Conversation | Into the Quiet Experience | When Solitude Opens a Wound (Featuring Dan Allender)

What effect does trauma have on our capacity to hear God’s voice?In this conversation, John Mark and Dr. Dan Allender—a therapist with 40 years of experience specializing in trauma—reflect on how the inner “tumult” of solitude might become the open door for Jesus to enter into our deepest wounds. The conversation is followed by a time of question and response.This episode is from the Into the Quiet Experience in Seattle, Washington, in Fall 2026.If you’d like to continue exploring what it means to build a life with God in solitude, we have two invitations for you. First, John Mark’s newest book Into The Quiet is now available for order at your book provider of choice. Second, you can join John Mark in person for the Into the Quiet Experience, coming to a city near you between now and November 12. Purchase your ticket at intothequietexperience.com.This podcast and its episodes are paid for by The Circle, our community of monthly givers. Special thanks for this episode goes to: Pam from Llano, Texas; Jeff from Centerville, Ohio; Jessie from Houston, Texas; Nicole from Cambridge, Massachusetts; Mallory from Yakima, Washington. Thank you all very much.If you’d like to pay it forward and contribute toward future resources, you can learn more at practicingtheway.org/generous. Mentioned in this conversation:Psalm 22:1Dietrich BonhoefferPsalm 139:17Ronald Rohlheiser