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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Some truths stay buried for decades. In this raw, courageous, and deeply healing episode of "It Begins Here," host Jillian Johnson speaks a truth she's never fully shared before—the childhood sexual abuse perpetrated by her mother's adopted brother in a vehicle when she was young. But this is not a story of victimhood. It's a story of release, of forgiveness, of recognizing that what happened does not define who she is. Jillian explains the "aha moment" when everything clicked—why she never u...]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[What happens when spirituality becomes structured, rigid, and guarded by fallible humans? In this courageous and deeply vulnerable episode of "It Begins Here," host Jillian Johnson speaks the uncomfortable truth she's been avoiding for years: organized religion, by its very structure, sets the stage for failure, secrecy, and a devastating lack of accountability. Jillian doesn't mince words. She names the unnameable—that institutional religions have "set the stage" for child trafficking and th...]]></itunes:summary>
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