{"id":2390,"date":"2017-04-02T20:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T01:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubfriends.net\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2017-04-01T12:23:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T17:23:50","slug":"how-to-leave-ubf-for-good-epilogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/how-to-leave-ubf-for-good-epilogue\/","title":{"rendered":"How to leave UBF for good&#8211; Epilogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fedupusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/00_TRADE_The_End_659px.jpg\" width=\"659\" height=\"439\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the epilogue. In the final article I will talk about what to do now after leaving UBF for good.<\/p>\n<p><!--more (more...)--><\/p>\n<p>Here is some tips, advice, suggestions, and recommendations for what to do after leaving for good:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cut off <strong>ALL<\/strong> communication from the chapter director, seniors, your bible teacher, and anyone else who is pro-UBF<\/li>\n<li>take a break from church (by church I refer to the physical building\/institution)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ubfriends.net\/how-to-leave-ubf-for-good-rebuilding-your-personality\/\">Rebuild your Personality<\/a><\/li>\n<li>take a vacation (it doesn&#8217;t have to be expensive)<\/li>\n<li>visit a doctor (for a physical exam)<\/li>\n<li>visit a counselor or psychiatrist (don&#8217;t be ashamed or embarrassed to do so)<\/li>\n<li>go for a walk in the park<\/li>\n<li>get a lot of rest (sleeping, napping, snoozing)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you choose to go back to church consider the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>explore different <a href=\"http:\/\/ubfriends.net\/how-to-leave-ubf-for-good-christian-theology-part-2\/\">theologies<\/a><\/li>\n<li>taking a look at this list of <a href=\"http:\/\/ubfriends.net\/mainline-not-cult\/\">real mainline churches<\/a><\/li>\n<li>looking at this article about what makes a community healthy:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ubfriends.net\/archive2015\/2015\/10\/05\/four-signs-of-healthy-community\/index.html\">http:\/\/ubfriends.net\/archive2015\/2015\/10\/05\/four-signs-of-healthy-community\/index.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>praying in seclusion<\/li>\n<li>getting a new bible<\/li>\n<li>have a sit down with the pastor to get a run down of what the church preaches before getting involved<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the epilogue. In the final article I will talk about what to do now after leaving UBF for good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,1,90,13,142,141,125,12,11,14,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-article","category-books","category-emotions","category-healing","category-info","category-justice","category-leadership","category-love","category-peace","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}