Maybe I will delete this, but, anyone who has been seeing the posts I delete knows I've been having a really tough year.
I don't want to give details because there are people who would enjoy hearing about my struggles. The knowledge of that holds me back.
I have been dealing with some very personal issues, and learned that former friends of mine have decided to make me a pariah, they got together, found my articles, and somehow after seeing all I had done, made a kind of group decision, behind my back, to shut me out and disavow me.
I just learned about this a few days ago.
It's one thing to say, well, they were never your friends anyway, but it's quite different when they say outrageous things behind your back and other people believe their cult mindset, so that one former friend makes an effort to turn all friends against you.
I will never back down, and I know that I have been speaking truthfully from my heart for years.
There is nothing they could do to make me feel ashamed, but my former friends are trying.
I understand on a personal level the toll this takes on people who speak out. It's depressing, absolutely, and our only comfort is each other, and the awareness that this is in fact a cult, one that needs to be shoved into the sunlight and exposed. But we'll never get back what we lost.