Today’s episode is just so special and so deeply personal. If you’ve experienced trauma, please listen. If you love someone, please listen. Trauma touches so many lives, and it’s so often misunderstood. In today’s episode, Monique Koven, host of The Healing Trauma podcast, shares her powerful story of healing from trauma. There is absolute gold in this episode for everyone.

Here’s what we cover:

1. The anxiety response she couldn't "logic" herself out of (8:50)

2. How misdiagnosis caused further harm (10:39)

3. The role of anger in her healing (21:21)

4. Exactly how she began to heal the anxiety response she experienced (32:03)

5. Separating God out from hurtful church messages (24:15)

6. How Ann Voskamp’s work showed her an example of glimmers (34:36)

7. Monique’s profound word for you if you’ve experienced trauma (38:13)

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Related Episodes:

Episode 79: Surviving Trauma & A Path to Forgiveness—Finding God In the Hardest Parts of Your Story With Esau McCaulley

Episode 15: C-PTSD—The Pain of A Million Paper Cuts

Episode 4: What Do I Need To Know About Trauma?

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