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  1. I think I'm currently in a phase of recovery where outside circumstances got better and now my brain is letting go of some more of that sweet sweet denial and struggling to find a balance of brain chemicals and hormones and the lack of acute trauma feels... boring, mundane, meaningless, sad, unimportant. As though I was suddenly unimportant. I had some hints of mania previously, sometimes more and sometimes less, and that was the medicine my own brain produced to protect me and get me through alive. Now it's missing and everything seems "bleh".

    Plus, more trauma material is coming up. But that's as usual.

    Plus, cycling through self doubts and thought hangups that I thought I already dealt with like "how can I live without the logical fallacies I had brainwashed into me my entire life, it seems so hard to live without black and white thinking and us versus them!" (even though I had long ago swapped out who was in which category, because I wanted to be an sjw, woke etc)

    #CultRecovery #IGotOut

  2. I think I'm currently in a phase of recovery where outside circumstances got better and now my brain is letting go of some more of that sweet sweet denial and struggling to find a balance of brain chemicals and hormones and the lack of acute trauma feels... boring, mundane, meaningless, sad, unimportant. As though I was suddenly unimportant. I had some hints of mania previously, sometimes more and sometimes less, and that was the medicine my own brain produced to protect me and get me through alive. Now it's missing and everything seems "bleh".

    Plus, more trauma material is coming up. But that's as usual.

    Plus, cycling through self doubts and thought hangups that I thought I already dealt with like "how can I live without the logical fallacies I had brainwashed into me my entire life, it seems so hard to live without black and white thinking and us versus them!" (even though I had long ago swapped out who was in which category, because I wanted to be an sjw, woke etc)

    #CultRecovery #IGotOut

  3. I think I'm currently in a phase of recovery where outside circumstances got better and now my brain is letting go of some more of that sweet sweet denial and struggling to find a balance of brain chemicals and hormones and the lack of acute trauma feels... boring, mundane, meaningless, sad, unimportant. As though I was suddenly unimportant. I had some hints of mania previously, sometimes more and sometimes less, and that was the medicine my own brain produced to protect me and get me through alive. Now it's missing and everything seems "bleh".

    Plus, more trauma material is coming up. But that's as usual.

    Plus, cycling through self doubts and thought hangups that I thought I already dealt with like "how can I live without the logical fallacies I had brainwashed into me my entire life, it seems so hard to live without black and white thinking and us versus them!" (even though I had long ago swapped out who was in which category, because I wanted to be an sjw, woke etc)

    #CultRecovery #IGotOut

  4. I think I'm currently in a phase of recovery where outside circumstances got better and now my brain is letting go of some more of that sweet sweet denial and struggling to find a balance of brain chemicals and hormones and the lack of acute trauma feels... boring, mundane, meaningless, sad, unimportant. As though I was suddenly unimportant. I had some hints of mania previously, sometimes more and sometimes less, and that was the medicine my own brain produced to protect me and get me through alive. Now it's missing and everything seems "bleh".

    Plus, more trauma material is coming up. But that's as usual.

    Plus, cycling through self doubts and thought hangups that I thought I already dealt with like "how can I live without the logical fallacies I had brainwashed into me my entire life, it seems so hard to live without black and white thinking and us versus them!" (even though I had long ago swapped out who was in which category, because I wanted to be an sjw, woke etc)

    #CultRecovery #IGotOut

  5. I think I'm currently in a phase of recovery where outside circumstances got better and now my brain is letting go of some more of that sweet sweet denial and struggling to find a balance of brain chemicals and hormones and the lack of acute trauma feels... boring, mundane, meaningless, sad, unimportant. As though I was suddenly unimportant. I had some hints of mania previously, sometimes more and sometimes less, and that was the medicine my own brain produced to protect me and get me through alive. Now it's missing and everything seems "bleh".

    Plus, more trauma material is coming up. But that's as usual.

    Plus, cycling through self doubts and thought hangups that I thought I already dealt with like "how can I live without the logical fallacies I had brainwashed into me my entire life, it seems so hard to live without black and white thinking and us versus them!" (even though I had long ago swapped out who was in which category, because I wanted to be an sjw, woke etc)

    #CultRecovery #IGotOut

  6. Still struggling really hard with the badbrainz. Diving into research about cult stuff, interviews with ex members etc. But it's hard. I'm so stupid and uninformed because I was made to fear my own thoughts and curiosity and even moreso, outside information that could free my mind.

