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Jul 2025
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 107 - Touch...

Jeremy Schumacher
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This week Jeremy looks at how the church covers up abuse and protects predators, and how those same tactics of spiritual bypassing and DARVO are being employed by Mike Johnson to protect our pedophile in chief. We look at examples of institutional coverups like Bill Gothard's grooming and abuse at the IBLP and of course we look at the catholic church and sou ... Show More
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