So many moms of neurodivergent and/or disabled kids are told “community will save you”... but what if the same spaces meant to help actually hurt?

India sits down with Milan Myers, behavioral analyst-in-training, to talk about how ABA therapy, mom support groups, and “healing” spaces can become breeding grounds for manipulation. Caregivers’ exhaustion, faith, and desperation can make them even more vulnerable to exploitation.

Topics: Cults and Community • Special Needs Parenting • Behavioral Therapy • Neurodivergent Families

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Why do so many “healing spaces” feel more like cults? We love a good guru, a fearless leader, a savior… until you forget how to make your own decisions. In this episode, movement therapist Cathy (author of Body Wisdom) gets real about why so many of us outsource our intuition and how it can make us vulnerable to manipulation, toxic “healers,” and cult-like communities.

Topics: Soft girl life, ego-driven spirituality, women’s rights, manipulation, the patriarchy.

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Guest → Cathy Williams www.intuitiveself.com.au

Preacher's kid turned sexually liberated yoga founder, Sarah Ford, opens up about growing up as an evangelist preacher’s child in Alabama, purity culture, navigating shame, and redefining faith after religious trauma.

Topics: purity culture • cult survival • faith deconstruction • ADHD in women • healing through yoga

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