From Toxic Shame to Self‑Love: Surviving Religious Judgment

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of How to Leave a Cult, I share the relationship that became a breaking point—not because it failed, but because of how it was treated when it ended. Ministers and leadership, including Duran, used shame as a weapon—tearing me down and telling me I should have been a whore rather than being in the relationship I was in. I reflect on the stark inequality inside the cult: how I was placed at the bottom of the hierarchy as a single mother, while certain men were ...