Take Action Wednesday

Resisting Coercive Persuasion

The prime motivator for this substack was to share ideas for mental self-care in this age of cults and group think.

So little is being said about resisting coercive persuasion in conversations about the problems it generates. Since the topic really can be heavy, Wednesday articles are meant to be light in tone, giving hope and action to readers.

Today’s action is hand writing a letter, and mailing it.

The power of a letter is immense. People keep them for years and they bring back emotions that emails or texts just can’t.

Let’s examine why writing a letter to someone and mailing it would work to resist coercive persuasion or brain-washing.

Writing a letter requires thought and reflection. These are two things that an abusive system does not allow. Letters connect you to other people. Honestly, they spread joy.

I will admit that writing letters is one of my hobbies, so maybe there’s some partiality there. Beautiful stationary is hard to resist. Sometimes I create an envelope out of …