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In this episode, “The Art of Being Gentle With Yourself,” we explore what it means to practice self-compassion in a world that constantly pushes perfection. Together, we’ll look at the definition of self-compassion, how it connects with gentleness, and why gentleness—as a fruit of the Spirit—is something Christians often overlook when it comes to themselves. We’ll talk about how gentleness can play a powerful role in healing trauma, especially since trauma can feel like the opposite of compassion and softness. I’ll share some personal examples of how I’ve learned to slow down, give myself grace, and be gentler in my own healing journey—physically, mentally, and spiritually. Finally, we’ll consider how practicing gentleness toward ourselves can help us extend true compassion and kindness to others.

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In this episode, we dive into the deep ways childhood experiences shape how we connect, trust, and relate to others—and how those wounds can follow us into adulthood. If you’ve ever felt the sting of emotional neglect, the confusion of inconsistent love, or the fear of vulnerability, this episode is for you. Together, we explore what attachment wounds are, how they show up in relationships and faith, and, most importantly, how God can be the ultimate secure attachment figure. I’ll guide you through practical steps to experience God’s unwavering love, let Him reparent the parts of you that were hurt, and start building healthier, more secure connections with others. By the end, you’ll have reflection tools, prayer practices, and a fresh perspective on trust, healing, and belonging in Christ.

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1:17 Intro to Topic
7:39 What Are Attachment Wounds?
17:40 God As the Ultimate Secure Attachment Figure
22:53 How to Develop a Secure Attachment With God
35:40 Healing Attachment Wounds in Human Relationships
41:44 Practical Exercises to Build a Secure Connection With God

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In this week’s episode, we’re talking about what resilience really is—especially for those of you who feel like healing is slow, messy, or impossible. If you’ve ever wondered why you still feel stuck, or doubted whether you’re making progress, this conversation is for you. Resilience isn’t about pushing through or being endlessly strong—it’s about slowly coming back to safety, connection, and self after pain. We’ll explore how real resilience works in the body, mind, and spirit, why it doesn’t always look impressive on the outside, and how both grace and grit are part of your healing—and why you’re likely already more resilient than you think.

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Breaking generational trauma means learning to recognize unhealthy patterns—and choosing not to pass them on. In this episode, we explore how generational trauma affects your life, relationships, and faith, and how to start healing it with God’s help. We’ll talk about inherited emotional and spiritual patterns, how trauma lives in the body, and how people in Scripture broke the cycle in their own families. You’ll leave with practical tools, biblical encouragement, and a reminder that healing is possible—starting with you.

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6:01 What Is Generational Trauma?
18:49 Impacts of Generational Trauma
31:16 Cultural Impacts of Generational Trauma
36:33 Breaking Generational Trauma
47:36 Practices to Heal Generational Trauma

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DescriptionDo you ever feel like there’s a specific area of your life where you struggle no matter what you do? I spent years doing all the “right” things—vision boards, affirmations, money mindset work, deep dives into my blocks, all in hopes of becoming someone who deserved abundance. But no matter how hard I worked, nothing changed the way I hoped. The promises of the law of attraction and prosperity gospel started to feel like gaslighting—like if it wasn’t working, it must be my fault. I internalized it as failure, as proof that I was broken or cursed when it came to money. And it wasn’t just the inner work—I worked hard in external ways too. I built skills, pursued opportunities, worked on professional growth, and still found myself hitting the same walls. It left me questioning my worth and wondering if success was only for people who already felt whole. But I’m learning that healing isn’t a prerequisite for success or for being seen, respected, or loved. We don’t have to be perfectly aligned or “fixed” to deserve a breakthrough. We can be in process and still be enough. We can be messy and still make progress. Our worth isn’t something we have to earn—it’s something we carry with us, something God has already give us, even when nothing’s working out the way we hoped.

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If you’re feeling tired from trying to hold everything together perfectly — you’re not alone. In today’s episode, we’re having a real, honest conversation about what it looks like to choose progress over perfection. We’ll be looking at it through three lenses: first, how perfectionism shows up for just about everyone when we tie our worth to our performance; second, how it runs even deeper for trauma survivors, where perfection sometimes became a way to stay safe or avoid harm; and third, how even in our Christian walk, perfectionism can quietly slip in and make us feel like we have to earn God’s love — when the truth is, His love has never depended on our performance. Each of these journeys is different, but if you see yourself in any of them, know this: you are already loved, already enough, and you are not alone in this fight. Today, we’re giving ourselves permission to grow at our own pace, trust God's grace, and celebrate every small, brave step we take.

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1:17 Intro
3:27 General Perfectionism and Guarding Against Perfectionism
21:55 Perfectionism as Christians and Pitfalls to Avoid
39:55 Perfectionism as Trauma Survivors and Pitfalls to Avoid
62:00 Practices to Overcome Perfectionism

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When you’ve experienced trauma, it can be hard to separate who you are from what you’ve been through. The way trauma affects the brain can leave you with deep-seated beliefs that you are unworthy, broken, or beyond healing—but that isn’t the truth. You can feel like you're always reactive, angry, and afraid. In this episode, we explore how trauma distorts self-perception and how both psychology and faith offer pathways to reclaiming your identity. We’ll talk about how the brain forms false narratives around trauma, why healing requires both renewing the mind and restoring the nervous system, and how Scripture speaks directly to our worth and purpose. You’ll also get practical exercises—like journaling through a new lens, reframing painful memories with God’s presence, and using breath prayers to calm anxiety. If you’ve ever wrestled with feeling unseen, unworthy, or stuck in old patterns, this episode offers tangible steps to help you reconnect with who you truly are in Christ and in your intrinsic worth.

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Description:In this first episode of the season, we’re tackling the impact of words—how well-meaning but uninformed people and abusers use language to dismiss, shame, or control survivors. These statements can keep you stuck in self-doubt and isolation, making it harder to trust yourself and your healing process. We’ll break down common phrases that invalidate and gaslight, then reframe them with trauma-informed alternatives that affirm your experiences and support your growth. We break this down into two categories, phrases that well-meaning people who are not trauma-informed say and phrases that abusers use intentionally to cause harm. This episode is about recognizing the harm in these messages, rewriting the narrative, and choosing words that empower instead of diminish. Let’s start this season by standing in truth and reclaiming the language of healing so we can live the lives God intended for us.

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1:17 Intro and Update on Channel
4:05 Intro to Topic and Two Types of Harmful Statements
9:03 Harmful Statements Abusers Say & Trauma-Informed Alternatives
19:40 Well-Intended but Harmful Statements & Trauma-Informed Alternatives
31:23 Closing

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2025 Podcast Update #2

I share an update on the future direction of the podcast and my life. New episodes are coming, but they have been delayed and I will need to cut back on the podcast to focus on other areas of life. God bless you and thank you for listening.

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In this episode, we explore why the holiday season can be uniquely challenging for many, particularly those coping with grief, strained family dynamics, loneliness, trauma, financial stress, or mental health struggles. For many, the holidays are a time of joy, family, and the celebration of the birth of our savior. For others, the holidays can be more complicated. We discuss practical strategies to protect your emotional well-being, such as setting boundaries, managing expectations, creating space for rest and joy, and finding meaningful ways to connect with others. We also discuss how you can help others who may be going through similar challenges. Remember it's okay if you're feeling a lot of emotions during the holidays. Take time to feel these, while also finding ways to feel peace, joy, and comfort where you're at, even if the holidays can be difficult. By addressing these challenges with compassion and by being intentional, you can navigate the season more peacefully and create a sense of hope, safety, and healing for yourself and others, even amidst the challenges of the holidays.

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1:17 Intro and Why We Are More Vulnerable During the Holidays
16:41 What You Can Do To Protect Yourself, Heal Yourself, and Make The Holidays Better for Yourself and Others

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It can be easy to get caught up in what happened to us, in difficulties, and in the healing work so much, that forget why we're doing this healing work, to experience more joy! The following saying resonated with me and inspired this podcast: "You're not healing to be able to handle trauma. You're used to trauma. You're healing to be able to handle joy." Joy is one of the fruits of the spirit and a fruit of our healing labors. God wants us to not only experience joy, but to embody it. We cover why joy is so important in trauma recovery, how to avoid toxic positivity and bypassing when cultivating joy, and how to cultivate more joy in your life with the realities and unique challenges of being a trauma survivor in mind. As a survivor, it can be more challenging to experience joy, but like the rest of healing work, it is a skill that can be learned. You CAN live a joyful life, in spite of all that has happened to you.

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1:17 Intro
4:40 Why Joy Is So Important in Trauma Recovery and Why Toxic Bypassing Doesn't Work
11:52 Different Kinds of Joy
18:30 Why Trauma Survivors Struggle More to Experience Joy and Starting Where You're At
31:44 How to Embody Joy After Trauma

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Many of us heard growing up that self-care was "selfish" or "ungodly." However, no one can give from an empty well, and even Jesus escaped the crowds for rest, solitude, and time with God. We all need forms of self-care to heal and restore our bodies, minds, and souls. Healing from trauma requires a holistic approach to self-care, addressing all aspects of our well-being. There are six categories of self-care: physical, emotional, mental, social, spiritual, and practical. Each of these can be approached from a Christian perspective, especially for trauma survivors, to promote healing and growth. For survivors, it’s crucial to approach these categories of self-care with patience and self-compassion. Healing is a gradual process, and integrating these practices into daily life can help rebuild a sense of safety, control, and well-being. Additionally, anchoring these practices in faith can provide a deep sense of purpose and connection throughout the healing journey.

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1:17 Intro to New Episode
3:04 Why Self-Care Is Important
6:30 The Six Types of Self-Care
18:52 Six Types of Self-Care From a Christian Perspective and for Trauma RecoveryCLICK HERE FOR SOURCES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JboZhwkIuEphtEeaQ-8jyLGHWv804Zk5LMMg-iWduLo/edit?usp=sharing

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While it's easy to go down a rabbit hole on the concept of narcissism, it's good to be empowered and educated and protect yourself from narcissistic behaviors in certain others. Please keep in mind that having a certain level of narcissistic traits can be healthy in a balance. However, narcissism exists on a spectrum with some people having higher narcissistic traits, and even some who have full blown NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder, which is in the DSM). We will go over the common categories of narcissists both in clinical and common spaces. We'll discuss how to spot each one, what their behaviors are, how they interact with others, and how you can protect yourself from these different types.

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Mirror Neurons are one of the main parts of our brain that helps us with learning, cognition, empathy, and relationships. Mirror neurons are what help us respond to and learn from our caretakers as children and learn behavior through imitation, and they are involved in the development of our inner child. Understanding how mirror neurons impact these functions, as well as our childhood development and interactions with others, can help us understand what went wrong if we experienced traumatic events or abuse. Understanding what went wrong, we can also learn strategies to use our mirror neurons to heal our trauma through the body, brain, and neural network at its source. This episode explains these processes and gives you strategies for healing mirror neurons as well as an exercise to heal your inner child.

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1:17 Intro to New Episode
3:26 What Are Mirror Neurons and How Do They Work?
14:16 What Is the Connection Between Mirror Neurons and Childhood Trauma?
26:18 Using Mirror Neurons to Heal the Inner Child and Childhood Trauma
35:19 Mirror Neuron Healing Exercise for the Inner Child

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If you were raised in a family where people were narcissists or had high narcissistic traits, understanding the roles and relationship dynamics in a narcissistic family can help you understand your trauma and protect yourself now. When we say narcissistic family, this doesn't mean everyone is in the family has high narcissistic traits, but it means that one or more people does, either children, parents, or both, and this deeply impacts all family members.

We discuss the roles children play in this family dynamic. Then we discuss narcissistic family dynamics in general and the unwritten rules and behaviors in this family structure. Lastly, we cover when a sibling has these traits and how this can impact others in the family and when a parent has narcissistic traits and how this impacts the family. While it isn't healthy to obsess over the narcissist, understanding these family dynamics, you can learn more about why you are the way you are, know it isn't your fault, love all people in your family in the best way possible, and start the healing process to set healthy boundaries and protect yourself. You can live the life God intended, because you are empowered and educated on this family dynamic.

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Even if we know it intellectually not to be true, trauma, abuse, and neglect survivors internalize blame when they are mistreated, particularly those who suffer from childhood abuses and narcissistic abuses. Knowing the difference between blame and self-validation, finding the balance between knowing what happened to you and taking ownership of healing, and finding the line between self-compassion and victim mindsets can make all the difference in your healing journey. It's important to know that two things can be true at once:

• Abuse is never your fault AND you can take ownership of your healing journey.
• You are enough AND feeling like it is your fault is normal when you've experienced abuse.
• You can acknowledge what happened to you AND not live in blame or victim mentalities.

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1:17 Intro to Episode
6:17 Do You Know It Wasn't Your Fault on a Body Level?
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14:56 What Is the Difference Between Blame and Validating Your Experience?

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An HSP, or Highly Sensitive Person, is a person who has been proven by science to respond to the world differently. You may be more sensitive to light, sound, stimuli, people, and the emotions of others. Being an HSP comes with a unique set of gifts and challenges. While you are more attuned to the beauty around you, you may also be more aware of the dangers. In this talk, we cover how HSP's are wired, the science behind HSPs, how you can protect yourself as an HSP, and how you can care for yourself as a Christian HSP so you can share your gifts, love and help others, protect yourself, and do the healing work, at the same time. We cover twenty-one strategies to protect yourself through boundary setting, self-care practices, and protecting yourself as a Christian HSP in particular. God made you how you are because He wanted you exactly as you are, and you have a right to protect yourself as an HSP so you can live a happy and productive life.

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Why The Pursuit of Peace and Acceptance Is Everything discusses the nature pursuing of peace and acceptance, what it looks like through a beloved character, Winnie the Pooh, and how we can practice this simplicity and acceptance on our healing journey like Pooh, to help overcome trauma with more flow, ease, and simplicity. Overcoming trauma isn't easy, and sometimes life can be difficult, but we don't have to struggle against it. This adds to suffering, whereas acceptance and nonresistance bring peace. Then we discuss the wisdom of Ecclesiastes and how pursuing peace, acceptance, and simplicity are biblical concepts that can help us overcome trauma, struggle, and complicating situations. By pursuing peace, simplicity, and acceptance, we give ourselves a better foundation for effective trauma healing, and we live a more enjoyable life free of struggle and striving as God intended.

