We are all innately capable of wholeness.

This is not about being less broken.

It's about becoming more hull, more hull.

I can't give you the context for who I am now

as a clinician and a doctor

without doing it through the context of my faith background,

my immigrant story, or my experience as a patient.

You know, I grew up in the charismatic Pentecostal

and of all the gifts of the spirit church.

And as an adult and somebody who now works

in the world of neuro theology,

which is neuroscience and spiritual experiences,

reframing the healthy aspects of that

is something that I can reinforce

and then reframing some of the really damaging

and traumatic aspects into something

that I can develop into a more well-rounded,

whole human being as a result of some of those

and even being willing to name.

Some of those pretty strongly experienced

and strongly reinforced encounters as trauma, trauma.

The culture that I grew up in a faith-based environment

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