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In this episode, we dive into the deep ways childhood experiences shape how we connect, trust, and relate to others—and how those wounds can follow us into adulthood. If you’ve ever felt the sting of emotional neglect, the confusion of inconsistent love, or the fear of vulnerability, this episode is for you. Together, we explore what attachment wounds are, how they show up in relationships and faith, and, most importantly, how God can be the ultimate secure attachment figure. I’ll guide you through practical steps to experience God’s unwavering love, let Him reparent the parts of you that were hurt, and start building healthier, more secure connections with others. By the end, you’ll have reflection tools, prayer practices, and a fresh perspective on trust, healing, and belonging in Christ.

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 1:17 Intro to Topic 
 7:39 What Are Attachment Wounds?
 17:40 God As the Ultimate Secure Attachment Figure
 22:53 How to Develop a Secure Attachment With God
 35:40 Healing Attachment Wounds in Human Relationships
 41:44 Practical Exercises to Build a Secure Connection With God

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In this week’s episode, we’re talking about what resilience really is—especially for those of you who feel like healing is slow, messy, or impossible. If you’ve ever wondered why you still feel stuck, or doubted whether you’re making progress, this conversation is for you. Resilience isn’t about pushing through or being endlessly strong—it’s about slowly coming back to safety, connection, and self after pain. We’ll explore how real resilience works in the body, mind, and spirit, why it doesn’t always look impressive on the outside, and how both grace and grit are part of your healing—and why you’re likely already more resilient than you think.

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Breaking generational trauma means learning to recognize unhealthy patterns—and choosing not to pass them on. In this episode, we explore how generational trauma affects your life, relationships, and faith, and how to start healing it with God’s help. We’ll talk about inherited emotional and spiritual patterns, how trauma lives in the body, and how people in Scripture broke the cycle in their own families. You’ll leave with practical tools, biblical encouragement, and a reminder that healing is possible—starting with you.

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 6:01 What Is Generational Trauma?
 18:49 Impacts of Generational Trauma
 31:16 Cultural Impacts of Generational Trauma
 36:33 Breaking Generational Trauma
 47:36 Practices to Heal Generational Trauma

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If you’re feeling tired from trying to hold everything together perfectly — you’re not alone. In today’s episode, we’re having a real, honest conversation about what it looks like to choose progress over perfection. We’ll be looking at it through three lenses: first, how perfectionism shows up for just about everyone when we tie our worth to our performance; second, how it runs even deeper for trauma survivors, where perfection sometimes became a way to stay safe or avoid harm; and third, how even in our Christian walk, perfectionism can quietly slip in and make us feel like we have to earn God’s love — when the truth is, His love has never depended on our performance. Each of these journeys is different, but if you see yourself in any of them, know this: you are already loved, already enough, and you are not alone in this fight. Today, we’re giving ourselves permission to grow at our own pace, trust God's grace, and celebrate every small, brave step we take.

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1:17 Intro 
3:27 General Perfectionism and Guarding Against Perfectionism
21:55 Perfectionism as Christians and Pitfalls to Avoid
39:55 Perfectionism as Trauma Survivors and Pitfalls to Avoid
62:00 Practices to Overcome Perfectionism

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1:17 Intro and Update on Channel
4:05 Intro to Topic and Two Types of Harmful Statements
9:03 Harmful Statements Abusers Say & Trauma-Informed Alternatives
19:40 Well-Intended but Harmful Statements & Trauma-Informed Alternatives
31:23 Closing

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I share an update on the future direction of the podcast and my life. New episodes are coming, but they have been delayed and I will need to cut back on the podcast to focus on other areas of life. God bless you and thank you for listening. 

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In this episode, we explore why the holiday season can be uniquely challenging for many, particularly those coping with grief, strained family dynamics, loneliness, trauma, financial stress, or mental health struggles. For many, the holidays are a time of joy, family, and the celebration of the birth of our savior. For others, the holidays can be more complicated. We discuss practical strategies to protect your emotional well-being, such as setting boundaries, managing expectations, creating space for rest and joy, and finding meaningful ways to connect with others. We also discuss how you can help others who may be going through similar challenges. Remember it's okay if you're feeling a lot of emotions during the holidays. Take time to feel these, while also finding ways to feel peace, joy, and comfort where you're at, even if the holidays can be difficult. By addressing these challenges with compassion and by being intentional, you can navigate the season more peacefully and create a sense of hope, safety, and healing for yourself and others, even amidst the challenges of the holidays.

