124 Spiritual Wounding: What It Is and How to Heal Part 1

The Place We Find Ourselves

Adam Young

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🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

I am joined by KJ Ramsey to talk through her new book, “The Lord Is My Courage.” KJ explains why it’s so important to be honest and clear about the ways we have been harmed, and how our bodies often reveal truths about our trauma that our minds are afraid to speak out loud. Gabor Mate says that “Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.” KJ and I both love that sentence and share our thoughts about it.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the place we find ourselves podcast. I'm Adam Young and it is a joy to welcome
0:07.8	KJ Ramsey back to the podcast KJ. It's good to see you. It is so good to see you. You have recently
0:15.5	a couple months ago wrote a vulnerable and candid book, your second book, which is called
0:22.8	The Lord is my courage. And in part, this book is about your experience of being harmed in the
0:31.2	church. And anytime we write something autobiographical and put it out in the world, we're taking a risk.
0:37.9	But in writing this book, I think you took an even greater risk than that because it is the height
0:44.5	of risky writing to share how you have been wounded by others. So can you tell us a little bit about
0:54.4	why did you write this book, The Lord is my courage. It was worth the risk to write The Lord is my
1:02.1	courage because the goodness of God to seek us in our pain in the places where we have been harmed
1:14.8	is too good to not share. And I don't see it being shared enough. So the goodness that I experienced
1:26.1	of God seeking me and my spouse in the wilderness of feeling exiled from the institutional church,
1:36.1	I could not keep that goodness to myself. And on the other side of that, the anger is to true,
1:47.1	to not articulate in a way that allows others to have permission to move into wholeness themselves.
1:56.6	I believe that anger over injustice and wrong is the mobilizing energy that takes us into
2:07.7	attachment and authenticity that allows us to be fully alive. And I do not see an adequate modeling
2:18.4	of room and permission to be angry, especially among Christians. So it was worth the risk because I
2:27.8	want others to have permission to express the truth about what they've experienced in the
2:36.8	manner that will move them into aliveness. And I'm more alive today because of this process,
2:49.6	including the writing of the book, than before having to face the truth about the system that we
2:56.0	were in. So that's why it was worth the risk. And the risk was definitely real and it remains real.
3:01.0	The book is structured around Psalm 23. The way you organize the book is you break down each
3:08.6	verse of Psalm 23 into phrases. And you write a chapter about each phrase. And as you're commenting
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