    I have no idea how the world works or anything at all - is what some introject is currently making me believe. So, trying to reclaim my brain. It's physically exhausting to fight these remnants of control. They are very strong, because I am very strong. They are draining my energy and turning it against me.

    #CultRecovery #IGotOut

  7. Still struggling really hard with the badbrainz. Diving into research about cult stuff, interviews with ex members etc. But it's hard. I'm so stupid and uninformed because I was made to fear my own thoughts and curiosity and even moreso, outside information that could free my mind.

    I have no idea how the world works or anything at all - is what some introject is currently making me believe. So, trying to reclaim my brain. It's physically exhausting to fight these remnants of control. They are very strong, because I am very strong. They are draining my energy and turning it against me.

    #CultRecovery #IGotOut

  8. Still struggling really hard with the badbrainz. Diving into research about cult stuff, interviews with ex members etc. But it's hard. I'm so stupid and uninformed because I was made to fear my own thoughts and curiosity and even moreso, outside information that could free my mind.

    I have no idea how the world works or anything at all - is what some introject is currently making me believe. So, trying to reclaim my brain. It's physically exhausting to fight these remnants of control. They are very strong, because I am very strong. They are draining my energy and turning it against me.

    #CultRecovery #IGotOut

  9. Even though things are still hard, I am becoming more centred in myself and more myself again.

    I am literally thinking back to how I used to be "before" this or that event happened and one thing was that when I was between 13-16 years old, I considered myself an anarchist and was very interested in and enthusiastic about anarchy!

    BUT I was still "me" (to some extent) in character and demeanour. At age 16, my older brother and other "friends" influenced me - or I let them, I looked up to them and wanted to learn - to become more driven by fear, anger, upset. By a lot of trauma feelings. Over the years, these circles would literally push my trauma trigger points on purpose to get me to agree with their interpretation of ideology and to go along to their demos and actions and stuff.

    And I'm not saying I was a passive victim, I was not. I had agency.

    What I do want to change now though, is I want to ground my politics in what I feel is MY personality and worldview and way of going about things. The word "ground" here as the cure for "charged". Things were charged up with trauma and trigger energy in ways that was supremely unhealthy for me and stunted my ability to reach and connect with others.

    I want to be a mellow radical again. Someone who is, like 16yo me, interested in almost anything, enthusiastic about learning and debate, who brings their good heart into it and sees words as more than cold logical reason and theory, but as vehicles for all that we are, our hearts and souls.

    I have learned and experienced a lot and grown and I am different in many ways than I used to be. And that's good! But it's also good for me to think back to what was always awesome about me and celebrate and revive that!

    #CultRecovery

  10. Was gonna write a blog post about how to grow an authentic personality as an adult who grew up in abuse or a cult or authoritarianism in some form that prevented healthy personality formation in childhood. Where we grew up with a pseudo personality, a false self, constantly wearing a mask and there not being a "real me" under the mask! Because it could never form.

    But it can form at any age, if given the chance. Freedom from abuse, safety, and even just one healthy, supportive relationship are what we need. Souls are resilient and can never be fully suppressed, not forever. We can get traumatised and messed with and all sorts of stuff, but we still have our true potential in us, somewhere, even if it is (temporarily) hidden.

    Like a flower out of a dung heap, we can grow. Post traumatic growth is real.

    #AurinTheCounselor #ProCounseling #CultRecovery #PseudoPersonality #MentalHealth #trauma #CPTSD #dissociation #DID #mask #FalseSelf #PostTraumaticGrowth

  11. Was gonna write a blog post about how to grow an authentic personality as an adult who grew up in abuse or a cult or authoritarianism in some form that prevented healthy personality formation in childhood. Where we grew up with a pseudo personality, a false self, constantly wearing a mask and there not being a "real me" under the mask! Because it could never form.

    But it can form at any age, if given the chance. Freedom from abuse, safety, and even just one healthy, supportive relationship are what we need. Souls are resilient and can never be fully suppressed, not forever. We can get traumatised and messed with and all sorts of stuff, but we still have our true potential in us, somewhere, even if it is (temporarily) hidden.

