Welcome to the Being Known Podcast with my friends Dr Kurt Thompson and producer Amy

Cella. We are here to discover and explore what it means to be truly known.

Hi friends.

Hey, Pep, hey, Aane.

How fun is this?

Yes.

Right on. So we are here today with our question and answer episode all based on Dr. Kurt Thompson's book The Deepest Place, Suffering and The Formation of Hope.

And we finished going through chapter by chapter and we have asked you our community

to give us some questions for this episode.

And so I think we should just jump right in.

These questions that you all have asked are very thought-provoking.

We appreciate you taking the time and asking them and we

are going to answer as many of them as we can. So the first question is I'm

wondering if all mental health and sight conditions have a basis in

trauma or suffering and how we handle the pain or do some mental illnesses just happen because of chemical imbalances and because we live in a

fallen world with broken bodies?

I'm so glad for this question. I'm so glad to this question. It's a question that is that I receive many places where I go to speak because I think that we you know in the course of

talking about this book a lot of what we talk about has to do with people's

experiences in response to trauma and that trauma could be of a range of

different severity and duration and depth and we want to honor that and at the

same time we know that there are people who have life experiences that from what we can

tell primarily appear out of fundamental brain physiologic challenges.

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