Photo: Megan McKinzey Photography We want to help one of our friends reach stability three years after he left an abusive ex-partner with a newborn. In the next month, he needs to relocate to gain better access health care and manage several chronic conditions that often go along with hypermobile Ehler-Danlos Syndrome, which causes frequentContinueContinue reading “Help an ex-fundie human trafficking survivor: This single parent + toddler are moving for better healthcare access”
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Still learning to love myself: Through eating disorder recovery
Content note: discussion of eating disorders One year ago, I’d just started a new job, and the first paycheck wouldn’t come for a whole month. I experienced food insecurity and unstable housing both in college and afterwards. The fear of not making it was so loud in my mind, and a little thought said: “JustContinueContinue reading “Still learning to love myself: Through eating disorder recovery”
I get to talk to my siblings now
I don’t normally write about my siblings because neither of them have public lives in the way that I do as a writer and journalist. That’s why I don’t say much about them on my blog. I want them to be able to figure out their own lives in peace. When I write about themContinueContinue reading “I get to talk to my siblings now”
Book Review: Spiritual Sobriety by Elizabeth Esther
I love so much of Elizabeth Esther’s writing because what she says fits my experiences in unhealthy churches. I preordered her book Spiritual Sobriety: Stumbling back to faith when good religion goes bad in spring of last year, around the same time that I interviewed her on my blog. Recently I re-read my copy beforeContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Spiritual Sobriety by Elizabeth Esther”
Book review: Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall
I got this book from a giveaway over at SpiritualAbuse.org a couple of summers ago, when I was blogging about leaving fundamentalism. Stolen Innocence is Elissa Wall’s memoir of leaving the fundamentalist Mormon church (FLDS) as an adult. She was told to marry one of her cousins when she was only 14. Elissa gives a good historyContinueContinue reading “Book review: Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall”
Eleanor Skelton 