    Like a flower out of a dung heap, we can grow. Post traumatic growth is real.

    #AurinTheCounselor #ProCounseling #CultRecovery #PseudoPersonality #MentalHealth #trauma #CPTSD #dissociation #DID #mask #FalseSelf #PostTraumaticGrowth

  12. Was gonna write a blog post about how to grow an authentic personality as an adult who grew up in abuse or a cult or authoritarianism in some form that prevented healthy personality formation in childhood. Where we grew up with a pseudo personality, a false self, constantly wearing a mask and there not being a "real me" under the mask! Because it could never form.

    But it can form at any age, if given the chance. Freedom from abuse, safety, and even just one healthy, supportive relationship are what we need. Souls are resilient and can never be fully suppressed, not forever. We can get traumatised and messed with and all sorts of stuff, but we still have our true potential in us, somewhere, even if it is (temporarily) hidden.

    Like a flower out of a dung heap, we can grow. Post traumatic growth is real.

    #AurinTheCounselor #ProCounseling #CultRecovery #PseudoPersonality #MentalHealth #trauma #CPTSD #dissociation #DID #mask #FalseSelf #PostTraumaticGrowth

  13. Was gonna write a blog post about how to grow an authentic personality as an adult who grew up in abuse or a cult or authoritarianism in some form that prevented healthy personality formation in childhood. Where we grew up with a pseudo personality, a false self, constantly wearing a mask and there not being a "real me" under the mask! Because it could never form.

    But it can form at any age, if given the chance. Freedom from abuse, safety, and even just one healthy, supportive relationship are what we need. Souls are resilient and can never be fully suppressed, not forever. We can get traumatised and messed with and all sorts of stuff, but we still have our true potential in us, somewhere, even if it is (temporarily) hidden.

    Like a flower out of a dung heap, we can grow. Post traumatic growth is real.

    #AurinTheCounselor #ProCounseling #CultRecovery #PseudoPersonality #MentalHealth #trauma #CPTSD #dissociation #DID #mask #FalseSelf #PostTraumaticGrowth

  14. Was gonna write a blog post about how to grow an authentic personality as an adult who grew up in abuse or a cult or authoritarianism in some form that prevented healthy personality formation in childhood. Where we grew up with a pseudo personality, a false self, constantly wearing a mask and there not being a "real me" under the mask! Because it could never form.

    But it can form at any age, if given the chance. Freedom from abuse, safety, and even just one healthy, supportive relationship are what we need. Souls are resilient and can never be fully suppressed, not forever. We can get traumatised and messed with and all sorts of stuff, but we still have our true potential in us, somewhere, even if it is (temporarily) hidden.

    Like a flower out of a dung heap, we can grow. Post traumatic growth is real.

    #AurinTheCounselor #ProCounseling #CultRecovery #PseudoPersonality #MentalHealth #trauma #CPTSD #dissociation #DID #mask #FalseSelf #PostTraumaticGrowth

  15. I used to be ruled by fear. All the abuse and trauma throughout my life meant that I never had a safety net and never anyone or anything I could trust or fall back on. I trusted myself and my own discernment least of all because I was the one who got blamed for everything.

    No longer. Two years ago, I made a commitment to not let fear hold me back from doing what I know is right. And I stuck with it. It changed the way I live my life.

    Last year, I made another commitment to myself, one which I didn't know how to put into words, but I stuck with anyway: That I would no longer separate myself from myself. I would no longer abuse my own body by pushing past my limits, for example.

    I am now staying with myself, staying connected to my body, staying ME, despite all the trauma and fear I'm suffering. It is hard but it is worth it. Not only am I growing and learning and HEALING old wounds despite the current circumstances - I am also bringing all of my abilities, strengths and knowledge to the fight.

    I'm no longer letting myself get cut off from myself. It's the equivalent of having functioning supply and communication lines while under attack. It can't give me everything or protect me from all dangers, but it's giving me the best chance I'm gonna get.

    1/5 🧵

    #AbuseRecovery #TraumaRecovery #CultRecovery #about #fear #EmotionalHealing #dissociation #DID #AbuseSurvivor #RapeSurvivor

  16. I have founded a group for abuse survivors (of past or present abuse) and those who question whether they were or are experiencing or witnessing abuse or coercive control or undue influence or someone is using power over them and retaliating against them when they don't "behave".

