About Hard Conversations
Sometimes it’s the conversations not had that do the most damage to the people in our lives. Hard Conversations is a collection of short stories detailing the lives of five urban people who are standing at the intersection of their past and their potential. Sensing that something is still off in the lives that they have built, each has to make the crucial decision whether to address their secrets long buried, or to continue living in the uncomfortable matrix they created. Only they can decide what their future will bring.
Excerpt
Our gifting often becomes our prison. I wrote this book to pull back the mask on our experience in the hopes that it compels us to confront our learned ability to white wash our pain with our talent and giftings. We are often taught that the greatest value that we bring to the world is solely present in what we do, what we earn, or how well we play. In reality our greatest value is in the stories that we can articulate to those we influence once we have reached the other side of trauma. Trauma that tried to silence our voice, trauma that caused a part of us to die in the fight, and trauma that threatened us to stay silent after our experience with it because we should just be grateful that we made it to the other side.
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About the Author
BJ Communicates, aka Dr. Brad Johnson, LSSBB, CSM, is a Kingdom writer, a communication practitioner, and an influential Bible teacher. Given the assignments of assisting urban believers in articulating their stories, finding resolution, and gaining the language of the Kingdom, BJ continually creates and releases inspirational media content that highlights their stories and experiences.
“The Holy Spirit is constantly giving me things to write; sometimes it’s a book, sometimes it’s an article for a Christian publication, sometimes it’s something for my blog site or social media, and sometimes it’s a song for me or another recording artist, I’m just the pen in His hand,” says BJ.
In addition to faith-based media creator, he is the owner of Communic8 Life Consulting, a communication consulting firm that specializes in assisting couples, families, and business teams in improving their interpersonal communication skills; and is the co-pastor of the urban cafe church Transformed City in Richmond, VA.
Guilty Pleasures
My list of guilty pleasure include[s] the show Dr. Pimple Popper on TLC, a supreme pizza from an authentic Italian restaurant, and a large piece of homemade carrot cake. I normally follow a strict Keto diet and am even planning to go plant based soon, so eating pizza and carrot cake aren’t on my typical menu.
My wife thinks Dr. Pimple Popper is one of the grossest shows in history, but I love it. Nothing is better on a weekend then laying in bed and binge watching it for hours. Watching it is so fascinating to me because I love to see people coming with, what they believe, to be incurable issues and being overjoyed that Dr. Lee can help them in one visit. I also love the surgical prodding and cutting. I couldn’t personally do it, but I love seeing Dr. Lee squeezing a lump on a patient and watching some substance shoot across the room.
Another guilty pleasure would by anything Marvel. I grew up as a comic book kid, so watching movies and cartoons from that franchise take me back to a simpler time in my life when I had no cares and no bills. Everybody needs something and sometime to be a kid again. It keeps us young. Unwinding and forgetting our adult responsibilities is a great stress reliever.
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