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Rising From the Ashes of Jehovahs Witnesses, by Denise Wise an experience familiar to anyone who escaped a cult, high-demand, or high-control group, especially the emotionally abusive and controlling Jevovahs Witnesses.
Watch WITNESS UNDERGROUND our documentary on: Apple TV, Amazon, Tubi TV & YouTube Movies + more...
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Get her book:
lulu.com/spotlight/Freespirit369 - e-book or paperback
Kindle:
amazon.co.uk/s?k=rising+from+the+ashes+of+jehovah%27s+witnesses&rh=n%3A341689031&ref=nb_sb_noss
iBooks:
books.apple.com/us/book/rising-from-the-ashes-of-jehovahs-witnesses/id1464251770
Site: isisallthings.com
X: twitter.com/IAllthings
Reddit: reddit.com/user/IsisAllthings/posts
Patreon: patreon.com/isisiallthings?alert=2
Music:
reverbnation.com/isisiallthings/songs
ajwrb.org/jehovahs-witnesses-and-blood-tens-of-thousands-dead-in-hidden-tragedy
"One of Us"
youtube.com/watch?v=uBPn5oQNutI
About the author:
My name is Denise Wise (author alias, Isis Allthings) and I am a UK citizen and was born in Sheringham, Norfolk in 1961. I lived in Switzerland for five years where I was married and have a daughter, Chantal, who is now twenty-nine. I moved back to the UK and then to London where I lived for sixteen years and I am currently based in beautiful Norwich in Norfolk.
I had a very strange, emotionally traumatic and abusive upbringing as my mother converted from Church of England protestant to become one of Jehovah's Witnesses, when I was ten. I will explain why I unequivocally label this fundamentalist Christian religion as a cult and how I manged to escape. That was twenty-five years ago and I now feel brave enough to step onto the world scene and tell the story of going from surviving as a rank and file member of the congregation, to thriving as a free spirit. My aim is to help those that may still be undecided about whether they should leave and to offer signposting and support to those that are feeling the after-effects of leaving a mind controlling cult.
I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian sect, Jehovah’s Witnesses, as a minor of ten. I became a voluntary full-time preacher at the age of eighteen, preaching for ninety hours a month, unpaid, for ten years. It was forbidden to study after leaving school and I had no career prospects other than my ministry and therefore no financial freedom. As a woman I was also not allowed to become a leader in the congregation as these positions of authority are for males only. I was beginning to feel “less than” already and this only deepened when I married a fellow Witness at twenty-eight and he became “head of the house” making all the final decisions. Wives have to be obedient to their husbands in all things.
At the age of thirty-two, I found myself ripped from my family and life-long friends who were still Jehovah's Witnesses for daring to think for myself, ask awkward questions, and then taking action to leave behind this patriarchal belief system. I was branded an “apostate” twenty-five years ago and if I was to meet a Witness on the street, they would cross the road and not speak to me.
Key factors which can make one vulnerable are our own less than ideal childhood and subsequent poor life choices. Add to this, the loss of key family members through death or divorce, all of which hit my mother hard. As she began to question the meaning of life, she entertained the Witnesses who called regularly at her door. Under the circumstances she was an emotionally low hanging fruit, ripe for the picking. These avid preachers are highly trained to spot this vulnerability and ask key questions that have sat up and begged to be answered since the beginning of time, such as “what is the meaning of life” or “if there is a God, why does he allow suffering.”
Most cults have a knack of providing black and white answers to calm the existential angst, coupled with an intoxicating offer of family support. They achieve their aims by love-bombing their new recruits into a big happy group and reassuring them that all will be well as long as they fully adopt their belief system. In this case the carrot is the promise of a paradise on earth with no suffering, sickness or death.
What the Witnesses will never tell you in advance and is also the reason they become increasingly mentally and emotionally abusive, is that once you are sucked in it is very difficult to get out again. The thumb screws of fear and guilt are slowly turned so that initially you are not even aware that your freedom of thought and choices are being bled away.
After many years of relating my cult escape story to anyone who would listen, and with their encouragement, I felt the calling to begin writing my story. It took me thirteen years of struggling with deeply suppressed emotions, writers block and depression before I emerged proud to become an author.
