Hidden Struggles
Becoming part of this growing community provides the perfect opportunity to learn valuable life lessons without experiencing the drama. This is a motivational podcast exploring real life issues. After escaping from a high control group, I am sharing my experiences about what it is like living in a world without the mental boundaries that kept me from exploring my dreams, goals and realities. This platform will deliver experiences that help others to overcome personal struggles and showing you how you can take those struggles and use them to your advantage. Perhaps through this podcast, I can help others to learn my life lessons without having to experience the pain.
Hidden Struggles
Growing Up Jehovah's Witness: I Knew Something Was Wrong
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Dr. Felicia Blakeney joins Hidden Struggles for a deeply layered conversation about growing up around Jehovah’s Witness culture while also being exposed to very different beliefs and perspectives at home.
In this first episode, she lays the foundation of her story by reflecting on:
- the emotional atmosphere inside the Kingdom Hall
- the fear surrounding the 1975 Armageddon prediction
- critical thinking and education
- growing up between multiple belief systems
- why something never fully felt right to her, even as a child
This interview series explores religion, family dynamics, emotional survival, and the long-term psychological impact of high-control belief systems.
▶️ This is Part 1 of a special multi-part Hidden Struggles interview series with Dr. Felicia Blakeney.