Stop Mandated Shunning https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Rachel Wade: The High Cost of Being Raised a Jehovah’s Witness Rick Wellstone: Stepping Down to Speak Out When Family Belonging Becomes Conditional Ginny Hussong: Disfellowshipped at 21: A Lifetime of Loss and Recovery Louise: Shunned Without Baptism: A Lifetime of Silence Sandra Dam: Staying to Survive, Leaving to Live Baptised in Fear, Shunned in Silence Carole Okeeffe: They Shunned Him for 44 Years. I Shunned Them Back. s: Twelve Hours from Shunning Simon Hunter: Breaking the Cycle – Rebuilding Life After Leaving Jehovah’s Witnesses Katrina Hunter: Life After Leaving: A Year of Pain, Clarity, and Survival A Stranger Overnight: Surviving 29 Years of Shunning After Leaving the Exclusive Brethren Donna Lamb: Excerpt from “From Dream Come True to Nightmare: My Aesthetic Realism Experience” Deb Fera: Between Two Worlds: Chosen Silence, Chosen Freedom Tony: The Hidden Cost of Silence: An Elder’s Story of Shunning and Conscience Passmore Sauti: Shunned on My Daughter’s Special Day Behind the Smiles: The Truth About Geelong Revival in the Philippines Thomas Boreham: The Impact of Religious Shunning – A Personal Account Disfellowshipped by Mail, Erased by Family Amy A.: Born In, Not Bound – Breaking Free from the JW Mental Prison The Ache of Obedience – A Parent's Story of Mandated Shunning Graham C: From Elder to Outcast: Why We Walked Away from the Watchtower Bullied into disassociating Amy Grace: Three Generations in, One Heartbreaking Exit Denny Senner: Confession and Castigation: How My Sister Was Publicly Shamed and Shunned by Jehovah’s Witness Elders Tom Howell: From Missionary Zeal to Disfellowshipped: One Man’s Journey Through the Jehovah’s Witnesses Jay: Starting Over at 34: Shunned for Leaving My Faith Dámaris: Still Waiting to Be Seen: Ten Years of Shunning Amy Loucks: Conditional Love: A JW Childhood Stolen by Faith and Fear Aether: Baptized at 13, Banished for Being Me Sue: I Gave Her a Kidney – She Gave Me a Note Saying Goodbye Forever Raymond D Haws: My Wife Chose the Cult Over Her Family Adam Fish: This Is Me. I'm Here. I'm Not Going Anywhere. Held Hostage by Heritage: A Life Lived in Fear of Being Shunned Jacob Vaughn: A Life Shaped by Faith and Fear Jodie Knell: Regarded as Dead By Our "Loving" Community Alexandra Bautista: Shunned for Love, Silenced for Truth Baptized Young, Shunned Early Patrick: Even a Beard Was Too Much: My Awakening from a Life Inside Jehovah’s Witnesses How Shunning Tore Our Family Apart Michael Shaw: A Lifetime of Control – and a Life After Leaving Traumatized and Abandoned: How Mandated Shunning After a Tragic Accident Changed My Life Forever Aaron Butterworth: Waking Up After a Lifetime Inside Jesirae’ Shope: Finding the Truth Beyond the Walls of a High-Control Group Forced to Shun the Ones I Loved Marie-Soleil Read: Nothing Prepares You to be Erased Maria: Losing Family and Community for Wanting a Normal Life Kathy Davis: Fading at 62 – A Life Reclaimed Siamese: We Waved to Our Grandchild – And the Police Were Called