Redemption Walk

Brett shares about how his battle to come to grips with painful losses in his own story led him to try and escape his suffering. The energy exerted trying to avoid the suffering only created a deadening effect on Brett’s heart. Brett became numb and his ability to experience delight, joy, excitement, were dampened in a grey morass of numb irritability. Daniel and Mike are joined by special guest, Peter Sondergeld from Australia, during a Redemption Group Immersion in Ft. Worth, Texas. Anger and Numbness Anger is a multifaceted emotion that is commonly misunderstood. Anger is a secondary emotion that is attached to other emotions. It is common to focus on managing anger and controlling anger while missing the underlying causes of our anger. In Brett’s story we hear how anger impacted his life. Brett expressed that he was not experiencing fullness of emotions that God designed us to have, but predominately felt anger or irritability. Anger has an explosive energy to it. To constantly utilize the emotion o

Even after John walked away from alcoholism, he experienced an ongoing struggle with maintaining his image in the eyes of others—a problem he called “fear of man”.

With one parent a drug addict and the other a police officer, Erin's early life was a confusing set of shaping influences. Often being compared to her mother by her family members, it's been hard at times for Erin to maintain her own identity. Erin's husband has been an important reminder of grace in her life. She's learning to tell the truth about what really happened to her in those early years, and to let go of needing to keep everything in order in the space around her—like those piles of laundry. Music credits: “Mountain Drive” by Sea Sheperd, “Road” by Stephen Keech, “To realize” by Triads, “Stop Motion” by Triads, “Wesley Swing” by TituS, “Mischief” by Adrian Walther, “Dovely” by Adrian Walther all courtesy of Soundstripe.

Welcome to Redemption Walk, a show for telling and hearing stories of trouble and redemption, and learning to walk together as friends. This is Episode Zero, where we introduce you to our show and the friends who'll be joining us for Season 1. We’ll help you get oriented to how the show works and give you a little bit of the history behind why we created it. You can read more about our vision for Redemption Groups and this show in Daniel's post Isolation Hurts, Connection Heals: Let’s Walk Together. Music credits: “Mountain Drive” by Sea Sheperd, courtesy of Soundstripe.