If you have your own story of being in a cult or a high control group or if you've had

experience with manipulation or abuse the power that you'd like to share, leave us a message

on our hotline number at 347-86 Trust. That's 347-868-7878. Or shoot us an email at

trustmepod at gmail.com. If you think that one person has all the answers, don't! Welcome to Trust

Me, the podcast about cult, extreme belief and manipulation from two American psychos who've

actually experienced it, I am Lowell LeBlanc, and I am Megan Elizabeth. And today is part two of our

interview with Gwynnevere Turner, screenwriter, films like American Psycho and Charlie Says,

Actress, and now author of her new memoir when the world didn't end, which is about her childhood

spent in the Lyman family cult. In this week's episode, we'll discuss how she ended up getting

kicked out of the group and living with her mom after years of barely knowing her, the cognitive

dissonance of suddenly going to school with outsiders, being sexually abused by her mother's partner,

and how she finally decided to never go back to the Lyman family. We'll also talk about learning

to tell your story and how it isn't always healthy to do it right away, when trauma can become

your identity, how she began to process her experiences, and the cult recovery group Gwynnevere

is in now, hosted by one of our previous guests, Yanya Latich. Content warning, we will be discussing

physical and sexual abuse of children in this episode, so that is your heads up before we get into

it with Gwynnevere, Megan, can you please tell me your goal to this thing of this week? Yes, this

one's sad, this is about a girl who was living in Asia, she's actually Russian, but she started

eating like an extreme diet of raw fruit and vegetables, and the massed all these followers

on social media, she's super beautiful, and she just died of starvation. Oh no! Yeah, it just

kind of goes to show how like even our best intentions can go bad once they get too extreme, you know?

Oh my gosh, that's that's wild. The headlines all say vegan, diet, and I know a lot of healthy

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