He holds a Master’s degree in Theology and Culture from the Seattle School for Theology and Psychology and has appeared in many stage productions and television shows. Now again, I’m not saying that, she or any other person speaks ex nihilo out of nothing she’s speaking to and about yet in her creativity to see and engage, even in the midst of your failures of her and your failures of yourself. On the question of where he came from, Hogan shares honestly about his past, celebrating the highs as well as admitting the lows. As long as we are true to ourselves, and as long as we trust God to lead the way, we should always do our best and let God handle the rest.

These two questions would gradually help sprout other questions that not only probe his inner self and relationships but also his purpose in life. A must read for any human being who has been held captive by addiction, trauma and/or the brokenness of others. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Through powerful personal revelations and insightful takeaways, he invites you to take up the practices of radical imagination and real creativity so you can tell a better story with your life. When Blaine was unable to hide behind the veneer of success or find comfort in the shadows of compulsion, he was forced to examine the story his life was telling and realize he had lost his way.

And today, even, even though we didn’t go to bed, just totally in chaos, just getting up this morning and looking at one another with a kind of, what do we do with this proverbial hangover from what occurred? As you’ll see in the spot, I pulled some of my shots directly from the GIFS I placed in the treatment. Someone asked me in another interview, if you could describe, the boy in the cave and the man, who still stands outside of it.

The story of his transformation rings so much truer and more hopeful because he didn't hold back, and I appreciated his introspection and reflections about what it means to choose "radical imagination" towards a better life. And so I kind of wanna hear you say, how did you pick the title and, and how, particularly through the book is this intersection between the real and what’s really real plays out? In this conversation, Blaine describes his process of finding the goodness in his story, and how embracing his story allowed him to express his creativity more fully. My wife was the greatest editor I could have ever had, in the ways that she reminded me of what I had already known, what I always knew. Some of his most painful episodes were about the hurts he had inflicted on others and the resultant turmoil that tormented him emotionally and spiritually.And it was, I had yet to reconcile the things and stories and moments of my past, that I continued to repeat, that continued to play out moments that I hadn’t yet come to terms or made peace with. And that, that just takes me again, back to this question of in, in addressing and wrestling with great harm, the great harm actually drew you into the creative process.

Tell us why you liked or disliked the book; using examples and comparisons is a great way to do this.You’re the crazy, wild haired, professor that I meet in the kind of immediately following my inciting incident, that begins to, open up a world that I didn’t think was possible. And in that, you know, as the one time creative director at Willow Creek Church and Chicago, you’ve been in big settings, and you know, both in terms of your acting career, in terms of your writing, I mean, to say the least, you’re, you’re one of the most creative people I have known on the earth. It was in a practicum session where I was told that I was a liar, in repeating my story again and again. It was during his time at The Seattle School that he says, “It was time to go back to those stories, to those shadows, because I was reenacting them in so many heartbreaking ways to myself and to others. Blaine: I mean I think that’s such a great, I think that is, that is the word that’s probably one that really does define my work in, I think any creative act is, or the turn of a phrase of a really good therapist is get curious about that.