What REAL Community Is
I spent twenty years looking for community in a cult. It took two ordinary conferences — and everything I’ve learned since escaping — to show me what I’d actually been missing.
Anne Gollert Hill Writes
On coercive control, identity, and the work of staying yourself. Repeatedly.
What Freedom Actually Feels Like
For ten years I lived behind chain-link fencing topped with razor wire. Freedom, it turned out, wasn’t waiting on the other side of that fence — it showed up years later, in a coffee shop, with a novel I picked for no reason except that I wanted to.