Trauma Survivors Unite: Christian Emotional Recovery

Episode Description

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
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Episode Description

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

Episode Resources:
A.C.O.R.N Meditations for Dealing With Difficult Emotions is mentioned as a resource in the episode for helping you work through CEN.
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Description:
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
41:49 Ways to Overcome CEN and Abandonment Trauma

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Episode Description:

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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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. 

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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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