Surviving Wonderland: A Journey Beyond Control
A poetry collection for anyone rebuilding after spiritual trauma, rediscovering faith on their own terms, or finding their way out of high-control religion.
A raw 156-page poetry collection: Honest verse that names the reality of spiritual manipulation, impossible expectations, and the courage it takes to leave. Written by someone who survived a religious cult and understands what it means to lose yourself in a high-control group.
The full arc of leaving and rebuilding: From the first moments of realizing something's wrong, through the disorientation of leaving, to the slow work of discovering who you actually are - poetry for every stage of the journey.
Alice in Wonderland as your companion: Using a familiar story to make sense of the senseless - when nothing felt real and everything felt upside down.
Language for what you experienced: When you don't have words for manipulation that felt like love, pressure that felt like calling, or control that felt like community - this collection holds space for all of it.
A hand to hold: Not advice, not answers, just someone saying "I see you, I've been there, and what you're feeling makes sense."
Written by Someone Who Understands
Brittany Hart knows what it's like to lose yourself in a high-control environment. After six years in a religious cult that shaped everything from her identity to her daily decisions, she walked away and began the long process of healing. Surviving Wonderland: A Journey Beyond Control is her debut poetry collection - written from the inside of that experience for anyone else finding their way out and reclaiming their sense of self.
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What Readers Are Saying:
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Brittany Hart’s "Surviving Wonderland: A Journey Beyond Control" is one of those rare books that invites you in with familiar imagery and then quietly rearranges the furniture of your soul. If you have your own history with religious trauma, this book will feel like permission. It is tender. It is precise. It is brave. It tells the truth without bitterness and offers hope without pretending the pain is small. Brittany does not hand you answers. She hands you light.
Scot Loyd, PhD
Speaker, Scholar, & Author, "The God I Was Given"
What Brittany does with words makes poetry proud. Poetry is where language breaks open—where pain and beauty breathe the same air. Her writing becomes witness and balm, naming the shock of survival and the shimmer of hope.
Tamice Spender - Helms, PhD
Public Theologian & Author, "Faith Unleavened"
Through visceral and evocative prose, Brittany Hart creates a deeply textured map of the systematic obliteration of self within religious cultism and the painstaking work of personal recovery from spiritual trauma.
Lynn M. Horan, PhD
Author, "Dismantled: Abusive Church Culture and the Clergy Who Leave"
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