Our bodies are designed to heal. We fall off our bikes and skin our knees―and without effort on our part, the skin looks like new in a few days. But while our skinned knees easily heal, it can sometimes feel like our emotional and relational wounds are left gaping open, broken beyond repair. If our bodies instinctively know how to heal physical injuries, could they also help us understand how to restore painful emotional and relational ruptures?

In their book Designed to Heal: What the Body Shows Us about Healing Wounds, Repairing Relationships, and Restoring Community, and on today’s episode, physician Jennie A. McLaurin and scientist Cymbeline Tancongco Culiat:

• address the immense felt need for reconciliation, wholeness, and function in our broken relationships and divided communities,
• explain the science behind the stages of physical wound healing and how this reveals parallel insights into how people can recover from social wounds,
• share current research on brain science as it relates to the damaging effects of trauma and the protective effects of positive emotions and experiences,
• equip readers with new concepts and tools to use in resolving interpersonal conflict, and
• offer hope and encouragement to readers as they pursue the healing of divisions within their greater communities.

Join us to learn how the body is created with mechanisms that optimize a flourishing recovery from life’s inevitable wounds. We pray after listening, you realize we are given a model for hopeful, faithful, and enduring healing in all other aspects of our lives. Our wounds don’t have to have the last word.

“We want people to be hopeful about healing and see it as the healthy design. We believe that readers can extract a lot of principles from the book so they can become better agents of healing in their lives/circles—offering themselves as agents of healing — to be essential components of the healing matrix in the circles they live in.” Cymbeline T. Culiat

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