Exit Costs: Coercive Harm, Healing, and Reclamation
Kelsey Decker, Jess MaeveKelsey Decker writes about cult dynamics, coercive control, exploitation, and survivor recovery from lived experience and nonprofit work. Here to help you name what happened, understand the Exit Costs, and rebuild a life that’s actually yours!
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How Coercive Control Follows You Long After You've Left
On the mechanics of control that follow survivors out of domestic violence, trafficking, high-control groups, and every other coercive system.
Coercive control is not defined by a single frightening act. It accumulates, one restriction, co...
Think Cults Have Nothing to Do With You? Think Again.
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For eight years, I was on the inside.
I didn’t know there...
I Went to a Cult Conference. Here's What Happened...
Returning to San Diego 19 Years After Leaving a Cult, and the Four Days That Changed How I See the Future of This Work
Content note: This article contains discussion of suicide, trafficking, and spiritual abuse.
Family Vlogging or Child Exploitation: Where's the Line?
For most of history, our childhoods existed largely in private. A scraped knee, a first heartbreak, or a tantrum on the living room floor were fleeting moments witnessed by family, and perhaps immortalized in a dusty photo album tucked away...
11 Ways Cults and Human Trafficking Operations Use the Same Methods of Control
A woman sits across from me. She just left a religious community where her labor was owned, and her body was assigned to someone else.
A teenager sits across from me. She was beaten into compliance by a man who once told her she was the lo...
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Exploring cult dynamics, coercive control, exploitation, and survivor recovery. I blend lived experience, research, and frontline advocacy to help you name what happened, understand the Exit Costs, and reclaim your life after coercion.
I write at the intersection of domestic violence, trauma biology, and AI-enabled coercive control, documenting how emerging technologies amplify abuse; and how survivors must translate lived reality into systems not yet built to hear it.
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