The listeners in these groups are not merely empathically feeling something on behalf of the speaker, their role being limited to that of sounding boards, but they also are responding to what they are sensing within themselves about their own story, even without their knowing it at first. In this way we see how telling the truth about our lives—movement in and of itself—begets movement in those who are listening, evokes curiosity and consideration in others about their own brokenness, helping others to knit together different functional parts of their minds and helping them to make sense of
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