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Experiences, Strategies, Beliefs, and everything in between.
Emotional Assistance
Articles for those stuck in the organisation, currently leaving, or even looking for understanding years after having left. Look here for help dealing with depression, trauma, and links to support groups.
LGBTQ+ Support
It is critical you look after your mental well being. The following information is confronting and may cause distress. If you are depressed or suicidal, seek help immediately. As one of Jehovah's Witnesses, you may not yet have any trusted friends you can be open with...
I Have Been Kicked Out of Home
Please know, you are not alone, help is available. We are aware of instances where a Jehovah’s Witness child has been kicked out of home, or left home, due to religious differences. It may be the result of admitting to no longer believing Watchtower teachings,...
Strategy
Articles to assist and develop strategies for dealing with parents. Get help planning for the future outside of the religion as well as advice on building a new community.
How to Make Friends
Key to a plan to fade away from Jehovah’s Witnesses is a support group; friends that are not Jehovah’s Witnesses, but Jehovah’s Witnesses face the hurdle to making new friends of not having things in common with people. Find out how to go about making new friends.
A Therapist’s Guide on Jehovah’s Witnesses
This section is designed to assist a therapist whose client reveals having current or past involvement with Jehovah’s Witnesses. A common complaint from former Jehovah’s Witnesses seeking professional assistance is that their religious experience was downplayed and...
Experiences
Articles and videos of teens going through the same issues, and older people that were in the same situation as teens, recounting how they coped, eventually left and have moved on to happy lives.
Some experiences can recount the difficulties and maybe tragedies that occur based on leaving without the right support.
Monika – Disfellowshipped as a Believer for Something I didn’t do
Embedded 25 minute video experience. Monika was a 21 year old regular pioneer that wholeheartedly believed Jehovah's Witnesses, the religion she had been raised in, was the truth. Out of the blue, her parents reported her to the elders on the suspicion that she...
Emily on not believing, homelessness, addiction and beyond
11 minute video. Emily's father was an elder, but she did not believe from the age of ten. Her story covers topics including a childhood heart operation without blood and inappropriate questions from an elder. After telling her parents she would no longer go to...
Beliefs
Find articles that detail the flaws in Watchtower doctrine, exposing chequered history; encouraging you to be confident that Watchtower does not teach “the Truth”.
Is Disfellowshipping Scriptural?
Jehovah's Witnesses disfellowship “unrepentant wrongdoers,” for diverse reasons ranging from apostasy to smoking. Disfellowshipped members are to be shunned by all family and friends, often for life, causing incalculable suffering. Is this practice Scriptural?...