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

This week, Dan and his wife, Becky Allender, conclude their series on story.

Dan introduces Becky's new book, and she reads an excerpt from it, recounting a painful story of loss.

Through the conversation that follows, we learn how writing our stories

and sharing them with the caring community can truly transform our lives. The episode concludes

with an invitation to discover the power of writing and reading our own stories. If you feel a pull

to know more about how your story, in all of its beauty and heartache, shapes

and influences every dimension of your daily life and relationships, consider joining us for

the To Be Told Conference. If you can't join us in Manasha, Wisconsin, we are now offering

a simulcast option in an effort to make to be told more accessible than ever before.

I've had the privilege for a number of weeks to talk about the story with my beloved. Becky,

you have, you have written a book.

I have. Tell me the title of your book.

Because last time, when a conversation with someone, I screwed it up.

So I'm not going to do it.

Well, I might screw it up, too.

Hidden in plain sight, one woman's search for intimacy, identity, and calling. And I did screw it up. It is identity first,

intimacy, and calling. The book launches in the November. It's not the point of the broadcast.

So we'll, between the two of us, I think we'll get your title correct if we practice a bit more.

But really, what I want to ask you about is how has writing, not just telling story and engaging it, but writing story been important for you.

It's been very important to me. When I went through the certificate training and when I went

through the externship, I had assignments to write a story. And in the writing of of the story it took me to a place

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