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1:17 Intro to Episode
2:47 Intro to Topic
8:47 Why The Pursuit of Peace and Acceptance Is Everything
27:06 The Wisdom of Ecclesiastes on Acceptance and Letting Go
45:35 How the Pursuit of Peace and Acceptance Help the Trauma Survivor

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Episode DescriptionIf you have experienced trauma, these experiences get stored in your body's memory, literally on a physical or somatic level. This unreleased trauma manifests in our emotions, behaviors, and health since it hasn't been resolved or released, and we pay a price. However, there is hope. We are not stuck with trauma. God has given us modern techniques to help us release trauma from the body. In Therapies and Practices to Release Trauma from the Body, we discuss how trauma gets trapped in the body based and it's impact on the brain, neural network, and our health. We then review practices you can use to release trauma somatically from the body to help you heal complex trauma, going more in-depth on how trauma releases from the body from a physiological standpoint. Lastly, we discuss therapies that can help us release trauma from the body, including using biofeedback to monitor physical responses as we release trauma and do healing work. God has given us tools to help us release trauma we never asked for, and there is hope to live the life God meant for us to live.

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1:17 Intro
4:29 How Trauma Gets Trapped in the Body
16:09 Practices to Release Trauma From the Body
30:44 Therapies to Release Trauma From the Body
40:20 How Biofeedback Can Heal Trauma in the Body

SourcesBenefits of Biofeedback at Profoundtreatment.com, no author given
How to Release Trauma From the Body by Amber Foster, LCSW-S, medically reviewed by Heidi Moawad, MD in Choosing Therapy

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Episode DescriptionIn Coming out of the F.O.G., we discuss the acronym, Fear, Obligation, and Guilt, which creates the acronym F.O.G. Much like the word "fog," emotional manipulators will often use fear, obligation, and guilt to confuse and control people, particularly those who are sensitive, compassionate, empathetic, and may be prone to codependency. This can make sensitive Christians especially vulnerable, since they tend have a strong level of conscientiousness. Manipulators like to use tactics that will make others question themselves and their motives, often using gaslighting to keep the other person off balance. Though we are called by God to help others, it's important we examine our motives. If others are exploiting our good will with guilt to get us to do things, this is not from God. Knowing the strategies that emotional blackmailers use will help you to identify their tactics, respond constructively, protect yourself, and get your life back, so you can live the life God intended you to live. You can be free of these tactics and help others knowing your motives come from genuine love and care for others.

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1:17 Intro
4:28 Intro to Coming out of the F.O.G.
9:16 What is F.O.G.
21:31 What F.O.G. and Emotional Manipulation Look Like
36:03 How Christians, Empaths, and Codependents Can Be Vulnerable
42:48 Ways to Respond to F.O.G. and Emotional Blackmail

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This week, this episode reminds you of your worth, both in Christ and your intrinsic worth. Your value comes from both the fact that you are in Christ and that you are you. Sometimes we need to be reminded that we are worthy, that we have unconditional value at our core, and that nothing that has happened to us or that we feel changes that. We may have been programmed with trauma, but our worth and core identity is still the same. Just as God and His love for us don't change, neither does our worthiness. We matter, we are loved, and God loves us, and sometimes we just need to remember this.

ResourcesEpisodes Mentioned in the Podcast
Erikson's Stages of Development and Adverse Childhood Experiences
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In Subtle Types and Forms of Abuse and What to Do About Them, we discuss the hidden nature of certain types and forms of abuse and why these forms of abuse often go unnoticed, why the survivor doesn't always believe it is abuse, and how certain people use these forms sow doubt and confusion in the survivor as a form of control and manipulation. The unique nature of this kind of abuse is often unnoticed or not believed by outsiders. However, by learning to identify and understand these forms of abuse, we are able to understand what is happening to us if we are in a situation with hidden and subtle abuse, while distinguishing between abuse and normal human flaws in a relationship that we all have. When we can identify these forms of abuse and call them by their name, we can validate our experiences, know our experiences are real, seek help and resources that can help us untangle this confusion, and get our lives back so we can find clarity and safety in our lives, living the life God intended us to live.

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1:17 Intro
6:00 Intro to Subtle Forms and Types of Abuse
10:25 What Are Some of the Subtle Signs of Abuse?
27:06 Why Are Subtle Forms of Abuse Easy to Miss?
50:07 Subtle Abuse in Churches Religious Communities
52:55 How to Detect and Heal Subtle Forms of Abuse

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In Trauma Reenactments, we discuss what trauma reenactments are, why they happen, and practices to help us identify, stop, and prevent them from happening again. Trauma reenactments are patterns we repeat again and again similar to traumas in the past. They can be pervasive and difficult to notice, because we may believe they are "just the way things are." But they're not. While these patterns are not our fault, if we are able to identify these reenactments, be honest about what they are and where they come from, and create more space between a trigger and a reaction, we are able to gain power over the moment when a trauma reenactment starts to occur, or to stop one that is already occurring. By changing our reaction, we create a new habit, which allows us to heal our trauma reenactments and create space for positive and healthy habits, responses, and relationships in our lives.

Breakdown of Episode
1:17 Intro
4:21 Intro to Trauma Reenactments
6:49 What Are Trauma Reenactments and Why Do They Occur?
11:14 Why Do Trauma Reenactments Occur?
20:56 Reenactments in Close Relationships
25:52 What Are Ways to Heal, Prevent, and Overcome Reenactments?
40:53 Practices to Help You Heal Trauma Reenactments

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Shame is probably the most powerful and deeply rooted core wound we can have, and it's often a result of abuse, neglect, and trauma. In The Power of Shame and What to Do About It, we discuss what shame is, its origins, and the insidious nature of shame, including how it comes from the enemy. This episode discusses the deep power of shame, what it does to us, and how pervasive it can be on an unconscious level, including the difference between guilt and shame. Guilt states "I made a mistake," and shame states, "I am bad" or "there's something wrong with me." We discuss how it's important to distinguish these two and become aware of our shame. This episode then shows how love, validation, and bringing shame into the light can help us heal it, knowing we're not alone. We discuss specific practices and strategies to heal shame, as well as the powerful results of healing shame, like a weight has been lifted from our shoulders. Through healing shame, we can feel better and live the life God meant for us to live.

Breakdown of Episode
1:17 Intro to New Episode
4:48 Nature, Definition, and Origins of Shame
15:41 Symptoms. Power, and Impact of Shame
23:13 The Deep Power of Shame and What it Does
27:00 How We Can Heal Our Shame
37:56 Specific Practices to Heal Shame
42:59 Power and Results of Healing Our Shame

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Dealing with Uncertainty is something we all deal with. For those of us on the healing path, dealing with difficult emotions, and trying to work through trauma, uncertainty can be even more challenging bring up a lot of anxiety in the body at times. This episode discusses what to do during times of uncertainty from a trauma informed approach, how meditating scripture can be a healing balm during these times, and how practicing a strategy called "groundlessness" can help us deal with uncertainty. By accepting the nature of life and uncertainty with acceptance, surrender, and groundlessness, we can start to find, that ironically, we have God as our anchor and can create more stability at all times.

Breakdown of Episode
1:17 Intro to New Episode
4:47 Intro to Dealing with Uncertainty
8:45 What to Do During Times of Uncertainty
15:04 Scriptures for Dealing with Uncertainty
23:05 What is Groundlessness and How Can it Help Me?

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1. Psalm 91 for protection, God's presence, and God's comfort
2. Season 1 Episode 20 of Christian Emotional Recovery, Acceptance, was referenced in the podcast and may be a good resource to supplement the concept of groundlessness.

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Welcome to a new season. Staying on the Healing Path starts the new season by sharing with you tips to help you stay on the healing journey. We often think of the healing journey as linear, but it tends to have ebbs, flows, and cycles, even though we move forward overall if we stay on the path. This episode discusses the nature of the healing journey, how the natural progression of healing is three steps forward and two steps back, and how we can approach the healing path with the right mindset. Then the podcast discusses how to deal with inevitable interruptions of our healing practice by discussing how we should approach setbacks, slacking, and obstacles on the journey and our daily practice, as they are a natural part of the path. Lastly, we discuss how to customize your daily practice to your unique nature, needs, situation, and changing experience to help you take the journey with a healthy, constructive, and realistic approach to taking a step toward the healing God can give you every day. We just need to show up.

Breakdown of Episode
1:17 Intro to New Episode and Season
4:54 The Nature of the Healing Journey
7:01 Natural Challenges, Ebbs, and Shifts on the Healing Path
12:00 Dealing with Interruptions on the Healing Journey
16:42 What Is the Best Daily Practice for You?
25:18 Future Episodes of the Podcast

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Welcome to Season 4! I'm excited for a new season of Christian Emotional Recovery. This episode includes updates on Season Four of Christian Emotional Recovery and the expenses that go into the podcast for transparency.

• Ever wonder what goes into making a podcast?
• When will the new season be out ?
• What's happening in 2024 on the platform?

These questions will be answered, plus you can learn about what goes into a podcast and learn how you can support Christian Emotional Recovery.

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Don't Make Trauma Your Whole Identity, discusses how trauma survivors have their entire brains rewired when they experience trauma. As a result, when we become aware of what has happened to us and start our healing journey, it can be challenging not to make trauma our entire identity. It's easy to get into a loop of overidentifying with trauma and what has happened to us, to the point we can get stuck. This isn't our fault, but we can do something about it. By separating our core identity with what happened to us, and by rewriting our identity, we can start to move past the trauma and not get stuck in this loop. No doubt, trauma impacts our identity, how we think, and how we live day to day, including how our "default mode network," or the part of our brain involved in identity, operates. However, how we relate to trauma, think about it, and work toward recovery can help us build a strong identity outside of our trauma. Additionally, knowing who we are in Christ and what God says about our identity helps us build a strong core self, so we can build a healthy identity separate and free from our trauma.

Breakdown of Episode
1:17 Info About Podcast
5:16 How Trauma Can Become Our Entire Identity
13:54 What is Identity?
16:37 Rewriting Your Identity
28:14 What Is the Default Mode Network?
33:47 How Does Trauma Impact Identity?
41:40 How We Think About Trauma to Move on From It
46:46 What Does God Say About Healing our Identity?

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What's the Connection Between Love Languages and Healing Trauma? discusses how we can harness the Five Love Languages, based on Gary Chapman's 1992 book of the same name, to cultivate a sense of safety, connection, and practice to help us heal trauma. This episode explains what the five love languages are, how they operate, and how people's love languages are often formed by unmet needs from childhood. We then discuss how our love languages can be our deepest vulnerability, but they can also be an entry point into our deepest sense of connection and safety, two essential parts of trauma healing. Lastly, the episode discusses how using the right healing practices based on your unique language will help you heal most effectively, how we can heal and find safety through our love language, and how we can help those we love find the same through their love language.

**Breakdown of Episode

1:17 Info About Podcast
5:46 Intro to Topic and What Are the Five Love Languages?
21:10 What Determines Your Love Language?
29:12 How Your Love Language Is Your Deepest Insecurity
33:31 A Trauma Informed Approach to Love Languages: What Has Safety Got to Do With It?
54:48 How Can You Be Responsive to Others and Get What You Need Through the Love Languages?**

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Megan's Bio:Fully-certified since 2012 as a crisis pastoral counselor (MAR, Pastoral Counseling), Megan has been successfully companioning clients all over the country while facilitating their self-growth. She offers crisis & spiritual process groups and individual Christian therapy, specializing in abuse, trauma, and dissociative disorders, utilizing therapeutic models such as Development Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR).
Additionally, she is certified in bereavement therapy, crisis response with the AACC, trauma therapies and suicidology with CAMS. She is also a Chaplain, certified with the ACPE. Megan has written curriculum for a domestic violence non-profit advocacy program, spiritual processing groups & identity based therapeutic course. She has also been featured on many podcasts & conferences, such as Courage 365 with Ashley Easter, etc.
Megan resides in Denver, CO, with her four adored and adoring children. She loves her job and will walk through the fire to help a client find healing. You can find her drinking hot coffee and breathing in the fresh mountain air, every chance she gets!
We just began a new course for CPTSD and abuse survivors called SOURCE. This course is designed to bring you home to yourself. Please go here to get more info:
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Rethinking Our Thoughts Part II: What Is Learned Helplessness and How Do I Overcome It? is the second part of a two part series. Last episode, we discussed cognitive distortions and how they contribute to the trauma cycle. Similarly, learned helplessness is "a condition in which a person has a sense of powerlessness, arising from a traumatic event or persistent failure to succeed. It is thought to be one of the underlying causes of depression," according to Oxford Languages. Learned helplessness is the opposite of grit, which we discuss often on the channel. This episode discusses how learned helplessness occurs, who it impacts, and how we can get our lives back by practicing it's opposite: Learned Optimism. which a is cultivated practice that helps us develop grit, hope, and flexibility in the face of adversity, even if we've experienced trauma in the past.

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1:17 Intro to Topic
4:23 What Is Learned Helplessness?
22:36 Causes, Symptom, and Effects of Learned Helplessness
25:32 The Solution: Learned Optimism

Sources:What Is Learned Helplessness? Medical News Today by Jayne Leonard
Learned Helplessness and CPTSD Psych Central by Jared C. Pistoia
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin Seligman
Season 1: Episode 8: Flip the Script of Your Life: Personal Narratives and Learned Optimism is episode recommended from this talk.

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Rethinking Our Thoughts Part I: What Are Cognitive Distortions and How Can I Overcome Them? discusses how hope is not just something we have in Christ, but is also something we can cultivate on the healing journey, even if we're feeling hopeless. We learn hope by practicing it daily. Investing in our healing and taking daily steps toward progress today can give us hope for the future. Think about a time you made good choices or cultivated healthy daily habits in the past that you are benefitting from now. Now connect this experience to a current difficulty. If you make good choices now, you are giving yourself something to look forward to and hope to your future self. However, the process cannot be forced. It's accepting our difficult emotions with compassion--and not forcing healing--that moves us forward in hope. But the path doesn't always appear on its own. Cultivating a daily practice, meditating on hope in Christ, and trying something constructive will move us forward. When we take a leap of faith, then the path appears.

