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Stories of claiming independence after leaving high-control groups.  Hi!  I’m Shelise Ann Sola— former devout Mormon.  On C2C, my husband Jonathan and I dive deep into the nuance of culty organizations.  From Extreme Christian Fundamentalism, FLDS Polygamy, Amish, Mennonite, Mormonism, Scientology, Ultra Orthodox, and Jehovah's Witnesses, to cults featured in popular docu-series, we interview cult experts, survivors, advocates, therapists, way-showers, authors, and more, to uncover how they find independence and healing through awareness and true individual sovereignty. New videos weekly! If you'd like to support the channel, consider becoming a patron!https://www.patreon.com/cultstoconsciousnessIf you’d like to apply to be a guest on the channel, please fill out the below form. We don’t accept nominations. If you have guest suggestions you can reach out on IG @cultstoconsciousness or for a faster response, reach out on patreon.https://form.jotform.com/231406165595054

Cults to Consciousness Shelise Ann Sola

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Stories of claiming independence after leaving high-control groups.  Hi!  I’m Shelise Ann Sola— former devout Mormon.  On C2C, my husband Jonathan and I dive deep into the nuance of culty organizations.  From Extreme Christian Fundamentalism, FLDS Polygamy, Amish, Mennonite, Mormonism, Scientology, Ultra Orthodox, and Jehovah's Witnesses, to cults featured in popular docu-series, we interview cult experts, survivors, advocates, therapists, way-showers, authors, and more, to uncover how they find independence and healing through awareness and true individual sovereignty. New videos weekly! If you'd like to support the channel, consider becoming a patron!https://www.patreon.com/cultstoconsciousnessIf you’d like to apply to be a guest on the channel, please fill out the below form. We don’t accept nominations. If you have guest suggestions you can reach out on IG @cultstoconsciousness or for a faster response, reach out on patreon.https://form.jotform.com/231406165595054

    Is the Military A Cult? Ex-Cult Members / Active Military & Veteran Discuss

    Is the Military A Cult? Ex-Cult Members / Active Military & Veteran Discuss

    Daniella grew up in the Children of God and Mike in Scientology. Together they discuss ways that the military, of which they were both in for many years, is cultic and their differing perspectives. Click here to watch on YouTubeFind Mike!YouTube: @mikebrown101Mike’s Interview: “How Scientology Almost Killed His Elderly Mother” Find Daniella!IG: @daniellamyoung_ TikTok: search #groupbehaviorgalWebsite: https://www.uncultureyourself.com/Amazon: "Uncultured: A Memoir" Previous episodes wit...

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    Groomed to be the Submissive Wife of Her Father’s Choosing

    Groomed to be the Submissive Wife of Her Father’s Choosing

    Cait West was completely under her father’s rule down to all her decisions. She was told he would even make the biggest decision of her life for her— who she was going to marry. She was gr**med to be a submissive wife under the patriarchy movement and stay-at-home daughters movement. Her homeschooling was completely unregulated and not much attention was paid to her education, because her sole purpose was to be a mother who eventually belonged to her husband. Terrified that anything less than...

    • 1 hr 6 min
    Forced Into Submission: Trapped in the Stay-at-Home Daughter’s Movement

    Forced Into Submission: Trapped in the Stay-at-Home Daughter’s Movement

    Isolated in a cult within a cult within a cult, Ashley was completely sheltered from the outside world. From infancy she was labeled as unruly and even demon-possessed. Determined to break her as a toddler, then later brag about it, her pastor grandfather took it too far. She would be forced into submission and gr**med to be a “stay-at-home daughter” until her father transferred authority to her betrothed husband. This is how she accidentally escaped the prison in her mind. Click here to watc...

    • 1 hr 20 min
    Scientology Forced 12 yr Old to Audit Adults & Rehabilitate Pedophile

    Scientology Forced 12 yr Old to Audit Adults & Rehabilitate Pedophile

    Scientology doesn’t believe in the young. They teach that they are trillion year old beings in small bodies. Therefore, they are not treated developmentally correct. Neglected, exploited for work and severely mistreated, they suffer the most in this organization. Serge Del Mar tells his story of growing up in Scientology and his advocacy work to make people wake up and listen to the lost souls who are begging silently for help.Click here to watch on YouTubeFind Serge on Social!YouTube: @liter...

    • 1 hr 21 min
    The Bad Cadet: Growing Up in the Church of Scientology's Sea Organization

    The Bad Cadet: Growing Up in the Church of Scientology's Sea Organization

    At age six, Katherine Spallino is separated from her parents and sent to train for her future in the Church of Scientology’s clergy—the Sea Organization. She rarely sees her parents and never goes to a normal school. Later, Katherine is sent to live at a secluded ranch with other young prospective Sea Org members, called cadets, where she studies Scientology and does manual labor—weeding fields, digging trenches, and works in the galley. The indoctrination escalates, and her family slips even...

    • 1 hr 21 min
    How Scientology Almost Killed His Elderly Mother

    How Scientology Almost Killed His Elderly Mother

    Raised by Scientology and forced into the Sea Org and labor intensive youth camps, Mike Brown didn’t have a choice but to be indoctrinated and used by the organization. After he managed to escape, leaving behind his mother and wife, years later he learned of the extreme elder ab*se that was happening. Determined to save his mother who was quickly being worked to death, he devised a plan to break her out and nurse her back to health before it was too late. Click here to watch on YouTubeFi...

    • 1 hr 29 min

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