These books explore recovery after coercive control, emotional manipulation, shunning, trauma, and identity suppression — with a focus on rebuilding authentic selfhood, emotional stability, critical thinking, and personal freedom.
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An informative guided journal to help Jehovah’s Witnesses wrestling with questions or doubt. Not about how or why to leave. About how to protect yourself and your family while doing research and weighing options. Designed to support you through one of the most important decisions of your life. View HERE.
A book for those exiting and having exited a cult. It will give you a better understanding of the trauma suffered and how to recover from it. You will better understand yourself and the healing journey ahead. Learn more.
Shunned: A Survival Guide is one of the few books available to help individuals subjected to the inhumane practice of mandated shunning. Strategies to manage the isolation, loneliness, anxiety, and grief caused. Available in both paperback and eBook versions HERE.
Understanding Cult Dynamics
Cracking the Cult Code for Therapists helps your therapist truly understand what you experienced in a cult, and the aftereffects once out. While designed for therapists, family or friends who do not quite understand the extent of the abuse you endured, can also benefit. Available HERE.
This book bundles two books into one. Cracking the Cult Code for Therapists concisely and comprehensively reveals cult dynamics and their cost, while Nobody’s Thrall, a fictional suspense, is the case study fictionally illustrating points made in Cracking the Cult Code. View this dynamic pairing HERE.
Rebuilding Your Life
Reboot After Recovery from Trauma is designed to help if after recovering from the trauma of being in a cult, you find yourself feeling stuck. It helps uncover hidden reasons you may not have been able to create the life you envisioned and offers tips to get unstuck. Find it and its companion journal on Amazon.
The Challenge to Heal After Leaving a High-Control Group is comprehensive book about every facet of recovery from high-control or cult abuses. Check it out HERE.
The Challenge to Heal Workbook & Journal is a lined 8″x10″ workbook with prompts to help document your high-control experience and restore your well-being and self-directed, independent life. Use in tandem with the book. View HERE.
Memoir & Fiction
Fading OUT of the JW Cult is a memoir of my life trapped in a coercive organization that calls itself a religion, but meets all the criteria that define a cult. Read what it was like to feel trapped in a cult, how difficult it was to get out, and the challenges faced once out. Available in print and eBook formats HERE.
NOBODY’S THRALL my first novel, is a suspense. It parachutes you into a fictional 1998 congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Both non-JWs and ex-JWs alike will find the characters compelling, their inner conflicts familiar, and the plot exciting. Paperback, eBook, and audible versions HERE.
Books for Children & Families
Adults are not the only ones who need to regain their bearings after leaving a cult. Children do too. This illustrated children’s novel helps children cope with all the challenges by following young Danny and his sister Becca as they deal with new found freedom and family pressure to remain in the organization. Designed for children 7-12 years old. View HERE.
A coloring book for 7-12 year old children is also available. As well as images to color, it contains a condensed version of the helpful Danny & Becca story. View HERE.