Moxie’s Bio

MOXIE was raised in a household of devout Jehovah’s Witnesses. When she decided to leave the religion in 1999, she was completely outcast and has since been shunned by her childhood friends as well as her family. After her exit from the Jehovah’s Witnesses, she sought to broaden her education and began to study world religion, history, science and evolution. She is now an Atheist and Humanist. Over the course of the last few years she has dedicated considerable effort toward promoting healing and recovery for former Jehovah’s Witness cult members around the world.

Moxie is the founder and editor of JWRecovery Magazine and also runs the website www.JehovahsWitnessRecovery.com, which includes a popular community forum that helps doubting, exiting and former Jehovah’s Witnesses interact with their peers in a supportive, healing environment. She is a guest writer for Truth-Saves.com, and runs the blog Conversations with an ex Jehovah’s Witness at www.exJehovahsWitness.net, which is a cross-section of her world view today as an atheist and humanist, her personal experiences as a former Witness, and other information concerning the Watch Tower organization.

In her latest endeavor, the Humanitarian Atheist, she looks forward to challenging the common stereotype that atheists are amoral and immoral, instead highlighting humanistic values and addressing the issues of religious influence in today’s political sphere and social climate.

As a humanist and atheist, Moxie supports a number of organizations that work to advance the causes of reason, science and human rights. She is a member of both the Canadian and American Humanist Associations and is a supporter of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, which helps to spread rational thinking and science education throughout the world. Moxie is passionate about the struggle for women’s equality and is a supporter of the Ayan Hirsi Ali (AHA) Foundation, which helps to protect and defend the rights of women in the West against militant Islam through education, outreach and the dissemination of knowledge.

As a designer and Internet marketing specialist by trade, Moxie also lends her support to other website owners who work to support the cause of freedom from religion. By applying her expertise in this way, she hopes to help improve the online visibility and reach of information, promote critical thinking, logic and reason.

Above all, Moxie is passionate about making a difference in the lives of the formerly religious, specifically ex-cult members. Due to her upbringing, she often focuses on the Jehovah’s Witnesses. She is often called on to assist therapists and counselors who are working with patients suffering the aftereffects of the Watch Tower organization. She is determined to use her experiences for the benefit of others.

Moxie’s personal mission is to promote education, the use of reason and logic and to assist in providing positive healing and recovery for former religious cult members. She works as an advocate for those who have chosen to escape religion and suffer shunning, excommunication and threats of violence as a result of their choice for freedom.