J. S. Park - The Voices We Carry: Finding Your One True Voice in a World of Clamor and Noise

In The Voices We Carry, J. S. Park identifies and explores the eight voices that shape so much of the way we move through the world, without our even knowing it. In identifying those voices and giving us examples from his own personal and professional life, examples that are often astonishingly honest, he becomes a sturdy guide and trusted friend in the journey. We may all carry these voices, but we dont need to carry them alone. The Voices We Carry bursts with compassion and wisdom. This book is a gift.

KERRY EGAN

Author of On Living

J. S. has written a personal narrative that gives a voice to the voices we all encounterthose internal dialogues we fight and embrace that cycle through messages of rejection and belonging. Through his experience as a chaplain and the vulnerability of his personal experiences growing up, J. S. weaves a message of hope that we have the power to identify, confront, and ultimately transform our personal dialogue when we choose to step into and embrace the authenticity of our unique voice.

DEBORAH GORTON

Licensed clinical psychologist, author, Gary D. Chapman Chair of Marriage, Family Ministry, and Therapy at Moody Theological Seminary

The exposing honesty of triumph over human failure, especially in J. S. Park, is mind remedying. Reading J. S.s heart and faith throughout The Voices We Carry gives courage to listen to, decipher, face, and positively redirect the voices that live inside our humanness, our minds, and our hearts. Helping us to become overcomers in order to help others to overcome is a beautiful and generous gift from God. The Voices We Carry challenges us to recognize we all are a part of Gods gift, through the presence of the Holy Spirit guiding us, by the power of Jesus love made complete in us.

BELINDA W. WOMACK

Internationally renowned gospel and jazz artist

We all carry darkness. And we all carry light. Learning to let our light illuminate our darkness and expose the most vulnerable, flawed, broken parts of ourselves frees us to become the unashamedly human, miraculously divine image-bearers we were created to be and, in the process, opens our hearts to the other vulnerable, flawed, broken humans we encounter every day. That is the healing message of The Voices We Carry. With practical steps interspersed with personal stories in the powerful voice of a hospital chaplain, The Voices We Carry is more than a self-help book or a memoir. It is a revelation of what it means to be human in an often inhumane world. It is an invitation to be fully and fiercely and authentically human despite, or even because of, our frailty and failings and to reach out to each other, again and again, in the face of the sometimes insurmountable grief of life and love and loss on this gorgeous old planet we share.

L. R. KNOST

Author of InHumanity: Letters from the Trenches and Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages

J. S. Park gives us all an incredible gift in The Voices We Carry: the chance to be known and seen by a chaplain, perhaps even long before we find ourselves at the end of our days. His writing is singular and unique: he is a poet, a theologian, and a guide to the inner worlds we expend momentous energy hiding from the rest of the world. I will be reading this book over and over again: it exposes and it heals, all at the same time pointing us toward the divine voice of love we are so desperately craving.

D. L. MAYFIELD

Author of The Myth of the American Dream: Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety, and Power

J. S. Park has masterfully captured a God-honoring expression of giving voice to the unheard souls seeking hope in the midst of trauma, grief, and faith.

MORRIS HINTZMAN

Developing Founder and Former President of Metropolitan Ministries, Tampa, FL

2020 by J. S. PARK

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Park, J. S. (Hospital chaplain), author.

Title: The voices we carry : finding your one true voice in a world of clamor and noise / J.S. Park.

Description: Chicago : Northfield Publishing, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: Quiet the Noise in Your Headspace and Find Your One, True Voice During hospital chaplaincy training, J. S. Park began to see patterns in his own life and the lives of patients he met. Often they understood the problem, maybe, like him, they could even point to the root causes, but they still felt stuck. So he developed the Voices Model to help people find their one, true voice. It explores the false voices we listen to, four inner voices (self-condemning, self-exalting, condemning others, and exalting others), and four outer voices (guilt, family dynamics, grief, and trauma). Through it youll learn how to identify these unhelpful voices and successfully kick them out of your headspace. Filled with first-person narrative stories, and psychological, spiritual, and clinical insights, The Voices We Carry is an enjoyable, disarming, and important read. For anyone who wants to grow but isnt quite sure how to move forward, this book is for you-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019055264 (print) | LCCN 2019055265 (ebook) | ISBN 9780802419897 (paperback) | ISBN 9780802498816 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Self-talk. | Self-perception. | Self-actualization (Psychology) | Self-realization.

Classification: LCC BF697.5.S47 P37 2020 (print) | LCC BF697.5.S47 (ebook) | DDC 158.1--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019055264

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019055265

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