A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men.

My name is Andrea and this is adult child. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean.

Yeah, yeah.

What you holding on to?

What you holding on to?

But just let it all go.

What's making you slow now?

Let it all go.

Welcome back to adult child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family.

Guys, y'all need to buckle up

because we are going on a wild ride

for the next two episodes. We are diving deep with singer, songwriter, recovering

addict, former sex worker, but most importantly, my former boarding school classmate Lucy Turchin and this story is

juicy it is raw, it is vulnerable, but trigger warning, her story does include being

sex trafficked as a teenager, as well as working in the sex industry for many years.

So nothing super graphic or violent,

but just want to give you a heads up and a trigger warning.

So I talked about this boarding school in the fourth episode of the pod.

Now this was a quote-unquote character building school, aka a school for troubled teens,

run by a bunch of people who had no business running a school for troubled teens.

But in all honesty, Lucy and I were actually texting about this,

how we're grateful that we got sent there.

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