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Ashlen Hilliard - The Evolution of Cult Intervention Practices

Ashlen Hilliard - The Evolution of Cult Intervention Practices

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January 1, 20251h 21mExplicit

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Show Notes

Cult interventionist and founder of People Leave Cults, Ashlen Hilliard, talks about her path to working in cult intervention and recovery, her personal religious experience that led her to this work, how interactions with Mormons in Utah affected her worldview, how she defines what a cult is, why accusing a group of being a cult isn't always helpful, how cult intervention today is different from how it was in the 70s, how it used to involved kidnapping and unethical practices, how her model takes a harm reduction approach, and when cult intervention practices can become culty themselves!

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