Breakdown of Episode
1:17 Intro to Topic
5:30 What Are Cognitive Distortions?
18:16 What Causes Cognitive Distortions and Examples of Them
22:36 Why Working on Cognitive Distortions is Scriptural
26:28 The Ten Cognitive Distortions
1:00:00 Healing Cognitive Distortions

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The Power of Hope in Emotional Recovery discusses how hope is not just something we have in Christ, but is also something we can cultivate on the healing journey, even if we're feeling hopeless. We learn hope by practicing it daily. Investing in our healing and taking daily steps toward progress today can give us hope for the future. Think about a time you made good choices or cultivated healthy daily habits in the past that you are benefitting from now. Now connect this experience to a current difficulty. If you make good choices now, you are giving yourself something to look forward to and hope to your future self. However, the process cannot be forced. It's accepting our difficult emotions with compassion--and not forcing healing--that moves us forward in hope. But the path doesn't always appear on its own. Cultivating a daily practice, meditating on hope in Christ, and trying something constructive will move us forward. When we take a leap of faith, then the path appears.

Breakdown of Episode
1:17 Intro to Topic
3:45 The Nature of Hope on the Healing Journey
6:00 Investing in Healing Now helps Our Future Self
13:42 Acceptance Helps You Move Forward With Hope
19:59 Scriptures on Hope for Healing Trauma
25:38 A Step of Faith Toward Healing Makes the Path Appear

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2023 Podcast Update

This unofficial episode includes updates to the platform and podcast. Check out this episode to learn the following:

• What's new with the podcast
• Upcoming episodes to the podcast
• Why I'm taking a temporary break from the podcast
• How you can help the podcast to grow and help more people
• Upcoming interviews for future podcast episodes
• What you can expect in the next few weeks and months
• New and exciting events occurring on the platform.

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Integrating Our Faith and Practice on the Healing Journey discusses the relationship between daily practices to heal trauma and our relationship with God. While these may not be completely separated, carving out a space for each separately, as much as we're able, is important. The episode also discusses how to use discernment in the healing practices you use and to follow what God is telling you to do and give other people the grace and space to do the same. Everyone's healing journey and relationship with God is unique. Through discernment, in the practices we choose to do, we have agency under God's authority. While we are called to be part of the flock and respect the church, remember it's okay to explore different churches, practices, and congregations, with your relationship with Christ and healing journey in mind. You have agency, autonomy, and choice on this healing journey. You are safe and loved, and God will guide you on the journey.

Breakdown of Episode
1:17 Intro to Topic
5:48 How to Integrate Our Faith and Practice on the Healing Journey

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The most downloaded episode in the history of the podcast has been Season 2, Episode 12: Childhood Emotional Neglect: A Hidden Epidemic, so there's a need to understand CEN further. What's Childhood Emotional Neglect Got to Do With Abandonment Trauma? discusses the impact of childhood emotional neglect (CEN) on survivors by exploring the connection between CEN and fear of abandonment. Seeing this connection can be the difference between a life of confusion, gaslighting, and bondage, and power, freedom, and clarity. We discuss the nature of CEN and how it is not always intentional or malicious, but it's nature is insidious because it's hidden. It's the most likely form of abuse to be denied, invalidated, and doubted since it is abuse by omission instead of commission. CEN can make us doubt our own reality. We discuss ways to know whether or not you're living with the impacts of CEN, cut through the mind fog, and find clarity and truth on this issue. Even though it's painful at first, the truth sets us free. By learning how you can contact, validate, and understand your hidden experience, you can use this revelation to heal the impacts of CEN, know what happened to you was real, and build healthy relationships that move beyond abandonment trauma.

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1:18 Intro to Topic
5:47 The Nature of CEN and How It Leads to Abandonment Trauma
11:45 The Impact of Emotional Childhood Neglect on the Brain
15:47 Three Emotional Needs of Children
18:39 The Tricky and Evasive Nature of CEN
35:57 The Connection Between CEN and Abandonment Trauma
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Why You Need to Be Gentle With Yourself on This Journey is a talk God put on my heart after encountering so many trauma survivors who struggle with their faith because of harsh treatment from people within the Christian community regarding their struggles. Many people have not only not received compassion, love, and understanding, but they've been blamed for their trauma. We're often taught not to have compassion for ourselves, and not following the fruits of the spirit of gentleness, meekness, lowliness, and kindness to others is rampant even in the Christian community. There is oftentimes even narcissism and abuse within the church. This talk calls for us to be kinder and gentler with ourselves on the healing journey, as we are called to be with others, to give ourselves a little credit for our progress, and to learn to take a gentle approach when navigating the healing journey.

Breakdown of Episode
0:00 Intro
4:13 Intro to Episode and Why Gentleness is So Important When Healing
7:11 What Happens When There's No Gentleness in Religious Communities
15:48 Why It's Important to Be Gentle With Ourselves

Episode Resources:The Publican and the Pharisee **Luke 18:9-14

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Description:A lot of trauma survivors have been told that they "should just be grateful," as if they can flip a switch, turn off trauma in the body, and suddenly feel grateful. Gratitude for a survivor is more complex than that. We can be grateful, but it needs to be in a way that works with our nervous system, realistic for where we're at, and a natural choice, not forced. We do this by being gentle with ourselves, practicing self-compassion, and acknowledging honestly where we're at. This episode discusses the benefits of gratitude, how it can help heal trauma, and realistic ways you can practice gratitude or at least be one step closer to gratitude through self-compassion. Doing the best you can is enough. God knows you're doing your best. As we learn to cultivate real gratitude, we're able to see God more in our situation, practice concrete gratitude that heals trauma, and see benefits of gratitude manifest in our lives.

Episode Resources:Here's a coupon for almost 1/2 off my gratitude course "Ignite Your Abundance Through the Power of Gratitude", which can help you cultivate concrete practices of gratitude to heal trauma and live a better life.

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Breakdown of Episode
0:00 Intro
5:16 What Is Inner Child Work and How Can It Help Me?
15:14 The Nature of Inner Child Work
22:28 My Experience With Inner Child Work
6:10 Reparenting Yourself and Allowing God to Reparent Us
34:00 Signs Inner Child Work May Help You
36:12 Inner Child Work Exercises for Healing

Episode Resources:Inner Child Healing: 35 Practical Tools for Growing Beyond Your Past by Jeremy Sutton in Positive Psychology is one of the articles consulted.
What Is Inner Child Work: A Guide to Healing Your Inner Child by Tiffany Trieu in Mind Body Green
Why Is Everyone Working on Their Inner Child? in Time by Angela Haupt
10 Exercises to heal Your Inner Child in Psych Central by Traci Pederson
Reparenting to Heal the Wounded Inner Child and Healing Trauma Through Inner Child Work by Shirley Davis from the CPTSD Foundation
Encouraging Bible Versus About God Our Father is a list of scriptures in Jolly Notes

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Thank you so much for listening and for all you do. God bless.

Podcast Website (with episodes and where you can join email list) https://christianemotionalrecovery.com

The podcast does take time and money. You can help keep it going! Check out the Patreon page to support God's work we're doing to help other survivors like you. https://www.patreon.com/christianemotionalrecovery?fan_landing=true

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In The Four Trauma Responses and How to Heal Them we discuss the four major ways our bodies respond to trauma. Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn are the main ways people who've experienced trauma respond to extreme stress and traumatic situations. Everyone has these responses to some degree, and they are healthy in certain situations. Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn serve a purpose in protecting us in stressful or dangerous situations, but if we have sustained experiences in these states, we can stay stuck in these states, because the nervous system gets overstimulated by stress and trauma. By understanding the four responses to trauma and which ones you might be more prone tone, you can begin to identify how you respond to trauma and take action to become aware of, work on, and overcome your responses from the ground up. The key here is partly changing behavior, and the other key is to find out what your response is, where it comes from, and heal it at the root.

Check Sources, Episode Timeline, and Channel Resources HERE:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wj6TH6gMq8oWGVOaOp7XBaqIZx13KJr6I54Ivtd2AJc/edit?usp=sharing

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This episode is a repurposed YouTube video on the YouTube Christian Emotional Recovery Channel. Check out and subscribe to the channel (link below) which has mostly original material different from the podcast.

DARVO, or Deny Attack Reverse Victim and Offender, is an acronym for how toxic people will often manipulate others if they are confronted about an issue or wrongdoing. If you've ever been in this situation, you may confront an abuser, manipulator, or narcissist about their behavior, and somehow by the end of the conversation, you're the one apologizing to them. This tactic is tricky and deceitful. By learning about DARVO and how it works, you can empower and protect yourself if someone uses this gaslighting technique on you. This talk discusses who is most likely to use DARVO and why, who it targeted and why, how to recognize DARVO, circumstances when DARVO is most used, and impacts of DARVO on the victim and on groups. Then we discuss how to identify, respond to, and protect yourself from this tactic so you can take your power back and live the life God intended for you.

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Real. Relevant. Relationship.--The Role God Plays in our Recovery is a concept God put on my heart, and I didn't know what I would say until the podcast was recorded. The role God plays in our recovery is everything. Some will say if you aren't recovering from difficult emotions, trauma, depression, anxiety, or abuse, you don't have enough faith in God or you're not doing enough of something, but most of the time, this simply isn't true. It's both our relationship with God and the scientific modalities that target trauma at its source combined, that help us make progress in recovery. While this is true, our real, relevant relationship with God lights the way, and as we heal, the holes we punch in our trauma let the light and love of God in, so we can live the vivid and beautiful life God meant for us, in full living color.

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Breakdown of Episode
0:00 Intro: What's Happening on the Channel
5:32 Intro to Topic: How Faith and Science Play a Role in Trauma Recovery
10:39 Real
12:46 Relevant
18:23 Relationship
23:04 How Clearing Trauma Lets in God's Love
29:56 Closing

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How Internal Family Systems Can Help You Heal Trauma describes a therapy called IFS for short, what IFS is, how it can help you heal trauma and difficult emotions, and how you can use this therapy for your own healing journey with a therapist or on your own. We learn about how IFS is broken down into parts and self, how these parts and self interact based on your past experiences, and how you can relate to these parts and self to help you heal emotionally. By learning how your mind works through this process, you have a way go inside the roots of your thoughts, emotions, and trauma and understand how they function. With this understanding, you can relate to yourself and parts with more compassion, deal with past experiences with more awareness, and build an identity that is strong, more integrated, and healthy, so you can live the life God made you to live.

Sources:

These articles introduce you to the concept of IFS, how IFS was created, and how it work in a therapeutic setting.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapy-types/internal-family-systems-therapy
https://psychcentral.com/health/internal-family-systems-therapy
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-ifs-therapy-internal-family-systems-therapy-5195336

In this YouTube, Richard Schwartz explains in his own words how IFS works and describes parts and self.
https://ifs-institute.com/about-us/richard-c-schwartz-phd

These articles were used in the podcast to break down how IFS works in more detail--including the parts and self, the 8 C's, 5 P's, and 6 F'-- and how you can use these to manage different types of parts and distinguish self from parts.
https://foundationifs.org/images/banners/pdf/The_8_Cs_of_Self_Leadership_Wheel.pdf
https://www.pesi.com/blog/details/1511/6-step-ifs-process-to-jumpstart-healing
https://managersdoor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Model-The-5-Ps-to-Successful-Self-Leadership-final-v1.0.pdf

These articles include exercises, steps, and meditations you can use to help you get started on IFS on your own. The PESI article above also includes the 6 F's, which are the first steps you'll want to take to do IFS.
https://positivepsychology.com/internal-family-systems-therapy/
https://insighttimer.com/drrichardschwartz
https://www.amazon.com/No-Bad-Parts-Restoring-Wholeness/dp/1683646681

Breakdown of Episode
0:00 Intro: What's New on the Channel
5:40 Intro to Topic: What is Internal Family Systems (IFS) and How Does It Work?
15:50 What Are the Different "Parts" and "Self"?
27:30 The 5 P's and 8 C's
33:19 Principles of IFS
34:35 How IFS Works in Therapy
37:53 Doing IFS on Your Own, My Experience, and the Step of IFS (6 F's)
57:21 Exercises and Resources You Can Use

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Welcome back! Twelve Steps Recovery and How it Can Help You Heal Trauma and Abuse is the first episode of the new season. Most people are familiar with Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and how it helps those recovering from alcohol misuse, but many people don't know there are programs for other forms of recovery. We'll discuss what twelve-step programs are, how they can help those not only in addiction recovery, but in emotional recovery as well.

There is a direct link between addiction and trauma, and many addictions have traumatic and psychological roots. Trauma and codependency recovery programs have their roots in original twelve-step programs like AA. We'll discuss four twelve step programs--Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Codependents Anonymous (CoDA), Celebrate Recovery, and Al-Anon--and what each one does, who each helps, how each can help you, and how these programs can strengthen your faith in God. Then we'll discuss how addiction and trauma recovery have similarities when it comes to behavior, causes, and relapses, as well as strategies to stay on the path to recovery. Lastly, we'll discover how the steps in these programs can help you cut the roots of trauma and addiction in your life for good.

Breakdown of Episode
0:00 Intro to the Year
6:22 Introduction to the Topic and When to Get Help
10:47 Four Different Twelve-Step Programs
36:13 What's the Connection Between Trauma and Addiction?: It's All About Recovery

Episode Resources:

• CoDA Page
• CoDA 12 Steps
• Celebrate Recovery Page
• Celebrate Recovery 12 Steps
• Al-Anon page
• Al-Anon 12 Steps
• Alcoholics Anonymous Page
• Alcoholics Anonymous 12 Steps
• Types of 12-Step Program--these are more chemically based.
• 12-Step Programs--these are broader.

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Welcome to Season 3! I'm excited for a new season of Christian Emotional Recovery. This episode, What Will It Be in 2023? includes updates on Season Three of Christian Emotional Recovery--the podcast, Facebook group, and Youtube channel:

• When will the new season be out and what updates will the podcast include?
• What's new with the YouTube channel?
• What topics are we covering this season?

These questions will be answered, plus I'll tell you what I've been up to, on this short, special episode of the podcast. Please see the link in shownotes for the Christian Emotional Survey. Please take five minutes to take the survey and help me better serve you in the coming season! Thanks.

