Breaking the Faith

Breaking the Faith is a raw, unfiltered memoir about growing up in a devout Christian household where faith wasn't just encouraged — it was law.

Raised in a strict Pentecostal "full gospel" environment, the author was taught to fear God, fear the end times, fear embarrassment, and above all, fear questioning anything. From terrifying visions of the Tribulation and the Mark of the Beast to rigid rules about race, gender, and obedience, religion shaped every corner of her childhood. Doubt was not an option. Silence was survival.

But beneath the surface of church services, prophecy charts, and Sunday certainty lived a different reality — one marked by poverty, secrecy, generational trauma, untreated mental illness, sexual abuse buried under shame, and a sister whose devastating medical decline was always explained away as "God's will."

As she grew older, married young, raised children, and eventually stepped away from church, a single book cracked open everything she thought she knew. What followed wasn't rebellion for rebellion's sake — it was a slow unraveling. A questioning of scripture. A confrontation with hypocrisy. A reckoning with the damage done in the name of divine purpose.

Breaking the Faith is not just about losing religion. It's about reclaiming autonomy. It's about choosing logic over fear, evidence over indoctrination, and compassion over control. It explores how intelligent, loving people can cling to belief — and what it costs when they do.

Brutally honest, darkly humorous, and deeply human, this memoir challenges readers to examine what they believe, why they believe it, and whether faith should ever come at the expense of truth.