Today on The You Can Heal Your Life Podcast, you'll hear a chapter from Interfaith Minister,

Speaker and Spiritual Coach, Alex Regan's brand new audiobook, What Needs To Be Said.

As a trans man born into an evangelical Christian family that prevented his true identity from

emerging, Alex spent years struggling with depression, anxiety and addiction, trying to break

free of the oppressive beliefs that bound him. It was connecting to the divine within that

finally allowed him to accept his authentic self. If you enjoy this excerpt, you can listen

to the full audiobook, free with a trial of the Empower You Unlimited Audio App. To download

it today, visit hayhouse.com-slash-empower-you.

What Needs To Be Said. Speak Your Truth, Really Shame, Find Oneness, Written and Read by

Alex Regan. For My Younger Self, Your Bravery and Tenacious Spirit Got Me Here. Thank You.

Introduction. We are all just walking each other home, Ram Das.

When my guides gave me the push to write this book, they gave me a concept that we are

masterpieces, gems within rough stone. Our work is to chisel through the stone to the

true self. And we do that by saying what needs to be said as many times as it takes.

What needs to be said can be told in many ways, using many different kinds of ideas

and language. In this book, I use the language that works for me. Yours may be different.

All of it is good. All of it needs to be said. And what is it that needs to be said? At

its core, it is this. Nothing can ever separate us from oneness. Nothing can exclude us from

the true essence of love, source, the divine. All it is. All of these words for what God

truly is. Let's unpack that word God for a minute. If you notice, I use a lowercase

G in God. Although it is most common for that word to be capitalized, I've come to use

the lowercase G as part of my process of reclaiming the word from spaces where it has been

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