So the circumstances were that I had just given my life to Christ after having been a runaway,

drug abuser, sexually abused, in and out of mental institutions with a single mom and kind of a distant father.

Anne's life was a mess. She didn't know the first thing about how to be a good wife or mother.

So focused on the family was like mana to me. Every day, I needed wisdom. I needed guidance.

I needed the lessons and the teaching that came every day from 11 to 1130 into my kitchen.

And I know today that my life has changed because of

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Is there something from your childhood that you just cannot get over maybe a fear or a struggle in a public setting or a school thing, is there something that's

still kind of niggling at you all these years later?

Well, I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny who heads up the focus on the family parenting team.

And Danny, I think most of us have stuff from our childhood.

You're the counselor.

What do you think? Everyone carries it. Yeah, it's in our childhood. You're the counselor. What do you think?

Everyone carries it.

Yeah, it's in our backpack as we're getting older.

We accumulate certain things that we either tried to overcome, we overcome, or we're still

struggling with.

But the backpack is full of them.

And I remember when I moved here to the United States from Mexico City at about eight

and a half years old.

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