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Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Welcome to season 5 episode 6 where this season we are bringing you personal stories and deep teaching into Curt’s book, The Soul of Shame. This week we are looking at chapter 6, “Shame and the Biblical Narrative”.
At the heart of all that the Bible is lies a story. YES, a story about humans and all that we are. But even more so, a story about a God and who he is. In many ways, the Bible is the story that God is telling about us.
Given what we have learned thus far about how shame infects the way we tell stories to gain the upper hand, we don’t just need a better story, we need a better story teller.
This week we’ll see that the biblical narrative is not just some feel-good fairy tale. It’s the hardest, most beautiful story you’ve ever heard. And evil is working overtime, using shame to keep you from hearing the story that God is telling you about you – and the world of beauty and goodness in which you are to play a central role.
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Episode Links and References
- Connections Conference hosted by The Center for Being Known
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Wednesday Aug 24, 2022
Wednesday Aug 24, 2022
Welcome to season 5 episode 5 where this season we are bringing you personal stories and deep teaching into Curt’s book, The Soul of Shame. This week we are looking at chapter 4, “The Story of Shame You Are Living”.
We’re all storytellers. Unlike any other living creature, humans are the only animals that tell stories in the way we do.
It is in those stories that our shame takes up residence, with all of the mechanics we have learned about so far, and begins to tell a story that leads to our destruction. Hence, it’s not enough to know about the mechanics of how shame works. We also need to know where in our stories shame first inserted itself.
SO… which story does each of us believe we are living? The answers we discover may surprise you, and will also begin to pave the way toward freedom from the straitjacket in which shame has bound us.
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Episode Links and References
- Connections Conference hosted by The Center for Being Known
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Stay connected:
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Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
Welcome to season 5 episode 4 where this season we are bringing you personal stories and deep teaching into Curt’s book, The Soul of Shame. This week we are looking at chapter 3, “Joy, Shame and the Brain”.
We were made for joy.
The bible and our greatest literature attest to this. But not only this: research in attachment reflects that joyful human relationships are the key to our well-being.
No wonder, then, that shame targets our experience of joy as its first priority in disintegrating us, disconnecting us from ourselves and each other.
This week we examine why joy is so important to practice—yep, you read that right: practice—and how shame will do anything it can to rob us of as much of it as it can.
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Episode Links and References
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
- Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self by Allan Schore
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Hon’s Honey: Hon's Honey is a social enterprise dedicated to giving dignity and purpose to women survivors of trauma. They believe in healing, second chances and new chapters, and so do we. Use code BEINGKNOWN to receive 20% off your order.
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Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Welcome to season 5 episode 3 where this season we are bringing you personal stories and deep teaching into Curt’s book, The Soul of Shame. This week we are looking at chapter 2, How Shame Targets the Mind.
It has been said, “Keep your friends close. And keep your enemies closer.” If we want to know what evil is up to as it uses shame in its quest to devour us, the first thing to know is how the mind works—so that we will also know where and how evil is doing its dirty work.
In this episode, we review the fundamental features of the mind—such as the nine domains of integration, attention and emotion—and discover where and how shame, like the evil that is wielding it, parasitically uses the very way our minds work to undo us and all of God’s good creation in the process.
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Episode Links and References
Being Known Podcast season 2 on the nine domains of integration and how the mind works.
- S2E1 – An overview of the mind and the nine domains
- S2E2 – Domain of consciousness
- S2E3 – Vertical domain of the mind
- S2E4 – Horizontal domain of the mind
- S2E5 – Domain of memory
- S2E6 – Narrative domain of integration
- S2E7 – State domain of integration
- S2E8 – Interpersonal domain of integration
- S2E9 – Temporal domain of mental activity
- S2E10 – Transpirational domain of the mind
- S2E11 – Overview of the season
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Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
Welcome to season 5 episode 2 where this season we are bringing you personal stories and deep teaching into Curt’s book, The Soul of Shame. This week we are looking at chapter 1, Our Problem with Shame.
It’s not enough to know what shame IS. We also have to know how and where it works. Our problem with shame is not just a sensation in which we feel bad. It’s about all the ways that it hijacks our mind, relationships, and mostly, the story in which we believe we’re living.
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Thank you to our sponsor!
Hon’s Honey: Hon's Honey is a social enterprise dedicated to giving dignity and purpose to women survivors of trauma. They believe in healing, second chances and new chapters, and so do we. Use code BEINGKNOWN to receive 20% off your order.
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Stay connected:
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Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
Welcome to season 5 episode 1 where this season we are bringing you personal stories and deep teaching into Curt’s book, The Soul of Shame. This week we are looking at the introduction section, The Story That Shame is Trying to Tell.
What is it about shame? Why is it that it just doesn’t seem to go away?
