And so to begin that process to say what got in the way, I mean, we often think, Let me just take another sentence, Tortured artist. In Exit the Cave , Blaine shares the stories that shaped him--his own, others', and God's greater story--while exploring how our relationship to our past defines the way we live in the present. But nonetheless, when I, as I read, captured indeed by the rich and, I don’t know a better word, a brilliant language taking me into things that have points of similarity, but also great difference, it’s like good fiction. Sean is a director in his own right, but he’s also a dad who used to be a skater and isn’t afraid to nail a backflip on his kid’s tramp in the backyard.

However, I did spend the entire book trying to figure out how the subtitle fit and I never did find an answer. Thank you, Sean, for hopping on the other side of the camera and for pushing through that rolled ankle during stunt training for this one! Blaine Hogan's memoir is an intense, stunningly honest, and profoundly hopeful promise that telling the truth can set the heart free. It’s still revelatory, it’s exposing and at that, confirming, exposing power that brings, the reminder of goodness, even in the deepest heartache, that was a central part. And so then you said the thing, um, that is one of your most hyperbolic statements, which it’s hard to find the most hard to find hyperbolic statement of yours, but it might be this, The easiest thing to change is your past.Blaine holds a Master of Arts in Theology and Culture from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology.

And so I knew that if I wanted to, invite a space that felt safe for people, to address some of the hurt and harm and pain in their own stories, that I needed to be willing, to go there myself. I already knew some bits and pieces of Blaine’s story from hearing his storytelling from the stage and his instagram account, but this is an invitation right into the dark and often messy work that being a human in recovery and creating new patterns out of dysfunction is.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. But it connected me back to the places that I thought that I had, made peace with and realized that I had not, because where I was going was so directly connected to where I had come from.