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Breaking Free From Christian Patriarchy

This week, Kat talks with Cait West, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rift-Memoir-Breaking-Christian-Patriarchy/dp/0802883583">Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away From Christian Patriarchy.</a> Cait shares about her childhood growing up in the Christian patriarchy and how she found the strength to escape a life of serving the men around her. She was homeschooled and expected to live at home as a stay-at-home daughter until her father allowed her to marry a man he chose for her. No college and definitely no career. As she grew older something deep inside Cait told her this wasn’t how life was supposed to be – and in her 20s she did the most brave thing, she left to build a life of her own, getting a real job for the first time and eventually graduating college and starting a career as an editor. Follow Cait on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/caitwestwrites/">@caitwestwrites</a>   Follow Kat on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/katvanburen/">@KatVanburen</a> Follow the podcast Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/youneedtherapypodcast/">@YouNeedTherapyPodcast</a> Click <a href="https://www.youneedtherapypodcast.com/shop">HERE</a> to see the You Need Therapy merch! Have a question, concern, guest idea, something else? Reach Kat at: <a href="mailto:Kathryn@youneedtherapyodcast.com">Kathryn@youneedtherapyodcast.com</a> Heard about Three Cords Therapy but don’t know what it is? <a href="https://threecordstherapy.com/">Click here!</a>   Produced by: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/houstontilley/">@HoustonTilley</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Kathryn DeFatta, who has earned her Masters of Education from Vanderbilt University in Human Development Counseling, is inviting you into conversations around what it’s like to live fully in a world where we’ve become accustomed to shut parts of ourselves off. Here you will find a space that welcomes in discomfort, tough questions, and hard truths, all while showing how to find joy through it all.