A New-Age Hypnotherapy Cult PT 1: “Split personalities, Split Families”

Was I In A Cult?

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🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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You may know Danielle Nicolet as Cecile Horton on the CW’s “The Flash,” but long before Hollywood, her life was far from scripted. At just ten years old, Danielle’s world was turned upside down when her mother fell under the influence of Judith—a therapist turned guru turned cult leader. Judith used hypnosis to “recover” memories, shattering families and exploiting Orange County housewives by diagnosing them with multiple personality disorder for her own gain. But Judith’s influence didn’t stop with her mother—Danielle herself was pulled into Judith’s orbit. Encouraged to reject modern medicine, she found herself reciting affirmations to cure strep throat and believing the fabricated traumas that demonized her own family. In Part 1 of Danielle’s story, we follow her journey from gymnastics prodigy in small-town Ohio to navigating the unsettling extremes of 1980s Orange County, an affluent and conservative enclave where she was one of the only Black kids at her school—all while having to cope with a mother who now has eight additional personalities. _______ Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @lumedeodorant and get 15% off with promo code Inacult at Lumepodcast.com/Inacult! — #lumepod _______ LINKS: Find Danielle: @daninicolet Follow us: @wasiinacult Have your own story? Email us: [email protected] Please support Was I In A Cult? Through Patreon (we appreciate the hell out of you guys): https://www.patreon.com/wasiinacult Merch is here! www.wasiinacult.com

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0:00.0	The views, information, or opinions expressed by the guest appearing in this episode solely
0:04.4	belong to the guest and do not represent or reflect the views or positions of the hosts,
0:09.4	the show, podcast one, this network, or any of their respective affiliates.
0:14.9	I am here on this show. Was I an occult question mark? Because I was an occult, not by my choice.
0:21.5	I was a kid and my mom joined what I now refer to as a new age cult.
0:28.0	And I started listening to your show and realized that you guys were probably the only people that I felt like I could speak publicly about my experience with
0:40.8	because you have a similar way of dealing with it and processing it as I do, which is recognizing
0:46.5	that being a call is like really freaking weird. And the only thing you can do sometimes is go to
0:52.7	therapy and then laugh about it.
0:54.7	So I think I decided by doing this, it was an opportunity for me to take all of that stuff back.
1:00.1	And that secret no longer is mine to carry.
1:04.8	It's my mothers and anyone else who's in the group and whatever choices they make with their life.
1:08.9	But their choices don't have to be mine anymore.
1:27.1	Music who's in the group and whatever choices they make with their life. But their choices don't have to be mine anymore. Welcome, everyone to was I in a cult. I'm Liz Iyakusey. And this is me, Tyler Mason. And as of right now,
1:28.5	you guys, we are recording our second episode of the year. And just a quick update, the fire that was near Tyler's house,
1:35.2	the Eaton fire, is currently 45% contained. And the Palisades fire is still only 19% contained.
1:44.5	I personally am not in L.A. at the moment.
1:47.2	My son and I made the decision to leave town for the week.
1:50.7	And me?
1:51.1	Well, I'm actually back.
1:52.5	I actually came back to my house.
1:54.1	We just got back a couple of days ago.
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