Recollected Self: Jaime Mahler on Breaking Toxic Cycles (Part 1)

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

True Crime, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.

Jaime Mahler, MS, LMHC, is a New York-based psychotherapist and mental health educator who recently published her book TOXIC RELATIONSHIP RECOVERY: Your Guide to Identifying Toxic Partners, Leaving Unhealthy Dynamics, and Healing Emotional Wounds After A Breakup.

She’s also the powerhouse behind the explosively popular social media brand, Recollected. Her podcast, ‘Unlearned,’ helps people of all sexual orientations and genders to heal from relationship trauma, narcissism, and beyond…certainly a lot of the BS we find ourselves tackling on this podcast.

But today, in episode one of this two-parter, we’re focusing somewhat on Mahler’s past, which involved growing up with a self-described “cult-like version of Catholicism.” She revists the types of shame and guilt she experienced within religious surroundings, despite their being a shade less extreme than others we’ve encountered on this show. Even Jaime’s OCD played a role in her religious fervor by tricking her brain into believing one is either purely good or purely evil—wholy faithful or 100% a sinner—eventually leading to semi-neurotic level praying on a daily basis.

Ultimately, Jaime's odyssey of self-discovery and faith, coupled with her distinguished therapeutic training, makes her our favorite type of guest: a badass individual who has directly encountered some culty shit, complemented by a sophisticated educational background that not only helped her understand her own experiences, but those of others, too.

Find Recollected Self on social media: Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, or visit their website

Purchase Toxic Relationship Recovery: Your Guide to Identifying Toxic Partners, Leaving Unhealthy Dynamics, and Healing Emotional Wounds after a Breakup on Amazon

Also…

Let it be known far and wide, loud and clear that…

The views and opinions expressed on A Little Bit Culty do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything. Nobody’s mad at you, just don’t be a culty fuckwad.

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0:00.0	This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered legal, medical, or mental health advice.
0:05.2	The views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast
0:10.0	and are not intended to malign any religion group club organization business individual anyone or anything.
0:17.0	I'm Sarah Edmondson and I'm Anthony air quotes nippy aims and this is a little bit
0:30.6	guilty a podcast about what happens when things that seem like a great thing at first go bad.
0:36.0	Every week we chat with survivors, experts, and whistleblowers for real cult stories told directly
0:40.9	by the people who live through them.
0:43.0	Because we want you to learn a few things we've had to learn the hard way.
0:46.0	Like if you think you're too smart to get sucked into something culty,
0:50.0	you're already prime recruitment material.
0:52.0	You might even already be in a cold.
0:54.0	Oops, you better keep listening to find out.
0:56.7	Welcome to season six of a little bit colty.
1:00.4	Sicken down to the ocean
1:05.0	hanging on to win my love.
1:09.0	If I let go of it all I could leave, but I don't know.
1:17.0	Hey everybody and welcome back to this week's episode of a little bit culty.
1:20.0	Just Sarah here, Nippi is down for the count with some kind of mini-plague. So guess what? I'm doing this intro solo,
1:26.3	hand solo solo, but it's good because we wanted to skip the banter and get right to the
1:30.5	meat of this juicy two-part episode. It's about something I think about a lot,
1:34.8	breaking toxic cycles. Our guest today, licensed mental health counselor,
1:39.0	Jamie Mailer, is a powerhouse who you may know from her handle recollect itself on social media.
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