Website -https://www.lisakohnwrites.com
People ask me where I’m from and while I will mention the town in which I now reside, I always quickly add that I’m “from” New York City. Truthfully I was born in New Jersey and lived mostly there for the first twelve years of my life, but New York City is where my heart and identity reside. I am a New Yorker. An East Villager. From before it was cool – when it was just seedy and scary. When there was “no life above 14th Street” and the men’s shelter was around the corner on one side and the Hells Angels’ world headquarters around the corner on the other.
I now live in Wayne, PA with my husband of nearly twenty years and my two (if I do say so myself) beautiful children, whenever they’re around. My friends here tease me because, city kid that I am, I’m afraid of the boogeyman when I walk down the street in the dark – even if it’s only 7pm on a winter evening. Even though the Hells Angels never really scared me!
I own a leadership consulting and executive coaching firm and spend much of my time speaking, writing, teaching, and presenting my ideas and approaches to life and to business. Ideas that are a compilation of what I’ve learned along the journey through my bizarre and “way out” childhood, and leadership best practices learned in my many years in business and my MBA.
People still have different reactions when they hear all that happened to and around me. A few years ago new neighbors moved in two doors down. I quickly became fast friends with the mom. One night we were out to dinner and facts about my past came out. She looked at me, from across the table, and exclaimed, “But you seem so normal!” I guess I am, whatever normal means. My childhood was anything but. It was quite a path from there to here and a long journey to move beyond all the things that held me captive for many years. It’s a weird story. But it’s true.
To the Moon and Back: A Childhood Under the Influence
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Born to hippie parents and raised in New York City's East Village in the 1970s, Lisa's early years were a mixture of encounter groups, primal screams, macrobiotic diets, communes, Indian ashrams, Jefferson Airplane concerts in Central Park, and watching naked actors on off-Broadway stages during the musical HAIR. By the time her older brother was ten, Lisa's father had him smoking pot. By the time Lisa was ten, Lisa's mother had them pledging their lives to the Unification Church (the "Moonies") and self-appointed Messiah, Reverend Sun Myung Moon.
As a child Lisa knew the ecstatic comfort of inclusion in a cult and as a teenager the torment of rebelling against it. As an adult, Lisa struggled to break free from the hold of abuse and the scars in her heart, mind, and psyche--battling her own addictions and inner demons and searching her soul for a sense of self-worth. Told in spirited candor, to the moon and back reveals how one can leave behind absurdity and horror and create a life of intention and joy.
Purchase today and read the fascinating tale of an extraordinary story rarely told in its full complexity.
"You really need to read this book, because it's awesome."
--Jenny Lawson, the Bloggess, New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy
"Growing up in New York in the 1970s, debut author Kohn had few points of reference through which she could make sense of the world around her. She and her brother, Robbie, were caught in the throes of their parents' belief in the Unification Church, founded by a self-appointed messiah, Sun Myung Moon (followers were called Moonies). But this is not just an inside-the-cult book; this is the story of a woman who attempted everything in her power to get out of it. If writing is an evacuation tool to process and understand abuse, Kohn has done an excellent job of producing a text that oozes with honesty and truth."
Product details
- File size : 3322 KB
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 247 pages
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- Publisher : Heliotrope Books (18 Sept. 2018)
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Language: : English
- ASIN : B07DWV6861
- Best Sellers Rank: 326,542 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 205 in Cults & Demonism
- 5,004 in Memoirs (Kindle Store)
- 14,714 in Religion & Spirituality (Kindle Stor
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