I came from an upper middle class, well-educated family. I was privileged. I moved out as a college student with a couple of jobs on campus after my parents emptied my savings account. Most of the people that we helped were in similar circumstances. Our counselor friend Sandra, who was in graduate school when I moved … Continue reading The UnBoxing Project: Surviving and thriving on the outside
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When we started helping people move out, we learned that getting out and finding freedom is messy, and everyone's situation is different. When someone contacted us for help, we said that they went "active." It's like being on call for an emergency move 24/7. They'll tell us the situation is deteriorating, but we don't know it's going … Continue reading The UnBoxing Project: How you can help (Eleanor’s thoughts)
Here are Cynthia's concluding thoughts. Rescuing people from cults is not an item to check off of a to-do list. It's a process. While we worked together on the Unboxing Project, we learned this through our own exhausted time and money. We didn't just need to free people from church attendance and their abusive, controlling … Continue reading The UnBoxing Project: How you can help (Cynthia’s thoughts)
Cynthia Barram was the first friend I met in college who helped me start my own moving out process before helping the others. Here's her perspective. Lesson Number One: You can't help anyone else if you don't take care of yourself. When several homeschool girls came to me, oppressed by churches and controlling parents, I … Continue reading The UnBoxing Project: Self-care during activism
I met Shelby while working for the student newspaper, and she mentioned that the homeschooling population seemed to be understudied in academic literature. Here is her perspective. I, personally, have come into contact with a handful of homeschooling experiences in my lifetime. I had three friends who had been homeschooled, two of whom entered semi-public … Continue reading The UnBoxing Project: Homeschool, the perfect hiding place
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