Five Objections to Engaging Your Story: A Response

The Place We Find Ourselves

Adam Young

Hope, Christian, Christianity, Healing, Story, Trauma, Psychotherapy, Mental Health, Restoration, Heart, Sexualabuse, Health & Fitness, Adamyoung, Therapy, Attachment, Interpersonalneurobiology, Religion & Spirituality, Limbicsystem, Neuroscience

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🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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When I began exploring my story, five objections kept coming up for me. These objections kept me stuck. In today’s episode, I respond to each of the five objections. Objection 1: I should focus on the present and the future, not "dwell on the past.” Objection 2: Looking at my story is self-indulgent, introspective navel gazing; I should be focused on God and others rather than focused on myself. Objection 3: Who am I to judge my parents? Jesus says "do not judge.” Besides, I don't want to blame my parents. Objection 4: There's no point in looking at how my parents hurt me because they did the best they could. Objection 5: I can't change what's already happened, so what's the point of looking at the past?

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the place we find ourselves podcast. I'm Adam Young and today I want to talk through five objections that often come up when you begin to explore your story. When I was first invited to take a look at my story I got stuck because these
0:17.6	objections kept coming up for me.
0:20.5	It's very common to make movement toward exploring your story in more depth only to be quickly sidelined by internal objections to the whole endeavor.
0:33.2	So what I'm going to do is first I will say what they are
0:36.8	and then we'll unpack each one.
0:39.3	Number one, objection number one, I should focus on the present and the future, not dwell on the past.
0:49.0	Dwell on the past.
0:50.0	Dwell on the past.
0:51.0	That's number 1.
0:52.0	Number 2. second objection. Looking at my story is basically
0:57.8	self-indulgent introspective naval gazing and I'm called to focus on God and others. of Who am I to judge my parents?
1:14.0	Jesus says do not judge.
1:17.0	Besides, I don't want to blame my parents.
1:19.0	Who am I to judge slash blame my parents?
1:21.0	That's objection three. Number four. If you overcome number three,
1:26.3	number four often comes up and it's this. There's no point in looking at how my parents
1:31.0	have harmed me because they did the best they could.
1:36.8	They did the best they could.
1:38.1	So there's no point in looking at how they've harmed me.
1:40.7	And the fifth objection that came up for me and that I've experienced with a lot of people doing story work is simply this.
1:47.0	I can't change the past. So what's the point of looking at it?
1:52.0	Okay, those are the five objections. Let's take them one by one. Number one, I should focus on the present and the future, not dwell on the past. Look if you have been raised in the church it is
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