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043 Original Trauma, IFS, and Christian Mysticism (with Jonathan Puddle)

Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation

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The Journey to Being Trauma Aware

I grew up in a charismatic tradition. So my holding pattern sort of as a young man was that God is real, that through the Holy Spirit, you can encounter Christ and experience the miracles. Then things got a little weirder though, because church wise, there's this kind of dichotomous thing where it's like, you can listen to God, you can hear God, but God will only ever say this. And so she began to walk me through some of the things that happened in the brain and body in response to trauma. I had already actually been reading Dan Seagull's work. It wasn't the trauma piece came to me until pretty recently in the scheme of

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