shunned

Trigger Warning: This episode contains frank discussions of sexual abuse and suicide. Kintsugi is the Japanese art of taking items like broken pottery and repairing the cracks with...

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"The only reason I got baptized was…….I wanted to save my ass." The cult of Jehovah's Witnesses promote fear of death at the hands of their genocidal god. Unfortunately for Raene, ...

"So I can never change my mind. I can never leave. And I remember having the thought that I am trapped. That was the first time I realized that you can't just leave, ever, for any ...

"Honestly I just always felt horrible about going, it never felt like this was my calling or this was where I needed to be. It was quite the opposite actually." Baptized at 15 as o...

Rama was a spiritual teacher in the 80s and 90s who inspired many of his students while leading what many of his detractors would call a cult.  He defied the typical vision of a Ne...

"It's all F.E.A.R. They have that over your head with everything. Fear of Armageddon, fear of being shunned, fear of not doing enough, and at that age of 11, 12, 13, fear of being ...

Raised by a mother that wasn't truly one of Jehovah's Witnesses in practice but that still made her children live a JW lifestyle, Za'kaeda had trouble fitting in. When her mother f...

"I remember my husband saying 'you are a sex addict' but I'm not. I just waited 21 years of my life for this thing and I thought it was going to happen because I did everything rig...

"I'm a nuts and bolts kind of guy. I see how people are treated. Doctrine can be twisted and turned and however you want to interpret the Bible is however you want to interpret the...

Note: This is the second of back to back episodes on the Unification Church, often referred to as the Moonies, named after their leader Sun Myung Moon. Lisa spent her time playing ...

Note: This is the first of back to back episodes on the Unification Church, often referred to as the Moonies, named after their leader Sun Myung Moon. Jen Kiaba is an award winning...