August 03, 2025 • Community Stories
Sometimes the most dangerous words a healthcare provider can speak aren't about your diagnosis—they're the accusations that transform you from patient to suspect. This is the story of someone whose legitimate pain was dismissed as drug-seeking behavior, leading to life-threatening complications t...
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July 28, 2025 • Community Stories
Sometimes the people meant to heal us become the source of our deepest wounds. This is the story of an 8-year-old who went in for routine dental surgery and came out with trauma that continues to haunt them a decade later—and what every healthcare worker needs to hear.
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July 26, 2025 • Music
Sometimes the people we love most try to push us away when they're struggling, convinced they're too broken or too much trouble. This song is about looking them in the eye and saying 'I'm not going anywhere.'
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July 05, 2025 • Community Stories
Sometimes the most powerful response to systematic abuse is to study the very mechanisms that enabled it. This is the story of someone who transformed decades of silenced trauma into scientific understanding, Royal Commission testimony, and a mission to protect others from the cult that nearly de...
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July 03, 2025 • Community Stories
Sometimes a story finds you not because it's unusual, but because it's heartbreakingly common. When I asked for medical trauma stories, I expected a variety of experiences from different procedures and settings. What I got was a flood of nearly identical accounts of VCUG trauma that the healthcar...
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June 30, 2025 • Community Stories
I never know what to expect when someone sends me their painful story, and each time I'm so honored they entrust me with it. When this story reached me, I felt a sinking feeling in my chest. As a mother of two, I read the unthinkable.
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June 28, 2025 • Community Stories
Sometimes the most devastating betrayal comes not from strangers, but from the very people who promised that following God meant following them. This is Shannon's story of surviving domestic violence within the Jehovah's Witness organization, and the brutal truth about what happens when protectin...
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June 24, 2025 • Community Stories
Sometimes the most radical act of self-preservation is admitting that the people who were supposed to protect you became the ones you needed protection from. This is one survivor's story of cult trauma, childhood abuse, and the courage it took to choose freedom over family.
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June 22, 2025 • Community Stories
When I asked people to share their stories, promising they would be heard, one ex-Jehovah's Witness answered with a truth so heavy it took my breath away. This is their story.
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June 21, 2025 • Diary Entry
When people hear 'Jehovah's Witness,' they usually think of the well-dressed, polite people knocking on doors on a quiet weekend morning. But for those of us who grew up inside it, there's a lot more beneath that polished surface.
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June 18, 2025 • Music
A song about being watched, doubted, and silently resented—yet choosing to bloom anyway. This one came from a place I don't often speak about, about the strange ache of knowing people who never supported you are still watching you.
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June 17, 2025 • Writing
I'm currently working on two very different projects that explore the psychology of cults, forgotten myths, and the deeper layers of what it means to be human.
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June 16, 2025 • Diary Entry
Here it is. My website. A place I've finally decided to create so I can share my creative work and unfiltered thoughts—and maybe spare my friends and family a little bit on social media.
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