Breakdown of Episode

3:00 What We'll Cover in This Episode and What I've Been Doing
9:10 What's New with the Podcast
20:08 What's New with the YouTube Channel

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Tips for Cultivating Peace During the Holidays

In this episode, we discuss updates to the podcast and YouTube channel at the end of the year and in the new year. We also discussion strategies for cultivating peace, coping with stress, and dealing with difficult people and loneliness during the holidays. In this episode, we'll discuss the following:

• Surviving holiday get togethers with unhealthy family
• Coping with the sadness of having unhealthy family
• Coping with the loneliness of no contact
• Coping with the loneliness of missing family
• Coping with holiday stress brought by more responsibility
• Coping with the general challenges the holidays bring
• Keeping your peace during the holidays

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This episode was adapted from a recent Youtube video. Check out and subscribe to the Youtube channel linked below for more talks like this one not found in the podcast. This talk discusses what healthy boundaries are and what they are not. In the first half, we discuss what a boundary is using Henry Cloud's metaphor of property lines and why setting healthy boundaries is not only okay, but healthy. Setting boundaries is not selfish. You must set healthy boundaries to be a functional human being and to build loving relationships. We also discuss ways setting boundaries helps us obey God and consider others' needs. In order to set good boundaries, you need to understand the value of your own agency, autonomy, and individuality. Through this episode, we discuss who we might set boundaries with, reasons we don't set boundaries, differences between people with healthy boundaries and those without good boundaries, and ten specific strategies to set healthy boundaries. This video will help you learn to take care of yourself and love who God made you to be.

Resources:

10 Ways to Build and Preserve Better Boundaries in Psych Central by Shannon Martin, LCSW is an article I reference in the video that discusses what boundaries are, why they are necessary, why we are afraid to set boundaries, strategies to set them, and specific scenarios that give examples of healthy boundary setting.

Boundaries: When to Say YES and When to Say NO to Take Control of Your Life by Henry Cloud and Peter Townsend was mentioned as a recommended book to go more into detail with setting healthy boundaries in different situations and with different people.

How to Set Boundaries YouTube video with Dr. Henry Cloud is the video I mention that uses property lines as an apt metaphor for setting good boundaries.

How to Set Boundaries: Five Ways to Draw the Line Politely by Logan Bailey on Science of People is another article that I mentioned in the talk that discusses areas of our lives that need protection with boundaries, people with whom we might set boundaries, differences between healthy and unhealthy ones, and strategies for setting good boundaries.

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Applying Polyvagal Theory to Heal Trauma and Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Trauma Recovery

This episode repurposes two related Youtube videos that contain visuals. If you would like to view these, feel free to watch the two videos with visuals instead, linked here ("Applying Polyvagal Theory to Heal Trauma" AND "Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Trauma Recovery"), OR you can consult the visuals linked below at these time intervals in the episode as you listen to the podcast.

18:30 Visual of Polyvagal Theory--Three States

29:18 Organizing Principals of Polyvagal Theory

55:09 Role of the Vagus Nerve and Benefits of Vagus Nerve and Mind-Body Practices

59:30 Ten Vagus Nerve Stimulation Exercises

Resources for Each Talk Are Linked Here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14cQmcfOJpgiW_gic7_3y8FvaE23RVqN9EKebPlAd20I/edit?usp=sharing

Video Description for "Applying Polyvagal Theory to Heal Trauma":

Polyvagal Theory helps you understand how your nervous system works, how trauma gets stuck in your body, why you can't just "think" you way out of trauma, and how you can find ways to heal trauma by targeting it in the body. Understanding this system will help you know why trauma gets stuck in the body, and you can become aware of these states and start practicing specific techniques to stay in a regulated state. This video includes visuals based on established research to clarify how polyvagal theory works, and how you can apply its concepts to your own life. This will help you release trauma from your body, recondition your body, brain, mind, and nervous system into a relaxed state, and help you understand what is going on inside of you.

Video Description for " Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Trauma Recovery":

Vagus Nerve Stimulation is one way to help regulate your nervous system and heal trauma in the body. The Vagus Nerve, based on Polyvagal Theory regulates several systems in the body including our response to certain stimuli. If we get stuck in fight or fight or disassociation for extended periods of time because chronic abuse, trauma, and adverse experiences, it can cause damage to our vagus nerve. Vagus nerve stimulation exercises and practices can help you begin to tone and heal the vagus nerve so it functions properly. Healing the vagus nerve can help your body function better, help your body deal with stress better, and help you release trauma that has been stuck in the body. Before watching this video, I strongly recommend watching the video "Applying Polyvagal Theory to Heal Trauma" on this channel as a foundation of knowledge to understand this video better.

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Somatic Practices for Healing Trauma Part II: Practices You Can Do With a Professional is Part II of a two-part series on somatic therapies for healing trauma. This series covers practices you can do on your own or with a professional. Somatic therapy is based on more recent research and generally more effective than talk therapy for healing trauma. It's basically another name for body work, or connecting with the body's sensations and resources to heal trauma stuck in the body so it can release through your neural network. This may include therapies with a specialist who does body work with you to release trauma or heal the effects of trauma. Part II discusses co-regulation with a therapist, body therapies you can do with a specialist, and breakthrough treatments in trauma recovery that are still in their experimental phases like micro dosing under a special doctor's care, and utilizing new devices for healing trauma.

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**Breakdown of Episode

1:45 Introduction and Disclaimer**

5:02 The Store is Open!

5:54 Intro to the Therapies

11:37 Co-Regulation With a Therapist

21:19 Chiropractic (Atlas Orthogonal)

33:25 Cranial Somatic and Cranial Sacral Therapy

37:39 Massage

45:18 Acupuncture

48:24 Disclaimer on Chemical Substances and Ketamine

30:41 Micro-dosing Using Psychedelics

103:18 TMS--Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

107:45 VNS--Vagal Nerve Stimulation

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• Connection and Co-Regulation in Psychotherapy by Arielle Schwartz in Center for Resilience Informed Therapy is the resource used to discuss co-regulation with a therapist.
• Improvement in Depression Following Reduction of Upper Cervical Subluxation Using Osteospinology Technique by Glenndon Genther, Harris Friedman, and Charles Studley and Chiropractic Adjustment by by the Mayo Clinic are the resources used to discuss the benefits of chiropractic treatment in healing depression and PTSD.
• -PTSD Could be Treated with Cranialsacral Therapy According to a Research Study in News Medical Life Sciences and Cranial Sacral Therapy in Healthline by Anna Gotter are the sources used to discuss how cranial sacral therapy can help release trauma from the body.
• Mind-Body-Spirit Interventions for Patients with PTSD by Leslie Corn, PhD, MPH in Psychiatric Times is the source used to explain how mind-body-spirit practices in general, including massage therapy and acupuncture can be used to relieve stress, depression, chronic illness and the symptoms of PTSD.
• Ketamine as a Rapid Treatment for PTSD by Dennis Charney at Mt. Sanai shows evidence for ketamine trials. Click on tabs at top of page for more.
  Repeated Ketamine Infusions Reduce Symptom Severity in Individuals With Chronic Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder by Mount Sinai is more about this promising treatment.

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Somatic Practices for Healing Trauma Part I: Practices You Can Do on Your Own is Part I of a two-part series on somatic therapies for healing trauma. Somatic therapy is based on more recent research and generally more effective than talk therapy for healing trauma. It's basically another name for body work (AKA Somatic Experiencing®), or connecting with the body's sensations and resources to heal trauma stuck in the body so it can release through your neural network. This two-part series covers practices you can do on your own or with a professional. Part I discusses how somatic therapy works, explains five somatic practices you can do to heal trauma, and includes resources that can help you dig further into these practices. Part II will cover practices you can do with a professional.

Breakdown of Episode
3:18 Introduction to the Series, Episode, and Topic
6:55 What Is Somatic Therapy?
12:14 How Can It Help Me Heal Trauma and Why Is It Effective?
18:08 Can I Do Somatic Practices on My Own?
21:53 Intro to Five Somatic Practices
23:29 Body Sensation Awareness Through Body Scan
30:41 Grounding and Centering
41:29 Resourcing and Visualization
45:58 Self-Regulation
54:29 Titration and Pendulation

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• 4 Somatic Therapy Exercises for Healing Trauma in Psych Central by Susan Aybar discusses what somatic therapy is, whether you should do it on your own, and four somatic practices you can use to heal trauma.
• 10 Somatic Interventions Explained in Integrative Psychotherapy by Esther Goldstein describes ten somatic interventions in detail that you can use to help you heal trauma.
• How Somatic Experiencing Can Help You Process Trauma in Healthline by Crystal Raypole explains how somatic therapy can help you heal trauma and physical symptoms of trauma, as well as what some important somatic practices are you can do.
• Somatic Experiencing Therapy: Ten Exercises and Examples by Daniela Rimerez-Duran PhD in Positive Psychology goes the most in depth of all the articles here, and it includes a more detailed breakdown of Somatic Experiencing® practices, focusing especially on Peter Levine's work. It links to a lot of good videos, books, and tools.

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Episode Description:What to Do When The Past Comes Calling discusses what to do when old unhealthy habits, addictions, sins, and people who have contributed to trauma in your past show up unexpectedly and cause fear, PTSD, and temptation to fall into old patterns. While each of these are distinct experiences, they are also similar in that there is a temptation to go back into conditioned patterns, addictive behaviors, and trauma based thinking from your past that can throw you back into bondage. You have every right to leave this old life behind. This episode gives you strategies, techniques, and encouragement to stay strong, stay the course, not return to old chains, and live the overcoming life God intended you to have.

**Breakdown of Episode
3:18 Introduction to the Episode and Topic
5:07 Conflict and Cortisol Addictions
7:24 Chemical Addiction and Getting to Its Root Source
12:45 Sin, Guilt, Shame, Repentance, and Healing
17:43 When an Unhealthy Person From Your Past Contacts You

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• Episode 12 Season 1 Christian Emotional Recovery Podcast Why We Need to Talk About the Shame of Mental Illness is a podcast episode I mentioned in this episode to help you understand and overcome shame. You can heal shame if you know the difference between healthy guilt and toxic condemnation/shame.
• Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life by Henry Cloud and Peter Townsend is a book I've recommended in many episodes, and it can help you learn not to feel guilty for setting healthy boundaries, learn what healthy boundaries are, and learn to stick to your boundaries once you've established them.
• Out of the Fog: Moving From Confusion to Clarity After Narcissistic Abuse by Dana Morningstar is a book I read that helped me recover from the fear, obligation, and guilt from emotional abuse and helped me set boundaries to protect my emotional well-being.

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Video Description:Trauma Recovery is tricky work, and it's easy in everyday life and when we're doing healing work with a therapist or on our own to unintentionally retraumatize ourselves through no fault of our own. Knowing what works and doesn't work is vital to trauma recovery. Most people don't understand the nature of trauma recovery, and even many well-meaning experts can cause more harm than good when trying to help you. Often, we don't even know that certain events, healing strategies, or circumstances can retraumatize us. This video discusses ten specific ways we inadvertently become retraumatized and then ten solutions to avoid retraumatizing ourselves when doing healing work. We go into detail about why retraumatization happens in these situations and specific techniques that will help you move forward with healing work, while protecting yourself from further trauma. With the right education and tools, you CAN move forward instead of backward in your recovery journey and achieve Healing That Sticks!

Resources:A.C.O.R.N Meditation I've linked the playlist to all four versions here. I mentioned this meditation in 18:30 of the video as one way to begin to see the difference between your initial trauma and layering more trauma, and it will help you with the other nine strategies as well.
How Not to Get Retraumatized by Trauma Therapy in Gateway Counseling by John Hawkins, Jr., M.S., L.M.H.C., M.C.A.P.
Are You Retraumatizing Yourself? 16 Self-Defeating Behaviors Common in Childhood PTSD by the Crappy Childhood Fairy--This is a video.
PTSD Treatment and Why You Might Stay in It for So Long by Roland Bal
Complex PTSD Treatment and Can You Fully Recover by Roland Bal

While I didn't refer to these sources individually in the video, these are the sources that gave me ideas, along with my own, for the list, credited here. The above articles are also great resources that will give you more context on the ten strategies and further ways to avoid being retraumatized. I mentioned Roland Bal in the video, and how his meditations have helped me. These aren't free meditations, but they are helpful. I've linked Roland Bal's webpage and meditation videos below.
https://rolandbal.com/
https://rolandbal.com/trauma-care/

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Childhood Emotional Neglect: A Hidden Epidemic illuminates the often hidden and confusing nature of childhood emotional neglect, also called CEN. If you feel like something is wrong with you, but can't put your finger on it, there is a possibility it could be childhood emotional neglect. Because of the hidden nature of childhood emotional neglect, many people go their entire lives unhealed of trauma that isn't their fault.

This episode discusses what childhood emotional neglect is, how it impacts survivors, why we often don't believe we've experienced this ourselves, how we can overcome this disbelief if there is strong evidence we survived childhood emotional neglect, and how we can overcome and heal from this silent epidemic.

Breakdown of Episode
**4:16 What is Childhood Emotional Neglect?
14:18 How Childhood Emotional Neglect Happens and Its Impacts
27:09 How CEN and Abandonment Trauma Are Connected
32:46 Why is Childhood Emotional Neglect Downplayed?
36:15 How to Deal with the Nature of CEN and Overcome It

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Episode Description:How Grit and Resilience Can Help You Heal Trauma helps you consider a balanced approach to healing trauma that works. Many of us have been shamed for not knowing how to heal, and we've been told that we don't pray enough or have enough faith. We've also been told to bootstrap our healing, and if we can't, it's our fault. This approach is toxic and retraumatizing, and it doesn't work.

Likewise, many of us have been taught helplessness through example or because we've experienced so much abuse, neglect, pain, and disappointment that we no longer believe healing is possible because we feel we've tried everything. We begin to feel beaten down and hopeless. This is learned helplessness, and while it's not our fault, it CAN be overcome with a trauma informed approach. We CAN heal trauma when we balance grit, resilience, and learned optimism as skills that can be cultivated with self-compassion and body based resiliency techniques. With the right tools, healing is possible!

