Cults to Consciousness

Seventh-Day Adventism: Harrowing Escape… and Inevitable Return


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Charlotte was adopted as a baby to Seventh Day Adventist parents who used the doctrine to harm her in unimaginable ways. More details on her childhood can be found in part one linked below. Finally, at 18 years old, she enlisted a couple friends through Snapchat to help her escape just days before her former father, who made threats on her life for exposing his abuse, returned home. With only a bag of clothes, an erased iPad and a notebook with handwritten contacts, she did her best to survive in a world she had been completely sheltered from. Including confronting her former parents in an attempt to get more of her belongings, then falling into another predatory living situation. 

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Chapter Markers

00:00:00 Intro

00:02:05 Recap

00:03:38 Charlotte plans her escape

00:19:39 Finding work after running away

00:26:42 Returning to her old church

00:28:46 CW r*pe

00:32:57 Moving away from her strict diet

00:35:06 Living with another secret pred*tor

00:36:19 Confronting her former parents after escaping

00:44:02 Deconstructing fear and shame

00:50:25 Charlotte leaning into her s*xual preferences

00:56:58 Meet Hadley

00:57:29 What brings Charlotte joy now

01:03:09 Linda, listen

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