AFTER YOU SAY IT

A word once out, dances where it will.
But what happens when it dances back to you?

We speak and think little of it. Yet a word, once let loose, may travel farther than the tongue that set it free. It may slip through the cracks of memory, change hands in the telling, and gather meanings of its own. By the time it finds its way home, it may no longer answer to the name you gave it.

After all, the tongue has no rewind, and the spoken word has no homecoming unchanged.

AFTER YOU SAY IT.

In this book, you will discover:
• the hidden reason you said what you said, which may not be the one you think
• why the same words can comfort one person and wound another
• why telling people your goals can quietly stop you from reaching them
• how ideas are taken without anyone feeling they have stolen them
• how the words you hear and the words you tell yourself shape the life you see
• how to repair a sentence you cannot take back
The book includes seven questions to ask before you speak, a 30-day practice with space to write, and discussion questions for book clubs, faith groups and classrooms.
For anyone who has been hurt by words, anyone who has hurt others with words, and anyone who has lost to words.
Where do words go once they leave you?