Breakdown of Episode
1:15 Introduction to the Episode and Topic
3:58 Why a Balanced Approach to Healing Trauma is Important
29:43 What's Grit and Resilience Got to Do With It?
35:29 What Is Learned Helplessness?
45:12 The Spoon Theory
49:14 Ways to Build Resilience

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• Building Your Resilience by the APA references the definition of resilience. This article discusses how resilience is a skill that can be learned to heal trauma.
• What is Learned Helplessness and Why Does it Happen by Kendra Cherry in Very Well Mind gives a definition and explanation of learned helplessness. Learned helplessness is a research based concept that is the opposite of resilience.
• Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin Seligman is a book I recommended in the podcast. It gives you a more detailed approach to overcoming learned helplessness and learn resilience.
• The Spoon Theory by Christine Miserandino is a famous article I referenced in the podcast that discusses how many of us do have realistic limitations that we must work with, but I also mention that we still have a lot of control, agency, and power to heal and grow.
• The Trauma Resiliency Model: A 'Bottom-Up' Intervention for Trauma Psychotherapy by Linda Grabbe and Elaine Miller-Karas in the Journal of Psychiatric Nurses Association is an article I mentioned in the podcast that gives you the science behind resilience to heal trauma and a research based model of nine steps to apply resilience to trauma.
• Trauma Resiliency Model: Why Trauma Rehab Therapy Might Be Right for You by The Dawn Rehab is an article that discusses the nine steps in the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) in layman's terms so you can research them and apply them to your own trauma recovery.
• Growth After Trauma by Richard G. Tedeschi gives you research based steps you can use as you heal and become more resilient. Note that you won't go through these linearly, but may go back and forth and in and out of these, but will do the latter steps more as you heal.

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Erikson's Stages of Development and Adverse Childhood Experiences is also a Youtube Video. If you haven't please click the link below and subscribe for exclusive content different than the podcast. Adverse Childhood Experiences (or ACES) can impact our development as children. If we survived narcissistic abuse, childhood trauma, childhood emotional neglect, or any other form of abuse at a specific time in our development, we often get stuck there, and the trauma that impacts our lives will make our reactions to triggering situations similar to that of our reactions at that age. In other words, our social and emotional development becomes stuck and we repeat patterns from childhood.

By understanding Erikson's Stages of Development and how adverse childhood experiences that occurred during these specific stages impacted us, we can begin to take inventory of our own emotional and social development, where and when trauma may have kept us stuck, and start doing healing work around these age periods through journaling, meditation, and inner child work to help us release that trauma and develop emotionally and socially into the healthy adults God made us to be by healing trauma at its true source.

Resources:

Erik Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development by Kendra Cherry in Very Well Mind is an article that describes Erikson's Stages of Development and the significance of each. It describes what healthy development in each stage looks like as well as potential consequences of adverse experiences that can impact development in each stage from infancy to old age.

The Top Five Regrets of the Dying is a book I mention in the video/podcast in the last of Erikson's Stages of Development as a great book for considering what matters in life. This book was written by a woman who cared for hundreds of terminally ill patients, learned their deepest desires and regrets, and compiled a list of the repeated themes of what these individuals wish they had and had not done. It provides great insights on how to live a full, happy life without regrets.

Seven Ways Childhood Adversity Changes a Child's Brain by Donna Jackson Nakazawa in Aces Too High News covers what adverse childhood experiences are and how adverse childhood experiences can impact brain and social development in a child. By understanding more about adverse childhood experiences and how they impact the individual, you can start to make connections between different stages in your own development and these types of experiences to put the pieces together regarding your own areas of trauma so you can start to target these areas and get to trauma where it originally started.

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Episode Description:The Impact of Narcissistic Abuse on Our Relationship With God is the last episode in the Series on Narcissistic Abuse. When we are raised by people with narcissistic traits, in a rigid religious environment, or we are abused or neglected long term in other ways, we believe the qualities that our caretakers have are also what God is like. Our caretakers are often projecting misconceptions onto God that they were taught as well, and they pass them down to us. As children, we have no other frame of reference for what God is like, who God is, or who we are in Christ. As a result, we are often left confused with mixed messages. We come to see God as rigid, withholding, harsh, judgmental, angry, stingy, or cold.

These misconceptions can cause us harm, making us feel fear, unworthiness, resentment, anger, and even despair in our relationship with God. This causes many to stop believing. It's life changing to separate our misconceptions about God from who God really is based on truth: scripture, healthy psychology, and objective reality. This also helps us heal misconceptions about ourselves. By healing our distortions and projections, we can enjoy a loving, secure, safe, and peaceful relationship with God (perhaps for the first time), run toward God instead of away from Him, and live the life He intended us to live.

Breakdown of Episode
0:00 Introduction to the Episode
3:34 Introduction to the Topic
6:12 How Caretakers Treat Us Impacts What We Think About God
28:39 Distorted Views of God and How We Project These Onto God
44:58 How to Separate Our Projections Onto God With Who He Really Is
56:22 Specific Ways to Heal Our Distortions About God

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Episode Description:The Impact of Narcissistic Abuse on Our Relationship With Others is part of the Series on Narcissistic Abuse. It discusses how being raised in adverse childhood conditions or by narcissistic types can impact our mental health and programming and make us codependent. This episode then describes what codependency is, the traits of codependency, how this impacts relationships, and how it is possible to heal from codependency.

Someone with codependent traits is more likely to attract relationships with narcissists and unhealthy individuals. Additionally, survivors of narcissistic abuse can also project unhealed past abuse onto healthy relationships. However, by learning the red flags of abusive relationships, healing codependent traits, and taking more honest self-evaluation, we can heal from narcissistic abuse and pursue and cultivate the healthy, loving relationships God intended us to have.

Breakdown of Episode
0:00 Introduction to the Episode and Topic
4:52 The Impacts of Narcissistic Abuse in Childhood
24:09 Codependency
30:12 How Codependency Can Increase the Chances of Attracting Narcissists
43:08 How We Can Project Our Past Into Loving Relationships
59:40 Ways to Heal

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What You Need to Know About Narcissistic Abuse Part II contains two parts and is the second part of a larger Series on Narcissistic Abuse. Parts I and II are episodes 6 and 7, and they include a "crash course" in narcissistic abuse. Part II, Episode 7 includes what the impacts are of narcissistic abuse on the survivor; impacts in specific kinds of relationships; and ways to heal, educate yourself, and get your life back. This episode further breaks down the connection between alcoholism and narcissism, how this can create codependency, how group dynamics and organizations can be narcissistic, how to deal with different levels of narcissists, and practices to heal from narcissistic abuse. Episode 6, Part I, which precedes this episode explains the nature of narcissists and narcissistic abuse and warning signs of narcissistic abuse.

Breakdown of Episode
0:00 Introduction to the Series, Episode, and Topic
2:06 What Are the General Impacts of Narcissistic Abuse on the Survivor?
25:07 Impacts of Specific Types of Relationships With Narcissists
59:38 Healing, Educating Yourself, Getting Your Life Back

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Episode Description:What You Need to Know About Narcissistic Abuse Part I contains two parts and is the first part of a larger Series on Narcissistic Abuse. Parts I and II are episodes 6 and 7, and they include a "crash course" in narcissistic abuse. Part I, Episode 6 includes what narcissistic abuse is, why it happens, and warning signs of narcissistic abuse. This episode further breaks down what makes a narcissist, the difference between Narcissistic Personality Disorder and high narcissistic traits, and why narcissists generally don't have any interest in healing. Episode 7, Part II continues from Episode 6, Part I discussing the impacts of this abuse and ways to recover from narcissistic abuse.

Breakdown of Episode
0:00 Introduction to the Series, Episode, and Topic
4:20 Breakdown of Episode
5:30 What Is Narcissistic Abuse and Why Does it Happen?
37:12 Basic Warning Signs of Narcissistic Abuse

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• Effects of Narcissistic Abuse by Arlin Cuncic in Very Well Mind includes what narcissistic abuse is and the impacts of narc abuse. This article is also used at the beginning of Episode 7 that discusses the impacts of narc abuse.
• How a Child Can Become a Narcissist by Elinor Greenberg, PhD in Psychology Today discusses various scenarios and situations that create a narcissistic, describing what makes narcissists to creating their wiring childhood.
• What Are the Nine Traits of a Narcissist? By John P. Cunha, DO, FACOEP in E Medicine Health describes the warning signs of narcissistic behavior in this article with the nine most common behaviors of narcissists.
• I'm a Professor of Human Behavior and I Have Some News for You About the 'Narcissists' in Your Life by Melody Wilding in Business Insider discusses the differences between full blown Narcissistic Personality Disorder diagnosed by a professional and just someone who is a "jerk" or has high narcissistic traits, and the need to be careful with differentiating between the two.
• Narcissists' Lack of Empathy Seen in Brain Scans by Denise Chow in Live Science describes how brain scans actually show that brain activity in narcissists is different than other people, including the centers in the brain where empathy resides. This article discusses the brain science behind why narcs have trouble seeing their own flaws.
• Do Narcissists Know They Are Narcissists? By Scott Barry Kaufman in Psychology Today discusses whether narcs know who/what they are and areas where they are self-aware as well as areas where they lack the self-awareness healthy individuals have.
• Understanding the Terms of Narcissism by Elinor Greenberg PhD in Psychology Today includes key terms used in narcissistic abuse recovery circles, and I use these terms to describe warning signs and behaviors of narcissistic abuse.

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Mindfulness: Emotional Recovery That Sticks introduces you to the concept of mindfulness, the benefits of mindfulness, and how mindfulness can help heal trauma. Mindfulness is simply coming back to the present moment and into our bodies, but the practice is so much more. This episode covers specific exercises and mindsets you can use to practice mindfulness, and how you can practice Christian mindfulness with the presence of God to help you come back to the present moment, since trauma can so often take us away from it. The episode shows the science behind how mindfulness can help you heal trauma, gives you ways you can practice mindfulness in your daily life, and clarifies how to slowly add this practice to your life to safely use it as a method for healing trauma, abuse, and difficult emotions.

Breakdown of Episode
0:00 Introduction to the Topic
3:21 Breakdown of Episode
5:45 What Is Mindfulness?
12:05 The General Benefits of Mindfulness: How It Can Help You
19:49 What is Christian Mindfulness?
35:50 How Mindfulness Helps Heal Trauma
45:04 Some of the Best Resources on Mindfulness

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• What Is Mindfulness by Elizabeth Scott, PhD at Very Well Mind defines mindfulness, how it's practiced, different types of mindfulness, conditions that mindfulness can help, and cautions to consider when starting a mindfulness practice. (If any link doesn't work, Google the title and website).
• Benefits of Mindfulness by Kendra Cherry discusses the benefits of mindfulness on mental illness, emotions, and physical health, as well as various areas of life, while also including some cautions on the practice.
• Christian Mindfulness Resources is a great website that includes resources on mindfulness from a Christian perspective. Do you own research. There are many like this.
• 7 Christian Mindfulness Exercises to See God in Daily Life by Sarah from Calming Grace gives seven concrete ways to practice mindfulness from a Christian perspective.
• The Science of How Mindfulness Relieves Post Traumatic Stress by B. Grace Bulloch uses a scientific approach to discuss how studies how the positive impacts of mindfulness practice on the parts of the brain impacted by trauma.
• Is Mindfulness Safe for Trauma Survivors? by David Treleavan at thescienceofpsychotherapy.com discusses the positives and pitfalls of mindfulness for trauma survivors, and how ultimately the positives outweigh the benefits, while including some cautions when moving forward.
• Seven Mindfulness Attitudes=Your Real Core Power by Rebecca Straus LCSW, was not shared in the podcast, but includes some basic principles of mindfulness to consider.
• Mindfulness Exercises by the Mayo Clinic is another great tool that includes some practices of mindfulness.

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God Will Heal Your Trauma and Emotional Abuse is a Youtube video I did a few years ago with the same name. I encouraged people that they can heal, God will heal them, and God's radical love is the source of all healing, including any trauma or difficult emotional issues you may be facing. This episode discusses attitudes that can re-traumatize you, how to avoid these, and how being deeply rooted Christ's radical love and grace keeps you safe and heals you, along with doing the right kind of healing work. This episode offers a word of encouragement and a reminder of why we do the healing work, that God's love it radical and his grace is scandalous, and that God will heal your trauma and emotional abuse.

Breakdown of Episode
1:17 Introduction
6:16 How Well-Meaning Religious Communities Can Re-traumatize Folks
10:34 Core Feelings of Unworthiness and Setting the Record Straight on These
15:35 Being Deeply Rooted in Christ's Radical Love and Grace
28:05 Two Philosophies That Can Re-traumatize You and Why These Are Not the Truth
39:00 Why God Takes Us Down and Deeper When We're Healing Before He Takes Us Back Up

Bulleted List of Resources:
Scriptures:

Mark 15 Parables of the lost coin, lost sheep, and prodigal son.

Psalm 119 God's protection for those He loves.

Other Resources:

• The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning, a Franciscan priest, is a book about God's radical grace and love for us, and how he preferred the company of outliers.
• What's So Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey is a book about God's radical grace and how it works in our lives.
• The Story of the Chinese Bamboo Women's Network Blog, is about how long it took the Chinese bamboo to grow, and how this time and the depth in which is was planted was part of the plan to allow it to grow into a mighty bamboo.
• God Will Heal Your Trauma and Emotional Abuse is the original Youtube video I recorded a few years ago. I expanded on this talk for the podcast to give you a word of encouragement and keep you on the path of healing. New exclusive videos are coming soon, so please subscribe to the Youtube Channel to get new content and resources.

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Many people think that the science of learning can only be applied to school learning, but there is extensive research that certain strategies greatly enhance learning more than others and that trauma can be healed and the brain rewired. By combining these two tried and true concepts, this episode takes you through specific learning strategies that will help you get more out of your healing work, and it includes specific practices applying the methods that are best for learning.

How the Science of Learning Can Maximize Healing of Trauma and Difficult Emotions shows you how you can harness the science of learning to improve your chances of healing difficult emotions and trauma. This episode teaches you what the science of learning is, what the best research-based methods are for increasing what you get out of healing practices, and how you can transfer these practices to your healing work. If you apply these strategies, you can increase retention of what you learn about healing, apply it to your life, and sustain healing long-term to live the life God meant you to live.

**Breakdown of Episode:
1:18 Introduction
8:05 What is the Science of Learning?
17:35 What Are the Best Methods of Learning That Stick With You?
40:27 How Can You Use the Science of Learning to Evaluate Your Own Learning in the Recovery Process?
45:37 Three Concrete Practices That Will Maximize Results in Your Recovery Practice

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Taking Every Opportunity to Grow and Learn: Willingness, Non-Resistance and Acceptance to Heal Trauma is a two-episode series that examines the impacts of trauma, what resistance is, and why unhealed trauma survivors resist the reality of trauma instead of accepting it. It further explores the healing power of non-resistance to what is, and how this leads to healing and peace.

