Welcome to Free Your Inner Guru, the podcast for discerning seekers, with all the community and none of the cult.
Hosted by Sedona "sweat lodge" survivor Laura Tucker, Free Your Inner Guru® is known for big conversations about the state of the self help industry, cult dynamics and indoctrination, self growth, creativity and spirituality.
Laura and guests share stories and insights from their journey so we can all learn how to connect to our inner wisdom in a healthy and socially conscious way.
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Welcome to Free Your Inner Guru, the podcast for discerning seekers, with all the community and none of the cult.
Hosted by Sedona "sweat lodge" survivor Laura Tucker, Free Your Inner Guru® is known for big conversations about the state of the self help industry, cult dynamics and indoctrination, self growth, creativity and spirituality.
Laura and guests share stories and insights from their journey so we can all learn how to connect to our inner wisdom in a healthy and socially conscious way.
Host Laura Tucker is a survivor of the fatal 2009 sweat lodge at a self help retreat in Sedona in 2009.
Laura shares her response to the line five minutes in to the first episode of Nine Perfect Strangers:
"Remember those people who died in that sweat lodge? They thought they were being enlightened, but in reality they were being cooked."
This episode includes the article Nine Perfect Strangers Made Me a Punch Line and Now I'm Punching Back - Survivor of That Sweat Lodge Stands Up For Survivors of All Bad Gurus and the conversation that has come to life as a result.
Mentioned in this episode:
Article: Nine Perfect Strangers Made Me a Punch Line and Now I'm Punching Back
Episode 87 - Dr Janja Lalich: When Self Help Turns Cult
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Free Your Inner Guru
Welcome to Free Your Inner Guru, the podcast for discerning seekers, with all the community and none of the cult.
Hosted by Sedona "sweat lodge" survivor Laura Tucker, Free Your Inner Guru® is known for big conversations about the state of the self help industry, cult dynamics and indoctrination, self growth, creativity and spirituality.
Laura and guests share stories and insights from their journey so we can all learn how to connect to our inner wisdom in a healthy and socially conscious way.
