My Story The story starts in the year 1979. My parents had fallen in love with one another at work. Mum was a devout Catholic and my Father a Protestant. Mum was raised in an abusive household, where often she was physically abused as were her siblings. My Grandfather was an alcoholic. My poor Grandmother …
Continue reading My Story of surviving child abuse in a cult
I started counting - 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 SCREAM!!!!!!! 2 hours before that my sister had been playing with a little boy in our Kingdom Hall. We had been raised Jehovah's witnesses and should have been setting a fine example, particularly for new comers. At the end of the service, the adults mingled and so did the children. …
Continue reading Corporal Punishment – How abuse starts with smacking!
“Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person’s ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process …
Continue reading An Open Letter to all in the Scottish Government.
Navigating Dreams I suppose I will just start typing then. Because this is one of the wackiest dreams I have ever encountered and vividly remembered. Dreams are symbolism's and what is part of your psyche, unconscious thoughts coming to the fore. Dream starts with me being in my house. My man comes home with two …
Continue reading I’m not afraid of you anymore! I don’t care that I made you cry!
Just like the heading says, girl hit 160 times and dies from it. Jehovah's witnesses believe wholeheartedly that to spare the rod, means to spoil the child. How many times I heard this myself when growing up as a witness and there were times when I thought my father took it too far with the …
A new elders manual has just been leaked. My own opinions on that are, Still not enough #JehovahsWitnesses. It is not said that where a child comes forward, this matter should be handed to the police straight away. In my experience they sent my father home, with me who was no longer a minor, and …
So if you have not figured it out yet, my blog is mainly about my experiences or about my hate for the evil practices within a religious sect, cult whatever you wish to call it. I myself use the word cult throughout my blog and so will continue to do so. As a child, Christmas …
Lies? LIES? Read all this new information that has become publicly available yourselves and then come to your own conclusions. Given what I experienced, I know I am not lying Stephen. And neither are these other survivors of the child sexual abuse perpetuated onto them and the cover ups that has been going on for …
Nice headline? Well if you are christian of course it is. Of course you believe that God yoked your union, blessed it and all that lovely stuff. Great start. But what if that union was somewhat not all that it was cracked up to be. What if one of those spouses was abusive towards the …
Today on the 17th June 2018 is father's day. The kids have all this excitement in them, to treat the man that fathered them and still is to this day. I have seen this happen in front of my own eyes with my own little cherubs. Their faces light up with pride and happiness, giving …
I start this one off with a bit of sadness. As a child I was not allowed to celebrate birthdays, not even my own. Of course in the very first few years of my life I would not have known any different. Literally because the only world I knew was the world of Jehovah's Witnesses. …
Fighting Oppression after being in an Oppressed World 