In rural northern locations, mudrooms make a house a home. During the eight years I ran a residential cleaning company I toured more houses than I could count. Each one challenged me to create a plan for efficient cleaning. I noticed a pattern: houses with an organized, thoughtfully designed, mudroom were easier to clean: catch the dirt at the entry and the whole house is happier. 🏠

Carrie asked our audience, “Who’s familiar with Robert Jay Lifton’s 8 criteria of thought control?” As expected, more than half the audience shot their hands 🖐🏼 into the air. Some folks consider Lifton’s 8 principles the ‘cult survivors bible’ … of sorts.

Stretch forward. Pull to the hip. Slide out. Slice through the air. Stretch forward. Pull to the hip. 

Repeat. Again and again. 

Have you ever heard the expression: Your karma just ran over my dogma. 

or My karma ran over your dogma? 

Or wait… is it: Your dogma ran over my karma? 

What IS that ditty, anyway? 

How is it to be here today? 

In 2018 I attended a workshop, led by a Penobscot teacher from Maine, who is also a lawyer, author, visionary and a dynamic speaker. She could so easily be a cult leader but I’m pretty sure she isn’t.

When NOT to pursue repair after a rupture? 

It wasn’t a question of if - only when.

The dynamics between ‘first buddy’ and his power-filled ally, Mr Trump fall into predictable patterns that unfold in so many, if not all, cultic systems.

What storms can you calm?  Recovery from spiritual or cultic abuse can be ever present but sometimes it’s the everyday stuff that catches us.