The Wounded Healer
by Henri J. M. Nouwen
Ministry in a dislocated world: the minister must make their own wounds a source of healing, through hospitality and shared vulnerability. Short, 1972, and the book that gave helpers everywhere a phrase for what they do.
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you help people for a living and feel unqualified by your own brokenness.
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Three things you will actually use
- Your wounds are your credentials.
- Hospitality is the healing act.
- Loneliness, offered, becomes solitude.
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Wounds as credentials.
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