What Honest Writing Can Teach Us with Will Parker Anderson

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Three Percent

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Welcome to Three Percent. This is your space if you’re on a journey of pursuing holistic masculinity, growing your emotional awareness, and cultivating deeper relationships and an authentic faith. We’re here to provide evidence-based guidance and proven strategies drawn from our experiences as therapists, friends, and mentors. We aren’t here to give you gimmicks or superficial “hacks.” We’re not telling you who to be, we're helping you uncover what gets in the way of being the man you want to be and offering you the authentic tools needed for tangible growth.

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What Honest Writing Can Teach Us with Will Parker Anderson

Three Percent

57 minutes 16 seconds

4 months ago

What Honest Writing Can Teach Us with Will Parker Anderson

Check out more of Will Parker Anderson:

🌐 Website – writerscircle.co

🎙️ Podcast – The Writer’s Circle

Learn more about Three Percent: 🌐 www.threepercentco.com

Summary

In this episode, we sit down with writer, editor, and host of The Writer’s Circle podcast, Will Parker Anderson. Will opens up about the intersection of storytelling and vulnerability, holistic masculinity modeled by Jesus, and why real writing—and real life—requires full presence. From discussing confession and shame to the importance of being known in community, this conversation offers wisdom for anyone seeking healing, depth, and the courage to be honest. Will’s pastoral insight and personal honesty will challenge and comfort you.

Takeaways

The best writing is the overflow of honest living.
Holistic masculinity is modeled by Jesus—servanthood over dominance.
We can’t be fully known by God if we hide from people.
Vulnerability isn’t an event—it’s a habit of letting light in.
Confession is painful but leads to soul-level relief and formation.
Mentorship and trusted community are vital for healing.

Truth-telling opens the door to connection and transformation.

Chapters

(00:00) Meet Will Parker Anderson

(02:00) Writing as Overflow of Living

(04:30) Holistic Masculinity as Servanthood

(09:00) Vulnerability in Storytelling and Relationships

(14:00) Why Men Struggle to Tell the Truth

(18:00) You Can’t Be Known By God Without Being Known By Others

(22:00) Healing from Hurt Happens in Relationship

(26:00) The Poison and the Cure Grow Side-by-Side

(30:00) Will’s Story of Confession and Grace

(36:00) The Risk of Vulnerability

(41:00) What Gets Affirmed Gets Repeated

(45:00) Neurobiology of Being Seen and Known

(50:00) Mentorship and Gentle Discipleship

(54:00) Where to Find Will and Writer’s Circle

Keywords

Will Parker Anderson, Three Percent, writing and vulnerability, storytelling, holistic masculinity, servanthood, confession, shame, grace, recovery, writer’s circle, Penguin Random House, Substack, emotional intelligence, community, mentorship, being known, faith and healing, honesty, Jesus, fatherhood, integrity, spiritual formation, trauma recovery, mental health, deconstruction, masculinity and faith, relational healing, writing process