    I myself survived childhood sexual abuse, incest, abuse by a cult, my therapist, psychiatry nurses, sibling, friends, queerplatonic partner/girlfriend, roommate and harrassment from a nazi neighbor plus landlords. I kinda got a bad start to life (in germany) and then people tended to make it worse instead of helping me or they took advantage of me.

    So I learned a lot about what does and doesn't help!

    And I want to help you out, whether you went through something you fear no one will believe or be able to stomach hearing about, or you think it was probably nothing and you overreact. You don't overreact! Nothing is too small to be worth talking about.

    I'm making a space to have a warm, supportive, good vibes atmosphere that we co-create together. We'll help each other grow and see through confusions and distortions of the truth and gain more agency, to make choices, decisions and do stuff and have an impact on the world.

    We'll also have fun and laugh and cry and eat cookies and discover what it's like to argue with someone who doesn't slice you to ribbons emotionally.

    Anyone is welcome regardless of age, gender, ability, neurotype, location or background. I just ask that you help make the group a good space, be that by complaining when everyone else is too polite to say anything or by listening or by sharing. Please don't worry that by joining you'll take up too much space or take resources away from someone who might need them more — you ARE our space and our resources!

    The first step is, once we have at least a handful of people, to decide when and how often to meet.
    I use @delta delta chat for its privacy and because it works with spotty internet and very little tech knowledge. It works on desktop and mobile. You can download the app from google's or apple's appstore or FDroid or their website delta.chat (watch me not get the preview to work)
    It was super easy to make an account and didn't require anything other than a username - no phone number or email address (or password).

    DM me for an invite, which is a link that you click to join the group. The group is invite only to keep out spam and abusers.

    Please boost and share this post, including on other sites or however it works for you, or by talking about it and linking here.

    #abuse #AbuseCulture #AbuseSurvivor #trauma #MentalHealth #MutualAid #CommunityCare #SelfCare #dissociation #csa #childAbuse #ElderAbuse #EatingDisorder #recovery #cult #CultRecovery #healing #empowerment #EmpowerWomen #growth #resist #rape #RapeCulture #RapeSurvivor #survivor

  17. I have founded a group for abuse survivors (of past or present abuse) and those who question whether they were or are experiencing or witnessing abuse or coercive control or undue influence or someone is using power over them and retaliating against them when they don't "behave".

    I myself survived childhood sexual abuse, incest, abuse by a cult, my therapist, psychiatry nurses, sibling, friends, queerplatonic partner/girlfriend, roommate and harrassment from a nazi neighbor plus landlords. I kinda got a bad start to life (in germany) and then people tended to make it worse instead of helping me or they took advantage of me.

    So I learned a lot about what does and doesn't help!

    And I want to help you out, whether you went through something you fear no one will believe or be able to stomach hearing about, or you think it was probably nothing and you overreact. You don't overreact! Nothing is too small to be worth talking about.

    I'm making a space to have a warm, supportive, good vibes atmosphere that we co-create together. We'll help each other grow and see through confusions and distortions of the truth and gain more agency, to make choices, decisions and do stuff and have an impact on the world.

    We'll also have fun and laugh and cry and eat cookies and discover what it's like to argue with someone who doesn't slice you to ribbons emotionally.

    Anyone is welcome regardless of age, gender, ability, neurotype, location or background. I just ask that you help make the group a good space, be that by complaining when everyone else is too polite to say anything or by listening or by sharing. Please don't worry that by joining you'll take up too much space or take resources away from someone who might need them more — you ARE our space and our resources!

    The first step is, once we have at least a handful of people, to decide when and how often to meet.
    I use @delta delta chat for its privacy and because it works with spotty internet and very little tech knowledge. It works on desktop and mobile. You can download the app from google's or apple's appstore or FDroid or their website delta.chat (watch me not get the preview to work)
    It was super easy to make an account and didn't require anything other than a username - no phone number or email address (or password).

    DM me for an invite, which is a link that you click to join the group. The group is invite only to keep out spam and abusers.

