shunned

At just 12 years of age, Jacelly got baptized as one of Jehovah's Witnesses with the promise of a great life. Shortly thereafter her illusions were shattered as she was promptly se...

Trigger Warning: This episode includes discussion of self-harm. The words spoken by her therapist in rehab, "In this religion, what do you really have", made Mackenzie look at the ...

Like most kids growing up, Ali wanted to know that someone was in her corner. But the adults in her life had their own issues, issues that would prevent her from being allowed to h...

Many Jehovah's Witnesses are holding secrets. In Chevoy's life, the secrecy around her father's actions meant that she would have to learn to find her voice in order to heal. Now s...

Struggling in school with dyslexia, struggling at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses because her family was looked down on as being spiritually weak, and severely abused at ho...

When we lose the ones we love, we say some words. We remember them. We reminisce about the good times, and it's for the memory of the ones we lose as well as for ourselves. Sarah w...

College is not the place for a Jehovah's Witness youth. That message was received by a 7 year old Lin, the very first time something seemed like it wasn't quite right to him. Howev...

Trigger Warning – This episode deals with abuse and suicide. Born in raised in a family that looked the part of good Jehovah's Witnesses, Nicole knew the truth. Her father was a vi...

Some people that were Jehovah's Witnesses simply hated every second of it. Jael is one such person. From an early age she knew that it wasn't for her, but her mother let her know t...

At the age of 11 or 12 Nia saw something happen that many Jehovah's Witnesses see, one of the teenagers in her congregation was disfellowshipped. But what she also experienced was ...

With four years of long-form personal stories from ten different cults and over 615,000 individual listens and views across many platforms, Shunned has become something more than I...

Often when we grow up we are given roles to play in life. Whether we pick these up by observing the adults around us or we pick them up in our response to those same people, it isn...