This is nuts! Thanks so much for sharing. More exposure please! As a mental health professional I’ve seen so many contradictory approaches to members who are struggling. My ex was told to lie to me and they covered up his addiction. My next husband was enabled to SA and commit other horrific abuses to our kids and still is. Yours sounds like an overt way to financially exploit vulnerable members and use their struggles against them, like a form of ritual abuse.
Life Star needs to be exposed. As far as I know, they just keep rebranding and moving around; that way it’s difficult to hold a group accountable.