1. My adventure in odyssey -- 2. Growing up a Green Gable Girl -- 3. My thirteen-year-old vow to purity -- 4. Breaking the mold -- 5. Pulling apart perfection -- 6. Growing in the furnace -- 7. Unexpected scandal -- 8. Finding love, but in the wrong place -- 9. The aftermath -- 10. Wrestling with God -- 11. Let us live and love without labels -- 12. Riding the tightrope -- 13. Orphan Amber -- 14. The price of love -- 15. The turning point -- 16. Love lost, love gained -- 17. Saying "I do" to a woman -- 18. Refocusing my family.
Summary:
In 2012, at the age of twenty-seven, Amber Cantorna came out to her family as gay. As the daughter of a Focus on the Family executive, that transparency cost her everything. Refocusing My Family is Amber's journey from the suffocating expectations of Focus on the Family to the liberating joy of claiming her own identity. A powerful story of survival, Amber's struggle under the weight of perfectionism, reputation, and appearances is transformed into freedom when she boldly steps into her identity and discovers that the true love of God surpasses all.
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