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She was not a calming presence, and then it became an emotional thing where I can't have my mom projecting the same toxic things on my daughter that she did on me during my childhood. Well, that's Melanie Shankill, sharing ways that we can heal from generational trauma and protect the next generation.

Welcome to Focus on the Family with Jim Daly.

This episode is one of our best of 2025, and we're coming back to it because it really resonated with so many listeners.

Thanks for joining us.

I'm John Fuller.

You know, John, any good parent

wants to stop the unhealthy patterns that we saw our parents doing to us, right? But it,

that old adage that you don't fall far from the tree is so true. There are things that I do

behaviorally that I remember my dad doing, who was an alcoholic. And it's not

that. It's just the attitude sometimes creeps in. And you got to, especially as a Christian,

you've got to arrest that thing and wrestle it down. But it's hard because as children,

we pick up habits, we pick up ways that we speak, and, you know, those unhealthy things,

the attitudes that we get from our parents, if we want to be healthy in Christ, we've got

to capture those toxic things and make them healthy. And we're going to cover that today.

You know, 1st Peter 1, 18, 19, and the producers pointed this out, it says,

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