STORIES

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Baptized Young, Shunned Early

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Patrick: Even a Beard Was Too Much: My Awakening from a Life Inside Jehovah’s Witnesses

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How Shunning Tore Our Family Apart

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Michael Shaw: A Lifetime of Control - and a Life After Leaving

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Traumatized and Abandoned: How Mandated Shunning After a Tragic Accident Changed My Life Forever

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Aaron Butterworth: Waking Up After a Lifetime Inside

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Jesirae’ Shope: Finding the Truth Beyond the Walls of a High-Control Group

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Forced to Shun the Ones I Loved

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Marie-Soleil Read: Nothing Prepares You to be Erased

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Maria: Losing Family and Community for Wanting a Normal Life

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Kathy Davis: Fading at 62 - A Life Reclaimed

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Siamese: We Waved to Our Grandchild - And the Police Were Called

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John Briggs: From Fear to Freedom: Escaping the Grip of Shunning and Addiction

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My Father Kept His Secret to Protect Us

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Ezra Moore: Looking In From the Cold - A Journey Beyond the Walls

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Martin: Broken by Belief - My Story of Shunning and Survival

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Kalia: From Shunned to Strong - Rebuilding a Life of Purpose and Love

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Michael Jones: Breaking the Chains of a Cult - My Journey Out of the Watchtower

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Lester Rafuse: A Lifetime of Faith, Then Silence

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Elle Ariah: Red Flags I Missed - My Life Inside Jehovah’s Witnesses

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Lauren: I Lost Everything for Choosing My Own Life

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Trapped, Betrayed, and Free - My Story of Abuse, Shunning, and Survival

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Julie: Shouldering the Burden - Julie’s Journey from Shunning to Freedom

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Yanil Barbosa: Dead to Them—How Mandated Shunning Robs Families of Life and Love

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Daniel Balderas: Escaping the Small Box—My Life with Jehovah's Witnesses

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Micki: Real Life is Better—My Journey Out of the Jehovah's Witnesses

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Science Saved Me

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Jordan: I Couldn't "Pray the Gay Away"

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Don't Look in Their Eyes—It's Easier That Way

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Kairo Kirk: Scared to Openly Question

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Eric: Jehovah's Witnesses Use Pain, Loss, and Sadness as Power

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Quin Moon-Reed: Shunning is Traumatic

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April Fraedrich: From Despair to Healing–My Journey Out of the Jehovah’s Witnesses

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Eydie: Shunned for Thinking Differently

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Gretchen Guzman: Leaving Jehovah’s Witnesses—My Journey to Truth and Freedom

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Matthieu: The Price of Truth

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Alice: Waking Up Together

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Dorene Del Real: Breaking Free from Fear and Shunning

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Rae Bruvold: Leaving Jehovah’s Witnesses

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Sarah D: A Life Broken by Mandated Ostracism

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Suzanne Snyder: The World of Jehovah's Witnesses Was All I Ever Had

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Eulalio: I Lost My Family to This Religion

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Jennie Walace: Losing My Family Twice

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Derrick Miller: Shunned at 15, Abandoned for Life

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Cody Casteel: Losing Everything to Mandated Shunning

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Volker Blockhaus: A Life Devoted to Jehovah’s Witnesses, Then Shunned

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Hadassah Wiersma: Shunned for Reporting Abuse

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Eve Brady: A Mother’s Heartache—22 Years Lost to the Concerned Christians Cult

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Jeffrey Brant: The Dark Reality of High-Control Religious Recruitment

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Made to Feel Less than Human by the New Independent Fundamental Baptist

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Jean-Pierre Coquand: From Faith to Freedom

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Corina Gabriel: It’s Not Easy, But There Is Life After Mandated Shunning

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Jake Reinert: A Lifetime of Pain

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Rachel Jackson: Shunning Experience

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Exclusive Brethren Widower Shunned by Family

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Grandfather Has Never Met Grandchild Due to Mandated Shunning

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Lifetime of Shunning, Early Death and Mandated Abuse

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Painfully Shunned by Mother and Brother

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Grandmother Shunned by Family for the Last 7 Years

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JW Mother-in-Law Shows Lack of Love

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Terri O’Sullivan: Mandated Shunning Is a Cruel Practice

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Efrain Rivera: My Journey With Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Shunning Policy

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Cindy Gabriela Ramirez: My Cold Day in January

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Amandine Hancewicz: Mandated Shunning Is Cruel and Inhumane

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19 Years a Captive: I Pretend to Believe for Fear of Shunning