April 25, 2019
Harriet Tubman is one of my heros.
She was a slave who grew up and refused to live in bondage. So she made a daring plan to escape. All alone, leaving her family behind. She walked through rivers, hid in holes, ran at night, and went days without food. She risked everything for freedom. She would have died before she went back to bondage.
And one day, she was free. But she couldn’t stop thinking about her family and her friends who were still in bondage. Harriet Tubman decided to go back, risking her life, to show others who were still trapped in slavery the way out rather than to live in freedom all alone. She risked everything – her own capture and slavery, even death – over and over again to lead others to freedom.
And that’s kind of our story too, in a different way. That’s why we started The Way Out.
We are two people who have taken the risk to find the way out of the bondage of our pasts for the freedom we believe is ahead of us. We don’t want to survive the trauma we’ve lived through, we want to thrive. We don’t want to be functional, we want to be free. So we’ve given our lives over to finding the way out. We don’t pretend to have all the answers. We don’t know it all. We won’t give you a bunch of theories and big ideas. But we will share with you lessons we’ve learned the hard way. Lessons we’ve learned along the way on our own journey to freedom.
And because it’s not enough to live in freedom alone, we want to help you find your way out too.
You don’t have to be content with just functioning. You can learn to pour out what might not have been poured in. You can find peace from the chaos of your past and even your present. It doesn’t have to be this way.
So what do you say? Are you ready to find The Way Out?