num_pages: 248
description: 'Master would you brand me? It would be an honor.' From the second I climb onto the table acutely aware that I am lying in the sweat of my sisters I will have blocked that out. Lying there completely naked I am at my most vulnerable but determined to prove my strength. I try to keep my legs closed as my body wills itself to protect my most private area. . . . I tell myself: I am a warrior. I birthed a human. I can handle pain. But nothing could have ever prepared me for the feel of this fire on my skin.The shocking and subersive memoir of a 12-year-NXIVM-member-turned-whistleblower and her inspiring true story of abuse escape and redemption.In 2005 Sarah Edmondson was a young actress starting out in Vancouver and hungry for purpose when she first heard about NXIVM a personal and professional development company founded by Keith Raniere. Intrigued by the organization's promise to provide the tools community and insight to help her reach her potential Sarah would go on to become one of NXIVM 's most faithful devotees running a company center and enrolling more than 2000 members.In this tell-all memoir Sarah shares her true story from the moment she takes her first NXIVM seminar to the moment she begins to question why those members who ask questions promptly leave or disappear to the invitation she accepts from her best friend Lauren Salzman to the initiation ceremony for DOS - a secret sisterhood within NXIVM. Thanks to Sarah's fearlessness as she put her life on the line that ceremony would mark the beginning of the cult's end.Complete with personal photographs Scarred is an eye-opening story about abuses of power the role female friendships play in cults and how sometimes the search to be better can override everything else.
language: English
title: Scarred
publisher: Chronicle Prism