Stripped Naked - Softcover

Multiple personalities hid inside of Lauren Stratford for years. Only now is she aware of them and their roles. She exposes how each was created to absorb the emotional and physical pain during her abuse. Plus she tells how the cult programmed her alters to perform tasks. Some were even programmed to punish Lauren if she exposed the cult -- including punishment as severe as suicide.

Baby is just one of Lauren Stratford's alter personalities. In her latest book she emotionally portrays Baby and several of the others whom she recently discovered operating inside of her. In "Satan's Underground" she outlined the traumatic abuse she endured as a child, and later, as a young adult from a satanic cult. Now she exposes hos personalities emerged to absorb the emotional and physical pain during that time. She goes on to reveal how cult alters were trained to serve the cult's objectives. Some were even programmed to punish Lauren if she exposed the cult-- including programming as deadly as suicide.

"Stripped Naked" tells, with humor, heart, and honesty, how Stratford and her therapists met each of the personalities. It addresses the key issues of recognizing abuse and alters and learning how to function alongside of them in life.

Stratford takes readers on a harrowing journey to recovery that she describes as elevating a Multiple Personality Disorder into a Multiple Personality Gift.

When controversy erupted over Stratford's first two books, "Satan's Underground" and "I Know You're Hurting", they were pulled by their original publisher. Pelican Publishing Company re-released both books because of their significant merit in meeting growing demands for recovery information. "Stripped Naked" serves as a provocative narration that picks up where her other books, left off.

A member of the Los Angeles Task Force on Ritual Abuse, she speaks to mental health professionals and survivors around the country.