Never Look Back
Valerie Ross AuthorToday is my 71st birthday. It is also the 42 anniversary of the day I escaped both an abusive marriage and Scientology. It wasn’t always easy, but it was worth…
January 2026
FBI Files – Letter to LRH from Woodford
Jack Woodford, whose real name was Josiah Pitts Woodfolk was a pulp fiction writer who also wrote some non fiction. He married a 16 year old Josephine Hutchins in 1916.…
How to Get Rid of Arrogance
This post is a continuation in the series of ways to help yourself recover after leaving Scientology. One of the easiest ways to recognize a person who is newly out…
FBI Files – Sara Northrup
Hubbard, in an interview, once said "I never had a second wife. The FBI could refute that claim. And do so in Hubbard's own words. For those of you who…
Educational Resources
This post is a continuation in the series of ways to help yourself recover after leaving Scientology. In Scientology, one of the first courses a person is given is the…
FBI Files – Re Brainwashing Manual
Attached are letters which were written to the FBI from various people regarding the "Brainwashing Manual". A copy of this was sent out to all paid subscribers in the last…
Forgiving Yourself
Scientology is a snitch culture. They focus strongly on making sure you feel responsible for everything that went wrong in a situation. Even if you had nothing to do with…
Parsing the Aaron Smith-Levin Hearing Transcripts
For those of you who have read the transcripts, or those who decided they were too much, I did Reddit posts breaking down the high points in each post. Here…