Maggie Rowe - Sinning Bravely and Moral Scrupulosity

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Today our guest is Maggie Rowe, former writer on Arrested Development and author of Sin Bravely, a book about her experiences with moral scrupulosity, or sin-focused OCD. We talk a lot about OCD on this show, so here’s a guest who wrote an entire book about growing up with religious obsessions! She’ll tell us about her first obsessions about what was and was not sin, how she started to analyze the Bible with a critical mind to try to understand how to avoid hell, and how her parents tried to help but her church leaders didn’t understand OCD and made it worse. We’ll talk about the compulsions she would engage in to make sure she was being the right amount of righteous, how she checked herself into a treatment facility for Christians, the incorrect diagnosis of bulimia she received, and how she finally got diagnosed with moral scrupulosity and began getting the treatment she actually needed. Trust Me is sponsored by ZocDoc! Stop putting off those doctors appointments! Go to ZocDoc.com/trustme to find and instantly book a top-rated doctor TODAY! BUY OUR MERCH!! bit.ly/trustmemerch Got your own story about cults, extreme belief, or abuse of power? Leave a voicemail or text us at 347-86-TRUST (347-868-7878) OR shoot us an email at [email protected] INSTAGRAM: @TrustMePodcast @oohlalola @meaganelizabeth11 TWITTER: @TrustMeCultPod @ohlalola @baberahamhicks TIKTOK: @TrustMeCultPodcast

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0:00.0	If you have your own story of being an occult or a high control group, or if you've had experience with manipulation or abuse of power that you'd like to share, leave us a message on our hotline number at 347-86-8-6-trust.
0:12.1	That's 347-8-68-7-8.
0:16.0	Or shoot us an email at trust-mepod at gmail.com.
0:20.1	Trust me. Dude, you.com. Trust me.
0:21.0	Dude, you trust me.
0:22.5	Trust me.
0:23.5	I'm like a smart person.
0:25.1	I've never lied to you.
0:27.0	I never have lied.
0:28.5	If you think that one person has all the answers.
0:31.8	Don't.
0:32.5	Welcome to Trust Me, the podcast about cults, extreme belief, and manipulation from two
0:37.4	obsessors who've actually
0:38.4	experienced it i am lo la blanc and i'm meg and elizabeth and obscessors we actually are this time
0:45.1	this one's real today our guest is maggie roe former writer on arrested development and author
0:50.3	of sin bravely a book about her experiences with moral scrupulosity or sin-focused
0:55.3	OCD. So we do talk a lot about OCD on this show. And here's a guest who wrote an entire
1:01.6	book about growing up with religious obsessions. She's going to tell us about her first
1:05.6	obsessions about what was and was not sin, how she started to analyze the Bible with a critical mind to try
1:11.7	to understand how to avoid hell and how her parents tried to help, but her church leaders
1:15.9	didn't understand OCD and made it worse. It might not sound like it, but this book is extremely
1:20.4	funny. It's very funny. And so is this interview. We'll also talk about the compulsion she would
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