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

This week, Dan concludes a conversation with his friend and colleague, Dr. Heather Morose,

about how trauma and abuse affect our physical health and embodied reality.

Heather, a psychologist and contributor to healing the wounded heart, shares about her journey

toward hope and the beautiful experience of seeing restoration physically embodied in her life.

Heather, so good to be back with you.

And as we have left off in our last conversation,

talking about the fact that Jesus does invite us not to be heavy-laden, not to be weary.

And indeed, that's true at every level of our being, spiritually, relationally, and certainly somatically.

So what I wanted to sort of set the palette open for you to paint is what have you done?

And what do you recommend for our listeners who are just beginning to engage

these somatic effects of past trauma what what would you invite us to engage well first

all thank you again thanks for having me and as as you left off last week with quoting Matthew 11,

when Jesus says, come to me those who are heavy burden. I got this idea. Wouldn't it be fun to write

a modern day translation of a physiologic, logical Bible, where it would would say come to me those who carry a heavy

allostatic load because you're so right there are so many levels to what he wants to hold for us

and I guess that's where that's where I would turn to now that we get the chance to talk about the hope

and the redemption for healing.

One thing I've done and would certainly want everybody to begin to explore if they haven't

already or dig deeper if they

have is to listen to God and allow him into those parts of their life where there's been

damage and begin again like we talked about last time just to name it and honor our body

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