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October 7, 2023 28 mins
Prepare to experience a whole range of emotions as we embark on this episode.

Come on this journey of what it was like to go from being a golden girl, to acting out, rebellious and entering into a mental world of incredible darkness.  A young girl wanting to experience a life completely different from the way she was raised as a child of a Jehovah’s Witness, and like a mental tornado about to unleash wrath on everything and everyone who stood in its path. 

In this episode of Raised By an Invisible Village, we share significant life events that for some people, it will be excruciatingly uncomfortable and beyond comprehension.

From the age of 12 and desiring a life outside of the Jehovah Witness faith, instigated a whole range of consequences that ultimately led to her dissociation or disfellowshipping from the religion.  How it unfolded, and the build up of those dark mental clouds that accumulated into an eruption of chaos is shared in this episode.

Despite experiencing very dark and life changing events at this early age, Kathy reminds us that it is the past and that for her, during this time, the character’s in her invisible village were not clearly obvious.  A reflection that the characters in our invisible village are varied and appear in many formats to help keep us safe and accepted.

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