What do you do if someone you love won’t acknowledge the harm that you experienced - the harm they may have caused? How long do you wait, and is there another way to move on? In this third episode Sam and Caz talk about the yearning for acknowledgement and reparation that follows betrayal, especially betrayal as a child. Join this final conversation with Sam and Caz, as they grapple with hurts left behind, relationships that may never be repaired, and their own creative pursuits for justice.

Show Notes:

• Movie: Child of the Commune

• Webpage: An Open Letter Calling for Restorative Justice for the Children of Centrepoint Community

• Book: Trauma and Recovery - Judith Herman

• Podcast: The Children of Osho - Cult Vault

• Podcast: In My Father’s Footsteps - Indoctrination

• Podcast: Children of the Guru - Loss of Identity within the Rajneesh Cult - Talk Beliefs
  

Decades after leaving a cult, what is life like for a child cult survivor? How does she build identity and integrate into the outside world? In this second episode of Caz and Sam Jahara’s intimate conversation, the two discuss these concerns and more. They talk about the resources needed to recover and thrive, the wounds left by neglect and abuse, and the unique challenges those born or raised in a cult must navigate. This vulnerable second part of a three-part conversation is not to be missed.

Notes

Film: Wild Wild Country on Netflix

Article: The psychological impacts on children who grow up in cults by Sam Jahara

Book: What Happened to You? Conversations on trauma, and healing by Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey

Book: Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman

Caz speaks with UK psychotherapist Sam Jahara about her years as a child living in the communes of the Indian guru Rajneesh in the 1980s. They explore how the Rajneesh movement was so similar in many difficult ways to the Centrepoint Community that Caz was involved with as a child. This is the first episode of a three part interview between two women who explore the long term effects that cults have on the children who live in them. Listen up if you care about the impacts of cults on kids and are interested in accountability and repair.