Speaking of Cults...Healthy Sex after Leaving a Cult ft. Jeremiah Gibson & Julia Postema
This week I welcome Jeremiah Gibson and Julia Postema, certified and licensed sex therapists on the East Coast who help me understand honesty, openness and healthy boundaries in romantic/sexual relati...
1 Feb 20251h 13min
Speaking of Cults...The Post-Truth World is Making Us All Culty
This week I am breaking down the exact reasons why we are living in a post-truth crisis that is quite literally tearing apart the social fabric of our society and institutions. This has allowed populi...
25 Jan 202531min
Speaking of Cults...Parasocial Relationships and Social Media
This week we posted the audio stream a little later than usual because we did something special - a live podcast. This particular subject of parasocial relationships with audience members is not a uni...
12 Jan 20251h 6min
Speaking of Cults...What Mice Teach Us about Our Purpose
This week we take a dive into the work of ethnologist John B. Calhoun and the very unexpected results of his experiments, and most importantly what this means to us personally. It's a big-picture look...
4 Jan 202516min
Speaking of Cults...Does our Economy Create Cults?
This week I have some economic issues to bring up which I believe help explain not only current ideological divides but also why there has been an apparent rise in cults for the last many decades. It'...
28 Des 202433min
Speaking of Cults...Recovering from Religious Trauma with Helen Greene
This week I welcome Helen Greene, a volunteer worker at the Freedom from Religion foundation and a wonderful guest to talk about the experience of religion (traditional and otherwise) on our psyche an...
21 Des 20241h 1min
Speaking of Cults...Scientology, Auditing and the Sea Org with Julie McKernan
In this show, I welcome again Julie McKernan to take what I hope you'll agree is a much deeper and more nuanced conversation about what it's like to be in a cult like Scientology than you'll usually f...
14 Des 20241h 14min
Speaking of Cults...Can Fiction Work Help Expose Cults? with Sadie Hoagland
We are back from our November hiatus with an interview about cult fiction by author Sadie Hoagland. This is particularly important to the ex-cult space because there are tools of exposure available to...
7 Des 202457min
