Exploring the ongoing process of adapting to life outside of a cult, including lingering cult beliefs and behaviors. The speaker shares personal struggles with parenting, black and white thinking, and aversion to authority figures, while turning to self-help books for guidance.
Popular culture is endlessly fascinated with cults, and they have to capacity to make ordinary people do unthinkable things.
So how do cults reel people in and what does it take to leave?