Ryan David Tuttle

Educational goals

I discuss my Educational Journey and what my current goals are.

I’ve decided to start a new video channel that will be a vlog/journal based on my life experiences before and after religion. I will also be talking about my journey as I apply for and go to graduate school! I purchased a new lens that should be better for making video going forward. I haveContinue reading “New Video channel started”

Consolidating my websites

So I have been exploring website building with wordpress for awhile now. I have a couple of sites I produced for my animal breeding and a few I produced like this one. I want to consolidate them all in to one paid for site. I am not sure how to go about this just yet.Continue reading “Consolidating my websites”

Working on my Interests

The time to apply for graduate school is approaching fast and I felt like I had a bit of dilemma on my hands. On one hand I want to research and be involved in helping other survivors of religions trauma. This interest stems from my own experience escaping the high control group known as Jehovah’sContinue reading “Working on my Interests”

Supporting others with empathic listening

. One of my goals is to train survivors of high control religions to be better able to support others survivors. Learning empathic listening can go a long way in helping others. I found this video that you may find useful. Like and share Like I have mentioned when we were in our high control religion weContinue reading “Supporting others with empathic listening”

Defining my areas of interest

So I’ve been doing a lot of work figuring out what my research interests are. I’m going to make a list of terms here: Learned helplessness Behavioral Depression HPA axis Social defeat stress Chronic social stress Dorsal rapha nucleus (drn) Bed nucleus of the stria terminals Central nucleus of the amygdala Basolateral nucleus of theContinue reading “Defining my areas of interest”

Mister Mice

As my friends already know, one of my hobbies is breeding mice. I think when I talk about mouse breeding a lot people think that I like mice. It seems like they think about mice as pets like they may have had or be familiar with. To be honest I’m not that crazy about miceContinue reading “Mister Mice”

A New Direction

So I have been not writing much on my blog and I’ve been thinking about to do with it. I feel torn between writing about recovering from religion and writing about other topics. I don’t think it’s healthy to be focused so much on traumatic things and recovery but I also feel like it’s importantContinue reading “A New Direction”

My History as a Jehovah’s Witness

Ryan aka “elryancito” was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is currently counselor that works in an intensive clinical group living environment which is a pilot program designed to help dually-diagnosed disabled individuals with recovery. Ryan is also an undergraduate psychology student at Worcester State University. Ryan’s Parents and Grandparents were Jehovah’s Witnesses. His grandfather found solace inContinue reading “My History as a Jehovah’s Witness”

ExJWs: What to avoid when Listening

When you are supporting a fellow XJW by listening there a few things that you should avoid. Psychologist Dr. John Grohol describes 7 common phrases that tend to impede Active Listening. Avoid asking “Why?”. Asking “why?” might be a legitimate and sincere question. However it might make the other person defensive. Can you think of time whereContinue reading “ExJWs: What to avoid when Listening”