Rising From the Ashes of Jehovahs Witnesses, by Denise Wise an experience familiar to anyone who escaped a cult, high-demand, or high-control group, especially the emotionally abusive and controlling Jevovahs Witnesses.
Watch WITNESS UNDERGROUND our documentary on: Apple TV, Amazon, Tubi TV & YouTube Movies + more...
WitnessUnderground.com
Get her book:
lulu.com/spotlight/Freespirit369 - e-book or paperback
Kindle:
amazon.co.uk/s?k=rising+from+the+ashes+of+jehovah%27s+witnesses&rh=n%3A341689031&ref=nb_sb_noss
iBooks:
books.apple.com/us/book/rising-from-the-ashes-of-jehovahs-witnesses/id1464251770
Site: isisallthings.com
X: twitter.com/IAllthings
Reddit: reddit.com/user/IsisAllthings/posts
Patreon: patreon.com/isisiallthings?alert=2
Music:
reverbnation.com/isisiallthings/songs
ajwrb.org/jehovahs-witnesses-and-blood-tens-of-thousands-dead-in-hidden-tragedy
"One of Us"
youtube.com/watch?v=uBPn5oQNutI
About the author:
My name is Denise Wise (author alias, Isis Allthings) and I am a UK citizen and was born in Sheringham, Norfolk in 1961. I lived in Switzerland for five years where I was married and have a daughter, Chantal, who is now twenty-nine. I moved back to the UK and then to London where I lived for sixteen years and I am currently based in beautiful Norwich in Norfolk.
I had a very strange, emotionally traumatic and abusive upbringing as my mother converted from Church of England protestant to become one of Jehovah's Witnesses, when I was ten. I will explain why I unequivocally label this fundamentalist Christian religion as a cult and how I manged to escape. That was twenty-five years ago and I now feel brave enough to step onto the world scene and tell the story of going from surviving as a rank and file member of the congregation, to thriving as a free spirit. My aim is to help those that may still be undecided about whether they should leave and to offer signposting and support to those that are feeling the after-effects of leaving a mind controlling cult.
I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian sect, Jehovah’s Witnesses, as a minor of ten. I became a voluntary full-time preacher at the age of eighteen, preaching for ninety hours a month, unpaid, for ten years. It was forbidden to study after leaving school and I had no career prospects other than my ministry and therefore no financial freedom. As a woman I was also not allowed to become a leader in the congregation as these positions of authority are for males only. I was beginning to feel “less than” already and this only deepened when I married a fellow Witness at twenty-eight and he became “head of the house” making all the final decisions. Wives have to be obedient to their husbands in all things.
At the age of thirty-two, I found myself ripped from my family and life-long friends who were still Jehovah's Witnesses for daring to think for myself, ask awkward questions, and then taking action to leave behind this patriarchal belief system. I was branded an “apostate” twenty-five years ago and if I was to meet a Witness on the street, they would cross the road and not speak to me.
Key factors which can make one vulnerable are our own less than ideal childhood and subsequent poor life choices. Add to this, the loss of key family members through death or divorce, all of which hit my mother hard. As she began to question the meaning of life, she entertained the Witnesses who called regularly at her door. Under the circumstances she was an emotionally low hanging fruit, ripe for the picking. These avid preachers are highly trained to spot this vulnerability and ask key questions that have sat up and begged to be answered since the beginning of time, such as “what is the meaning of life” or “if there is a God, why does he allow suffering.”
Most cults have a knack of providing black and white answers to calm the existential angst, coupled with an intoxicating offer of family support. They achieve their aims by love-bombing their new recruits into a big happy group and reassuring them that all will be well as long as they fully adopt their belief system. In this case the carrot is the promise of a paradise on earth with no suffering, sickness or death.
What the Witnesses will never tell you in advance and is also the reason they become increasingly mentally and emotionally abusive, is that once you are sucked in it is very difficult to get out again. The thumb screws of fear and guilt are slowly turned so that initially you are not even aware that your freedom of thought and choices are being bled away.
After many years of relating my cult escape story to anyone who would listen, and with their encouragement, I felt the calling to begin writing my story. It took me thirteen years of struggling with deeply suppressed emotions, writers block and depression before I emerged proud to become an author.
