215. Family — Sinners

Father Yod promised his followers a new kind of family—one free from the constraints and disappointments of their birth families. What he delivered instead was a prison of manipulation, exploitation, and eventual abandonment. His story is an extreme example, but it illuminates patterns that exist in subtler forms all around us.

Read books on scapegoating (e.g., Toxic Parents by Susan Forward, The Scapegoat Complex by Sylvia Brinton Perera). See your story in print. Realize you are not alone. 215. family sinners