Disavowed: a woman's journey through three religious communities

'Disavowed' is a memoir of fifteen years spent as a Sister in three different religious communities, written with whimsical humor, gentle irony, and full of colorful details plus some grim truths about convent life. Idealistic, full of good intentions and hoping to be holy, the author, as a young woman, first entered an extremely conservative order whose members lived as though they were still in the nineteenth century. On recovering from that ordeal, she went on to spend twelve years of spiritual discovery in another order. Though her understanding of her relationship with God developed, unfortunately she did not develop a corresponding understanding of herself and her relationship with others. She found that changing to yet a third congregation was not the solution to her own lack of self-insight.