Healing the Wounded Heart, Part Three

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The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

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🗓️ 27 February 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

This week, Dan Allender continues reflecting on his upcoming book, Healing the Wounded Heart: The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation. In Part One of this series, Dan shared about the stance he hopes readers will take when approaching the new book, which is a 25-year retrospective about everything he has learned working with sexually abused men and women. In Part Two, Dan addressed the intent of evil to create orphans, widows, and strangers through the harm we have endured. Now, Dan addresses the Healing the Wounded Heart workbook and his belief that deep, lasting change must occur in relationship with God and others.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.0	This week, Dan continues sharing about his upcoming book, Healing the Wounded Heart,
0:12.8	a 25-year retrospective about everything he has learned working with sexually abused men and women.
0:19.3	Dan talks about the workbook that accompanies the new book,
0:22.0	which invites readers into a deeper work of pursuing healing
0:25.0	in the context of relationships with God and others.
0:34.9	Focus of this podcast is what is involved in our life joining God's sweet and kind work of
0:47.6	transformation. As we've talked in the first two podcasts about the uniqueness of the book,
0:57.0	what I'm hoping your stance will be.
1:05.6	Really, what I want to begin the process of thinking about is what do we do to join the work of redemption, to see the kind of healing that is available for us. And the assumption is that any change,
1:15.5	deep change, is meant to be done in relationship, relationship with the living God,
1:22.4	engagement with the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, engagement with our spouses,
1:28.7	engagement with our friends, engagement with our friends,
1:36.4	engagement with a small group, a therapist. In other words, as evil-used relationship through an abuser to groom and then to isolate, and then to violate, and then to shut down.
1:47.0	Change has to occur by an engagement with a face that feels shame
1:54.0	and has to engage another face that's opening the door for those parts of our heart that still feel quarantined, off limits,
2:05.2	that need to be held with a level of violence and secrecy. So change has to be done in community.
2:14.5	And obviously, a buck can be read in community. It would be delightful to think that it would be,
2:21.8	but the reality is that most books are going to be read individually, which is why I created a workbook,
2:30.5	because the workbook is intended not just to be done in a private way to encapsulate the movement
2:40.2	of your own thinking through the content of the book, but is also meant to be a realm in which
2:46.5	your heart is open to share all, no, but portions, yes, with people who bear both trustworthiness,
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