Focus On Your Own Family
Many children born in the late 1970s to the present day have found themselves influenced by Dr James Dobson founder of Focus on the Family. James Dobson equated child rearing to training dogs, his harmful abusive training techniques raised a generation of children. We would like to speak up.
Focus On Your Own Family
Surviving Prayer Journals- Using AI to decode religious trauma in written form.
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joined by Lindsey Williams to unpack what happened when I fed my old prayer journals into AI and asked it to analyze them through the lens of religious trauma. The results were eye-opening. We talk about growing up in evangelicalism, how tech can help survivors find language, and why healing starts with telling the truth—even to ourselves.
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Pre-roll music is composed by Joanna Whaley
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Music composed by Joanna Whaley
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INTRO AND OUTRO MUSIC
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Composed by Joanna Whaley
