157 What If My Story Isn't That Bad? Why We All Tend to Minimize Our Wounds
This episode is for people who experience emotional pain but feel like "nothing that bad happened to me growing up. I had a pretty good childhood." As it says in Jeremiah 6, it is very common to dress...
17 Jun 202429min
156 Five Objections to Engaging Your Story: A Response
When I began exploring my story, five objections kept coming up for me. These objections kept me stuck. In today's episode, I respond to each of the five objections. Objection 1: I should focus on the...
3 Jun 202440min
155 Why Engaging Your Story Heals Your Brain
My invitation to you today is simple: to take your story seriously. Engaging your story is the single most important thing you can do to experience healing. When I say "your story," I'm talking more a...
20 Mai 202439min
154 What Grief Is, How It Heals, and the Pain of Loneliness with J.S. Park
In "As Long As You Need," author J.S. Park writes that "Grief is not about letting go, but about letting in." Letting in sorrow, letting in anger, and especially letting in other people who can be WIT...
7 Mai 202445min
153 How Your Past Story Affects Your Present Sexuality with Jay Stringer
I am joined today by author Jay Stringer to talk about sexual stuckness/difficulties/pain. Healthy sexuality is deeply tied to the degree to which we have made sense of our story in our family of orig...
30 Mar 202450min
152 Learning To Live Inside Your Body with Dr. Hillary McBride
I am joined today by Dr. Hillary McBride to discuss excerpts from her new book titled, "Practices for Embodied Living." Topics covered include: how to feel your feelings, being alive in your body (ero...
21 Feb 202439min
151 What To Do With Desire and Dread with Mike Boland
Pastor and counselor Mike Boland shares a story from when he was 15 years old. It's a story about the interplay of longing for connection and, at the same time, dreading what will be required of him i...
31 Jan 202441min
150 Trauma Heals By Connecting With Others
The opposite of trauma is not "no trauma;" the opposite of trauma is connection. To be human is to be wounded. However, wounds heal naturally when the environment is right… and the right environment f...
8 Jan 202435min
