My ex-cult member friend in Boise warned me my "healthy" retreat was a cult, and she nailed it
She sat me down at a coffee shop on 12th Street in Boise and listed off 5 things my $2,400 wellness retreat did that matched her old group: the no-phones rule, the leader who needs total control, the "you can't leave early" line. I laughed it off like she was still wrapped up in her own history. Then on day two in Sedona they made us write down secrets and read them out to a room of 30 people, and I felt the floor drop out. So what's the marker you all look for first, the money or the isolation?