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68 | Wherever you go, there you are...
When chaos is the water you’ve always lived in, sometimes you don’t recognize it as chaos at all.
And healing begins when you finally see there may be another way.
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A year-long “rehab tour” provided James with...
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67 | Hell's Angels & Other Kinds of Rescue
To change the fruit you must deal with the root!
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As a kid, James gets beaten up by another boy living in an apartment complex filled with Hell’s Angels.
His four-foot-something redheaded mother finds out…
…...
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66 | The past explains it, even if it doesn't excuse it
The story of trauma and chaos and confusion didn’t begin with the military, service dogs, or the battlefield.
It began much earlier.
With a teenage mother…
A broken marriage…
An abusive stepfather…
Constant military...
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65 |💥 Crashing into grace
Things break.
Sometimes it’s people, other times it’s place, and in other moments it’s situations.
The thing is, well…
Restoration doesn’t always look like a “precise return” to what we once had. Many times, grace...
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64 | 🥊 Accumulated trauma & compounding chaos
Life sometimes hands us big knockout punches. The big blows that put you on that mat.
Sometimes.
Yes, a some of the trauma we encounter is like a TKO. It knocks the breathe out of you and places you on the ground,...
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63 | 🐶 Dogs (and people) don't train alone
Look back at every pivotal moment in your life, and the transition probably has more to do with a relationship than a raw decision.
This means that each time you “leveled up” and achieved something, there were...
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62 | 🏀 Weak is the new strong
There’s something powerful about story…
… especially stories we encounter in real time with actual people…
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… which is what James and Alex encountered along the way to pick pick up Angel…
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Ancient rabbis believed...
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61 | 🛻 I need a favor (Angel and Alex, part 1)
Several years ago, James Dickerson decided to “go public” with all the service dog project he was doing…
… and it happened ABOUT the same time that Eno, a combat veteran who had lost just about everything and was...
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60 | 👜 The Hulken
Sometimes what you THINK you need isn’t what you actually need…
That happened to Jenn, when she took “everything” she thought a friend who was recently diagnosed with cancer need. Turns out, she didn’t need a “Hulken”...
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59 | ‼️Miracle or no miracle (healing happens now)
Somebody asked me a few weeks ago, “Why do you teach natural health?”
And, “Why teach practical stuff alongside the spiritual…?”
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By that, they meant something like this: “You teach grace and healing… why do we...
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58 | 📣 Circumstances ≠ Calling
Circumstances don’t dictate your destiny.
The current reality doesn’t determine your calling…
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Romans 11:29 tells us the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.
He doesn’t invoke a purpose and then withdraw...
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57 | 🙈Blind-sided (and some of it’s my fault)
Sometimes, life blind-sides us…
… and we don’t see “the hit” coming. Hence the term “blind-side.”
But let’s be real about blind-sides…
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💥 Sometimes the collision occurs and takes US TOTALL by surprise… it’s truly...
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