How Fear and Trauma Hold You Back: Carl Lentz & Dr. Anita Phillips on Breaking Free

Lights On with Carl Lentz

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Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

In this powerful and thought-provoking conversation, Carl Lentz sits down with Dr. Anita Phillips to dive deep into the topics of fear, trauma, trust, and self-kindness. Together, they explore the personal and spiritual barriers that hold people back from living their full potential. From understanding the role of pain in transformation to unpacking the impact of unchecked trauma, this discussion sheds light on how to break free and find healing.

Dr. Anita Phillips, a renowned therapist and faith leader, offers profound insights on how fear and trauma shape our lives, while Carl Lentz opens up about his personal journey of overcoming judgment, discovering self-kindness, and trusting God in difficult moments.

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0:00.0	Do you find it hard to teach people how to fight fear who don't have a faith that you share?
0:05.5	That's a great question.
0:10.5	People don't generally change for non-painful reasons.
0:15.9	And there's a phrase, you know, be kind to yourself, which I talked to an awesome friend the other day.
0:20.0	So I'm trying to be kinder to myself.
0:21.7	I said, bro, if there's one thing I miss.
0:24.0	I missed the boat on that.
0:25.7	And I will never miss it again.
0:27.2	But what is the impact of that phrase on you?
0:31.1	And what have you seen it do for other people?
0:33.3	Being kind to yourself is a form of actual humility, not pride or a past.
0:38.3	For me, it was about accepting my own human limitations because I found a lot of this in scripture.
0:44.8	It made me smaller and it made God bigger.
0:47.8	For a guy who hates to plan and I hate putting a goal up there in case I don't get it,
0:52.9	I got a great convenient out.
0:54.9	Oh, y'all got goals?
0:55.9	I got a better one.
0:57.0	Ephesians 320.
0:58.2	God is able so you can take your goals and you can take your vision statement
1:01.6	and you can take your cute little ideas because God is going to do more.
1:05.6	And I'm desperately afraid of failing.
1:09.6	The picture of Jesus with lepers, I think leprosy represents the thing that you would never
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