In today’s Best Life After conversation, Jason is joined by his friend Deanna, creator and former Jehovah’s Witness, to talk about a moment that perfectly shows how shunning is backfiring on the organization. Deanna shares a recent experience at a coffee shop where a group of Jehovah’s Witnesses hard-shunned her in public. Years ago, this would have devastated her. Today? She brushed it off — and the only people who looked foolish were the JWs doing the shunning. What makes this story powerful is how everyone else in the café — regular people with no background in the religion — immediately recognized how rude, childish, and cult-like the behavior was. Instead of feeling ashamed, Deanna felt supported. Later in the episode, Jason shares a similar moment and how healing it can be when you finally realize you’re not the problem — the high-control system is. This short, meaningful conversation is for anyone who is newly disfellowshipped, fading, waking up, or trying to heal from a controlling group. Shunning is intended to break your spirit, but more and more people are seeing it for what it is: manipulative, abusive, and ineffective. You’re allowed to feel good about your progress. You’re allowed to move forward. And you’re absolutely allowed to build your best life after leaving a high-control organization. Keywords: best life after, former Jehovah’s Witness, exjw, ex jw stories, jw shunning, jehovahs witnesses cult, high control group recovery, cult recovery stories, leaving high control religion, recovering from shunning, disfellowshipped support, exjw motivation, difficult childhood Jason and Falon, religious trauma healing, life after leaving a cult, rebuilding after shunning, exjw coffee shop story, shunning backfires, how to heal after leaving Jehovah’s Witnesses, recovering from cult behavior. #bestlifeever #bestlifeafter #difficultchildhood #ex-jwpodcast

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