
157. CULTS: How NXIVM Controlled Women & How Sarah Edmondson Helped Take It Down
We Can Do Hard Things
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You Go Through the Initiation You Wake Up
"I've since forgiven Lauren at the time it was meaningful because I was like, you know, somebody who completes a marathon, I'm guessing I've never done it," she said. "It was definitely a horrific, painful, barbaric. I now see it for what it is ... It was to create trauma bonding for people to also be ashamed that... For me to be public about this and speak of it when I did, I had to admit that I did this." 'This brand goes into my body. This page in my book isn't her real name'
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