Holy/Hurt Podcast Ep 6: Seeing & Believing
Aug 16, 2023
This podcast explores healing from complex trauma, emphasizing the importance of witnessing our own wounds and the role of parts work. It delves into the power of connection, unlearning bad theology, and embracing ambiguity in the healing journey. The speaker also shares their personal experience of losing faith and highlights the significance of witnessing and being witnessed in moments of pain. The chapter ends by discussing the stages of healing from spiritual trauma and the transformative power of pain for growth and reconnection.
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Healing Through Gentle Pain
- Hillary McBride shares a powerful story of her physiotherapist helping her heal a shoulder injury by gently moving it despite pain.
- This taught her that healing involves discomfort and trust, but it's part of restoration, not further harm.
Healing Means Being With Pain
- Healing trauma means being with the pain, not banishing or avoiding it.
- True healing reconnects us to rejected parts of ourselves with love and patience.
Begin Healing With Awareness
- Start healing by acknowledging what you lack in love or safety with awareness and curiosity.
- Then seek places and people who make you feel safe and rebuild beliefs based on new experiences.