There’s Nothing Wrong With You (And There Never Was) ™ | Kelly Thompson TNWWY | Substack

There’s nothing wrong with you (and there never was).

Uncovering Wholeness

What Doesn’t Suck?

2025 sucked but there was some cool stuff that kept me going

Dec 21, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

The Biter: First Love.

My first friend was the boy next door.

Dec 7, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Rayan’s Court: A Thanksgiving Miracle

This is Rayan’s story — a story of survival, resilience, and the healing power of people who choose to care.

Nov 27, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Bonus: And You May Find Yourself: Kelly Thompson in Conversation with Sari Botton

A candid, funny, and deeply human conversation with Sari Botton, author of And You May Find Yourself: Confessions of a Late-Blooming Gen-X Weirdo, on…

Nov 12, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY and Sari Botton

1:12:36

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Not Done Growing 🌻

Nov 9, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Breaking Generational Cycles

There was nothing surprising in Rene Nicole Good’s death.

42 mins ago • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

The Biter: First Love.

My first friend was the boy next door.

Dec 7, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn.” — 1 Corinthians 11:6

Nov 23, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

The First Time. The Shock of Being Punched.

Oct 12, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Wrapped Up in a Bow: Tonight Was Her Turn

Three Generations Find Healing Under the Stars at Red Rocks

Aug 18, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

The Recovery of Being

Writing from Wholeness

Jan 4 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Five from the Turning Point

Dec 12, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Rayan’s Court: A Thanksgiving Miracle

This is Rayan’s story — a story of survival, resilience, and the healing power of people who choose to care.

Nov 27, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn.” — 1 Corinthians 11:6

Nov 23, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Not Done Growing 🌻

Nov 9, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Writing and Reclamation

Writing from Wholeness

Jan 4 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

The Silent Scream

If You Listen You Will Hear It All Around You

Oct 13, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Once in a Lifetime: A Bird Without A Sky

My substance was not hidden from myself, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. ~Psalms 139:15

Aug 31, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Love Is Not A Victory March

Family adoption, estrangement, complicated grief, trans generational trauma—and the cost of recovery

Jun 23, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Make Art in the Face of Fuck*

100 Days of Creative Resistance

Mar 30, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

religious trauma

There was nothing surprising in Rene Nicole Good’s death.

42 mins ago • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

The Biter: First Love.

My first friend was the boy next door.

Dec 7, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn.” — 1 Corinthians 11:6

Nov 23, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

The Silent Scream

If You Listen You Will Hear It All Around You

Oct 13, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

The First Time. The Shock of Being Punched.

Oct 12, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Community Space

Five from the Turning Point

Dec 12, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Live with Kelly Thompson TNWWY- A Convo with Michelle Dowd

A talk with Michelle Dowd, author of Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult, about her luminous essay “What We Keep,” published in Issue 2 of…

Dec 6, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY and Michelle Dowd

41:57

A Convo with Michelle Dowd

We both survived high-control religious childhoods so this will be a conversation not to miss. We’ll discuss her essay What We Keep from issue two of…

Dec 2, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

LOSING YOUR RELIGION: A Deep Dive with Former 2x2 Cult Worker (Minister) Jared Snyder

Links to Join the Chat and Livestream Below

Jun 2, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

From the Inside: Survivor and Former Worker (aka Minister) Break the Silence on the 2x2 Cult Livestream June 3rd at 12 Noon PDT

Kelly Thompson “, Ex2x2 Survivor, in conversation with Jared Snyder, Ex2x2 Worker

May 16, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Recovery (from anything)

The Whole: Diagnosis

by Paul Crenshaw

Jan 11 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY and Paul Crenshaw

The W(hole): How to Make a Gingerbread Man Baby: A Holiday How To

The holidays are a time of giving and receiving, for all religious and spiritual traditions (Christianity is preferred however and sometimes required).

Dec 28, 2025 • Emily Rapp Black and Kelly Thompson TNWWY

Live with Kelly Thompson TNWWY- A Convo with Michelle Dowd

A talk with Michelle Dowd, author of Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult, about her luminous essay “What We Keep,” published in Issue 2 of…

Dec 6, 2025 • Kelly Thompson TNWWY and Michelle Dowd

41:57

The W(hole): What We Keep

You get used to moving toward the ache, instead of running away from it.

Nov 8, 2025 • Michelle Dowd and Kelly Thompson TNWWY

The W(hole): Mothering With Hungry Ghosts

If I let go, even for a minute, I was sure that I would be pulled into an invisible swirling riptide, currents so strong my body would surrender.

Sep 19, 2025 • Deborah Richardson and Kelly Thompson TNWWY

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