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Don’t Just Survive
Today I'm happy to have as my guest Mary DeMuth, my dear friend who's an author and speaker. Her desire is to help people live “uncaged,” freedom-infused lives. She’s the author of fifteen books, including six novels, a memoir, and most recently The Wall Around Your Heart, from which today’s column is adapted. (It appeared in similar form at Crosswalk.com. I read the book and endorsed it.) After church planting in Southern France, Mary, her husband, and their three young adult kids now live in the ‘burbs of Dallas. To find out more about Mary, visit her website, facebook, twitter, or wallaroundyourheart.com, Some of us cope with relational pain by choosing to live in survivor…
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The Fear Factor
This past weekend my husband and I enjoyed the award-winning movie The King’s Speech, the story of British King George VI and the speech therapist who helped him overcome his stammer. After years of searching in vain for a cure, the King (then the Duke of York) began to meet with Lionel Logue, a man without credentials, basically a nobody. Logue’s previous work with war veterans had exposed fear as the underlying cause of their non-physical speech issues. In time he helped the Duke recognize that his childhood dread of his father’s anger brought on his impairment. Eventually, fear of speaking had permeated his entire life, paralyzing him from discharging…
