You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.

This week, Dan shares all about the Healing the Wounded Heart online course coming later this fall.

A series of nine dynamic sessions offering teaching by Dan, interviews with individuals engaging

their stories of past harm,

journaling prompts, and more.

Dan talks about the heart behind this new offering, who it's intended for, and how we hope

it will serve as a companion on the journey to restoration.

This podcast will be an intersection between what some will likely consider an advertisement

and for others an announcement.

But with no apology, let me just invite you for the next 20-some minutes to rejoice with us

that we're about to launch an online course addressing the issues of trauma

and abuse, particularly related to the material that I developed with healing the wounded heart.

So we're hoping for somewhere early to mid-October release of this online course, attempting to capture again

some of the material related to how anyone who's been harmed, traumatized, particularly sexually,

can begin to address these issues in a way that allows the heart to not just make

sense, but to make movement through that harm into a greater sense of both healing and hope.

And in some ways, it parallels, intersects with a material from the book and the workbook, but with no

apology for redundancy, there are many people who learn far better by watching and interacting

visually and auditorily with material rather than merely reading an attempt to capture something of the progress of the work

of redemption. And so I personally need both written and visual and this particular e-course has

the intersection of me teaching and then interacting with six remarkably

courageous women and men for women to men talking about the issues of of their own process

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