- Recognizing problems (get real, identifying symptoms, issues, reading deconversion stories, cycle of abuse)
- Considering deconversion (understanding and facing the fear, more deconversion stories)
- Getting new information (views from other fields, eg. biology, physics, other religions, church history, biblical origins, critical analysis of theism, Christianity, Mormonism, JW’s etc.)
- Finding emotional help (bias against psychology, understanding gap bet. intellectual and emotional, why it’s so hard – power of ideas, resources for help)
- Healing (processing feelings, learning self-love and self-care, stages of development, learning to trust own thinking ability, self-acceptance vs perfectionism, letting go/forgiveness)
- Building a new life (clarifying new values, making new social connections, dealing with family, making life choices re. work, etc., aspects of happiness, redefining spirituality)
- Joining the world (being part of this world, nature, being an animal, social and political context, understanding interconnection, value of larger view)
- Reclaiming joy and self-expression (being here now, direct sensory experience, sex and pleasure, leisure, not earning right to just be, reclaiming creative expression, enjoyment
