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all. Her practical path of courage, healing,
fulfillment, and success can be a useful guide for
those who may want to take that scary leap into
the unknown. I would, therefore, recommend
this useful memoir as a concrete companion to
cult experts Tobias-Lalich’s Take Back your
Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive
Relationships,3 and Livia Bardin’s Starting Out
in Mainstream America.4
About the Reviewer
J. Paul Lennon, STL, MA, LPC, Board
member, Regain Network (Religious Groups
Awareness International Network). Mr. Lennon
was a Legionary of Christ brother from 1961 to
1969 and an LC priest from 1969 to 1984. He
served as a Diocesan priest from 1985 to 1989.
He received an MA in Counseling from the
Catholic University of America in 1989, and
later a Post Masters in Marriage and Family
Therapy from Virginia Tech. Since the 1990s, he
has worked with ReGAIN to inform, outreach,
and support former members and families of The
Legion of Christ and other similar mainstream
Christian groups. From 2003 to 2016 he worked
as a Child and Family Therapist in Arlington,
Virginia. In 2008, he published a memoir, Our
Father who art in bed, A Naive and Sentimental
Dubliner in the Legion of Christ. He presently
lives in Guatemala with his wife, where he
continues to coordinate ReGAIN. Paul is
bilingual Spanish.
3 Seehttps://www.amazon.com/Take-Back-Your-Life-
Relationships-ebook/dp/B001RNPD9M
4 See http://cultrecovery101.com/tag/livia-bardin/
all. Her practical path of courage, healing,
fulfillment, and success can be a useful guide for
those who may want to take that scary leap into
the unknown. I would, therefore, recommend
this useful memoir as a concrete companion to
cult experts Tobias-Lalich’s Take Back your
Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive
Relationships,3 and Livia Bardin’s Starting Out
in Mainstream America.4
About the Reviewer
J. Paul Lennon, STL, MA, LPC, Board
member, Regain Network (Religious Groups
Awareness International Network). Mr. Lennon
was a Legionary of Christ brother from 1961 to
1969 and an LC priest from 1969 to 1984. He
served as a Diocesan priest from 1985 to 1989.
He received an MA in Counseling from the
Catholic University of America in 1989, and
later a Post Masters in Marriage and Family
Therapy from Virginia Tech. Since the 1990s, he
has worked with ReGAIN to inform, outreach,
and support former members and families of The
Legion of Christ and other similar mainstream
Christian groups. From 2003 to 2016 he worked
as a Child and Family Therapist in Arlington,
Virginia. In 2008, he published a memoir, Our
Father who art in bed, A Naive and Sentimental
Dubliner in the Legion of Christ. He presently
lives in Guatemala with his wife, where he
continues to coordinate ReGAIN. Paul is
bilingual Spanish.
3 Seehttps://www.amazon.com/Take-Back-Your-Life-
Relationships-ebook/dp/B001RNPD9M
4 See http://cultrecovery101.com/tag/livia-bardin/
