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"That Dream Within A Dream"
Jehovah’s Witnesses’ stance on dreams and dream interpretation is wildly inconsistent. On the one hand, they laud the prophetic data...
Mar 172 min read
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Wasted Time
Recently, I traveled out of state with my litigation team, and I returned home just in time to celebrate my birthday. As a birthday gift,...
Nov 6, 20244 min read
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Apostate Mixtape
“Don't ask me how I survived. Ask me what song I played on repeat when I thought my whole world was over.” Was there a song that...
Sep 18, 20242 min read
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Becoming Apostate
As a Witness, was there any worse epithet that could be hurled at you than, “Apostate?” “Brother or Sister Informed have turned...
Jun 18, 20244 min read
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Dogma vs Daughters
How many of us received invitations to return to a Kingdom Hall to attend the one religious sacrament that our JW family members and...
Apr 2, 20243 min read
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Adulting Without A Safety Net
The post on a social media page for former fundies was as earnest and melancholy as a plaintive wail. “It has been 8 years since I...
Feb 4, 20243 min read
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Season's Greetings
Children reared by devout Jehovah’s Witness parents do not learn any family Christmas traditions. There are no Christmas cookies for...
Dec 25, 20232 min read
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Becoming Worldly
“{T}hey are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world.” John 17:14, New World Translation. Jehovah’s Witnesses interpret...
Oct 25, 20235 min read
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Thriving after Fading
Meeting other ex-Jehovah's Witnesses and learning how they have navigated rebuilding their authentic lives has been such a rewarding...
Aug 18, 20231 min read
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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...
Aug 7, 20235 min read
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No Longer Silent: Sharing My Story on the Podcast, Broadening the Narrative
Broadening the Narrative Podcast | Nicki Pappas
Jul 4, 20231 min read
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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...
Jun 25, 20237 min read
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Mar 27, 20230 min read
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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...
Feb 26, 20231 min read
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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...
Feb 15, 20235 min read
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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...
Dec 21, 20224 min read
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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....
Nov 22, 20225 min read
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Virtual Book Launch at 7p.m. EST on Friday, October 21, 2022
Webinar Registration - Zoom
Oct 18, 20221 min read
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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!
Oct 12, 20221 min read
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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,...
Aug 1, 20223 min read
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