The Place We Find Ourselves

Often the place we find ourselves is a place of desert, of wilderness, of valley. Indeed these are places of death. And they are real and they are part of the process of healing. But they are not the ...

20 Nov 201832min

Last week we talked about Cathy Loerzel's U-diagram and about the importance of engaging particular scenes of heartache and harm in order for healing to begin to take place for you. Today we continue ...

20 Nov 201826min

In this week's episode, we begin a three part series on the subject of healing. What is necessary for healing to begin to occur? There is no way to experience healing apart from taking an honest look ...

20 Nov 201836min

Autumn reads a story that is a beautiful illustration of what it can look like to engage a parent who has done harm. This story is from a very recent time in Autumn's life when she found herself carin...

15 Okt 201842min

In the near future, I am going to address how healing happens in the brain. But there is a prerequisite to healing, there is something that you have to be growing in if you are going to experience hea...

8 Okt 201839min

Laurie tells us how and why she began to engage her story at a deeper level. She then shares a story from when she was 12 years old. It's a story in which her sense of innocence, beauty, and hope were...

1 Okt 201850min

"Affect" refers to your moment by moment experience of your internal bodily sensations. Think of affect on a scale of 1-10, where 1 represents completely numb and shut down and 10 represents panic, ra...

20 Aug 201830min

Jason reflects on why he began engaging his story and what that process looked like for him. Jason began addressing his story as part of a story group... but (surprising twist) his father just happene...

13 Aug 201835min