What story do you believe you’re living in? Friend, your answer to that question could not be more important.

Learning to tell the truest version of my story to empathetic listeners has healed my heart after so much breaking. A decade and a half of this work has helped me integrate the hurt with the hope, and God’s goodness with his mystery. Today I’m sitting down with the person who taught me how to start telling that story years and years ago—Dr. Curt Thompson.

Dr. Thompson is a renowned psychiatrist, author, and speaker who brings together the wisdom of neuroscience and spiritual formation to help people (like me!) understand and re-narrate their lives. In this episode we’ll cover:

• Discovering your suffering in the context of community
• Allowing Jesus to access our entire selves
• Suffering can be redefined even when it isn’t resolved
• Transforming your anger into something useful
• Becoming the empathetic listener that other people need

If you want to be transformed by your suffering but need some support in making that happen, this conversation is for you.

Show Notes:

The GoodHard Podcast Episode 71 with Dan Allender - https://pod.link/1496882479/episode/127f135d0f8f4b67fd2d4b5de256ad7c

Make Sense of Your Story: Why Engaging Your Past with Kindness Changes Everything - https://a.co/d/6XHzUiJ

Scriptures referenced in this episode:

John 16:33

Mark 5:25-34

2 Corinthians 4:16

Deuteronomy 8

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