“You have to go back before moving forward. Do you know how much trauma you have been through in your life?” 

Tune in to today’s episode “Redeeming Heartache” with Dan Allender. Dr. Dan Allender is an author, a counselor and a pioneer of a unique and innovative approach to trauma and abuse therapy. For over 30 years, the Allender Theory has brought healing and transformation to hundreds of thousands of lives by bridging the story of the gospel and the stories of trauma and abuse that mark so many. 

In this episode we discuss: 

• Trauma and the effect on the brain 
• Trauma looks differently that we may think 
• Trauma resides and dwells in the body 
• How to re-engage the trauma to begin the restorative process of wholeness 

LINKS:  

www.theallendercenter.org 

Redeeming Heartache:  

https://www.amazon.com/Redeeming-Heartache-Suffering-Reveals-Calling/dp/0310362016/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=34EIC92JEBICQ&dchild=1&keywords=redeeming+heartache+dan+allender&qid=1635440249&sprefix=redeeming+he%2Caps%2C119&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEzUFlJQlI1MEFYSlcxJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwNDE2MDU0M1FEQjdXRjQzVkRFNSZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwNTY2Mjk5MkM1TzUyMk1MSTI5OCZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU= 

Streams of Wholeness:  

www.streamsofwholeness.com 

Josh Hawk:  

www.joshhawk.com 

Road to Wholeness TV Show:  

www.awkngtv.com 

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“Empathy is acknowledging someone’s reality. It’s the same as acceptance. There is a difference between acceptance and agreement. We are commanded by God to accept everyone, but we are not commanded to approve of their opinions or political views we are called to love them.” 

“A Distorted View of God leads to a Distorted way of life” 

Tune in to today’s episode “Messy Truth” with Caleb Kaltenbach. Caleb is the founder of The Messy Grace Group where he helps churches love and foster community with LGBTQ individuals without sacrificing theological convictions. He's the author of Messy Truth, God of Tomorrow, and Messy Grace (where he discusses being raised in the LGBTQ community, following Jesus, and how loving others doesn’t require shifting beliefs). 

In this episode we discuss: 

• How truth can be messy! 
• The spiritual impact on children raised by LGTBQ parents 
• Creating an environment in The Church that welcomes all people without incompatible with church doctrine. 
• Why the LGTBQ community believes Christians hate them. 
• Having authentic relationships with people who are not like us. 

LINKS:  

www.calebkaltenbach.com

Messy Truth:  

https://www.amazon.com/Messy-Truth-Community-Sacrificing-Conviction/dp/0525654275/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1635440062&sr=8-1 

Streams of Wholeness:  

www.streamsofwholeness.com 

Josh Hawk:  

www.joshhawk.com 

Road to Wholeness TV Show:  

www.awkngtv.com 

See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“Rebuilding is one of the hardest things you will ever do in your life, but it is possible.” “What happens to our relationship with hope when the outcome we were certain of, doesn’t happen?” 

Tune in to today’s episode “Hope Anyways” with speaker and author Leeana Tankersley. In her newest book, Hope Anyway, Leeana explores her nuanced relationship with hope after unexpectedly losing her marriage. Is hope a trick? Is hope dependent on a happy ending? Is hope really worth it?  

Join us in this episode where we talk about:  

-How do you begin again? Not just the next moment but your life? 

-Life doesn’t go as we planned so what do we do when it doesn’t’?  

-How to have a new hope.  

-You can’t surrender and be strategizing at the same time.  

-What if our agitations are our invitations?  

LINKS:  

www.leeanatankersley.com

HOPE ANYWAY:  

https://www.amazon.com/Hope-Anyway-Welcoming-Possibility-Ourselves/dp/0800738527/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1635443110&sr=8-3 

Streams of Wholeness:  

www.streamsofwholeness.com 

Josh Hawk:  

www.joshhawk.com 

Road to Wholeness TV Show:  

www.awkngtv.com 

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“God celebrates our participation with sex in marriage!” “Can sex really be Holy? Isn’t there always lust in sex? Can I really do that?”  

Our guest today is Gary Thomas. Gary is a bestselling author and international speaker whose ministry brings people closer to Christ and closer to others. 

-In this episode we discuss:  

-If Christians can’t ask about sex in the church where do we go to get the answers?  

-Sex is celebrated by God.  

-When sex is mutual, there is tremendous Freedom in what we can enjoy in sex.  

-How to heal from sexual trauma  

-How to “simmer” and use the five senses in sex.  

-How being mentally faithful to your spouse makes your spouse the most attractive person in the world.  

