E73 | 50 Years Treating Trauma and Mind Control — A Therapist on Where Self-Help Crosses the Line
Susan Pease Banitt has spent nearly fifty years as a trauma therapist, including decades working with survivors of mind control and trafficking. In this conversation, she turns that clinical eye on th...
29 Sep 1h 23min
Getting Clear: A Preview from Beyond the Line
This episode is a sample from Beyond the Line, the companion space to Confronting the Line.Over the next few months, Beyond the Line is running a series on the clichés that show up all over self-help ...
27 Sep 15min
PART 2 | Inside a High-Control Coaching Culture: Who You Surrender Your Agency To (E72)
AUDIO FIXED - PART 2 OF 2: In Part 1, Garry Norman was told to erase what he filmed. In Part 2, he and Anne Peterson ask how a culture teaches good people to look away.CONTENT WARNING: This episode di...
21 Sep 33min
E71 Inside a High-Control Coaching Culture: What One Staffer Saw — and Was Told to Erase (Part 1)
CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses psychological and verbal abuse in a workplace and coaching setting, including a training exercise involving simulated strangulation, and references to historica...
14 Sep 53min
E70: Jen Coached People 30 Hours a Week for Free and Called It Integrity — 17 Years Inside Landmark
For seventeen years, Jen Coken was a Landmark seminar leader, coaching people thirty hours a week for free, leading sessions with a 103-degree fever, and calling it integrity. It took her more than a ...
6 Sep 54min
E69 30 Years Inside Transformational Coaching — Then She Started Asking Where the Guardrails Were
For thirty years, Vera Sheranova has stood inside the rooms where "transformation" gets sold. First as a language teacher, then as the person doing live, unrehearsed simultaneous interpretation of a h...
24 Aug 1h 15min
E68: 11 Years Inside a Buddhist Community: A Cult Researcher on Spiritual Abuse and Trauma-Coerced Attachment
A cult researcher spent 11 years inside a Buddhist community, rising to her teacher's inner circle, before a spiritual crisis broke it open.CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains open discussion of sp...
9 Aug 1h 16min
SPECIAL: Nobody Taught Us How to Keep Our Minds Safe — Until Now
Anne Peterson and Chris Shelton — author of What Now: A Practical Guide to Life After a Cult — are teaming up for a 21-week workshop designed for anyone who has ever found themselves in a group, relat...
28 Jun 22min
