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Keeping It Real: Conversations with Jillian Michaels

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The Importance of Defense Mechanisms

Gillian: I'd rather be a sinner in a world with a God than a saint. It's hopeless if there's no God. But if you are a sinner, right, you can change and fundamentally then you can change them. And then you don't have to grieve that your parent was who they are. There's a child. How is a child going to survive? If they know that they have a cold critical parent who isn't nurturing of loving they as human beings, we completely depend on our parents as children for protection for love.

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