Say the Quiet Thing Out Loud - Jen Hatmaker Solo Episode

About this sermon

Jen is coming to you from the last two days of Me Camp in Canada, eyeballs on the lake, four weeks into having the volume turned down on every channel. And when the static quiets, the truer things rise up. In this me-to-you episode, Jen kicks off August's theme of honesty with the idea at the spine of the whole month: there is the thing we say, and then there is a truer sentence sitting an inch underneath it. And usually one an inch under that. This is not a call to overshare or come into your life like a wrecking ball. It is an honest look at what it costs to keep swallowing the truest thing — the resentment that leaks out sideways, the body that tells the truth when your mouth won't, the bill that always comes due whether or not we pay it on our own terms. Jen shares what her own silence cost in the last years of her marriage, names the difference between truth telling and truth throwing, and offers the gentlest possible place to begin: one true sentence, one page, just between you and you. Thought-provoking Quotes: • “Staying quiet only masquerades as keeping the peace. We are genuinely just deferring the bill.” • “It doesn't disappear just because we're not willing to look it in the eye. It just goes underground, but it charges interest.” • “So here I am thinking I'm protecting this marriage, protecting the kids — and I was actually helping to sink the ship.” • “My body was absolutely telling the truth. Maybe my mouth wasn't, but my body was.” • “There is a difference between truth telling and truth throwing.” • “Honest is not the same thing as unfiltered. Honest and kind are not opposites.” • “You are not too much, and your real self is not an inconvenience.” • “I gave all the yeses because I thought it would make me lovable.” – Linda, The AWAKE Collective • “I have nothing to prove — to myself, to others, or to the outside world.” – Ray Ann, The AWAKE Collective Resources Mentioned in This Episode: • The AWAKE Collective — the monthly live gathering where this conversation started, included with a paid subscription to Jen’s Substack: jenhatmaker.substack.com • Letters from the Middle — Jen’s Substack, where the honesty conversation continues all month: jenhatmaker.substack.com • Tell us your story — head to jenhatmaker.com/podcast, look for the Send Voicemail button, and tell Jen the quiet thing you finally said out loud (or the one you’re working up to). • This week’s practice: write your one true sentence at the top of a page, then fill the page underneath it. No editing, no slowing down, no softeners. No one is reading it but you. Connect with Jen! Jen’s Website - https://jenhatmaker.com/ Jen’s Substack - https://jenhatmaker.substack.com/ Jen’s Instagram - https://instagram.com/jenhatmaker Jen’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/jenHatmaker/ Jen’s Facebook - https://facebook.com/jenhatmaker Jen’s YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/JenHatmaker The For the Love Podcast is presented by Audacy.

Topics

• Peace