Recommended Reading

Victoria Spry

Tortured

A strict Jehovah’s Witness parent adopts Victoria and several other children and spends two decades torturing them under the nose of friends, family and congregation while maintaining the front of the perfect parent.

A brave account of a beautiful soul that endured the worst pain and used it to help others. A true story that shocked the world and questions how every support network in the country managed to miss such extreme physical and mental abuse.

Helen Van Dahl

Apocapiphany

"A frank, mesmerising and often comedic account of one woman's inner struggles with Good vs Evil, abusive relationships and high control, coercive religion, namely the Jehovah's Witnesses cult"

This book is an autobiographical account featuring religious indoctrination, child sexual abuse cover ups and abusive relationships. It contains coarse language, graphic depictions of sex and other content which some readers may find triggering.

Rosie Elliot

Witness Trap

Raised as a Jehovah’s Witness by an obsessive mother, young Jessica Dalton has no choice but to follow the faith. But when her trust in its teachings is shattered, her subconscious tells her she must escape. She embarks on an unplanned adventure and meets Ray, a worldly boy from the north. Jess suddenly finds herself alone in a frightening world, and everyone she has ever known shuns her. She now has a choice to make: Does she continue trying to be a faithful Witness for the rest of her life? Or should she be true to herself and leave for good? Battling between indoctrination from an early age, her mother’s rigid example and her own observations as she matures, how does Jess find out who she really is?

Want to know what it's like leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses?

This is great documentary created by the YouTuber ExJW Diaries that interviews several former Jehovah's Witnesses and goes into detail about what life is like after leaving a high controlled religion

ExJW Diaries Video Documentary

JEXIT 2020 - Youtuber

I'm an ExJW trying to rebuild my life after leaving the high-control "religion" of Jehovah's Witnesses. I make videos sharing my experiences of recovering from religious trauma/abuse and trying to help others recover too