    Please boost and share this post, including on other sites or however it works for you, or by talking about it and linking here.

    #abuse #AbuseCulture #AbuseSurvivor #trauma #MentalHealth #MutualAid #CommunityCare #SelfCare #dissociation #csa #childAbuse #ElderAbuse #EatingDisorder #recovery #cult #CultRecovery #healing #empowerment #EmpowerWomen #growth #resist #rape #RapeCulture #RapeSurvivor #survivor

  18. I have founded a group for abuse survivors (of past or present abuse) and those who question whether they were or are experiencing or witnessing abuse or coercive control or undue influence or someone is using power over them and retaliating against them when they don't "behave".

    I myself survived childhood sexual abuse, incest, abuse by a cult, my therapist, psychiatry nurses, sibling, friends, queerplatonic partner/girlfriend, roommate and harrassment from a nazi neighbor plus landlords. I kinda got a bad start to life (in germany) and then people tended to make it worse instead of helping me or they took advantage of me.

    So I learned a lot about what does and doesn't help!

    And I want to help you out, whether you went through something you fear no one will believe or be able to stomach hearing about, or you think it was probably nothing and you overreact. You don't overreact! Nothing is too small to be worth talking about.

    I'm making a space to have a warm, supportive, good vibes atmosphere that we co-create together. We'll help each other grow and see through confusions and distortions of the truth and gain more agency, to make choices, decisions and do stuff and have an impact on the world.

    We'll also have fun and laugh and cry and eat cookies and discover what it's like to argue with someone who doesn't slice you to ribbons emotionally.

    Anyone is welcome regardless of age, gender, ability, neurotype, location or background. I just ask that you help make the group a good space, be that by complaining when everyone else is too polite to say anything or by listening or by sharing. Please don't worry that by joining you'll take up too much space or take resources away from someone who might need them more — you ARE our space and our resources!

    The first step is, once we have at least a handful of people, to decide when and how often to meet.
    I use @delta delta chat for its privacy and because it works with spotty internet and very little tech knowledge. It works on desktop and mobile. You can download the app from google's or apple's appstore or FDroid or their website delta.chat (watch me not get the preview to work)
    It was super easy to make an account and didn't require anything other than a username - no phone number or email address (or password).

    DM me for an invite, which is a link that you click to join the group. The group is invite only to keep out spam and abusers.

    Please boost and share this post, including on other sites or however it works for you, or by talking about it and linking here.

    #abuse #AbuseCulture #AbuseSurvivor #trauma #MentalHealth #MutualAid #CommunityCare #SelfCare #dissociation #csa #childAbuse #ElderAbuse #EatingDisorder #recovery #cult #CultRecovery #healing #empowerment #EmpowerWomen #growth #resist #rape #RapeCulture #RapeSurvivor #survivor

  19. I have founded a group for abuse survivors (of past or present abuse) and those who question whether they were or are experiencing or witnessing abuse or coercive control or undue influence or someone is using power over them and retaliating against them when they don't "behave".

    I myself survived childhood sexual abuse, incest, abuse by a cult, my therapist, psychiatry nurses, sibling, friends, queerplatonic partner/girlfriend, roommate and harrassment from a nazi neighbor plus landlords. I kinda got a bad start to life (in germany) and then people tended to make it worse instead of helping me or they took advantage of me.

    So I learned a lot about what does and doesn't help!

    And I want to help you out, whether you went through something you fear no one will believe or be able to stomach hearing about, or you think it was probably nothing and you overreact. You don't overreact! Nothing is too small to be worth talking about.

    I'm making a space to have a warm, supportive, good vibes atmosphere that we co-create together. We'll help each other grow and see through confusions and distortions of the truth and gain more agency, to make choices, decisions and do stuff and have an impact on the world.

    We'll also have fun and laugh and cry and eat cookies and discover what it's like to argue with someone who doesn't slice you to ribbons emotionally.

    Anyone is welcome regardless of age, gender, ability, neurotype, location or background. I just ask that you help make the group a good space, be that by complaining when everyone else is too polite to say anything or by listening or by sharing. Please don't worry that by joining you'll take up too much space or take resources away from someone who might need them more — you ARE our space and our resources!

