What Happens When You Leave the Holdeman Mennonites…

I am being and trying to become someone who I was taught in all the fibres of my being was bad – a ‘worldly’ person. Someone who belongs in the world. No wonder there’s a bit of resistance…

In My Heart (part 3)

You called her an old soulbut to me you said you’d never opened yourself to someone that much before. You said you’d wanted to drop me off on the Michigan Bridge and leave me there, but your pet name for me was Jonna. You wouldn’t let me read your book,You took me out for dinner,You

How Leaving a Strict Religious Group is Like Being in a Global Pandemic

I was telling my family members, who left the Holdeman Mennonites around the same time I did, that the last time my world turned upside down was when I left the Holdemans. There are similarities. Like, Everything that was familiar to us is gone. There’s a lot of uncertainty and grieving. Sometimes we’re not even