My Story

Why I Write

I lived in the Synanon cult for 8 years. Tender Loving Care is a memoir about escaping the Synanon cult.

This is a true story of a mother torn from her baby.. A story of incremental moral compromise and emotional loyalty to people who were loving, yet complicit in stealing her baby and destroying her marriage.

The Synanon Prayer:

Please let me first and always examine myself

Let me be honest and truthful

Let me seek and assume responsibility

Let me understand rather than be understood

Let me trust and have faith in myself and my fellow man

Let me love rather than be loved

Let me give rather than receive.

My Story

How could such a philosophy go wrong?