Sarah Edmondson

It has to have some of the things.

And again, let's just forget the word cult.

Is this healthy for you?

So, yeah.

like with just back to the crossfit example you know it's all or nothing like you if you don't go you get shamed and like people change their names to have special crossfit names like all of those things are red flags of like i don't want to do that like i don't want to i don't i don't want to push myself to injury and if i don't then like i'm a pussy like that right right like that's that's what that's what not all of them i've heard that some people do that like

that forget cult like that's just not something that how i want to live that's how you want to live you know all the power to you but a lot of groups know that they're not gonna like you said you don't join a college on purpose they have to provide value people join good things right they join something and it feels great at first personal development a church a wine club

A yoga studio.

All of these things have value and are great.

So, like, what are the red flags?

Well, it starts benign, like, you know, more intense commitment or more money or asking to, like, to make the thing become more your life, to be more of a commitment towards a particular thing.

Yeah.

And other red flags are like, let's say you get involved and then you feel like you can't question or if you're shamed if you're questioned or if people leave and everyone talks shit about them or you can't talk to them because people left, like shunning is involved.

I mean, there's so many things that I feel like you can isolate them.

And even with Nexium, like people would say when I was in it, like, yeah, I think that might be a cult.

No one ever did a proper intervention with me, but they said that I was in a cult.

It's like, yeah, it's a cult.

It's a group of people.

And we're a group of like highly successful, happy people.

I don't care if you think I'm in a cult because I love my cult.

And that's what a lot of people are trained to say.