I’ve come to realize there is an overwhelming number of important topics I want to share my thoughts on beyond simply healing from my seven year stint as an ex-Jehovah’s Witness.

The question I’ve asked myself a lot recently is… where do I share them?

I post a lot on social media, but social media poses one specific difficulty for me. It is terribly difficult to find your audience if you don’t have a niche.

What the hell is my niche?

I don’t know.

I struggle terribly to find my “niche” when there are so many topics that my heart… no soul feels drawn… no… compelled to discuss.

Even “healing” isn’t a specific enough “niche” because healing from what?

Religious Trauma? Check.

Childhood Trauma? Check, check.

The trauma of existing as a woman with a woman’s body in this double-standard, male centered society? Checkity-check-check-check.

Alas… I want to discuss even more than healing.

I want to help (willing to learn) people open their closed minds and see beyond their lived experiences. I want to offer perspectives of other human lives and soften the hearts and ego based judgement of people willing to check themselves.

And I know those people exist because I used to be one. I used to judge and only see from my perspective. It really didn’t occur to me there were perspectives beyond the ones I could see with my own eyes. And wise people, lived experience, open ears, and humility helped me wake up to the vantage point of others living lives I hadn’t even fathomed.

Voices like the one I intend to offer helped me grow in compassion, empathy, and kindness.

But where do I place this voice? Where does it go?

On social media across four niche platforms. No thanks. That’s overwhelming.

On this blog? Do people even read anymore?

I’m not sure.

For now I have no social media to voice my thoughts on topics beyond spirituality, ex-religion, and what life looks life after being an exJW.

I have no set place for the wide array of topics I want to discuss.

Maybe I’ll figure out a niche for them all.

Maybe I’m the niche and just have to start from scratch, lump it all into one social media, and hope the universe sends my voice to the receptive ears that would benefit from the words I’ve been given the gift to find.

For now… I’ll write.

Thanks for reading.