Reviews
Rate ShowHelpful for Everyone
This podcast has helped me get my brain back. Mine is a family story but no less powerful to have taken over my thinking. These control mechanisms are in place all around us. Thanks to Rachel and her guests for the help many of us desperately need.
- JB7567
- Feb. 17, 2023
Love love love this show
The content is so intriguing and it really helps me understand human nature and how to avoid high control groups!
- Leanne Gump
- Jan. 28, 2023
Excellent!
Thank you. I learn something new about cults or hear an amazing insightful way of looking at something in a new way each time I listen.
- S. Irving
- Jan. 21, 2023
- Josey14326785
- Jan. 18, 2023
The voice of reason
Dr. Bernstein is loving kindness personified. Love the attention she brings to the phenomenon of cults and coercively controlling relationships. Excellent guests and resources accompany each session.
- CMJRN
- Jan. 11, 2023
Amazing Interviews and Conversations on Group Control
I love to learn from this podcast about all sorts of control groups and what they all have in common. Hearing directly from individuals who have survived them in a positive and proactive voice is so healing and fascinating. It’s wonderful to find stories like these given with a instructive and uplifting vibe without trivializing the raw and very real danger of these groups. Bravo!
- triskaideka
- Dec. 31, 2022
- Brutallyblondewife
- Dec. 27, 2022
A calm approach to emotional stories
I listen to a variety of podcasts. Some are hosted by people who are so enthusiastic about their topics that they talk over each other and sometimes themselves. I find myself returning to Indoctrination because of the calm, reasoned approach of the host and the variety of guests. Bravo!
- 40205
- Dec. 21, 2022
One of the best
Everything about this podcast is outstanding. The host is intelligent and insightful. The topics and content are always interesting.
- LaurentiaA
- Dec. 20, 2022
Love your podcast!!! 😊❤️
My favorite aunt, my cousins, and my cousins kids are American Sikhs. I grew up with this cult as a very positive force. I believe that my aunt joining the Sikh’s in 1969, is why she is still alive. Her children and grandchildren grew up in Amritsar. She got the best of the Siri Singh Saab. But I believe everything Sat Pavan Kaur has said. This has been very intense for everyone who was in this religion but not part of the abuse. It’s hard to reconcile all of the aspects of Yogi Bhajan. I myself, and my mom, got certified as 3HO level 1 kundalini yoga instructors. And we both thrived in that, and helped others too. I imagine that it’s easier to hold this dichotomy for me, than for my aunt and cousins. But I want to express that there really is this grey zone out there. American Sikhs, and their loved ones, who understand that trauma, and manipulation happened, but really benefited by the teachings. And shared the beauty of those teachings. It is so complicated.
- SarahJustInTimeB
- Dec. 20, 2022
- Keriannb
- Dec. 15, 2022
Excellent!
Great explorations of the cult phenomenon in all its varied but basically all the same tune permutations. Thank you for your hard work!
- S. Irving
- Dec. 15, 2022
Gripping and Educational
Rachel’s approach to her guests and their experiences is incredibly kind and clearly informed by decades of professional experience. I appreciate how she gives her guests space to tell their stories on their own terms. It’s like listening to aspects of a therapy session, but without hearing anything that violates the guest’s privacy or boundaries. Rachel and her guests are speaking truth to power, and I know Rachel pays a price for that in the form of retaliation from high-control groups whose tactics have been exposed on this show. Even though I have never been in a cult, this show reminds me to trust my own instincts and to push back in situations in which powerful people are telling me something that doesn’t seem right. Though this podcast is not meant to entertain, it is incredibly compelling, and a must listen for anyone who really wants to understand what it’s like to be in and survive a high-control group.
- K_L_U
- Dec. 15, 2022
Thoughtful and courageous
I really appreciate Rachel’s compassion and deep listening and reflection, and her guests’ courage, clarity and generosity in sharing their knowledge and their experience. Deeply thoughtful, sensitive approach to this difficult and serious topic.
- None Nought 01
- Dec. 15, 2022
Truly informative
Excellent show - engrossing stories listened to with compassion and understanding - always a follow up to better comprehend the systems of control in the story and how to avoid falling into the traps of the controllers. Thank you Rachel fir your work.
- KeekerK12
- Dec. 14, 2022
You are saving lives.
You are courageous truth-tellers. This is often a lonely journey. You are not alone. Thank you!
- Adorable human
- Dec. 14, 2022
- clb0313
- Oct. 6, 2022
One request
I would love to have the episodes listed followed by guest name (part 1/2) Going back to listen and I get confused when listening to a part 2 when I didn’t realize there was a part one. The long titles often hide the guest and if they are back for another episode. I’m enjoying the content!
- fan of mediocre assistants
- Sept. 10, 2022
Great content, needs a bigger edit
The information and interviews with experts are terrific. But the episodes are far too long. I would listen to more if they were half the size. Thanks.
- LAT4017
- Sept. 4, 2022
Interesting Podcast
Not only interesting topics and guests, but the host asks insightful questions and great summaries. Important topics for these weird times we live in now.
- Bubba_Larry
- Aug. 3, 2022
Excellent, Informative Podcast!
Love the podcast. Educating people about mind control is so important given current political & social climate. So many lost, disconnected, traumatized people being preyed on by grifters & charlatans. Not happy w/ latest emphasis on Patreon teaser Bonus episodes. While I understand need for support, if I subscribed to everything, I’d go broke. I’m sure Rachel is a great therapist. Her clients are lucky to have her support as many therapists are not well trained or trauma informed.
- m.i.n.i.m.a.l.i.s.t.
- June 27, 2022
It’s a crime
Super well done. I think it would be a really good idea to do more crossover shows with true crime podcasts—I listen to a lot of them and one thing I hear over and over again is at the root of some unbelievable and unexpected crime, is a coercive person pulling everyone else’s strings. I think this is an important podcast and maybe more people would think twice if they heard the stories of how good and normal people end up committing unbelievable crimes because of stories they believed that other people told them were true.
- P.TwoBears
- May 9, 2022
Conversation with Dr Willoughby Britton
What an important conversation with Dr Willoughby Britton…both part 1 & part 2. I’ll come back to say more but for now, I am so grateful! This conversation has given me much food for thought as I heal from my own experience in a cult and as I relearn how and what to trust. Thank you, thank you, thank you! This has been so grounding for me.
- AmritK54
- April 11, 2022
Hit me like a brick
Episode with Catherine Oxenburg regarding nexium and her daughter India. The last few minutes you said: why don’t you want me to be happy? Questions asked by cult members. I’ve heard this repeatedly from my daughter. Marriage #5 into hobby lobby cult culture. We haven’t spoken in 2 years. I have hope. I will never give up. She’s 42 and my granddaughter is from her second marriage age 17. I will always love them. I heard your words and just started crying. So close to home. I am not alone. Thank you ❤️
- The Veatch
- April 5, 2022