During a meeting with the congregation elders about her abusive husband, JoHannah asked the question that is the title of this episode. Trying to get the elders to understand the severity of the abuse in her home, words that fell on deaf ears, she would take the courageous step of leaving her marriage only to be looked down upon for doing so. Such is life when you’ve been conditioned to tolerate abuse from an early age to endure the cult of Jehovah’s Witnesses. In this episode you will learn JoHannah’s story, sadly full of abuse in a cult that protects abusers (her dad was shunned for smoking while her childhood abuser ran free), but more than that you’ll learn about the indomitable person and spirit that is JoHannah and her path out.
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The song that she chose to represent her journey is Forgiven by Alanis Morissette
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Music provided by Jane and the Boy, entitled Save Myself.
Never been JW here…. Good Episode. Learned a lot. My heart truly aches with pain listening to how people are trapped in a mind control prison, and coerced not to look at the exit sign, b/c they’ve been told not to go there. Layers and layers of mind control. Praying for an end of all high mind control organizations wherever they may be.🙏🏻