Author
Sharon
I was the worst daughter they ever saw
Sharon describes her mother’s untreated breast cancer, the metastasis that followed, and being judged at the hospital as a daughter who let it happen.
It was our fault that my father died because we let him out of our ‘experience.’
Sharon describes how her Christian Scientist family treated death, including her mother's claim that they let her father die of throat cancer by letting him go.
My husband thinks I am nuts...
Sharon recalls awkward silences at Wednesday testimony meetings, a scab picked in church as a child, and explaining why it is funny to a husband unfamiliar with Christian Science.
Straighten out your thinking!
Sharon recalls severe untreated burns on a foot at age nine, a painful infection, and a mother who said only to straighten out their thinking.
Guilt, because we are not good enough to get that healing.
Part 3 of a former Christian Scientist’s story: growing up with Mary Baker Eddy’s picture on the wall, guilt over failed healings, lost empathy for illness, and a search for faith.
I couldn't bring myself to put my kids through the same crap I went through
A former Christian Scientist describes secretly vaccinating her children, a gallbladder emergency after a year of Christian Science treatment, and leaving.
Someone introduced Mother to a CSP
Part 1 of a former Christian Scientist’s story: a mother devoted to practitioners and her teacher, a childhood without medical care, and how it still affects the writer.