If you could be a part of the team that ends world hunger, wouldn’t you be? That’s what Cathrine Moestue thought she was signing up for back in 1984 and 1985, when the then 19-year-old moved from Oslo, Norway to the outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden, and met an English teacher who claimed he knew how to end the devastating famine taking place in Ethiopia at the time. The man told her he was from Paraguay and was the leader of a revolution. The rest, my friends, is culty history.
Today, Moestue is a clinical psychologist, as well as the author of chapter 11 in the book Radicalization; Phenomenon and Prevention that came out in Norway, and parts of her own story are also featured in the book FAR OUT by Charlotte McDonald Gibson.
Links specific to today’s episode:
Cathrine on Instagram, as well as her website
Dr. Kristin Neff’s free self compassion exercises
Janina Fisher’s Transforming the Legal Legacy of Trauma
Thanks for listening to my story on A Little Bit Culty
I joined Sarah Edmondson and Anthony “Nippy” Ames to talk about my experiences that were...a little bit culty
It all started when I was 19 years olD…..
This page is under construction due to a heavy workload but I will write about my story ( in english) here in a week or so. Please check in later or contact me at cathrine.moestue@gmail.com if you have any questions or comments. Thanks for listening to my story at the ALBC podcast. I love the program and how they help people understand, heal from, and avoid abusive situations one little red flag at a time. An honor to talk to Sarah & Nippy and to be part of the #igotout movement. See you soon. Sending love Cathrine
This is the image on the cover of Dagbladet, that is a national newspaper here in Norway. It says: “The psychologists own trauma” on the cover of the magazine. On the front page of the newspapers it reads: “Life in a secret cult”. Underneath the heading: “Cathrine is a psychologist who work with trauma and for a long time she has been ashamed of her past but now she is sharing it - so that others can learn what happens when one is sucked into a destructive relationship/cult dynamic”.
This is an image of “Roxy” when I was about 21 with my cult leader Cornel. Former English teacher, this image is especially creepy to me as I look more like him than myself. Will dicuss appeasment more in detail later. Stay tuned.
