Find your way to hope

Unlike simple stress, trauma changes your view of your life and yourself. It shatters your most basic assumptions about yourself and your world — “Life is good,” “I’m safe,” “People are kind,” “I can trust others,” “The future is likely to be good” — and replaces them with feelings like “The world is dangerous,” “I can’t win,” “I can’t trust other people,” or “There’s no hope.”― Mark Goulston MD

Although it may feel as if there is no hope, there is a hope that does not disappoint, and can help bring healing from such trauma. Through this basic webpage, it is my urgent desire to offer some additional guidance without taking away from any clinical considerations.

PTSD is mostly viewed as a mental health problem, but rarely is it looked at as a soul problem, or a wound of the soul from trauma. I will be writing and responding to these such considerations through these next several weeks and beyond. Please feel free to disagree with me (respectfully) and to email or reach out. I welcome the interaction and look forward to sharing some quotes, Scripture, other resources and offer guidance into the sacred place to help as we all journey together.

I have been diagnosed with PTSD, and believe in healing. I am learning to rejoice in my sufferings in order to help others who struggle. Perhaps you also struggle, and it is only “by accident” you stumbled into this page? I don’t think it is accidental, I believe there is a purpose you came here, maybe we can learn and grow together? Maybe you also feel deep down how there is a spiritual component to your trauma exposure, and you have tried clinical approaches but still don’t know how to move forward in this journey? I am not sure of your story, but seek to unpack mine on some level over this site, and I am prayerfully inviting you to join with me as we look into the wounds of trauma, and consider the silent wound within.

Will you join?