Trauma Survivors Unite: Christian Emotional Recovery

Episode Description

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?  

Sources

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. 

***Here is a breakdown of what goes into the podcast (expenses spreadsheet). ***

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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:
https://www.mountaincitychristiancounseling.com/Courses 

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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.  

Time Stamps
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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