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“The point in the exercise is to create some detachment from the voices, which enables you to respond differently when they speak. There is more to you than the voices. You are not the voices. When you accept that, you can identify their patterns and when they speak the loudest, and you can respond with empathy

Ch 7- listening to people in pain is a ch I wish everyone would read and apply. So many of our responses to pain-even Christian sounding ones are rooted in our ultimate anxiety and deter from others openness to the gospel’s actual healing power.