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I could feel the dark oppression encompassing our home that night. It was about 11pm as my nervous system spiked to overdrive and I found myself laying in a fetal position on my bed, door locked, and unable to move. I couldn’t even cry. I eventually pulled out my phone to play music that would drown out his verbal abuse. But, as the music got louder, so did he. His roaring voice crashed its way through each musical note like an angry hurricane. For almost two hours, this hor

“I started investigating Scientology itself and looking at [founder] L. Rob Hubbard. Up to that time, I had thought of Hubbard as more or less like a god. … I tolerated all those things in the Sea Org because I felt I was doing the best I could to help others.” — Ron Miscavige, Scientology survivor, in his book, Ruthless

When I was a senior in high school, my grandfather died. Some well-meaning friends told me that, with time, I wouldn’t be so sad about it. In college, when my first boyfriend broke up with me, I felt like my heart really was breaking because of the grief, but my well-meaning friends told me that, with time, I’d be whole again. Several years ago, I experienced some difficult situations at a church, and again, well-meaning friends told me that, with time, I’d feel better about

"Sometimes the people who help us most are the ones who have already learned how to survive where we’re just beginning."

I’ve been studying cults and high control religious groups for a long time, and I’m always struck by a couple of things when it comes to survivors: 1) They are typically the most courageous people; and 2) They are free and may not know what to do with that newfound freedom.

Nos encanta explorar juntos el mundo de nuestro Padre. No hay nada como nuestros momentos de papá e hija escalando cascadas, explorando senderos misteriosos y enfrentando desafíos inesperados donde necesitamos el uno del otro para superarlos. Nos encanta estar unidos en amor y propósito, porque estas experiencias nos acercan y forman la base de los hermosos recuerdos que estamos creando. En nuestras aventuras, Dios a menudo nos recuerda la importancia de las relaciones saluda

“Porque nadie hace más daño en la Iglesia que aquel que, teniendo el título o rango de santidad, actúa mal.”¹ La tormenta mediática golpeó nuestra comunidad de Georgia como un tornado EF5 en la oscuridad de la noche. Así como los tornados de esa magnitud dejan a su paso una estela de miedo, negación, destrucción y daños colaterales incalculables, las noticias sobre nuestra universidad cristiana local revelaron una tempestad de distinta magnitud, pero no menos horrendamente de