Stories from people who left high-control religion

Leaving isn't the end of the story. It's where a lot of us finally start telling it.

This is a place for people who grew up in, or left, a high-control religious group, of any faith or denomination, to write down what happened, in their own words, and find the words for it if they don't have them yet.

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