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by Ryan Lee
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Cult of Personality...Disorders
Cult of Personality...Disorders
About this podcast
This podcast is dedicated to all things related to the process of waking up, walking out and moving on from life in a Christian cult or high control religion.
Its host, Dr Ryan Lee, is a former Jehovah's Witness with a doctorate in clinical psychology and a practicing therapist, specializing in helping former JWs and other cult survivors move through the recovery and rebuilding process
Dr Lee covers a range of topics relating to coming to terms and healing from religious trauma and rebuilding a life after leaving a cult
Episodes
The newest 20 of 58 episodes
- Cult of Personality...Disorders · 53 min · Season 2 Episode 48I've mentioned before on the program how unusually high the rate of personality disorders is among Jehovah's Witnesses, which always begs the question: Why? Well today's guest…
- #47 No Victims Here · 58 min · Season 2 Episode 47Another straight up banger of a guest! (no hype) Michaela is not only charismatic and deeply fascinating, but after hearing the 9 levels of hell she crawled through to break…
- #46 Burning Bridges & Building Boundaries · 46 min · Season 2 Episode 46After working with over a thousand ex-cult members, I thought I'd heard it all. I was wrong... On today's episode, it is my great pleasure to introduce you to "Manon"—a…
- #45 What if they were right? · 48 min · Season 2 Episode 45If you're reading this, chances are you're already fairly certain that the cult you escaped from was a flaming pile of fecal matter. Well... fairly certain Because knowing the…
- #44 Socializing Without a Script · 30 min · Season 2 Episode 44In this episode, I explore the strange social vertigo that can follow life in a high-control group, why authentic connection often feels riskier than performance, and how we can…
- #43 From Certainty to Discernment · 44 min · Episode 43Another underdeveloped muscle in former cult members: Discernment The cult taught us that every thought and action falls into a neat little black and white category of right and…
- #42 You are NOT normal · 34 min · Season 2 Episode 42We start by confirming what you already suspect: If you were raised in a cult or high control religion, you are most certainly not normal, and will most likely never achieve the…
- #41 BOOM! Ghosted! · 33 minA whole episode devoted to the feeling of being ghosted (transitive style) and how to sort through that grief
- #40 The Virtue of Selfishness · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 40One of the worst things you could be in a cult is selfish. Pursue a career? Selfish. Go to college? Selfish. Skip a meeting because you're too exhausted to feign interest?…
- Musical Rant: 150 ways to beat depression in 5 minutes · 5 minDon't come back until you've tried em all
- #39 Digging out of Depression · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 39From time to time we all get sucked into the sunken place of depression, and some of us sink deeper than others. Until recent year, I'd been in and out of the clinical depression…
- Elder Update: Dating Edition · 5 min · Season 1More spiritual food to choke on... at the proper time
- #38 Crash Course in Dating for Cult Survivors · 44 min · Season 1 Episode 38Today we're going to take the first of many stabs at the wonderfully awkward world of post-cult dating. Essentially, the challenge of learning things most people learned in high…
- Musical Rant: Narcissistic Tango · 6 min · Season 1A playful breakdown of the narcissistic deflection cascade
- #37 Narcissism and Cults · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 37Prior to my work with ex-JWs, I would generally encounter clients with parents on the narcissistic spectrum maybe around 20% of the time. Once I started working with ex-JWs, that…
- #36 Personal Lessons (Broadly Applicable) From The Ex-JW Ayahuasca Retreat · 1 h 9 min · Season 1 Episode 36Fresh off the tail of our very first ex-JW ayahuasca retreat, I'm thrilled to report that it surpassed all expectations. Today we're going to give you a breakdown of all the joy…
- #35 How Do You Like Your Pain? Dirty or Neat? · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 35Today, we're talking about pain; more specifically Clean Pain vs. Dirty Pain: Clean pain is the sharp but necessary pain of ripping off the Band-Aid. It heals you. Dirty pain is…
- Musical Rant: Ayahuasca/Constipation Metaphor · 4 minWhat the build up to an ayahuasca purge can feel like
- #34 All About Ayahuasca · 35 minHey guys, Sorry for the fake out, but for reasons I explain in this episode we decided to skip the episode on my worst psychedelic experience (for now) and instead focus an…