Moreover, what makes it so destructive? Is it its mechanics? Or is it because it gets so intimately tangled up in our stories? Not only that, but is shame always bad for us? To top it off, how does evil figure into the way shame becomes so much sand in the gears of our relationships, in both small moments and even in the public arena?
Together we’ll discover that the more we know about this topic—and how evil wants to use it to devour us—the more able we will be to overcome evil with goodness and beauty.
Episode Links and References
- Healing the Shame That Binds You, by John Bradshaw
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Wednesday May 18, 2022
Wednesday May 18, 2022
Being Known Podcast normally ends our season with a wrap up episode highlighting each episode with one more nugget of wisdom. This season we mixed things up a bit and asked our listeners and followers what they wanted to know more about.
We received over 40 questions seeking additional wisdom on sexual trauma, generational trauma, trauma and the church and more.
A few of the questions asked include:
- How does trauma play out in our relationship with God? And how does this affect our ability to attune to God?
- Can trauma cause a type of amnesia where we forget past events? And why/how does this happen?
- If I already have grown children, is it too late to heal my trauma and not pass my trauma onto my kids?
In Curt’s own words, “I thoroughly enjoyed this opportunity to end the season. It allowed us to be live action and real time. It offered us a glimpse of what people are learning and what they desire to learn more about.”
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Wednesday May 11, 2022
Wednesday May 11, 2022
Welcome to Season 4 of Being Known Podcast where we are looking at trauma through the lens of hope and not fear. This week we talk on how we can begin to heal from trauma with a look at the wholeness of integration.
We were made to create beauty and goodness in the world. But evil has other plans, and wields trauma as a way to devour us before that goodness and beauty can be realized.
But - God had other plans beyond those of evil – plans that evil never saw coming, and still doesn’t. For indeed, God’s intention is not to ignore trauma, but wade right into it and right up to it, allowing himself to be subjected to its worst possible form. And so, despite the traumatic execution by crucifixion of a prisoner from a backwater village of a now non-existent ancient empire on a non-descript Friday – we call that Friday Good because God has come not merely to be with us in our trauma, but to transform them, bringing us to wholeness, to beauty and goodness, in ways we could never imagine.
Join us as we, together, imagine Jesus coming to find us in the bomb craters that make up the story of our lives – and as we then tell a new story of beauty and goodness that will transform our minds, and change our brains along the way.
Links, References and Resources
- Boundaries for Your Soul by Alison Cook, PhD. and Kimberly Miller
- Try Softer by Aundi Kolber
- Brainspotting by David Grand
- Generations Deep by Gina Birkemeier
- My Grandmother’s Hands by ResmaaMenakem
- Reparations by Gregory Thompson and Duke Kwon
Scripture References
- Mark 5:25-24
- Mark 3:20-34
- Luke 24:13-35
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Wednesday May 04, 2022
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Welcome to Season 4 of Being Known Podcast where we are looking at trauma through the lens of hope and not fear. This week we talk on how we can begin to heal from trauma.
If there is anything we know about trauma, it’s that it depends on disintegration and isolation to do its dirty work. And if there’s anything we know about its healing, it’s that the presence of others is the beginning of integration, which leads to the creation of beauty and goodness in the face of painfully broken stories.
But it’s tricky: for the very thing we need the most – the presence of loving relationships – is often the context in which our traumas are initially taking place.
This week we talk about how we can begin to practice the presence of God and of others – the presence that we need despite our error that it is something we won’t be able to survive.
Links and References
- Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body by Peter Levine
- 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery: Take-Charge Strategies to Empower Your Healing by Babette Rothschild
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Scripture References
- John 15:4 – Abide in Me
- Matthew 28:20 – I am with you always
- 1 Corinthians 12 – The body of Christ
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Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Welcome to Season 4 of Being Known Podcast where we are looking at trauma through the lens of hope and not fear. This week we are looking at trauma caused by the church.
One thing we know about infections: some of the most difficult to treat are actually contracted inside hospitals. How is it that the place where we come to heal can also be the very place where some of our most painful experiences of trauma occur?
From pastoral and spiritual abuse to sexual assault that spares no denominational traditions, that place where we would expect to be as safe as any, can at times seem like just the opposite. And who would want to have anything to do with a God that would appear to turn a blind eye to such behavior?
Join us as we pull the curtain back on what it means to encounter trauma in the church – only to discover that what we encounter may surprise us, especially when we find out that none of it surprises Jesus. And he is just the one we need to help us make sense out of what makes no sense at all.
Links and References
- Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church by Diane Langberg
- When Narcissism Comes to Church by Chuck DeGroat
- The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society by Henri Nouwen
Scripture References
- 1 Peter 5:6-11
- Mark 2:17
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As always, we invite you to stay connected with us via social media and YouTube:
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Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts.