Presley Michelle

Presley Michelle Unlearning fear + reclaiming my life ✨🔮♊️
Mom • Wife • High-Control Religion Survivor • Trauma made me funny 🥴😛

04/09/2026

It seems daunting. It seems like a lot of work. And it is, in some ways. But it turns out.. you don’t need a lot of $$$ to start growing your own food. Don’t have nursery pots? Use cut up plastic water bottles! I’ve seen people use McDonald’s cups, red solo cups.. it doesn’t have to look pretty. Seed starting trays are super cheap too. You just have to be creative!! ! got my greenhouse from for $8 using my shopping credits from from all my past grocery orders. My husband is using scrap wood from work to build some raised beds too I can’t wait to watch these guys grow, and soon add the tomatoes and peppers to their little greenhouse temporary home!!

03/21/2026

Now that the “new light” tells you that you can use your own stored blood for procedures, does that not raise other questions? Does it not dismantle the entire foundation of the No Blood policy?

03/02/2026

Trigger warning: SA
They blurred 🍇 with fornicati0n.
They blamed Dinah.
And then they built policies that still protect abusers.

Call it Bible history if you want.
I call it conditioning.





02/20/2026

Hey, so it’s very simple: your title to my child does not entitle you to my child.

If you treat the parents like they’re deceased, while simultaneously having a completely normal relationship with the children… that’s crazy. It’s showing the kids that it’s acceptable to shun someone simply because they don’t think the same way you do. And that’s gross and icky.

02/16/2026

Silence doesn’t just create distance.
It changes how safe the world feels to a child.
When you’re in a child’s life from birth, talking to them on a regular basis, you’ve formed a relationship and bond. While they’re children, they also know when people they love disappear. And if they’re anything like my kids, they ask the big questions. And they’ll call it like they see it 😅.

People think there’s no way people can shun kids, but they absolutely can and they absolutely do. These babies experience the effects just like we adults do. It’s so important to find a village for them 🤍

POV your thirties will be better than your twenties because it’s the first decade you’re able to be authentically Y O U✨...
02/13/2026

POV your thirties will be better than your twenties because it’s the first decade you’re able to be authentically Y O U✨🤍

In 2020, my dear friend Holli Mostella recommended a book called by Glennon Doyle.At that time, I was still in the cul...
02/11/2026

In 2020, my dear friend Holli Mostella recommended a book called by Glennon Doyle.

At that time, I was still in the cult but I was questioning. My inner knowing, my higher self, was trying to emerge. I started the book, knowing I wasn’t supposed to be reading it(per the JW’s)for a myriad of reasons. The most glaringly obvious being that the author happens to be married to a woman. That is a BIG no-no in the cult 😅.

Glennon shares her various experiences of battling an eating disorder, alcoholism, addiction, motherhood, marriage, divorce- she has quite a story. She also shares her religious evolution and journey of finding herself.

She started her career as a progressive Christian mom blogger/author. Now, she describes her spiritual/religious views as “brutiful”, brutal and beautiful.

She highlights internal spirituality and faith, training and trusting your intuition rather than outdated, patriarchal rules. This was such a wild concept to me at the time- my relationship with my higher power is mine alone?Just mine? Nobody dictating how I serve or how I love my higher power? No manmade discipline disguised as love?

Little did I know, that revelation was just one of many threads that were about to unravel.

Pain is hard. Pain is scary. But pain is also not optional. Now, suffering? That’s a choice. You can’t stop the bad thing from happening? That’s ok. You CAN stop it from consuming you. You CAN love yourself enough to heal from the thing that caused you pain.

It’ll be 4 years in September since we left the cult. I just cried last week over missing one of my family members. That pain never goes away, it’s unnatural for your family and friends to treat you like you’re dead. It’s always gonna hurt. I wish I could say I don’t miss them anymore, but that would be a lie. I miss them forever and always, but I also don’t let the sadness take over.

Give yourself grace, give yourself time, give yourself the love and support your inner child deserved.

The odds of you actually seeing this are slim, but to Glennon, Abby Wambach, Amanda(aka Sister)- thank you for making people feel seen and valued and loved. Xoxo

Heard we’re doing the 2016 throwback 👀 May I present to you:Hardcore JDub Mom Me22 years old, married for 4 years with a...
01/29/2026

Heard we’re doing the 2016 throwback 👀

May I present to you:

Hardcore JDub Mom Me

22 years old, married for 4 years with a baby.

We read My Book of Bible Stories to my pregnant belly, we played the Caleb & Sophia videos for our son. “Family Worship” was a very important part of being a “good Witness”.

We attended 2 hour meetings twice a week, went in field service(door-to-door ministry) every Saturday, traveled 2.5 hours away for assemblies and conventions. We did all the things. We shunned family and friends who left, because we were told to. We only had friends. Our cookie-cutter little Christian family.

I wonder how much more present of a mom I would have been if I wasn’t living in a constant state of fight-or-flight. Not that I’m not now, especially in this dumpster fire world. But the constant longing for a relationship with my father and the shame/punishment if I did have one. The constant nightmares of him dying in . It was something that didn’t end until I woke up and left the .

Healing isn’t linear. There isn’t a special handbook you get when you leave a high-control group. That’s the whole point. You become so dependent on them, it becomes your entire world. Your community, your identity, your ideals and values.

So for many of us, if not all.. we had no idea who the hell we were outside of the organization.

And the only way for you to figure out who you truly are, is to shed the fear you were never meant to endure as your reality. If you were born-in, like me, I have 27 years of deprogrammingto do.

I cannot stress the importance of therapy.
Therapy, therapy, therapy. Oh, and did I mention therapy?

Wherever you are on your healing journey, I hope you remember to give yourself grace and remember that YOU MATTER 🤍🤍🤍🤍

Picture it:Sunday night. I just took an everything shower 🚿(I braided my hair because I’m too tired to dry it🥴)I got int...
01/26/2026

Picture it:

Sunday night.

I just took an everything shower 🚿(I braided my hair because I’m too tired to dry it🥴)

I got into freshly washed and dried jammies and cozy socks.

Then I crawled into my perfectly made bed, with my ice cold water in my Owala next to me (I’m a cup snob. This is the only cup I use, tbh I don’t get the Stanley hype 🤷🏻‍♀️).

It’s a snow day tomorrow, so I don’t have to set my alarm 😇.

It’s currently 13 degrees(the Real Feel is 0🥲), so I will be under my heated blanket with my dragon s**t and my Pennifer Love Hewitt until I inevitably fall asleep with my book on my face 🥰.

But don’t worry, real life starts all over again tomorrow morning when two little girls startle me awake asking if they can have vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup at 6:48am ☺️

Stay sane, my fellow snow day moms. ✨❄️

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