Trauma-informed Engagement with Scripture, Part 4 embodiedreading shame trauma-informed Sep 27, 2022

“Look around you. Everyone you see shares a deep and terrible secret that no one ever talks about.”[1] This is how Gerald Loren Fishkin begins his book The Science of Shame. If trauma is essentially a loss of connection, perhaps shame is a force that not only causes but also maintains broken connections—with ourselves, with...

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Trauma-informed Engagement with Scripture, Part 3 compassionbeforeunderstanding curiosityandconnection embodiedreading memories trauma-informed Sep 20, 2022

We only remember so many of the millions of moments that make up our lives. Certain memories stick like Velcro, and all it takes is a particular angle of wind, a certain tone of voice, or a specific combination of smells, and we’re reliving that moment.

Dr. Ashish Ranpura says we remember “because the connections between our...

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An Interlude for Joy joy practicejoy trauma-informed Aug 16, 2022

Reflecting on how biblical literature is trauma-infused, and building our capacity to hold space for the variety of trauma wounding likely present in a room full of people gathering around scripture—these can be rather intense endeavors.

Today I invite you to an interlude for joy; a pause between installments in the “Trauma-informed...

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Trauma-informed Engagement with Scripture, Part 2 attachmentandauthenticity curiosityandconnection emotionsasbondingagents processingtrauma trauma-informed Aug 10, 2022

“Trauma is something that touches every human being in one way or another.” This is the statement with which I started my first post in this series, and I want to unpack that statement a bit.

First, let me say a word about what I don’t mean when I say trauma touches every human being in some way. I do not mean to say that...

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Trauma-informed Engagement with Scripture, Part 1 embodied reading human psychological multiplicity integration story work trauma-informed whole-person engagement with scripture Jul 19, 2022

Trauma is something that touches every human being in one way or another. It can be thought of as an overwhelm of the system in which one’s resourcing is not adequate to one’s need and a part of us or our story becomes dis-integrated. Gabor Maté, in the film The Wisdom of Trauma, describes trauma not as what happens to you,...

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