I was watching dr Phil yesterday. He was dealing with JW couple.

The wife was an apostate and annoyingly vocal,the husband quiet.

Dr Phil brought in a dude who started freedom of mind. He said he was ex-JW and set up business to help people leaving mind control and cult religions to leave and recover.

Lol today is supposed to be a tbm on the show.

Has anyone heard of this site or used this site?

I didn't recognize the "Freedom of Mind" name so I Googled it.

This is Steve Hassan's group.

(Those who are here on RfM might recognize Steve Hassan's name better than the "Freedom of Mind" name.)

P.S. Am I remembering correctly that Steve Hassan spoke at one of the Exmormon Conferences in fairly recent years???



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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Az4tE2eLoKc

Above link is the video by Exmormon Foundation of his talk at their conference in 2008

I was there. He also had group therapy sessions at the conference which I also took in. I read all his books and I endorse his work on the whole. His work was originally focussed on how a family could stage an intervention to save a loved one from a cult like the Moonies. He recognized later in his career that a forceful intervention could be damaging.
How to get someone out of a cult if they want to be in it? Can't be done

Thanks for letting me know about the Dr Phil shows.

Thank you for the link, mootman!!!

:)

Topping.

He was also interviewed on Leah Remini's show about Scientology. He is excellent.

I saw the show, but for whatever reason, I didn't recognize Steve Hassan's name. Good for Dr. Phil. He always tries to get the people on his show the best help possible.

My neighbor is a JW and she is pretty annoying and very talkative, from what you say i think a lot of them are like this. They believe some weird sh#t from what she has told me. I kind of wish i had cable to watch the tbm, that could be very helpful.

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> Dr Phil brought in a dude who started freedom of
> mind. He said he was ex-JW and set up business to
> help people leaving mind control and cult
> religions to leave and recover.

I just noticed the "ex-JW" reference.

Steve Hassan is a former Moonie (not a JW), so I don't know if the person who appeared on the Dr. Phil show was, actually, Steve Hassan.

I saw that in the exmo video. Steve said to the couple , I was exactly in the same place you are and I totally understand what's happening. The way he said it, I assumed he meant he was a jw, but I stand corrected. Assuming gets me in so much trouble.

No but I got (Mormonism's) freedom of mind. Doctor Feel!

Several years ago. I couldn't find the link, but then I didn't look real hard after a long shift behind the wheel...

Here's his website:

https://freedomofmind.com/

He is, quite simply, the world's foremost authority on "toxic cults," and as noted was "Moonie" until his family intervened.

I buttonholed him with a question about the "succession issue" involving Reverend Moon --who dated back to the Nixon era--who was still alive then. He said he'd picked one of his sons as his successor; perhaps someone could update us on that as well.

Moon founded the conservative "Washington Times," and it's now operated as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Moon Organization.