Exit Wounds: A Practical Guide to Leaving High-Demand Systems and Rebuilding Your Life

You left the system.
Why do some aspects of your experience continue long after leaving?

For people leaving Mormonism, high-demand religion, spiritual abuse, and other identity-capturing systems, the hardest part is often not the decision to leave. It is the aftermath.

The beliefs may fall apart quickly in light of scruitiny. The emotional architecture often does not.
In Exit Wounds, Quinn Price offers a practical guide to life after high-demand belief: the grief, the shame reflex, the fear, the social fallout, the identity confusion, and the long, non-linear work of building something real on the other side.
Drawing on his own experience leaving the LDS Church and on decades of professional work in resilience and organizational effectiveness, Price shows readers how to understand the system they left, navigate the destabilizing middle, and move from survival into deliberate rebuilding.

This book will help you:

• understand why leaving feels so psychologically costly
• recognize the architecture of high-demand systems
• manage family pressure and re-recruitment attempts
• set boundaries without collapsing into guilt
• find support that is trauma-aware and forward-moving
• rebuild identity, agency, and purpose after the exit