Back to Hope Podcast
Stories and Discussions to empower, encourage, and equip you to find meaning and restored hope in the healing journey of body-spirit-soul as you were designed. Host, Dr. Karen Hyden, is Nurse Practitioner with training in functional medicine, women's health, and hospice and palliative care. She is also a national healthcare leader with a PhD in Bio-behavioral medicine and an ordained minister and pastoral counselor. She has her own integrated wellness coaching and Christian counseling practice. More information can be found at www.karenhyden.com
Back to Hope Podcast
The power in writing and sharing our stories: #2 in the Back to Hope Book Series
In this episode Dr. Karen Hyden shares why writing and sharing one's story is so powerful. Through writing your story, you can organize your memories and reflect on the events to find meaning and healing. Through the expressive writing process you can see the events of your life from a Heavenly perspective, enabling you to rewrite your story with an emphasis on strength, healing, resilience and hope for future possibilities. Through the new lens of the positive aspects of your journey, the strengths in you, and the faithfulness of the Lord that have brought you this far, you can start to imagine a hopeful future where you live as your true, authentic self, the way God created you. It is through sharing our stories that we feel connected, validated, and not alone. Sharing our stories, our testimonies, is a powerful tool to point people back to hope in the Lord. Revelations 12:11 says "they have overcome/conquered/bound the enemy by the blood of Jesus and the sharing of their testimonies.