Breaking the Spell — Choosing Truth Over Fear with Peggy Sharr

What if the truth was never missing… just buried under everything you were taught to fear?

A conversation about growing up as the daughter of a religious cult leader, the moment the spell broke, and what it takes to come back to yourself—this episode includes themes of control, spiritual abuse, and lived trauma.

This one holds a different kind of weight.

No need to rush—we’ll come out the other side.

There is space for all of it here.

🌒 “I worked every day to keep my thoughts pure” — what it means to be afraid of your own mind.

🔥 The moment that didn’t look like a moment — very pregnant, wide awake, and finally done pretending.

🧠 Mind-reading as control — when even your inner world doesn’t feel like yours.

🐸 The frog in the pot — how “normal” slowly reshapes itself around harm.

💔 “Oh honey, I want to get back and miss my friends” — the sentence that broke the illusion.

🌊 Letting every thought come back at once — the night she stopped pushing truth down.

🤝 “I’m leaving… with or without you” — the risk of choosing yourself without a safety net.