While there aren't always clear answers, this series explores why God allows difficult and traumatic experiences to happen, how resistance plays a part in these realities, and why we resist instead of accept them. It further examines how willingness, non-resistance, and acceptance toward what is improves our situation and allows us to heal our trauma, grow in these experiences, and find peace and meaning we might not find otherwise. Non-resistance leads us to a place of surrender in our walk with Christ.

Then, I share concrete practices that will show you how to apply willingness, non-resistance, and acceptance in your own life to heal trauma and ease your experience, even in the face of traumas and harsh realities.

2:17 What is Surrender, Willingness, Vulnerability, Non-Resistance, Trust, and Obedience?
14:30 Concrete Practices of Willingness, Acceptance, and Non-Resistance
34:21 Exercises to on Willingness, Acceptance, and Non-Resistance

Bulleted List of Resources: This is the resources for Parts 1 and 2 of this series.

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Taking Every Opportunity to Grow and Learn: Willingness, Non-Resistance and Acceptance to Heal Trauma is a two-episode series that examines the impacts of trauma, what resistance is, and why unhealed trauma survivors resist the reality of trauma instead of accepting it. It further explores the healing power of non-resistance to what is, and how this leads to healing and peace.

While there aren't always clear answers, this series explores why God allows difficult and traumatic experiences to happen, how resistance plays a part in these realities, and why we resist instead of accept them. It further examines how willingness, non-resistance, and acceptance toward what is improves our situation and allows us to heal our trauma, grow in these experiences, and find peace and meaning we might not find otherwise. Non-resistance leads us to a place of surrender in our walk with Christ.

Then, I share concrete practices that will show you how to apply willingness, non-resistance, and acceptance in your own life to heal trauma and ease your experience, even in the face of traumas and harsh realities.

0:00 Introduction to the Topic, Breakdown of Series
10:35 Why Does God Allow Difficulty, Trauma, and Tragedy in Our Lives?
32:01 Why Do We Struggle with and Resist What Is?
47:48 What Are Different Forms of Resistance?
53:30 How Does God Deal With Us When We're in Resistance?

Bulleted List of Resources: This is the resources for Parts 1 and 2 of this series.

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I'm excited for a new season of Christian Emotional Recovery. This episode, What's New in Season 2: Updates on Episodes and Patreon gives you a teaser of the first two episodes in Season 2 of Christian Emotional Recovery and when they'll drop. This short episode also gives you opportunities to get more involved in the platform, get exclusives, and support the podcast and thus, other trauma survivors like you, or those you love who may be trauma survivors through Patreon.

Two new episodes will arrive April 11 (and then every two weeks after that), or you can get the episodes exclusively on Patreon today for $5/mo subscription. You will also get ALL episodes a week early and a shoutout by name in an upcoming episode! Regardless, the regular podcast will always remain free.

Breakdown of Episode:

1:17 Intro and Teaser of First Two Season 2 Episodes, a Two-Part Series

3:44 What is Patreon? How Can I Get Exclusives and Support the Podcast?

4:46 What Kind of Exclusive Stuff Can I Get By Subscribing on Patreon?

8:00 How Can I Support the Podcast on Patreon?

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I'm excited for a new season of Christian Emotional Recovery. This episode, What's New in 2022 includes updates Season Two of Christian Emotional Recovery--the podcast, Facebook group, and Youtube channel:

• When will the new season be out and what updates will the podcast include?
• What suggestions do you have for the podcast?
• What goes on behind the scenes of the podcast?
• How can I get exclusives and support the podcast at the same time?

These questions will be answered on this short, special episode of the podcast.

Breakdown of Episode: Updates, Calls to Action, and Ways to Support the Podcast
1:16 Intro, Overview of Episode
5:40 What's New in 2022 for Christian Emotional Recovery
9:24 Calls to Action, How You Can Get Exclusives and Support the Podcast
13:06 What Goes on Behind the Scenes
18:54 More on What's New in 2022
22:30 Conclusion
24:17 Update on My Health and Podcast

**NOTE: I'll INCLUDE PATREON LINK IN THE NEXT UPDATE EPISODE SHOWNOTES BEFORE EPISODE ONE OF THE NEW SEASON. STAY TUNED.

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Practices to Heal Trauma Series-Part 4: Body Therapies with a Licensed Professional discusses what kinds of therapies work the most effectively in healing trauma. This episode is the fourth of four episodes in the series and the last of this season, and it covers five body practices with a professional that can contribute to healing trauma when practiced on a regular basis: EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), Somatic (Body) Therapy, Talk Therapy, and Dance/Movement Therapy.

Each modality is broken down by what is the practice, disclaimers (if any) about the practice, how the practice works and how to do it, evidence of its impact and healing in trauma, recommended resources, and strategies from my experience. These practices, in the four episodes, are broken down in a way to help you decide, pray, and discern which practices you might use to help you heal trauma.

**Breakdown of Episode:
1:17 Review of the Series
3:30 Intro to Body Practices to Do with a Licensed Professional
6:51 What to Consider When Looking for a Professional
10:30 Practice 1: EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
19:35 Practice 2: CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
27:15 Practice 3: Somatic (Body) Therapy
38:11 Practice 4: Talk Therapy
45:18 Practice 5: Dance/Movement Therapy

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Episode Description:Practices to Heal Trauma Series-Part 3: Body Practices discusses what kinds of therapies work the most effectively in healing trauma. This episode is the third of four episodes in the series, and it covers five body practices that can contribute to healing trauma when practiced on a regular basis: Exercise, EFT/Tapping, Breath work, Grounding, and Sound and music therapy.

Each modality is broken down by what is the practice, disclaimers (if any) about the practice, how the practice works and how to do it, evidence of its impact and healing in trauma, recommended resources, and strategies from my experience. These practices, in the four episodes, are broken down in a way to help you decide, pray, and discern which practices you might use to help you heal trauma.

Breakdown of Episode:
1:26 Intro to Overall Topic
6:17 Intro to Body Practices to Heal Trauma
6:51 Practice 1: Exercise
20:00 Practice 2: EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique/Tapping)
30:06 Practice 3: Breath Work
41:09 Practice 4: Grounding
51:12 Practice 5: Sound and Music Therapy

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Episode Description:Practices to Heal Trauma Series-Part 2: Mind Practices to Heal Trauma discusses what kinds of therapies work the most effectively in healing trauma. This episode is the second of four episodes in the series, and it covers five mind practices that can contribute to healing trauma when practiced on a regular basis: Meditation, Affirmations, Journaling, Mindfulness, and Visualization.

Each modality is broken down by what is the practice, disclaimers (if any) about the practice, how the practice works and how to do it, evidence of its impact and healing in trauma, recommended resources, and strategies from my experience. These practices, in the four episodes, are broken down in a way to help you decide, pray, and discern which practices you might use to help you heal trauma.

Breakdown of Episode:
1:16 Intro to Topic
3:35 Breakdown of this Four-Part Series and Episode
8:15 Intro to Mind Practices to Heal Trauma
9:08 Practice 1: Meditation
21:57 Practice 2: Affirmations
30:27 Practice 3: Journaling
37:44 Practice 4: Mindfulness
57:52 Practice 5: Visualization

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Practices to Heal Trauma Series-Part 1: Traditional Practices to Heal Trauma discusses what kinds of therapies work the most effectively to heal trauma. This episode acts as an intro to the series, breaking down the types of practices we'll discuss, and breaking down how each practice will be presented in the next 4 episodes.

The episode covers five traditional Christian practices that can contribute to healing trauma when practiced on a regular basis: Scripture, Devotionals, Teachings and Sermons, Prayers, and Praise and Worship.

Each modality is broken down by what is the practice, disclaimers (if any) about the practice, how the practice works and how to do it, evidence of its impact and healing in trauma, recommended resources, and strategies from my experience. In the next four episodes, these practices are broken down in a way to help you decide, pray, and discern which practices you might use to help you heal trauma.

**Breakdown of Episode:
2:10 Intro to Topic
3:57 Breakdown of this Four-Part Series
7:56 Intro to Traditional Practices to Heal Trauma
14:08 Practice 1: Scripture
23:16 Practice 2: Devotionals
29:57 Practice 3: Teachings and Sermons
46:10 Practice 4: Prayer
57:52 Practice 5: Praise and Worship

Bulleted List of Resources**

• "What Does the Bible Say About PTSD?" in Got Questions?

https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-PTSD.html

• "What Does the Bible Say About Recovering from PTSD?" by September Grace in 412TEENS.ORG

https://412teens.org/qna/what-does-the-Bible-say-about-recovering-from-PTSD.php

• "Q&A: We Need a Christ-Centered Theology of Trauma" by Morgan Lee in Christianity Today

https://www.christianitytoday.com/women/2018/june/we-need-christ-centered-theology-of-trauma-metoo-movement.html

• Psalm 91 is a power scripture for helping you deal with fear, anxiety, and trauma, and it affirms God's protection, healing, comfort, and deliverance in our lives.
• House of Healing Ministries is a ministry that focuses on healing trauma. https://jimandpatbanks.com/
• Trauma Prayer by Jim and Pat Banks (House of Healing Ministries)

Trauma Prayer-Jim Banks

• "Why Wounded and Betrayed Believers Are So Useful To God" sermon by Graham Cooke

https://www.brilliantbookhouse.com/products/why-wounded-betrayed-believers-are-so-useful

• Parable of the Sower Matthew 13:1-23, Mark 4:1-20, Luke 8:4-15
• "This is Your Brain on Prayer and Meditation" by Nicole Spector

https://www.nbcnews.com/better/health/your-brain-prayer-meditation-ncna812376

• "Prayer May Reshape Your Brain . . . And Your Reality" by Barbara Bradley Hagerty

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104310443

• "Centering Prayer and Trauma" by Father Thomas Keating

https://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/video/centering-prayer-and-trauma

• Check out Scripture Memory Songs on Youtube

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Episode Description: Acceptance discusses what self-acceptance is, how self-acceptance can help us draw closer to Christ, and why accepting our shortcomings and coming to Him just as we are is the beginning of all healing. The radical acceptance and love that Christ says more about Him than our shortcomings, which enables us radical surrender to His grace. This is the first step to all healing.

I then share a personal story of an extremely difficult experience when I applied an exercise of acceptance to that pattern to bring down triggers that caused terror, related to trauma from the past. This acceptance exercise is simple, straightforward, and effective, and it can help you learn to accept your emotions and help your fear and the difficulty of certain situations to lose their power.

Breakdown of Episode:
1:16 Intro to Acceptance and Why Self-Acceptance is Helpful for Our Relationship With Christ
4:39 How Christ's Radical Grace Leads to our Radical Surrender and Ultimately our Healing
11:46 Personal Story of Acceptance Leading to Healing
30:58 Acceptance Exercise You Can Use to Deal with Difficult Situations and Emotions

Bulleted List of Resources

• "5 Factors That Make You feel Shame" by Shahram Heshmat in Psychology Todayhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/science-choice/201510/5-factors-make-you-feel-shame
  This article explains the symptoms of shame and helps you to understand the difference between shame and guilt. Knowing how shame blocks us from coming to Christ helps us to work on the issues in our life so we can surrender to Him.
• The work of Joseph Prince, Philip Yancy, and especially Brennan Manning are great resources to study and learn about the radical acceptance, love, and grace of Christ. Check out The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning, especially, which had a great impact on me.
  https://www.amazon.com/Ragamuffin-Gospel-Bedraggled-Beat-Up-Burnt/dp/1590525027
  This book's description states the following: "The Father beckons us to Himself with a 'furious love' that burns brightly and constantly. Only when we truly embrace God’s grace can we bask in the joy of a gospel that enfolds the most needy of His flock—the 'ragamuffins.'”"

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Episode Description:Codependency discusses what codependency is, how it impacts the individual, and how it impacts relationships. It also discusses the symptoms and causes of codependency. In Christian life, codependency and Christian love are often confused, but there are not the same thing. Many people are even raised by well-meaning Christian parents that confuse the two. This podcast differentiates between the two.

Additionally, this podcast clarifies how codependency can impact our relationship with God, how childhood trauma can impact codependency, and tools to help you target the symptoms and root causes of codependency so you can live a life of freedom and love.

Breakdown of Episode:
2:25 Intro to Codependency
7:04 What is Codependency Causes and Symptoms of Codependency
29:25 What is the Difference Between Codependency and Loving Your Neighbor?
39:45 How Codependency Impacts Our Relationship with God
42:18 What's the Connection Between Childhood Trauma and Codependency?
46:06 Tools to Help You Overcome Codependency and How do You Heal the Root Causes of Codependency

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• "What Is Codependency?" originally found at Psych Central (article was taken down), so I've included the same article by the same author, Darlene Lancer, found on her website.
  https://darlenelancer.com/symptoms-of-codependency/
  This article discusses what codependency is, how it impacts the person, how it impacts relationships, and behaviors that indicate codependency.
• Boundaries by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XFKNB2Y/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1/141-5813274-8244414
  This book is written from a Christian perspective and gives you detailed, scriptural, and practical advice on applying boundaries in different areas of your life, which is one of the most important parts of healing codependency. It also helps you differentiate between codependent behavior and Christian love/loving your neighbor.
• "Trauma and Codependency" by Darlene Lancer was originally found on PsychCentral and since has been removed, so I've included a link from her website.
  https://darlenelancer.com/trauma-and-codependency/
  This article discusses how traumatic experiences in childhood can program a child to be codependent. If you experienced sustained abuse, neglect, specific traumatic events, or Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) in your formative years, this can often wire your mind to be codependent, but codependency can be healed.
• Codependent No More by Melanie Beatty
  https://www.amazon.com/Codependent-No-More-Controlling-Yourself/dp/0894864025/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=codependent+no+more&qid=1623698220&s=books&sr=1-1
  While not in the podcast, any discussion on codependency resources must include Melanie Beatty's work, which is a classic book in the field of codependency and considered the most influential book on overcoming codependency.

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Episode Description:Why We Need a More Integrative Approach to Trauma in Our Theology discusses how theology, churches, and Christian teachings often fail to address trauma properly. We can see how the realities of trauma have been integrated into literature, art, history, and music as ways to express and heal trauma. However, while not all theology does this, some theology dismisses trauma or claims that you can heal through traditional modalities alone, and if you don't, it's your fault and you're not trying hard enough.

