Hello heron.
2nd-gen here. Baptized when I was 10 (in 1962). Pioneered, Bethelite, MS. Df'd for apostasy ~1980, reinstated a couple of years later (all my family was, and is, in)...another 20 years, and was df'd again (for apostasy).
JWD was an outlet for me which I never imagined was available, and was an inlet for what-the-WTS-doesn't-want-you-to-know-information and exJW experiences that, well--I'm not sure that "healed" will ever be 100% true (some wounds run too deep), but 95% is pretty good, especially considering the alternative.
Welcome to you.
Craig