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WELCOMING THE EXILE HOME WITH CONVERSATIONS ABOUT FAITH, RACE, JUSTICE, GENDER AND THE CHURCH
About Danielle & Maggie
About Danielle Castillejo
I am a graduate student of The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, completing a Masters degree in Counseling and Psychology. I am a biracial woman married to an immigrant, mother raising four thriving children, survivor. I am employed by Real Escape from the Sex Trade (REST – www.iwantrest.com) as a Survivor Engagement Specialist. I serve and long to bring more awareness to the business of the sale of human bodies as commodities in the United States and the world.
In my studies at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, I have learned the importance of story by preparing to “enter the beauty and brokenness of my own story in order to better meet others with courage, compassion, and awe.” Working with trauma requires that I engage with and work through my own trauma, a premise for my graduate school studies, and further exploration in my completion of The Allender Center Trauma Informed Narrative Therapy Certificate programs (level 1 and level 2).
Besides all of this, I am passionate about hiking, sunsets, ocean waves, children's laughs, adventuring and making memories with my family. You can find me (often) on the beach, on a summer day, relaxing -- listening to the waves and my children in the ocean.
About Maggie Hemphill
I am a trauma-informed story and life coach, a wife, mother of three, advocate for the hurting, leader and gatherer of people. Trained at the Allender Center in Narrative Focused Trauma Care, I love to engage people and stories, holding both beauty and brokenness. I don’t shy away from tension, but rather lean in to those hard spaces with curiosity. I meet with people for one-on-one coaching as well as facilitate story groups through my practice at Storied Life Coaching (www.storiedlifecoaching.com)
I have always had an interest in the places we come from, both as individuals and as people groups, including family lore, genealogy, culture, traditions, mythology, folklore and social history. My undergraduate degree is in Ancient Near Eastern History where I studied the beginnings of civilization and the origins of writing. I also love studying the historical and cultural context of the Bible and how theology intersects with our lived experience. Truly I have found no greater story than that of Jesus Christ and I continue to marvel at the transformative work of the gospel in people’s lives.
When I am not volunteering at my children’s school or serving at my local church, I enjoy being creative with various arts and crafts, talking with people about life, going on adventures with my family, traveling and trying new cultural experiences.
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Danielle and I (Maggie) met virtually this week with author, filmmaker, theologian, poet and PhD candidate, Phil Allen Jr. to discuss the themes in his new book Open Wounds: A Story of Racial Tragedy, Trauma and Redemption around the layers of racism, the ways trauma effects us intergenerationally and the difference between reconciliation and solidarity.