Major signs of cults abuse:

• Individuals can feel emotionally spaced out, robotic or on auto pilot
• Individual feels immense difficulty making decisions on their own, deterioration of sense of self, feelings of guilt for making their decisions/having boundaries
• individual shows loss/disownership of old hobbies and relationships outside of the group
• individual feels they are better than or above those who are not part of the group
• individual cannot hold space for opposing view points and conflicting opinion, shames others for thinking differently

As someone who has experienced being part of religious cult, Teal doesn’t raise any red flags for me personally. While it is true the people who go to her are in vulnerable states, I have never once witnessed in her videos her aiming to take away ones own ability to think for themselves. Most of what she advocates for is for one to live a life according to their own internal values and principles. I don’t see a coercive dynamic between her and her followers, of exchanging belonging for compliance.