Cultivated
Kristen H. McLeodA literary memoir of resilience and reinvention after life in a cult. On growing up in a cult where Satan's clutches were not — unfortunately — designer handbags.
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The version of myself I feared most
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I’m giving you the sordid bits. I keep telling you that. Telling myself it’s what I’m doing. What I must do.
The truth is, I lost myself violently, and I’m still finding my way back. On the way, I found this.
I was mea...
I Was Fifteen When I Packed the Backpack
I was fifteen when I packed the backpack. No memory of it exists; I’ve turned it into olive green Lululemon. Clothes, probably hair spray. Not much else.
I would’ve decided the only way forward was to leave most everything behind.
Anoth...
This is where the story bends
September has always felt more like the new year than January does for me, so happy fall from my screen to yours!
I spent my summer enjoying children and growing tomatoes and thinking about Cultivated sideways, which is how I like to...
It Was Never About Modesty
This essay began where the best conversations do, which is in the comments.
A reader named Daryl shared something that has been circling in my mind ever since. On Dress Code for the Afterlife, he wrote that at the Walla Walla 2025 conventi...
Seeing Clearly
This is about glasses. Not the wine-holding kind (though those have their merits), but the vision-correcting kind that help you see the world clearly. Or at least clearly enough to distinguish between real threats and the elaborate disaster...
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Cult raised, now self-cultivated. Writes the serial literary memoir Cultivated on resilience and reinvention after a faith where Satan's clutches were not – unfortunately – designer handbags.
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