224-Why We Need to Look Back to Move Forward | with guest Lisa-Jo Baker

Posted by: WCSG & Hole In My Heart | Friday, August 30th, 2024 (12:00am)

If you have ever struggled to process your story (and who hasn’t??), this episode is for you.

Author, teacher, and child-of-a-one-time angry father, Lisa Jo Baker, takes us by the hand and guides us to take the tiniest look back so we can move forward into healing.

| Main Themes |

Why do we avoid going back into our stories?

Why do we need to? (Do we need to?)

How can you write a book about the most painful places in our lives?

What if those we love don’t want to or can’t reconcile?

| Highlights | 

“A thought dropped into my head, ‘You need to speak about what it was like to be the child of an angry parent.’” 

“By the time I finished writing the chapter, I would feel this profound sense of, ‘Oh, He did it again!’ Jesus went back, picked apart these terrible places in my life, and brought healing.”

“If you take anything from my story, it’s this: it wasn’t me, I didn’t do it. It wasn’t my dad. He didn’t do it. It was Jesus and his grace and mercy he orchestrated the entire thing simply because I was willing to look.”

| About the Guest |

With a BA in English/prelaw from Gordon College and a JD from the University of Notre Dame Law School, Lisa-Jo has lived and worked on three continents in the human rights field and subsequently spent nearly a decade leading the online community of women called (in)courage as their editor in chief and community manager. She’s the co-host of the Out of the Ordinary podcast. Originally from South Africa, Lisa-Jo now lives just outside Washington, D.C., where she met and fell in love with her husband in the summer of ’96. Their story together spans decades, languages, countries, books, three very opinionated children, and one dog, and is written in Lisa-Jo’s latest book, It Wasn’t Roaring, It Was Weeping.

| Next Steps |

Lisa’s book: lisajobaker.com/roaring

Her IG: https://www.instagram.com/lisajobaker/?hl=en

Her site:  http://lisajobaker.com/

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