Gillian has an honest and insightful conversation with Nick Thorley.
Nick is co-founder and co-host of Nomad Podcast. He lives in Nottingham where he spent most of his 20’s working as a Youth Minister for a group of Methodist churches. Since then he’s been involved in fundraising for various international development charities. Nick loves to hang out with his kids, run very long distances, drink good coffee and meet up with friends.
Themes and thoughts explored:
- Nick shares about who he is,
- including his experience of becoming blind from childhood until his late 20s.
- Retinitis pigmentosa (RP)
- The challenge of going through such a huge life experience in teenage years.
- The controlling and coping mechanisms Nick turned to or used including addictive behaviours of using pornography and gambling.
- Nick's sister intervening and suggesting therapy specific to addictive behaviour.
- Gillian and Nick discuss trauma and shame.
- The embodied healing of running for recovery.
- Honest anger when things are hard is healing.
- Nick shares his experience of God now.
- Shalom.
