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Tracey: Focus on the Family to None

Published: Sept. 11, 2023, midnight

b'This week\\u2019s guest is Tracey. Tracey spent her childhood in a white American Christian home where Focus on the Family reigned and \\u201cObey right away\\u201d was the expectation.

She was a believer as an adolescent but began asking hard questions in high school. As a young adult, she saw how prideful the leaders were and how easily Christians were pulled in.

\\u201cThat\\u2019s a theme through my whole experience of Christianity\\u2026Christians are actually attracted to narcissists\\u2026People are drawn to or encouraged to seek answers from narcissists.\\u201d

As an adult, Tracey became Catholic, only to see the same threads running through\\u2014narcissism, misogyny, racism, abuse and more.

In the past few years, Tracey\\u2019s found solace in yoga, meditation and nature. She\\u2019s grown and been changed, not through the religious

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