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""We are all mad here."" For twenty years, Kenna lived inside a dream she didn't create. She was the primary voice and visual storyteller for Evermore Church, a thriving, inclusive community that promised a ""Disneyland"" for the soul. Recruited for her creativity and trained into the role of a loyal ""Armor Bearer,"" Kenna was entrusted with intensifying the expansive vision of her Senior Pastor, Austin Bradley. But beneath the polished stage lights and the promises of spiritual purpose, a meticulously crafted labyrinth of coercive control was being built. In Unmasking Wonderland, the scales finally fall. Through the thematic lens of Alice in Wonderland, Karen documents the subject's harrowing descent into a world where logic was inverted, kindness was treated as treason, and absolute surrender to the architect at the top was the only currency. This is a raw, factual exploration of how even the most educated and visionary minds can be groomed into complicity within a high-control group. The heart of this story belongs to the silenced: Red: A twelve-year-old girl whose report of sexual assault was systematically buried by leadership to protect a reputation. Tesha: A minor isolated from her support systems through strategic psychological warfare. Kara: A single mother haunted by Austin in the dead of the night. When the ""nuclear explosion"" of 2023 finally shattered the facade, Kenna and a small band of survivors were left to navigate the debris of their lives. Documenting the journey through a diagnosis of Complex PTSD, the book reveals the staggering cost of breaking two decades of silence to demand accountability from the man who designed their prison. Why this story matters now: Unmasking Wonderland is more than a memoir; it is an urgent piece of investigative record into spiritual abuse and institutional cover-up. Serving as a foundational pillar for the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into Cults, this book is a major Australian reckoning. A Memoir of Many Voices Scroll up and grab your copy of the first book in The Wonderland Trilogy today.

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I spent decades inside a high-control Pentecostal church, slowly shaped into someone who served tirelessly, obeyed unquestioningly, and rarely paused long enough to hear my own voice beneath the demands of the ""vision."" Like many survivors, I did not enter that world naïve, I entered it hopeful. I believed in community, purpose, and the possibility of goodness. And like many, I became a leader within a system that required my loyalty long before it ever cared about my wellbeing. That is the insidious nature of spiritual abuse: it hides beneath the language of calling, sacrifice, honour, and obedience. It masquerades as faithfulness while quietly eroding your intuition, your agency, and sometimes your sense of self. Reading through these pages, including the documented patterns, testimonies, internal accounts, and the careful narrative layering Karen has created, I felt the familiar ache of recognition. The psychological and spiritual dynamics she captures are not abstract, they are lived realities corroborated by countless survivors around the world, and thoroughly reflected in the extensive evidence and testimonies underpinning this book. And yet Karen handles these stories not with sensationalism, but with reverence. Her care is palpable; her integrity unmistakable. She has chosen, again and again, to protect survivors above protecting institutions. This is a rare and radical act in the landscape of church-based harm. Elise Heerde Mental Health Practitioner - Religious Trauma & Cult Recovery

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