18 Why Your Story Makes It Hard To Hope
Hope is flat out agonizing. Hope requires that you groan inwardly while, at the same time, waiting expectantly. The alternatives to hope are a deadening of desire and a growing cynicism about what you...
6 Aug 201835min
17 What It Looks Like To Actually Grieve Your Wounds
In my second conversation with Andrew Bauman, we engage the whole question of "What does it mean to actually grieve?" If you enjoy my conversation with Andrew, you may want to either pickup a copy of ...
29 Jul 201839min
16 Why Lament (Surprisingly) Leads to Life and Freedom
If you take your story and your wounds seriously, then sooner or later you will find yourself disoriented by tragedy and heartache. The invitation at this point is to lament. When was the last time yo...
23 Jul 201830min
15 Choosing Kindness: Engaging Stories of Shame with Andrew Bauman
One of the consequences of trauma is that we tend to do great harm to ourselves—and particularly to our bodies—after the trauma. Today, Andrew talks about the reality of self-contempt and the damage i...
16 Jul 201833min
14 How to Overcome the Shame of Sexual Abuse with Scott
In today's episode, I talk to a fellow therapist named Scott. Scott leads groups for men who have a history of sexual abuse. Today, Scott talks about part of what it looked like for him to engage his ...
9 Jul 201838min
13 Your Wounds and the Path to Healing
In today's show we take a deeper look at how our hearts have been wounded and what the path to healing looks like. Guided by Isaiah 61, we see how our wounding is linked to the particular ways that we...
2 Jul 201826min
12 Why Trauma Makes It Hard to Trust Your Gut with Janet
One of the byproducts of trauma is that you lose a sense of being able to trust your body. You begin to distrust your gut knowledge of what is true because the people around you question your reality....
25 Jun 201849min
11 Implicit Memory: The Thing That's Running Your Life
When it comes to how and why you react to things the way you do, nothing is more important than implicit memory. Do you ever feel intense emotion that you know is "more than the situation calls for"? ...
18 Jun 201829min
