91 How Healing Happens: Revisiting The U Diagram
The Place We Find Ourselves
Adam Young
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🗓️ 7 June 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Jen Oyama Murphy and I reflect on the U Diagram of healing. The human heart heals by engaging one’s story. But how does cultural background factor into effective story engagement? Whether you are a person of color who is engaging your own story, or you are someone who works with people of color, Jen shares some important categories for you to consider.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the place we find ourselves podcast. I'm Adam Young and I'm here again with |
| 0:06.4 | Jen O'Yama Murphy. Jen, welcome back to the podcast. Thanks for having me back Adam. |
| 0:12.8 | I have asked you to join me today to talk about the U Diagram of Healing and the U Diagram was |
| 0:19.8 | developed by Kathy Lorzel. For those of you who don't know about it, I talk about it in great |
| 0:26.0 | detail in podcast episodes 24 to 26. I'm going to summarize Kathy's U Diagram in a moment. |
| 0:34.9 | And then today's episode will focus on some of Jen's thoughts about the U Diagram, which I have |
| 0:41.9 | found to be very helpful and enlightening and true. So let me summarize it. The U Diagram begins |
| 0:49.7 | with the premise that the core of the Christian narrative is contained in three days, Friday, |
| 0:55.5 | Saturday and Sunday. Jesus was crucified on a Friday. He was traumatized and abused. On Sunday, |
| 1:03.1 | he was resurrected. In other words, despite the trauma and abuse of Friday, resurrection happened. |
| 1:10.3 | Sunday happened. It happened. In order to get from the trauma of Friday to the healing of Sunday, |
| 1:20.2 | Jesus had to experience the hell of Saturday. And the U Diagram posits that what was true for |
| 1:26.3 | Jesus is true for us. There's no way to get from Friday to Sunday without going through |
| 1:34.3 | something of the hell of Saturday. In other words, without dipping down into the valley of the |
| 1:39.1 | shadow of death. So imagine a U in your mind. The very beginning of the U, the top left represents |
| 1:47.5 | Friday. The end of the U, the top right represents Sunday. That is healing. The bottom of the U |
| 1:55.6 | represents Saturday. And the Old Testament repeatedly uses three metaphors to describe the |
| 2:02.8 | Saturday experience. It talks about the wilderness, the desert, and the valley. Saturday is about |
| 2:11.3 | the wilderness. It's about the desert. It's about being in the valley of the shadow of death. |
| 2:17.3 | So one pattern of healing is this. Revisiting heartache in your family of origin, i.e. the crucifixion |
| 2:25.8 | of Friday leads you into the wilderness and the desert, the descent of Saturday, which ends in |
| 2:33.7 | healing the resurrection of Sunday. The U Diagram points out that what many of us want to do |
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