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1:17 Intro and Why We Are More Vulnerable During the Holidays 
16:41 What You Can Do To Protect Yourself, Heal Yourself, and Make The Holidays Better for Yourself and Others

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It can be easy to get caught up in what happened to us, in difficulties, and in the healing work so much, that forget why we're doing this healing work, to experience more joy! The following saying resonated with me and inspired this podcast: "You're not healing to be able to handle trauma. You're used to trauma. You're healing to be able to handle joy." Joy is one of the fruits of the spirit and a fruit of our healing labors. God wants us to not only experience joy, but to embody it. We cover why joy is so important in trauma recovery, how to avoid toxic positivity and bypassing when cultivating joy, and how to cultivate more joy in your life with the realities and unique challenges of being a trauma survivor in mind. As a survivor, it can be more challenging to experience joy, but like the rest of healing work, it is a skill that can be learned. You CAN live a joyful life, in spite of all that has happened to you.

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1:17 Intro 
4:40 Why Joy Is So Important in Trauma Recovery and Why Toxic Bypassing Doesn't Work
11:52 Different Kinds of Joy
18:30 Why Trauma Survivors Struggle More to Experience Joy and Starting Where You're At
31:44 How to Embody Joy After Trauma

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Many of us heard growing up that self-care was "selfish" or "ungodly." However, no one can give from an empty well, and even Jesus escaped the crowds for rest, solitude, and time with God. We all need forms of self-care to heal and restore our bodies, minds, and souls. Healing from trauma requires a holistic approach to self-care, addressing all aspects of our well-being. There are six categories of self-care: physical, emotional, mental, social, spiritual, and practical. Each of these can be approached from a Christian perspective, especially for trauma survivors, to promote healing and growth. For survivors, it’s crucial to approach these categories of self-care with patience and self-compassion. Healing is a gradual process, and integrating these practices into daily life can help rebuild a sense of safety, control, and well-being. Additionally, anchoring these practices in faith can provide a deep sense of purpose and connection throughout the healing journey.

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1:17 Intro to New Episode
3:04 Why Self-Care Is Important
6:30 The Six Types of Self-Care
18:52 Six Types of Self-Care From a Christian Perspective and for Trauma Recovery

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While it's easy to go down a rabbit hole on the concept of narcissism, it's good to be empowered and educated and protect yourself from narcissistic behaviors in certain others. Please keep in mind that having a certain level of narcissistic traits can be healthy in a balance. However, narcissism exists on a spectrum with some people having higher narcissistic traits, and even some who have full blown NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder, which is in the DSM). We will go over the common categories of narcissists both in clinical and common spaces. We'll discuss how to spot each one, what their behaviors are, how they interact with others, and how you can protect yourself from these different types. 

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Mirror Neurons are one of the main parts of our brain that helps us with learning, cognition, empathy, and relationships. Mirror neurons are what help us respond to and learn from our caretakers as children and learn behavior through imitation, and they are involved in the development of our inner child. Understanding how mirror neurons impact these functions, as well as our childhood development and interactions with others, can help us understand what went wrong if we experienced traumatic events or abuse. Understanding what went wrong, we can also learn strategies to use our mirror neurons to heal our trauma through the body, brain, and neural network at its source. This episode explains these processes and gives you strategies for healing mirror neurons as well as an exercise to heal your inner child. 

Breakdown of Episode
1:17 Intro to New Episode
3:26 What Are Mirror Neurons and How Do They Work?
14:16 What Is the Connection Between Mirror Neurons and Childhood Trauma?
26:18 Using Mirror Neurons to Heal the Inner Child and Childhood Trauma
35:19 Mirror Neuron Healing Exercise for the Inner Child

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If you were raised in a family where people were narcissists or had high narcissistic traits, understanding the roles and relationship dynamics in a narcissistic family can help you understand your trauma and protect yourself now. When we say narcissistic family, this doesn't mean everyone is in the family has high narcissistic traits, but it means that one or more people does, either children, parents, or both, and this deeply  impacts all family members. 

We discuss the roles children play in this family dynamic. Then we discuss narcissistic family dynamics in general and the unwritten rules and behaviors in this family structure. Lastly, we cover when a sibling has these traits and how this can impact others in the family and when a parent has narcissistic traits and how this impacts the family. While it isn't healthy to obsess over the narcissist, understanding these family dynamics, you can learn more about why you are the way you are, know it isn't your fault, love all people in your family in the best way possible, and start the healing process to set healthy boundaries and protect yourself. You can live the life God intended, because you are empowered and educated on this family dynamic. 

