CORT 2023: Daniella Mestyanek Young - Uncultured

CORT 2023: Daniella Mestyanek Young - Uncultured Daniella will be sharing her personal story of growing up inside of and escaping from a cult (featured in her book Uncultured) and how having religious trauma in our background can result in us entering secondarily traumatic relationships with toxic/predatory individuals or groups. Daniella Mestyanek Young is an American author and TEDx speaker who was raised in the religious cult, Children of God. She later served as an intelligence officer for the US Army for six and a half years, making the rank of Captain, and became one of the first women in US Army history to conduct deliberate ground combat operations when she volunteered to serve on a Female Engagement Team, and received the Presidential Volunteer Service Award. Daniella lives with her husband and daughter in Maryland, and holds a Master’s degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the Harvard Extension School. Daniella is an organizational development speaker with the Macmillan Speaker’s Bureau In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a memoir about an exceptional upbringing, but about a woman who, no matter the lack of tools given to her, is determined to overcome. Uncultured is "a propulsive memoir delivered in the honest tones of a woman who didn't always think she'd live to tell her story,” (NYT) it’s a book which explores the dangers unleashed when harmful group mentality goes unrecognized, demonstrates the “dangers of blindly following leaders of any stripe” (Kirkus Review) and is emblematic of the many ways women have to contort themselves to survive. More about CORT: https://www.religioustraumaconference... Early Bird tickets are now available for the Shameless Sexuality: Life After Purity Culture conference, happening LIVE in Seattle May 23-25, 2025! Get yours now: https://www.shamelesssexuality.org/ Purity Culture Survivor Support Group is happening on Thursdays at 5pm Pacific. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with others for healing and support: https://www.divorcing-religion.com/se... Need help on your journey of healing from Religious Trauma? Book a free 20-minute consultation with Janice here: https://www.divorcing-religion.com/se... When you Support this channel by joining our YouTube membership (starting as low as $3/month) you'll get early access to all of our new content, access to badges and special chat emojis and more. Every dollar helps so sign up to be a member today by clicking "Join" under the video. Grab your CORT merch here: https://www.divorcing-religion.com/co... If you are struggling with the symptoms of Religious Trauma Syndrome, sign up for the Divorcing Religion Workshop or one-on-one counselling with Janice Selbie, the founder of CORT: https://www.divorcing-religion.com Follow CORT:   / divorcingreligion   Follow Janice Selbie:   / conferenceonreligioustrauma   https://www.threads.net/@wisecounsellor   / janiceselbie   Video by https://www.porthosmedia.net