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Podcast: The Jordan Harbinger Show
Episode: 823: Daniella Mestyanek Young | How to Disengage from a Lifelong Cult
Description: Daniella Mestyanek Young (@daniellamyoung) is a survivor of the religious Children of God cult, a US Army combat veteran, an extremely advanced knitter, and the author of Uncultured: A Memoir.
What We Discuss with Daniella Mestyanek Young:
How the seemingly wholesome Children of God (later known by variations of "The Family") religious group centered around love, faith, and Jesus — and packaged to appeal to impressionable countercultural hippie types of the day — veered into true cult territory under the direction of its leader, David Berg.
How female followers of Children of God were encouraged to use their bodi...