Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

Moody, thanks for your response. I’ve been healing for ~17 years now and the negative voices in my family are all gone now. I hope God can use me to reach out to people anywhere but even at church whether they be new, hurt or broken. I’m in such a good place now and I am at peace.

We have not sought counseling together and my brother is in a very good place now and doing wonderfully. Our mom passed in 2008. I hope to move to where he lives to help him and his wife who are raising an autistic grandson. Thanks for your care.

SolaDude, from my mom’s diaries I learned that between the time we were shunned as a family and my mom leaving church then returning to church, she was having affairs, dancing, drinking, smoking — all very uncharacteristic and unusual for her. We had no idea, none whatsoever. Meaning my brother and ...

Thank you. SolaDude, my mom actually lived a "double-life" for awhile that I didn't learn about until she gave me her diaries. I didn't read them until she passed away in 2008. Going back to the cofC for her was just something she needed to feel "righteous" and "right with t...

Zeek! I can so relate to the mixture of feelings you had attending this "ending". Perhaps as part of your healing journey it will turn out to be good that you were able to witness the end of this place. I imagine there is grief and mourning as another commenter said for "what should h...

The Ex-church of Christ website has been very validating to me. I grew up in hardline cofC and wrestled with it's traditions, rules and hardness on people. I am now in my 60s and still have triggering moments almost like PTSD from things that happened to me within my immediate family and from elders...