Strong like Water: Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move through Hard Things—and Experience True Flourishing

by Aundi Kolber

This is the key difference between the idea of a “witness” and “with-ness”: A witness can observe what has happened—which certainly matters. But “with-ness” implies that the person has resolved to be in it with us, right down in the dirt and mire of whatever we’re going through.