If you feel safe and loved, your brain becomes specialized in exploration, play, and cooperation; if you are frightened and unwanted, it specializes in managing feelings of fear and abandonment.~Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score

When you talk about me behind my back saying “she’s all about aCcEpTAnCe now” like it’s an insult, you are only pointing out how much I have grown and changed. So thanks 🌈 That was kinda the plan.

When a robot is more compassionate than a religion 😔🏳️‍🌈 I just saw this on the ExJW subreddit. #ExJW #JW #JehovahWitnesses #BestLifeEver #JWorg #ItsAcult #iGotOut

The saddest part of healing is that we leave people behind. The most beautiful part of healing is that we open space for new people to enter.

When leaving a religion (cult), you experience revelations about family & friends almost daily. Recently, over morning coffee, I stopped short of sharing a one such story w/ my husband because "it would prob make him seethe." His response? "I stay seething." Fair enough.

#JehovahsWitnesses Time to WAKE 👏 UP 👏

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Our relationship with ourselves is the most important relationship of all. If you don’t sort that one out, you will have trouble with all the other ones 💕

@ #JehovahsWitnesses - their Governing Body, their elders, their congregations, their adherents, their apologists

My #JehovahsWitness mom refuses to learn about CSA in the org claiming it’s half-truth. She was raised Catholic & has family & friends who experienced abuse in the church. This was a major problem that turned her away from the religion she was raised in. Same, mom, same.

The NUMBER ONE prob with CSA cases in religious communities such as JWs, is their leadership’s policies on how to respond to these crimes against children. The WTS should have THE BEST policies on how to protect children, but they have the same, or worse than Satan’s system does.

A congregation in WA State applauding the reinstatement of a r@pist. The man SA all of his kids and his ex-wife. How many in that congregation knew what he was, and clapped anyway? (He moved from the cong he was DF from) reddit.com/r/exjw/comment…

#JehovahsWitnesses say their “god is love,” but they want to dance on billions of dead bodies straight into paradise. instagram.com/reel/Cs9Ncnkg_…

When your mom heeds the advice at the 2023 Convention of #JehovahsWitnesses and shuns a little harder by unfollowing you on social media the same week she “likes” the photo of the congregation pedo 👌🏼

#exjw

#Pride2023 #Pride #NashvillePride #exJW #CultFreeParenting #YouAreEnough #BeYourself 🌈🦋

I am on Thread as well as Instagram. Same username in both places.

To all ExJW women on International Women’s Day:

Sharing some words about family. In honor of #NationalSiblingsDay. Life's too short not to reach out to loved ones.