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• Abuse is never your fault AND you can take ownership of your healing journey.
• You are enough AND feeling like it is your fault is normal when you've experienced abuse.
• You can acknowledge what happened to you AND not live in blame or victim mentalities.

Breakdown of Episode
1:17 Intro to Episode
6:17 Do You Know It Wasn't Your Fault on a Body Level?
11:42 Abuse is NEVER Your Fault
14:56 What Is the Difference Between Blame and Validating Your Experience?

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An HSP, or Highly Sensitive Person, is a person who has been proven by science to respond to the world differently. You may be more sensitive to light, sound, stimuli, people, and the emotions of others. Being an HSP comes with a unique set of gifts and challenges. While you are more attuned to the beauty around you, you may also be more aware of the dangers. In this talk, we cover how HSP's are wired, the science behind HSPs, how you can protect yourself as an HSP, and how you can care for yourself as a Christian HSP so you can share your gifts, love and help others, protect yourself, and do the healing work, at the same time. We cover twenty-one strategies to protect yourself through boundary setting, self-care practices, and protecting yourself as a Christian HSP in particular. God made you how you are because He wanted you exactly as you are, and you have a right to protect yourself as an HSP so you can live a happy and productive life. 

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Why The Pursuit of Peace and Acceptance Is Everything discusses the nature pursuing of peace and acceptance, what it looks like through a beloved character, Winnie the Pooh, and how we can practice this simplicity and acceptance on our healing journey like Pooh, to help overcome trauma with more flow, ease, and simplicity. Overcoming trauma isn't easy, and sometimes life can be difficult, but we don't have to struggle against it. This adds to suffering, whereas acceptance and nonresistance bring peace. Then we discuss the wisdom of Ecclesiastes and how pursuing peace, acceptance, and simplicity are biblical concepts that can help us overcome trauma, struggle, and complicating situations. By pursuing peace, simplicity, and acceptance, we give ourselves a better foundation for effective trauma healing, and we live a more enjoyable life free of struggle and striving as God intended. 

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1:17 Intro to Episode
2:47 Intro to Topic
8:47 Why The Pursuit of Peace and Acceptance Is Everything
27:06 The Wisdom of Ecclesiastes on Acceptance and Letting Go
45:35 How the Pursuit of Peace and Acceptance Help the Trauma Survivor 

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Breakdown of Episode
1:17 Intro 
4:29 How Trauma Gets Trapped in the Body 
16:09 Practices to Release Trauma From the Body
30:44 Therapies to Release Trauma From the Body
40:20 How Biofeedback Can Heal Trauma in the Body

Sources
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How to Release Trauma From the Body by Amber Foster, LCSW-S, medically reviewed by Heidi Moawad, MD in Choosing Therapy

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Breakdown of Episode
1:17 Intro
4:28 Intro to Coming out of the F.O.G.
9:16 What is F.O.G.
21:31 What F.O.G. and Emotional Manipulation Look Like
36:03 How Christians, Empaths, and Codependents Can Be  Vulnerable 
42:48 Ways to Respond to F.O.G. and Emotional Blackmail 

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This week, this episode reminds you of your worth, both in Christ and your intrinsic worth. Your value comes from both the fact that you are in Christ and that you are you. Sometimes we need to be reminded that we are worthy, that we have unconditional value at our core, and that nothing that has happened to us or that we feel changes that. We may have been programmed with trauma, but our worth and core identity is still the same. Just as God and His love for us don't change, neither does our worthiness. We matter, we are loved, and God loves us, and sometimes we just need to remember this. 

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Episodes Mentioned in the Podcast
Erikson's Stages of Development and Adverse Childhood Experiences
Why We Need to Take a More integrated Approach in our Theology

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In Subtle Types and Forms of Abuse and What to Do About Them, we discuss the hidden nature of certain types and forms of abuse and why these forms of abuse often go unnoticed, why the survivor doesn't always believe it is abuse, and how certain people use these forms sow doubt and confusion in the survivor as a form of control and manipulation. The unique nature of this kind of abuse is often unnoticed or not believed by outsiders. However, by learning to identify and understand these forms of abuse, we are able to understand what is happening to us if we are in a situation with hidden and subtle abuse, while distinguishing between abuse and normal human flaws in a relationship that we all have. When we can identify these forms of abuse and call them by their name, we can validate our experiences, know our experiences are real, seek help and resources that can help us untangle this confusion, and get our lives back  so we can find clarity and safety in our lives, living the life God intended us to live. 

