Now raw honesty can spill out without the other jumping in to quickly mop it all up. Or without personalizing unfiltered emotion as an attack. Now our conversations are more like “Just say what you need to say. I am listening. You are safe. I will remember who you are in light of how God created you. Together, we’ll fight the shame threatening to bully its way into your mind. I will not add to your shame. I will speak the truth but always with the goal of helping you and helping us to stay healthy. I will not reduce you to being a sum total of your struggles. I will speak life by reminding you
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