Links:  

www.garythomas.com

Married Sex:  

https://www.amazon.com/Married-Sex-Christian-Couples-Reimagining/dp/0310362547/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1635441145&sr=8-1-spons 

Streams of Wholeness:  

www.streamsofwholeness.com 

Josh Hawk:  

www.joshhawk.com 

Road to Wholeness TV Show:  

www.awkngtv.com 

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“You do not need someone else’s permission to do what God has called you to do. You can say no to the friend but yes to the friendship.”

Tune in to today’s episode “When Making Others Happy is Making you Miserable” with Karen Ehman author of When Making Others Happy is Making You Miserable and Keep Showing Up. 

In this episode we discuss:

• Getting out of the “People Pleasing Hamster Wheel”
• Putting People in the Place of God
• The Power of “Saying No”
• The relationship between boundaries and stress
• Keeping up the “facade”
• Stop It Statements/One Sentence Sermons
• It’s not our assignment to make other people happy
• Be honest about your bandwidth (emotional, physical, and spiritual).

Check out the episode now on Apple Podcast/Spotify or at the link!

LINKS: 

https://www.amazon.com/When-Making-Others-Happy-Miserable/dp/0310347580/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1635774394&sr=8-3

www.KarenEhman.com

Streams of Wholeness: 

www.streamsofwholeness.com

Josh Hawk: 

www.joshhawk.com

Road to Wholeness TV Show: 

www.awkngtv.com

See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“In the face of mortality, play brings people together and breaks open closed spirits.” “Gratitude unshackles us from toxic emotions” “If the devil can’t make you bad, he will make you busy” 

Tune in to today’s episode “Have Serious Fun” with Jim Burns president of HomeWord and author of Have Serious Fun and Doing Life with Your Adult Children. 

In this episode we discuss: 

-  Cultivating Joy 

-  Practice “Thank” Therapy 

-  How severe setbacks reprioritizes the roll “fun” has in life 

- Making “play” part family traditions 

- Making the ordinary extraordinary 

- Renewing of the mind 

- Overcoming negative family patterns 

- The need for replenishing relationships 

- Transformational vs Transactional relationships 

LINKS:  

www.homeword.com

Have Serious Fun:  

https://www.amazon.com/Have-Serious-Fun-Other-Principles/dp/0310362598/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1635439747&sr=8-1 

Streams of Wholeness:  

www.streamsofwholeness.com 

Josh Hawk:  

www.joshhawk.com 

Road to Wholeness TV Show:  

www.awkngtv.com 

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“Men heal with the past in mind and women heal with the future in mind” “God can dream a bigger dream than you and he has bigger dreams than the dreams you have. Do you believe the dream?” 

Tune in to today’s episode “Heal Forward” with Pervis Taylor celebrity life coach and author of Heal Forward, Surthrival Mode, and Single Man Married Man.  

In this episode we discuss: 

- Four V’s of Healing Forward: Vision, Verification, Vulnerability & Voice 

- Power of imagination 

-Finding a vision for your life 

- How to make time to dream and imagine 

- The power and strength of vulnerability  

LINKS:  

www.pervistaylor.com

Heal Forward:  

https://www.amazon.com/Heal-Forward-steps-purposeful-living/dp/0578972948/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2P2R0PWO5EBBP&dchild=1&keywords=heal+forward+pervis+taylor&qid=1635439580&qsid=135-7142138-9766469&sprefix=heal+forward%2Caps%2C88&sr=8-1&sres=0578972948 

Streams of Wholeness:  

www.streamsofwholeness.com 

Josh Hawk:  

www.joshhawk.com 

Road to Wholeness TV Show:  

www.awkngtv.com 

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“It takes more faith to look at the broken pieces of life with God than to pretend they no longer exist as if faith is a giant eraser.” “God wants to take you where you have been and show you that He was there.” 

Tune in to today’s episode “My name WAS broken” with Speaker Bonnie Gray author of Sweet Like Jasmine: Finding Identity in a Culture of Loneliness 

In this episode we discuss: 

• Beloved Identity 
• Creating a Legacy of Faith 
• Unhealthy Codependency in the family  
• Feeling less alone by sharing our life stories 
• How to change your identity of loneliness 
• Freedom that comes from sharing your story 
• Being brutally honest with yourself 

LINKS:  

Bonnie Gray:

www.TheBonnieGray.com

Sweet Like Jasmine: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=sweet+like+jasmine+bonnie+gray&crid=2CKJDKRTSQ4W0&sprefix=sweet+like+%2Caps%2C116&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_3_11 

Streams of Wholeness:  

www.streamsofwholeness.com 

Josh Hawk:  

www.joshhawk.com 

Road to Wholeness TV Show:  

www.awkngtv.com 

See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.