90 The Cursing of the Body and Racial Trauma
The Place We Find Ourselves
Adam Young
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Jen Oyama Murphy shares a story she wrote for The Allender Center called “My Eyes.” Evil often assaults us through the cursing of others. When a part of our body is cursed—especially during our growing up years—we tend to turn on ourselves. Wars with shame and self-contempt begin. In today’s episode, Jen reflects on her experience of racial trauma directed at her eyes and how she has begun to heal.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the place we find ourselves podcasts. |
| 0:03.2 | I'm Adam Young and I am here today with my friend Jen O'Yama Murphy. |
| 0:08.2 | Jen, it's good to see you. |
| 0:10.0 | It's good to see you too Adam. |
| 0:12.2 | Say a little bit about who you are, what you're spending your time doing, |
| 0:17.8 | where you are geographically. |
| 0:19.8 | I'll start with, I'm the mother of two daughters who are in their 20s. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm a wife and my husband and I are coming up on our 30th wedding anniversary in October. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm a third generation Japanese American who grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and I |
| 0:36.9 | returned back here in Chicago in 2009 after living in Seattle for about 19 years. |
| 0:43.0 | I would say I'm someone who loves working in the area of leadership care and development. |
| 0:48.6 | I'm not technically an in ordained pastor or licensed therapist but I feel like I've |
| 0:54.2 | had a lot of training and experience around working at that intersection of ministry and |
| 0:59.4 | therapy as a lay counselor and organizational leader. |
| 1:04.0 | I just transitioned out of my role as the senior director at the Eleanor Center where I |
| 1:08.8 | was on the training and pastoral care team and the manager of leadership development. |
| 1:14.9 | Then I'm so deeply grateful for the work that I had the privilege to participate in at |
| 1:20.6 | the Eleanor Center. |
| 1:21.6 | It was incredibly transformative for me and it also required a lot of me. |
| 1:27.8 | And so after about eight years with the Eleanor Center, I decided to kind of step down. |
| 1:33.6 | And right now I'm really in the season where I'm trying to provide a space for me to have |
| 1:40.2 | what I'm calling a soul spring where I just want my body to be able to rest and kind |
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