with Sarah and Nippy about tangible techniques for getting unstuck when fight/flight/freeze mode takes over.
Dr. Feinblatt is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Los Angeles, California who specializes in the treatment of addiction and trauma. And one of her trauma sub-specialties is working with former cult members. She received her BA from UCSD and her Masters & Doctorate from Pepperdine University, where she wrote her doctoral dissertation on psychotherapy with former cult members and has specialized in helping them ever since. She also does EMDR, Brainspotting, and other trauma-specific therapies. She was also featured on the series finale of ‘Leah Remini: Scientology & The Aftermath.’ Learn more at her website or follow her on Instagram for tips, tools, and healing resources.
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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 |
| 0:12.1 | are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, |
| 0:17.6 | business individual, anyone or anything. |
| 0:20.1 | Welcome to a little bit culty, a podcast about what happens when something that seems |
| 0:34.2 | like a great thing at first goes to the dark side and takes you with it. |
| 0:38.4 | I'm your host, Sarah Edminson. |
| 0:40.2 | And I'm also your host, Anthony Ames, aka Nippy. |
| 0:43.2 | Sarah and I met, fell in love in a, quote, self-help organization that turned out to be |
| 0:47.6 | a mega cult cult nexium. |
| 0:50.4 | Heard of it? |
| 0:51.4 | We got out of there together and on our way out, we helped shut it down. |
| 0:54.9 | Our journey as nexium whistleblowers was captured in detail in a docu-series called the |
| 0:58.6 | VOW on HBO and also on the front page of a newspaper. |
| 1:02.6 | New York Times, babe. |
| 1:03.6 | Right. |
| 1:04.6 | Have you heard of it? |
| 1:05.6 | Each week on a little bit culty, we talk with other former cult members and whistleblowers |
| 1:09.6 | plus experts in things like cultic abuse and coercive control. |
| 1:13.8 | She also turned the mic over to advocates and clinicians with wisdom to share on recovering |
| 1:17.8 | from everything from MLMs and toxic religion to bad romances with raging narcissists. |
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