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Glass in Finger Metaphor
- Dr. Hillary McBride shares her personal story of having a shard of glass stuck in her fingertip for nine months.
- The physical pain and adaptations illustrate the complexity and subtlety of ongoing trauma.
Trauma as a Lodged Injury
- Spiritual trauma often feels like something lodged inside us that causes ongoing pain.
- Our whole brain-body system signals when something harmful needs to come out, even if we forget how it got there.
Korean Church Spiritual Trauma
- Mihee Kim Kort discusses spiritual trauma in Korean immigrant churches, describing subtle control and rigid gender roles.
- She highlights internalized oppression and how trauma sometimes feels like normal community culture.