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Are You An Ex-Jehovah’s Witness?
You Have Found The Right Place. And The Right Therapist.
My name is Lisa Magdalena.
I am The Original ExJW Therapist
— the world’s first and longest-standing specialist
in ex-Jehovah’s Witness recovery,
with 26 years of exclusive clinical experience in this field.
My father’s name was Keith Playford.
In 1971 he was at the centre of the UK’s first ever legal battle
over a Jehovah’s Witness blood transfusion refusal —
a landmark moment in British medical and legal history,
covered by The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Independent and Eve Magazine.
Keith had his wisdom teeth removed at a hospital in Margate.
He suffered severe blood loss.
He refused a transfusion because the faithful and discreet slave
told him Jehovah required it.
The hospital won an unprecedented court battle to force treatment.
But it was too late. Keith died anyway.
He was 28 years old. I was two.
At 28 — the same age Keith died —
I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease
and survived with nine blood transfusions.
The treatment the Watchtower denied my father saved my life.
This is not academic knowledge. This is my life.
And it is why — when you sit with me —
you will never spend a single minute explaining yourself.