You are listening to the place we find ourselves podcast.

I'm Adam Young, and today I'm going to dive into the whole subject of how healing happens.

One of the questions that I've wrestled with professionally but far more personally

is how exactly does healing happen?

What is involved in the process of change and growth?

This, of course, is too large a topic to tackle in a couple of podcast episodes,

but I want to at least identify some of the core elements that are necessary for healing.

In other words, if you are going to experience healing,

if you are going to grow and mature, what will be required of you?

In answering that question, we are going to look at an extremely helpful tool known as the U diagram, the U diagram.

It was created and developed by Kathy Lorzel.

Kathy is the executive vice president of the Allender Center,

where I learned much of what I talk about on this podcast.

And over the course of the next three episodes, we are going to let Kathy's U diagram be our guiding illustration.

I think you'll find it incredibly helpful as I have.

But before we get started, if you find this podcast beneficial, would you consider supporting it financially?

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Okay, let's dive into the question of how healing happens.

The first thing that is necessary for healing is you have to allow your heart,

your mind and your body to ponder and engage what it was like for you in your family of origin.

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