A review by reasonpassion
Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion by Marlene Winell

5.0

There are ways in which this could be looked at as a self-help book, but that would be missing the scope of the problem being addressed. From within religious fundamentalism there is not merely a loss of self but the systematic destruction of the ability to think and feel authentically in a lived-in reality. Being taught to doubt and identify as evil every human aspect of one's existence does not support the ability later to seek self-help. What Winell endeavors to do here is rather a process for laying the foundation of a new life, one that will allow for self-help even as it encourages a new way to look at social connections and one's own relationship to body, mind and emotions. Truly a great beginning to what is a life-time journey.