Thriving after Fading
Meeting other ex-Jehovah's Witnesses and learning how they have navigated rebuilding their authentic lives has been such a rewarding...
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- Aug 7
- 5 min
Dealbreakers
For those of you that were either born into a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses, or were converted, you decided, at some point, that enough...
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- Jul 4
- 1 min
No Longer Silent: Sharing My Story on the Podcast, Broadening the Narrative
Broadening the Narrative Podcast | Nicki Pappas
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- Jun 25
- 7 min
Shiny, Happy Women
Did you watch Shiny Happy People on Prime Video? If not, it is a must-see for PIMO and former Jehovah’s Witnesses. Shiny Happy People is...
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- Feb 26
- 1 min
Call Me Vashti to Be Featured at The Songbird Supper Club on February 28
I am honored to be invited by Winston-Salem artist and founder of The Center for Female Sovereignty, Cashavelly Morrison, to join a...
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- Feb 15
- 5 min
The Past as Prologue: What Florida’s Stop Woke Act Means to Me
It is effective political theater, the conservative Florida governor standing in front of microphones vowing to the Moms for Liberty that...
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- Dec 21, 2022
- 4 min
Tis The Season to Be Conflicted
Tis the season… to be conflicted if you were reared as a Jehovah’s Witness. Even today, there is a stark contrast between the joy that...
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- Nov 22, 2022
- 5 min
Lemons or Lemonade – Reclaiming My Story in TheHumanist.com
Lemons or Lemonade – Reclaiming My Story - TheHumanist.com In her classic novel, Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison exhorts, “Stop sniveling....
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- Oct 18, 2022
- 1 min
Virtual Book Launch at 7p.m. EST on Friday, October 21, 2022
Webinar Registration - Zoom
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- Oct 12, 2022
- 1 min
Drumroll, please....
My pandemic project became a manuscript and now my manuscript has become a novel, Sunless and Silent and Deep. Buy your copy today!
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- Aug 1, 2022
- 3 min
Lemons or Lemonade?
What have you lost? If you were reared in a Jehovah’s Witness family, you were denied normal childhood experiences - birthday parties,...
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- Jul 7, 2022
- 2 min
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Who am I? What do I believe to be true? Those basic questions are the impetus for faith deconstruction. Who are you? If you had asked me...
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- Jun 22, 2022
- 4 min
A Mind Is A Terrible Thing to Waste
If you want to get a group of ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses (esp. second or third generation Witnesses) really riled up, ask them about the...
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- Jun 12, 2022
- 2 min
Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?
#formerfundies #exJW How do you tell your story? The story of who you are and how you came to be where you are. Often, we Former Fundies...
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- Jun 5, 2022
- 1 min
My Grandmama, My History, and Me
Call Me Vashti was featured in the Webby Award-winning online publication, Motherwell!
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- Jun 5, 2022
- 2 min
The Kids Are Alright
My devout Jehovah’s Witnesses parents and I are estranged. Occasionally, they remind me that I will be welcomed back into the fold when I...
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- May 29, 2022
- 6 min
Apostate Book Club
Tell me that you were raised as a Jehovah’s Witness without telling me you were raised a Jehovah’s Witness. I’ll go first: As a kid, you...
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- May 10, 2022
- 4 min
My Journey from "Weaker Vessel" to Vashti, One Post at a Time
If I had a c.v from my years as a Jehovah’s Witness, my experience would be expansive. In my 30+ years in the organization, I was at...
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