At 9 Years Old, My Mormon Mom Said God Wanted Her to Sacrifice Me
Athena Grimes grew up in mainstream Mormonism under a mother who, Athena says, used “personal revelation” to justify extreme control, isolation, punishment, and abuse—including telling nine-year-old A...
25 Sep 1h 26min
How I Got My Mom to Leave Mormonism
Today I sit down LIVE with Mama Bear to reveal how I played a part in helping her leave Mormonism, and what we’ve learned about our family and each other since walking away. We’ll unpack toxic perfect...
23 Sep 1h 2min
ESCAPING THE ROOM My Tyrannical Hoarder Father Kept Me CONFINED to for 16 Years
Mae returns LIVE to answer viewer questions and dive deeper into the parts of her childhood story we couldn’t fully explore in our first conversation. We’ll unpack more of the extreme isolation and re...
18 Sep 52min
The Mormon Mission That Sent Him Into a Mental Health Crisis
Raised in an intensely devout Mormon household, Justin Shoemaker believed happiness and salvation came from following every rule exactly… until religious scrupulosity and intrusive thoughts sent him i...
16 Sep 1h 23min
TED BUNDY Joined the Mormon Church While He Was Killing Women (ft. Postmormon Postmortem)
How did one of America’s most notorious serial killers convince a religious community that he was one of them, and for a time, that he couldn't possibly be guilty? Today we are joined LIVE with Hanna...
15 Sep 56min
She Spent 16 Years Trapped in ONE ROOM by Her Tyrannical Hoarder Father
Explore my Hungryroot Digital Cookbook “Cult Classics” and get 40% off your first order plus a free item in every box for life at https://hungryroot.com/CULTFREEFor most of the first 16 years of her l...
11 Sep 1h 17min
The Cult Controlled How I Had Sex and With Who: Inside Aesthetic Realism
In this follow-up LIVE, Donna Lamb takes us deeper inside Aesthetic Realism, revealing how the group attempted to control members’ sexuality, relationships, and identities, and how she eventually beca...
9 Sep 59min
