| Many of us are trying to figure out what it looks like to approach the new year with joy and intention. At the same time, we may be wondering what the lingering challenges and consequences of 2020 may be. What does it look like to acknowledge past hardship without getting stuck there? On this week’s episode of Cultivated, Mike Cosper talks to therapist Aundi Kolber. Kolber authored Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode—and into a Life of Connection and Joy. In the book and in this episode, Kolber talks about the ways that trauma shapes our identities and perspectives. And she describes how Jesus looks upon us with gentleness, so that we can look upon ourselves and our families with gentleness, too | 