    The first step is, once we have at least a handful of people, to decide when and how often to meet.
    I use @delta delta chat for its privacy and because it works with spotty internet and very little tech knowledge. It works on desktop and mobile. You can download the app from google's or apple's appstore or FDroid or their website delta.chat (watch me not get the preview to work)
    It was super easy to make an account and didn't require anything other than a username - no phone number or email address (or password).

    DM me for an invite, which is a link that you click to join the group. The group is invite only to keep out spam and abusers.

    Please boost and share this post, including on other sites or however it works for you, or by talking about it and linking here.

    #abuse #AbuseCulture #AbuseSurvivor #trauma #MentalHealth #MutualAid #CommunityCare #SelfCare #dissociation #csa #childAbuse #ElderAbuse #EatingDisorder #recovery #cult #CultRecovery #healing #empowerment #EmpowerWomen #growth #resist #rape #RapeCulture #RapeSurvivor #survivor

  20. I have founded a group for abuse survivors (of past or present abuse) and those who question whether they were or are experiencing or witnessing abuse or coercive control or undue influence or someone is using power over them and retaliating against them when they don't "behave".

    I myself survived childhood sexual abuse, incest, abuse by a cult, my therapist, psychiatry nurses, sibling, friends, queerplatonic partner/girlfriend, roommate and harrassment from a nazi neighbor plus landlords. I kinda got a bad start to life (in germany) and then people tended to make it worse instead of helping me or they took advantage of me.

    So I learned a lot about what does and doesn't help!

    And I want to help you out, whether you went through something you fear no one will believe or be able to stomach hearing about, or you think it was probably nothing and you overreact. You don't overreact! Nothing is too small to be worth talking about.

    I'm making a space to have a warm, supportive, good vibes atmosphere that we co-create together. We'll help each other grow and see through confusions and distortions of the truth and gain more agency, to make choices, decisions and do stuff and have an impact on the world.

    We'll also have fun and laugh and cry and eat cookies and discover what it's like to argue with someone who doesn't slice you to ribbons emotionally.

    Anyone is welcome regardless of age, gender, ability, neurotype, location or background. I just ask that you help make the group a good space, be that by complaining when everyone else is too polite to say anything or by listening or by sharing. Please don't worry that by joining you'll take up too much space or take resources away from someone who might need them more — you ARE our space and our resources!

    The first step is, once we have at least a handful of people, to decide when and how often to meet.
    I use @delta delta chat for its privacy and because it works with spotty internet and very little tech knowledge. It works on desktop and mobile. You can download the app from google's or apple's appstore or FDroid or their website delta.chat (watch me not get the preview to work)
    It was super easy to make an account and didn't require anything other than a username - no phone number or email address (or password).

    DM me for an invite, which is a link that you click to join the group. The group is invite only to keep out spam and abusers.

    Please boost and share this post, including on other sites or however it works for you, or by talking about it and linking here.

    #abuse #AbuseCulture #AbuseSurvivor #trauma #MentalHealth #MutualAid #CommunityCare #SelfCare #dissociation #csa #childAbuse #ElderAbuse #EatingDisorder #recovery #cult #CultRecovery #healing #empowerment #EmpowerWomen #growth #resist #rape #RapeCulture #RapeSurvivor #survivor

  21. I am enduring a lot of fear right now. But I am staying myself. And I am *enduring* instead of running away, going numb or into denial or mania or panic or paranoia. I am working so fucking hard to stay me AND face reality at the same time.

    It's so fucking hard.

    #MentalHealth #CultRecovery

  22. ## Adaptive Faith
    **Subtitle:** Healing as heresy

    After control, belief doesn’t vanish — it evolves.
    Survivors don’t stop praying; they change the language.
    Faith becomes data collection, playlists, small rituals that say *I still exist.*

    Healing looks like rebellion to the systems that broke us.
    But choosing self-trust over obedience isn’t pride — it’s literacy in survival.
    Leaving isn’t loss. It’s translation.

    ---

    #### Tags
    #FaithAndTrauma #CultRecovery #CognitiveCulture #Spirituality #SurvivorStrength #MeganWrites

  23. ## Adaptive Faith
    **Subtitle:** Healing as heresy

    After control, belief doesn’t vanish — it evolves.
    Survivors don’t stop praying; they change the language.
    Faith becomes data collection, playlists, small rituals that say *I still exist.*

    Healing looks like rebellion to the systems that broke us.
    But choosing self-trust over obedience isn’t pride — it’s literacy in survival.
    Leaving isn’t loss. It’s translation.

