Hearing Voices | Barry Woodward

Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud

Great Lakes Outreach

Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Ex-con Barry heard voices in his head for nine years as part of the fallout of fifteen years addiction to heroine. But all that changed when he went forward at a meeting… Do get hold of a copy of ‘Once an Addict’ or book Barry at https://www.proclaimtrust.org.uk/ (proclaimtrust.org.uk) --- Choose Life in 2023: https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/people/simon-guillebaud/choose-life-2023/?utm_source=inspired_description&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=inspired&utm_id=inspired (greatlakesoutreach.org/chooselife) Support us: https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/get-involved/inspired-give/?utm_source=inspired_description&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=inspired&utm_id=inspired (greatlakesoutreach.org/inspired) If you'd like to receive a weekly podcast episode link that you can share with your friends on WhatsApp, click this link to join the group with ease: https://www.simonguillebaud.com/inspired-podcast/#whatsapp (greatlakesoutreach.org/whatsapp) Or sign up for a weekly email notification of new episodes: https://www.simonguillebaud.com/inspired-podcast/#email (greatlakesoutreach.org/inspiredemail) For more from Simon visit: https://www.simonguillebaud.com/ (simonguillebaud.com) --- Produced by Great Lakes Outreach - Transforming Burundi and Beyond: https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/?utm_source=inspired_description&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=inspired&utm_id=inspired (greatlakesoutreach.org)

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0:00.0	The service started. This guy started doing this skipping dance and tambourines came out and
0:08.6	I'm thinking man these guys are all basket cases. I came in here to get away from people
0:14.4	who are on drugs. Never mind. These guys are all off it. I looked at him and thought, man,
0:20.3	that's my psychiatrist. He's treating me. He's my doctor. I looked at him and thought, man, that's my psychiatrist.
0:21.6	He's treating me.
0:23.6	He's my doctor. I'm never going to get better.
0:26.6	Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilbo with Inspired.
0:31.6	Inspired is all about meeting people from different walks of life who tell their story, their adventure.
0:36.6	They talk about their highs, their adventure. They talk about their highs,
0:38.1	their lows. We're trying to dig deep, be authentic and real, and hopefully stir people's
0:43.5	faith amidst the constant bombardment of dreary, desperate, sad, depressing news that we get
0:50.6	constantly drip-fed through the media. So I'm really excited this week to have with us Barry Woodward. Welcome Barry. Great, great to be on with you, Simon. Yeah, I'm really looking forward to this because, well, I was with Barry just a few weeks ago at Jay John's Evangelist Conference, and he's got a fantastic ministry. He's got a story of being sort of scooped out the gutter, having been a heron
1:12.1	addict for, was it, 15 years, was it? Yeah, 15 years, yeah. And now doing just fantastic
1:18.1	ministry in prisons and in communities. And we'll get to all that, Barry. But I'd love to go right
1:24.5	back to, you know, your child had painted us a picture. I'm guessing it wasn't that easy.
1:29.7	There were some easy bits and there were some tough bits.
1:33.5	I think for me I was brought up in a regular Northern English working class family.
1:38.2	My dad was from a mining community in Doncaster, which is in Yorkshire.
1:41.9	And then he got drafted into the army and he met my mother in
1:45.7	Solford which is kind of part of Greater Manchester in England and when he left the army
1:50.8	they got married and they settled in Solford so it was a typical working class family certainly
1:57.2	upbringing going to school I hated school I really struggled at school. I left school
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