Welcome to Season 4 of Being Known Podcast where we are looking at trauma through the lens of hope and not fear. This week we talk on how we can begin to heal from trauma with a look at the wholeness of integration.

We were made to create beauty and goodness in the world. But evil has other plans, and wields trauma as a way to devour us before that goodness and beauty can be realized.

But - God had other plans beyond those of evil – plans that evil never saw coming, and still doesn’t. For indeed, God’s intention is not to ignore trauma, but wade right into it and right up to it, allowing himself to be subjected to its worst possible form. And so, despite the traumatic execution by crucifixion of a prisoner from a backwater village of a now non-existent ancient empire on a non-descript Friday – we call that Friday Good because God has come not merely to be with us in our trauma, but to transform them, bringing us to wholeness, to beauty and goodness, in ways we could never imagine.

Join us as we, together, imagine Jesus coming to find us in the bomb craters that make up the story of our lives – and as we then tell a new story of beauty and goodness that will transform our minds, and change our brains along the way.

Links, References and Resources

Boundaries for Your Soul by Alison Cook, PhD. and Kimberly Miller
Try Softer by Aundi Kolber
Brainspotting by David Grand
Generations Deep by Gina Birkemeier
My Grandmother’s Hands by ResmaaMenakem
Reparations by Gregory Thompson and Duke Kwon

Scripture References

Mark 5:25-24
Mark 3:20-34
Luke 24:13-35

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