    ---

    #### Tags
    #FaithAndTrauma #CultRecovery #CognitiveCulture #Spirituality #SurvivorStrength #MeganWrites

  24. ## Adaptive Faith
    **Subtitle:** Healing as heresy

    After control, belief doesn’t vanish — it evolves.
    Survivors don’t stop praying; they change the language.
    Faith becomes data collection, playlists, small rituals that say *I still exist.*

    Healing looks like rebellion to the systems that broke us.
    But choosing self-trust over obedience isn’t pride — it’s literacy in survival.
    Leaving isn’t loss. It’s translation.

    ---

    #### Tags
    #FaithAndTrauma #CultRecovery #CognitiveCulture #Spirituality #SurvivorStrength #MeganWrites

  25. ## Adaptive Faith
    **Subtitle:** Healing as heresy

    After control, belief doesn’t vanish — it evolves.
    Survivors don’t stop praying; they change the language.
    Faith becomes data collection, playlists, small rituals that say *I still exist.*

    Healing looks like rebellion to the systems that broke us.
    But choosing self-trust over obedience isn’t pride — it’s literacy in survival.
    Leaving isn’t loss. It’s translation.

    ---

    #### Tags
    #FaithAndTrauma #CultRecovery #CognitiveCulture #Spirituality #SurvivorStrength #MeganWrites

  26. ## Adaptive Faith
    **Subtitle:** Healing as heresy

    After control, belief doesn’t vanish — it evolves.
    Survivors don’t stop praying; they change the language.
    Faith becomes data collection, playlists, small rituals that say *I still exist.*

    Healing looks like rebellion to the systems that broke us.
    But choosing self-trust over obedience isn’t pride — it’s literacy in survival.
    Leaving isn’t loss. It’s translation.

    ---

    #### Tags
    #FaithAndTrauma #CultRecovery #CognitiveCulture #Spirituality #SurvivorStrength #MeganWrites

  27. CW: child abuse, medical neglect, trying to reality-check: Was this normal in the 80s???

    When I was little, sometime between learning to run properly and being sent off to school, I fell and hit my head on an iron rod. Then I remember sitting in the bathroom, blood running down my forehead and into my vision, and my mother's face leaning in with a very worried expression (whether about my wellbeing or her getting into trouble, I don't know). She cleaned the wound and put a plaster on it.

    I was not taken to a doctor at all. I did not get stitches or anything like that, and developed a scar that was my defining visual feature throughout my childhood (until people started worrying more about gender conformity in my teenage years).

    My parents had enough money to pay for doctors but germany also had a system that meant they wouldn't have had to pay for themselves. Even if for some reason they didn't want to call an ambulance, there was a family doctor on the corner they could have taken me to???

    Ok I think I answered my own question...

    No one else ever questioned whether my parents were abusive or neglectful... I used to think they were THAT skillful at hiding. But maybe that was just all their privilege which meant no one looked into even obvious signs of criminal activity. They were at that sweetspot of having so much privilege that no one thought they deserved scrutiny, but not so much overt power that people thought they needed to be transparent or accountable.

    They exerted their power by abusing their children. They knew how to torture without leaving marks. But I guess my entire existence became a stain on them.

    #cult #CultRecovery #ChildAbuse

  28. If there was one message I would say to my abusers, it's this: Every time you tear me down, I will rise to the occasion. I will build myself into something stronger and more beautiful than you could ever imagine in your narrow, hateful minds.

    #recovery #CultRecovery #abuse #cult

  29. Howdy neighbours, I'm new around these parts 😂

    By way of introduction, my name is Riley and I used to be one of #JehovahsWitnesses.

    I "toot" about #Cults, #CultRecovery, #Religion #Atheism, #CriticalThinking, and everything in between.

    The video below tells my whole story of growing up in a high control religion and then leaving.

    #ExJW
    #ExChristian
    #Exvangelical
    #ExFundie
    #CultSurvivor
    #iGotOut

    youtu.be/AB7FHqnvyb0