19 VOLUME 9 |ISSUE 3 |2018
By
Lorna Goldberg
and Ann Stamler
This article is based on a presentation
by Lorna Goldberg at ICSA’s annual
Workshop for Those Born/Raised in
Cultic Groups in Chester, Connecticut,
in which she discusses each year the
very difficult question of how we who
were born or raised in cultic groups
feel today about the people who
caused us harm as we were growing
up, especially our families. Her
presentation has two goals: one is to
identify the issues we face the other
is to suggest how we might address
those issues. She does not offer
answers she offers a framework we
can use to find what works for us.
In 2018, I joined Lorna at the
workshop to offer illustrations from
my life of some of the concepts and
issues she discussed. My mother
had died just 6 months before the
workshop, and the opportunity to
reflect on her life and my relationship
with her, with the help of Lorna’s
insights, was a welcome gift.
—Ann Stamler
By
Lorna Goldberg
and Ann Stamler
This article is based on a presentation
by Lorna Goldberg at ICSA’s annual
Workshop for Those Born/Raised in
Cultic Groups in Chester, Connecticut,
in which she discusses each year the
very difficult question of how we who
were born or raised in cultic groups
feel today about the people who
caused us harm as we were growing
up, especially our families. Her
presentation has two goals: one is to
identify the issues we face the other
is to suggest how we might address
those issues. She does not offer
answers she offers a framework we
can use to find what works for us.
In 2018, I joined Lorna at the
workshop to offer illustrations from
my life of some of the concepts and
issues she discussed. My mother
had died just 6 months before the
workshop, and the opportunity to
reflect on her life and my relationship
with her, with the help of Lorna’s
insights, was a welcome gift.
—Ann Stamler
