Coming from a loving, complicated, literary family, Sands Hall did not precisely fit the profile for one who would submit to a slow yet willing absorption into the Church of Scientology in the 1980s where she spent nearly a decade. In her candid and nuanced memoir, Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology, Sands shares her spiritual and artistic journey both during and after her years in what has since been called a “cult”. How has she found meaning and purpose rather than ruminating in regret? And what are the lessons she took from her experience? That’s what we learn in conversation with her.