If you've been told this, this can be re-traumatizing, and it simply isn't true. Witnessing and validating trauma is a more realistic approach to dealing with trauma. By having a more integrative approach to our faith and theology, including the realities of trauma into our practices, integrating our healing practice in with our faith and theology, and acknowledging how trauma works in conjunction with our faith, we can take a more integrative and holistic approach to trauma that allows our relationship with Christ to heal us and change our lives.

Breakdown of Episode:
1:18 Intro to Topic
3:47 Why You Can't Simplify Trauma and Put It in a Box
9:46 Why It's Important We Integrate the Complexity of Trauma into Our Approach to Theology and Scripture
17:57 Why an Integrative and Holistic Approach to Trauma in Your Life and in Our Theology is the Answer to Healing Trauma

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• "How Christian Theology and Practice Are Being Shaped by Trauma Studies" in Christian Century, by Sheila Rambo
  https://www.christiancentury.org/article/critical-essay/how-christian-theology-and-practice-are-being-shaped-trauma-studies
  This article discusses how trauma is integrated into our culture, art, literature, and history in many rich ways to help those who've experienced move through it and heal. However, theology doesn't always address the realities of trauma and integrating the realities of what has happened into human life. Our theology doesn't always address the complex and messy nature of trauma. By addressing the realities of trauma in our theology and using a more integrating approach to heal trauma, we can make progress toward individual and cultural healing of trauma.

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Episode Description:Why You Can't Stay Small and Silent discusses why many of us who experienced emotional, narcissistic, and other forms of abuse stay small and invisible to feel safe. If we've been taught we are to be seen and not heard, our ideas are stupid, or taking risks were shot down with rejection, this is a normal response to this trauma.

The podcast also discusses why we cannot stay small if we want to fulfill God's calling on our lives, and why God does not want us to stay small and silent. We discuss examples of people who did not stay small and silent and the difference they have made in others' lives. What if they had stayed small and silent? How many lives would never have changed?

We cannot stay small and silent. Your message may resonate with others more than someone else's. You will not find peace unless you step up and do what God calls you to do. Don't stay small, give the world the gift that only you can give, and fulfill the unique purpose that God has given you.

Breakdown of Episode:
3:17 Intro to Topic and Why Many of Us Stay Small
7:36 Why God Does NOT Want You to Be Small and Invisible
12:14 What Will Happen If We Stay Small and What Will Happen If We Don't?
23:41 How to Grow With Your Calling

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• Brene Brown Youtube talk on The Power of VulnerabilityThe power of vulnerability | Brené Brown
  Description from Youtube: "Brené Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share."

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No Mo' FOMO discusses the psychological phenomenon that we all experience called "FOMO," or "Fear of Missing Out." Those who have experienced childhood trauma, narcissistic abuse, and other forms of trauma often feel they've been robbed of life experiences, safety, and joy, and this can lead to an urgency and fear of missing out on experiences or accomplishments. We all experience this to some degree, but some experience it more than others.

The podcast discusses different types of FOMO, strategies for dealing with it, and strategies to get past FOMO such as coming back into the present moment, not judging yourself, and being mindful, when it feels like it will overwhelm you. Then we discuss the differences between unhealthy and healthy FOMO and how God can use FOMO to motivate and speak to you at certain times.

Breakdown of Episode:
1:16 Intro to the Topic
2:10 What is FOMO, and How Does It Impact Those Who've Experienced Trauma?
5:14 Where Does FOMO Come From?
16:48 Examples of FOMO and Ways to Deal with It
27:44 What's the Difference Between Productive FOMO and Destructive FOMO, and How God Can Use FOMO for Good

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• "FOMO" or "Fear of Missing Out" Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_missing_out
  This article explains that "FOMO refers to the apprehension that one is either not in the know or missing out on information, events, experiences, or decisions that could make one's life better." Learning what FOMO is and how is connects to trauma and stressors can help us to deal with it.
• What's the Psychology Behind Fear of Missing Out? by Quora Contributor and Anita Sanz
  https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/09/fomo-whats-the-psychology-behind-the-fear-of-missing-out.html
  This article discusses the origins of FOMO and how FOMO is based on an ancient fear, triggered particularly social media, where we needed to know what was going on for survival reasons. Not knowing what was going on in the environment could cause death, so we still have this residual survival instinct. Now, we find new ways to deal with FOMO to help our mental health.
• Tips to Get over FOMO, or Fear of Missing Out by Aarti Gupta, ADAA
  https://adaa.org/learn-from-us/from-the-experts/blog-posts/consumer/tips-get-over-your-fomo-or-fear-missing-out
  This article discusses how the "Highlight Reel" gives us an unrealistic view on social media of others' lives that are curated and not real life. It also discusses how these highlights in others' lives aren't realistic. She includes coping skills to help us have a more realistic view of situations by not comparing our worst traits and experiences with others' best experiences, which is neither fair not realistic.

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The Power of Repetition: Experiencing God's Love to Break the Trauma Cycle discusses the psychological roots of impacted childhood development usually based on when a child doesn't get bonding, safety, or nurture, or they are abused, these stages get interrupted. Children may not be able to self-regulate and have hyperarousal, and this can create a pattern of trauma response. This is the process that can start a trauma cycle from childhood into adulthood, impacting development.

However, there is hope. With powerful and repetitive connection to God as a base for safety and love through concrete practices, this cycle can be interrupted. These processes such as praise and worship, prayer, meditation, building a bond with God, and having God as a safe base will help interrupt these patterns, replacing trauma patterns with God's love and safety in His presence. Doing these repetitively and persistently can heal this trauma response and calm the soul in the long run.

Breakdown of Episode:
3:13 Intro to the Topic
5:09 The Nature of the Trauma Cycle
16:03 How a Relationship With God Can Help Us With Our Trauma by Filling the Void
23:04 How to Cultivate God's Presence and Healing Through Repetition and Reinforcement

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• The Compulsion to Repeat Trauma: Reenactment, Revictimization, and Masochism by Bessel A. van der Kolk
  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0193953X18304398
  This article discusses how if we don't get the bonds we need, don't have a safe childhood, or have caregivers help us regulate our emotions we can experience trauma that can create hyperarousal in the brain that can cause a feedback loop that cause repeat patterns.
• Erik Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development by Kendra Cherry
  https://www.verywellmind.com/erik-eriksons-stages-of-psychosocial-development-2795740
  This article was mentioned in the podcast and it describes the various stages of psychosocial development that each child should undergo. If traumatic events occur or needing bonding and safety do not occur, the development through these stages can be impacted and cause create trauma.

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What Is an HSP? explains what a Highly Sensitive Person is, whether or not you may be one, and the science behind being one. The episode describes how HSP's relate to the world, and it discusses how you can support yourself if you're an HSP, or how you can support someone if you love someone who is. The episode also clarifies the gifts and vulnerabilities of being an HSP, in terms of how they relate to the world.

We then discuss how being a Christian and an HSP allows you to contribute to the world in unique ways, and why the highly sensitive are often misunderstood. The podcast covers how a chaotic childhood or childhood trauma can uniquely impact an HSP, as well as ways to heal if this was your experience. God can take what was meant for your harm and use it for your good.

Breakdown of Episode:
1:42 What Is an HSP?
5:09 Breakdown of Episode and the Science Behind HSP's
11:59 Gifts and Vulnerabilities of HSP's
19:38 How to Support HSP's You Love and Yourself If You Are One
24:46 What Does It Mean Being an HSP as a Christian?
28:37 How Does Trauma or a Chaotic Trauma Impact an HSP?
36:54 How God Can Take What Was Meant for Your Harm and Use it for Your Good

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• The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine Aron
  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GT1YES8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
  This book will help you understand yourself if you're an HSP, and help you to learn how to cope and even thrive as an HSP.

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Episode Description:Comparison and Feeling Invisible discusses how many of us, particularly those of us who've experienced trauma and mental health challenges, feel invisible, and this episodes offers encouragement and healing strategies if you've experienced invisibility or felt insignificant. I also share personal experiences and discuss how we've all had these moments in our lives, making these experiences relatable.

You can take all your comparisons, jealousies, and envies to God with complete honesty and vulnerability without fear of condemnation or judgement. God will accept you just as you are and heal you with His deep love. This episode discusses your worth in Christ. He would have died for you alone. This episode then shares strategies that can help you heal comparison, invisibility, and feelings of insignificance. For more information on the A.C.O.R.N technique, please see Podcast Episode 11: A.C.O.R.N: A Tool to Process Difficult Emotions.

Breakdown of Episode:
0:00 Intro to the Topic and Encouragement if You've Felt Invisible Your Whole Life
6:34 I Know What It Feels Like to Feel Invisible and Insignificant
9:39 Christ Would Have Died for You Alone, So You Are Not Insignificant
14:50 Bring Your Vulnerabilities Completely Honestly Before God

A bulleted list of resources for each week's episode will be included, but no specific outside resources were mentioned here.

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Episode Description:Why We Need to Talk about the Shame of Mental Illness discusses whether or not we should share our mental health conditions and struggles with others, and if so, whom. This episode also discusses the differences between shame and guilt, how trauma is connected to shame and mental illness, and how people cover up and deny shame. We then discuss why you need to tell yourself the shame you feel is not your fault.

Jesus' finished work on the cross defeated shame once and for all. As a result, knowing who you are in Christ heals shame. Speaking about shame with those that we trust, can also heal it. There are solutions to heal shame, if we as a culture can openly address the shame and stigma mental illness.

Breakdown of Episode:
0:00 Intro to the Topic
6:32 Why We Need to Talk About the Shame Around Mental Illness
8:40 The Difference Between Shame and Guilt
14:35 How is Shame Connected to Trauma, Mental Illness, and Suicide, and Why People Cover up and Deny Shame
25:52 Why the Shame You Feel Is Not Your Fault
27:46 How Jesus' Finished Work Heals Your Shame Forever
22:39 How You Can Start to Heal Yourself
33:22 What Does the Presence of Jesus Mean for Shame?
37:57 Vulnerability and Compassion as Keys to Heal Shame
40:05 Solutions to Heal Shame
58:40 What We as a Culture Need to do About the Shame of Mental Illness

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• "Dealing with Shame When You Have BPD" by Kristalyn Salters-Pedneault

https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-shame-425328

This article addresses those who have borderline personality disorder, but the differences between shame and guilt given can help anyone who struggles with mental health issues. Shame is debilitation, whereas guilt is a tool that helps us to course correct.

• "Suicide and Shame," The General Psychologist, John C. Minahan

https://www.apadivisions.org/division-1/publications/newsletters/general/2016/10/suicide-shame

This article discusses shame that is associated with suicide and suicide ideation, and how we need to address the root causes of suicide and suicide itself differently. Minahan discusses great people in history that suffered from depression and suicide ideation, but they did not go through with it. It discusses how these individuals found ways to cope with their shame and transmute their emotions through healing practices and their art and work, instead of denying their emotions.

• Brene Brown TED Talk "Listening to Shame"

Listening to shame | Brené Brown

Brene Brown is an engaging speaker with years of experience researching shame and vulnerability. She discusses what shame is, where it comes from, and how it manifests, and what we can do to heal our shame.

• Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness by Joshua Wolf Shenk

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0085TK3CS/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Extending on the Minahan article, this book discusses how Lincoln's will to live and never give up, despite deep depression, allowed him to become the man he was destined to be and change the world. It shows what someone--even with deep depression and shame-- can accomplish with grit and determination.

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A.C.O.R.N: A Tool to Process Difficult Emotions discusses the nature of emotions and how they are not bad in themselves, but indicators letting us know something needs our attention. The podcast discusses layering, and how reacting to the original emotion can needlessly complicate and add suffering to the experience. Culture treats difficult emotions differently than physical ailments and illness--such as using unhealthy strategies to avoid dealing with them, or by stigmatizing them--but they should get the same urgent attention as health problems. Then, the podcast discusses how we avoid difficult emotions.

We discuss a better tool for dealing with difficult emotions using the A.C.O.R.N acronym, which are the steps for what to do when difficult emotions arise. These steps include Acceptance, Compassion, Objective Curiosity, Refocus/Reframe, and Not Layering. This process will help you deal with difficult emotions in the moment and used consistently, will help you heal trauma in your body by dealing with emotions in the body at their source.

Breakdown of Episode:
2:15 Introduction to the Topic
5:28 How Emotions Work
14:03 How We Deal With Difficult Emotions
34:43 Strategies for Dealing with Difficult Emotions
40:35 A.C.O.R.N Strategy for Dealing with Difficult Emotions
27:35 The Science of Learning

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• "Working with Difficulties: The Blessings of Rain" by Tara Brach

https://www.tarabrach.com/articles-interviews/rain-workingwithdifficulties/

This is an article that covers Tara Brach's own technique dealing with difficult emotions using the R.A.I.N. acronym that stands for Recognize, Allow, Investigate, and Nonidentification/Nurture.

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Is Mental Illness Hereditary or Environmental? breaks down where heredity ends and environment begins in determining or contributing to who experiences mental illness. This episode explains the complex biological, psychological, and hereditary factors that can contribute to or predispose anyone to mental health issues. One adverse factor doesn't guarantee you'll have mental health problems, any more than one positive factor guarantees not having them.

Then, we discuss how adverse childhood experiences (ACE) can contribute to mental illness. Two people in the same environment may be impacted differently, and nothing be wrong with either one of them. Some people are more naturally sensitive than others. We discuss how all these factors come together, combined with the unique traits of the individual, to determine whether a person experiences mental health issues.

Breakdown of Episode:
2:05 Introduction: The Roots of Mental Illness
5:50 Is Mental Illness Hereditary or Environmental?
9:34 How Complex Factors Come Together to Create Mental Illness
19:46 More on the Roots of Mental Illness

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• Causes of Mental Illness, Web MD

https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/mental-health-causes-mental-illness#1
This article distinguishes the complex factors that can cause or trigger mental illness in an individual. Some involve predispositions, and some are environmental.

• "Is Mental Illness Hereditary?" Huff Post
  You should be able to find this link with a quick Google search. Link is long.

This article explains how much heredity contributes to mental health issues. It continues with how adverse childhood experiences (ACES) scores and factors contribute to mental health issues based on a famous and extensive study.

• ACES Quiz

https://americanspcc.org/take-the-aces-quiz/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwpdqDBhCSARIsAEUJ0hP4BfCqrcAYmE3HGzSKijNN06enOfja6XPCo4bJIpNRzfUQ_odes1saAut7EALw_wcB
This is the actual ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences Study) test that can help you see how you score on the ACES scale. Please note that this does not define your mental health risk, but it is just an indicator among many factors.

• HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) Quiz

There are several tests online, Google them, take a couple of them, and see the results.

This test will help you determine if you're a Highly Sensitive Person, which is a scientific term for a person who tends to be more highly sensitive in many ways (which is neither good nor bad, nor a predisposition for mental illness).

• Diathesis Stress Model Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diathesis%E2%80%93stress_model
This model shows how the correlation between complex factors like hereditary and environmental predispositions combined with external stressors play a role in mental health conditions.

• The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms Youby Elaine Aron

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GT1YES8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
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Learning What We've Come Here to Learn: The Attitude and Science of Learning discusses how recovery and reconditioning from trauma are skills that can be learned. This episode explains how the most important step in successful and lasting healing is willingness and surrender to the healing and learning processes, how these are biblical concepts, and that these are the attitude of successful learning. This episode provides resources and evidence on how surrendering and willingness to learn will help you succeed in your healing.

The episode also explains the science of learning, how learning how to learn is the root of successful healing, and how simple learning strategies will increase and sustain your healing. By combining the attitude and science of learning, you can move forward daily in your healing and recovery process.

Breakdown of Episode:
2:25 Introduction to the Topic
6:45 The Attitude of Learning
26:50 Resources to Help You Get Started
27:35 The Science of Learning

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Scriptures on Learning and Wisdom**https://www.openbible.info/topics/learning
This is a list of scriptures about learning, wisdom, and willingness to grow and be teachable that can guide and encourage you in your healing and learning journey.

"Surrender in the Process of Recovery," Freedom Institute
Link is no longer there, my apologies.
Do a Google search on surrender in the process of healing and/or recovery and you will find dozens of great tools and articles to guide you in this concept. This article discussed the benefits and reasons to surrender as part of the process to recovery.

"How to Study Effectively, According to Science" by Emma Fazzino University of Melbourne
https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/sciencecommunication/2017/10/21/how-to-study-effectively-according-to-science-emma-fazzino/
This article gives several measurable and actionable strategies to absorb and retain learning. While this article applies to the academic, the same principles apply to recovery learning.

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Flip the Script of Your Life: Personal Narratives and Learned Optimism discusses what personal narratives and life scripts are and how they play constantly in our lives to create our realities. If you've experienced trauma and you've tried to change your thoughts constantly without success, it isn't your fault.

However, it is possible to flip the script of your life by using a backdoor approach through kinder self-talk and learned optimism, which can help you change your personal narratives and scripts through a gentler, subtler, and more sustainable approach to healing than ways that may not have worked in the past. We discuss strategies that will work for people with trauma.

Breakdown of Episode:
1:15 Introduction to the Topic
3:25 What is the Script of Your Life?
16:36 Flipping the Script and Finding a Backdoor Approach to Healing
20:29 Strategies to Flip the Script and Change the Narrative of Your Life
32:55 Cultivated Optimism as a Backdoor Approach to Healing

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"Let God Flip the Script of Your Life" by Robert Norwood, Coastal Courierhttps://coastalcourier.com/coastal-living/faith/let-god-flip-the-script-of-your-life/
This source discusses what a script it and how, while we can't change everything, with God's help, we have the power to allow God to flip the script of our lives.

"You Gotta Be" by Des'reeDes'ree - You Gotta Be ('99 Mix) [Video]
This song is a great reminder that more is in our control than we realize.

"Flip the Script: How the Stories You Tell Yourself Define Your Life" by Moon Benchekrounhttps://www.goalcast.com/2017/12/07/flip-script-how-the-stories-you-tell-yourself-change-your-life/
This article discusses how our self-talk creates the script of our lives, and how changing our personal stories over time can change our lives.

Learned Optimism by Martin Seligmanhttps://www.amazon.com/Learned-Optimism-Change-Your-Mind/dp/1400078393
This book includes scientifically backed techniques for gradually overcoming "learned helplessness" and replace it with "learned optimism" as a practice that can be cultivated.

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Narcissistic Abuse and Its Impact: What Does It Mean to Me? explains what narcissism is, what a narcissistic is, and what the traits of a narcissistic are. We discuss how it plays out in relationships and impacts those that are survivors of narcissistic abuse.

This episode addresses ways narcissists abuse others, how to spot a narcissist, and how abuse can distort and damage survivors' relationships and views of God. We then discuss resources that can help you get started on your healing journey from narcissistic abuse.

Breakdown of Episode:
5:21 What is Narcissism?
6:54 What are the Traits of a Narcissist?
14:37 What is Narcissistic Abuse?
30:14 How to Spot and Deal with a Narcissist
45:59 Levels of Narcissism
49:06 Resources to Help You Heal

*Wikipedia: "Narcissism"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism
This source breaks down the traits of narcissism and how narcissistic relationships impact the survivors.
Psychology Today: "How to Spot Narcissistic Abuse"
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/toxic-relationships/201709/how-spot-narcissistic-abuse
This article helps you spot a narcissism, identify abusive behaviors, and protect yourself in interactions with the narcissist.
Healing from Hidden Abuse by Shannon Thomas
https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Hidden-Abuse-Recovery-Psychological/dp/0997829087
This book helps people to identify hidden forms of abuse and clarifies why many who have been abused by narcissists don't even know they've been abused. It helps you figure out if this might be you.
Out of the Fog* by Dana Morningstar
This book discusses how abusers use the triad of fear, obligation, and guilt to manipulate their victims, how to spot these signs, and how to protect yourself from the abuser's tactics.
https://www.amazon.com/Out-Fog-Confusion-Clarity-Narcissistic-ebook/dp/B077SFQWZ2
Boundaries* by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
https://www.amazon.com/Boundaries-When-Take-Control-Your/dp/0310247454
This book shows you from a Christian perspective how to set healthy boundaries in different areas of your life.

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Episode Description:This episodeexplains the how adverse childhood circumstances and childhood trauma can change a child's brain. It also discusses how those impacts affect a child psychologically, physically, and symptomatically. There are psychological, health, and genetic impacts on an adult who has these brain changes.

This episode then discusses why if you have experienced brain changes from adverse childhood circumstances, based on emergent research, you're not alone, there is hope, you can still heal, and you can still live a happy, productive life. Please excuse the sounds of my friends in the background (my cat rattling and a chirping bird).

Breakdown of Episode:
0:00 Introduction to Topic
3:57 Cause: How Adverse Childhood Circumstances Cause Trauma
12:35 Impacts: Changes in the Brain and Other Impacts
20:29 Effects: Other Changes in the Brain
45:27 Strategies and Modalities That Can Help You heal

List of Resources

• Tough Childhood? The Effects of Trauma on Your Brainhttps://www.harleytherapy.co.uk/counselling/childhood-effects-of-trauma.htm
  This source describes the impacts of childhood trauma change the brain.
• 7 Ways Childhood Adversity Changes a Child's Brainhttps://acestoohigh.com/2016/09/08/7-ways-childhood-adversity-changes-a-childs-brain/
  This source includes the impacts that adverse childhood experience can have on the brain, life, DNA, and body.
• The Tapping Solution by Nick Ortner, bookhttps://www.amazon.com/Tapping-Solution-Revolutionary-System-Stress-Free/dp/1401939422
  This book can help you get started using EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) tapping on pressure points to relieve stress and heal emotions.

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Episode Description:Toxic Positivity: The Pursuit of Unhappiness and a Better Way explains what toxic positivity is and the damage it causes, particularly for those who have experienced trauma. We discuss why traditional positive thinking rarely works and how forced positivity can actually do more damage.

We go discuss how getting to the root of negative thinking, learning to understand its origins, and befriending our thoughts and emotions is a more sustainable path to lasting peace and happiness. We discuss an easy five-step process for dealing with negative thoughts and emotions that can bring peace, healing, and happiness.

Breakdown of Episode:
0:00 Intro to Episode and Theme
5:58 Intro to Toxic Positivity
9:32 What is Positive Thinking?
15:30 What is Toxic Positivity?
20:00 Getting to the Root of Negative Thinking
31:48 Why Chasing Happiness Doesn't Work
37:25 What You Can Do Instead: Five Steps to Processing Your Emotions

Bulleted List of Resources

Mayo Clinic: "Positive Thinking: Stop Negative Self-Talk to Reduce Stress" https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/in-depth/positive-thinking/art-20043950

This source describes the positive health benefits of positive thinking and putting positive thinking into practice.

Guideposts: "Is There a Such Thing as 'Toxic Positivity?'" by Holly Lebowitz Rossi
https://www.guideposts.org/better-living/positive-living/is-there-such-a-thing-as-toxic-positivity
This source gives definitions and examples of toxic positivity so you can identify it in your own life.

"The Trauma Prayer" by Pat and Jim Banks from House of Healing MinistriesTrauma Prayer-Jim Banks
https://jimandpatbanks.com/trauma-prayer/
This source is a powerful prayer that helps you to heal the roots of trauma.

"Vanishing Time in the Pursuit of Happiness" by Sam J. Maglio, Psychonomic Bulletin and Reviewhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-018-1436-7
This article discusses how desperately pursuing happiness will make you more unhappy, if there's fear behind the pursuit. It also discusses how the desperate pursuit of happiness actually reduces "feelings of time availability" and feelings of happiness.

"Forget Positive Thinking: This is How to Actually Change Negative Thoughts for Success" by Melody Wilding in Forbes Magazinehttps://www.forbes.com/sites/melodywilding/2016/08/15/forget-positive-thinking-this-is-how-you-actually-change-negative-thoughts/?sh=fc56b9c6c462
This article discusses using self-talk to help you reframe your thinking, and how this reframing can create more authentic success with your thought patterns.

"Four Ways to Avoid Toxic Positivity and Lean into Emotional Acceptance" by Haley Goldberghttps://advice.theshineapp.com/articles/4-ways-to-avoid-toxic-positivity-and-lean-into-emotional-acceptance/
This article discusses how accepting your emotions, applying self-compassion, trying something called "deep acting" to be more authentic, and journaling allow you to create happiness and positivity in sustainable ways.

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Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Why We Have Them, and How to Overcome Them explains where unhealthy coping mechanisms originate and how unhealthy coping mechanisms get started, including addictions to substances and to unhealthy emotional habits. I relate my own coping mechanisms to this concept to make it understandable.

Then, I share a couple of personal breakthrough experiences that showed me why my coping mechanisms and targeting these didn't work. I wasn't getting to the root of the problem and why I had the coping mechanisms to begin with. Once I was able to understand the reason for my negative and addictive thinking, then I was able to start making progress. I explain how you can too.

Breakdown of Episode:

1:44 Introduction to the Topic--How Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms Get Started

10:22 Why Positive Thinking Alone Isn't Enough to Heal the Roots of Coping Mechanisms for Trauma

14:12 My Breakthrough Moment that Showed Me That Where the Roots of My Healing Lay and How My Revelation Can Help You

16:14 What Will Help You Cope, Eliminate Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, and Finally Heal

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What's the Difference Between Trauma and PTSD explains the psychological, symptomatic, and social signs of both of these conditions and how each one is different. We discuss the misconceptions about trauma and PTSD, their impacts, and how you can tell the difference between each one based on scientific research.

This episode also addresses the symptoms of trauma and PTSD and treatments that target these unique conditions. This episode applies established research and shares free resources to help you get started or continue on your healing journey.

Breakdown of Episode:

1:15 Introduction to the Topic

5:51 What's the Difference Between Trauma and PTSD?

20:29 Symptoms of PTSD and Trauma

31:40 Treatments of PTSD and Trauma

42:57 How Does All of This Connect to Faith and Following Jesus Christ?

Bulleted List of Resources

• Hope and Healing Center and Institute HACI on PTSD vs. Trauma https://hopeandhealingcenter.org/ptsd-vs-trauma/
• This source describes the difference between PTSD and Trauma and how these are applied in various situations. It describes the causes of trauma and how this can become PTSD.
• National Alliance on Mental Illness NAMI on PTSD vs Trauma
  https://hopeandhealingcenter.org/ptsd-vs-trauma/
• This source clarifies the symptoms of PTSD and Trauma and includes specific therapies and treatments that can help target the source of PTSD and Trauma.

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What's Trauma Got to Do with It? demystifies how trauma may explain why you struggle the way you do and why you are the way you are. It further explains why the symptoms of trauma aren't truly YOU, why there is nothing wrong with YOU, and why trauma isn't your fault. If you've experienced childhood trauma, childhood emotional abuse, or childhood emotional neglect, then chances are, you're living a daily trauma cycle that impacts and pervades every part of your life, perhaps in ways you're not even aware.

While no one should wish trauma on anyone, the pain of trauma, especially when we're mistreated by others, teaches us to have compassion on others, to treat others well, and how we never want to make others feel based on how we've felt. We also learn to have compassion for ourselves by seeing this contrast. We can also start to find modalities that help us heal, based our unique makeup and experience.

This episode addresses these issues, introduces you to the concept of trauma, and provides suggestions to help you get started or continue on your healing journey.

Breakdown of Episode:

4:00 Why You Are the Way You Are and Why It Isn't Your Fault

14:00 How Trauma Can Help You Have Compassion for Others and Yourself

22:39 How You Can Start to Heal Yourself

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What is Wrong With Me and Why Can't I Heal explains why there is NOTHING wrong with you and that you CAN heal, even if you didn't think you could in the past. If you've experienced childhood trauma, childhood emotional abuse, or childhood emotional neglect, then you probably have trauma stuck in your body.

The nature of trauma requires a unique form of emotional healing that targets trauma on the level of the body and brain using cutting edge science and body work. This podcast will show you how to heal at the root of the source, even if you haven't been able to in the past.

If you experienced any of the three mentioned above, it's NOT your fault. It is up to you to do the healing work to find peace, healing, and breakthrough. It may seem in your previous experience that healing happens to someone else, not you. I had long given up on healing completely when I learned about the nature of my trauma, and that is when I started to heal, after decades of trying to heal and only making a little progress. But healing does happen! It happened to me, and I'll help you find healing. With Christ as our anchor, all things are possible!

This episode addresses these issues, introduces you to this podcast, and provides free resources to help you get started or continue on your healing journey.

Breakdown of Episode:

Episode 1 discusses general topics, so I won't include a breakdown of this episode. A breakdown of future episode with timestamps will be provided.

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