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Elishaba Doerksen, Part 1 - My Family Cult in the Wilderness

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

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I'd Never Seen Anything Die

"I was always afraid someone's going to die," she says. "My father would use reward and he would use horrible discipline where we would, I think probably the worst for me was hearing my siblings cry around the corner when they were being beat" Her dad skinned her dog then left him hanging in a tree with blood dripping down his back. She writes about what it feels like to be an only child without any adults who can soothe you or make you feel safe.

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