Interview Episode: An Everyday Cult with Gerette Buglion

Gerette Buglion holds a B.A. in Elementary Education and Special Education, and earned her ‘Master's Degree’ in cult awareness education from the school of life. She emerged from her 18-year cult odyssey in 2014 at age 52, and asked herself, "How did I, an educated, caring mother, wife, and business owner become that lost and for that long?" Gerette then set to work studying cultic dynamics, while reclaiming her autonomy with the help of a supportive family, therapy, and countless hours immersed in nature and writing.

Gerette's memoir An Everyday Cult was published in 2021, and followed by her second book, Writing to Reckon Journal – for Survivors of Spiritual, Religious, and Cultic Abuse. She is the founder of Living Cult Free, a nonprofit supporting the creative expression of survivor stories and empowering advocacy through education.

Links:

• Gerette Buglion — Gerette's website
• An Everyday Cult — by Gerette Buglion, 2021
• Writing to Reckon Journal — by Gerette Buglion, 2023 (PDF version for US$5 here)
• Writing to Reckon — Gerette's workshops, retreats, journal, and more
• Living Cult Free — 501c3 nonprofit empowering and educating cult survivors and advocates
• Living Cult Free: the podcast
• Dr Dan Siegel — executive director of the Mindsight Institute and founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA
• Gentle Souls Revolution — Esther Friedman's website
• Faith Jones — author of I Own Me and Sex Cult Nun
• Beth Matanaer — Finding the Path Within You (or as Beth says, "You are your own expert")

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