111 Redeeming Heartache: How Goodness Can Come Out Of Trauma

The Place We Find Ourselves

Adam Young

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🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Bonus episode! Cathy Loerzel and I dive into why it’s crucial to take your wounds seriously, and how your wounds lead to the “orphan experience,” “stranger experience,” and/or “widow experience.” We also talk about what redemption looks like for each of these three types of wounding. Jesus takes our experiences of trauma and redeems them. That is, God creates glory, meaning and calling out of the very things that were designed to hurt us. If you want to better understand what redemption can look like for you, Cathy and I will be co-leading a live Redeeming Heartache event on May 21, 2022, in Fort Collins, CO. You can sign up here.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the place to find ourselves podcasts. I'm Adam Young and today I am joined by
0:05.3	Kathy Lorsell who's been on the podcast before. She is the co-author of Redeeming Heartache. Kathy,
0:12.4	welcome back. Thank you Adam. Thanks for having me. We, you and I have talked previously on the
0:18.1	podcast about this book along with Dan Allender, your co-author. But today, the reason you're here is
0:25.1	because you and I together are going to be co-teaching a redeeming heartache event on Saturday, May 21st.
0:33.6	And here's the best part. It is going to be live in person. All right. So this one day conference,
0:41.4	it will be held right here in the beautiful city of Fort Collins, Colorado, which is exactly an hour
0:48.0	north of the Denver Airport. And it is coming up Saturday, May 21st. So let's start today by asking
0:54.6	the question of why. Why are we doing a redeeming heartache conference on May 21st? And why have you
1:01.2	been doing them sporadically across the country over the past year? And here's one primary reason.
1:09.3	We know that trauma is real. It deeply affects our brains and our bodies. But we also know that the
1:16.4	resurrection of Jesus is real, which means that Jesus takes the trauma in our stories and he creates
1:25.5	glory, calling, meaning out of that trauma in our lives. And that's a big sentence. So let me just
1:33.3	summarize it and say it again. Trauma, we know is real. It affects us deeply and we know that the
1:40.4	resurrection is also real, which means that Jesus creates, he takes trauma from our pasts and
1:50.0	creates glory, calling, meaning in our lives. That's one of the central theses of your book,
1:56.3	redeeming heartache. And I'm curious as I say it, what it stirs in you, what's your reaction to it.
2:02.8	I mean, my first thoughts are thank God. The resurrection is real because you can't live in this world
2:11.6	and not see all the harm, all the heartache, all the trauma. And yet we're also left looking at
2:20.0	such beauty, such goodness, such gifting. And I think so much of our work is to figure out how to
2:28.5	live in the tension in between those things. So how do we handle the fact that there's so much
2:36.6	trauma and debris, but we're also left with the, I mean, I was just driving, I had horseback
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