Breakdown of Episode
1:17 Intro 
6:00 Intro to Subtle Forms and Types of Abuse
10:25 What Are Some of the Subtle Signs of Abuse? 
27:06 Why Are Subtle Forms of Abuse Easy to Miss?
50:07 Subtle Abuse in Churches Religious Communities 
52:55 How to Detect and Heal Subtle Forms of Abuse 

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In Trauma Reenactments, we discuss what trauma reenactments are, why they happen, and practices to help us identify, stop, and prevent them from happening again. Trauma reenactments are patterns we repeat again and again similar to traumas in the past. They can be pervasive and difficult to notice, because we may believe they are "just the way things are." But they're not. While these patterns are not our fault, if we are able to identify these reenactments, be honest about what they are and where they come from, and create more space between a trigger and a reaction, we are able to gain power over the moment when a trauma reenactment starts to occur, or to stop one that is already occurring. By changing our reaction, we create a new habit, which allows us to heal our trauma reenactments and create space for positive and healthy habits, responses, and relationships in our lives. 

Breakdown of Episode
1:17 Intro 
4:21 Intro to Trauma Reenactments
6:49 What Are Trauma Reenactments and Why Do They Occur?
11:14 Why Do Trauma Reenactments Occur?
20:56 Reenactments in Close Relationships
25:52 What Are Ways to Heal, Prevent, and Overcome Reenactments? 
40:53 Practices to Help You Heal Trauma Reenactments

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Shame is probably the most powerful and deeply rooted core wound we can have, and it's often a result of abuse, neglect, and trauma. In The Power of Shame and What to Do About It, we discuss what shame is, its origins, and the insidious nature of shame, including how it comes from the enemy. This episode discusses the deep power of shame, what it does to us, and how pervasive it can be on an unconscious level, including the difference between guilt and shame. Guilt states "I made a mistake," and shame states, "I am bad" or "there's something wrong with me." We discuss how it's important to distinguish these two and become aware of our shame. This episode then shows how love, validation, and bringing shame into the light can help us heal it, knowing we're not alone. We discuss specific practices and strategies to heal shame, as well as the powerful results of healing shame, like a weight has been lifted from our shoulders. Through healing shame, we can feel better and live the life God meant for us to live. 

Breakdown of Episode
1:17 Intro to New Episode 
4:48 Nature, Definition, and Origins of Shame
15:41 Symptoms. Power, and Impact of Shame
23:13 The Deep Power of Shame and What it Does
27:00 How We Can Heal Our Shame
37:56 Specific Practices to Heal Shame
42:59 Power and Results of Healing Our Shame

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Dealing with Uncertainty is something we all deal with. For those of us on the healing path, dealing with difficult emotions, and trying to work through trauma, uncertainty can be even more challenging bring up a lot of anxiety in the body at times. This episode discusses what to do during times of uncertainty from a trauma informed approach, how meditating scripture can be a healing balm during these times, and how practicing a strategy called "groundlessness" can help us deal with uncertainty. By accepting the nature of life and uncertainty with acceptance, surrender, and groundlessness, we can start to find, that ironically, we have God as our anchor and can create more stability at all times.

Breakdown of Episode
1:17 Intro to New Episode 
4:47 Intro to Dealing with Uncertainty
8:45 What to Do During Times of Uncertainty  
15:04 Scriptures for Dealing with Uncertainty
23:05 What is Groundlessness and How Can it Help Me?  

Sources

1. Psalm 91 for protection, God's presence, and God's comfort
2. Season 1 Episode 20 of Christian Emotional Recovery, Acceptance, was referenced in the podcast and may be a good resource to supplement the concept of groundlessness.

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Welcome to a new season. Staying on the Healing Path starts the new season by sharing with you tips to help you stay on the healing journey. We often think of the healing journey as linear, but it tends to have ebbs, flows, and cycles, even though we move forward overall if we stay on the path. This episode discusses the nature of the healing journey, how the natural progression of healing is three steps forward and two steps back, and how we can approach the healing path with the right mindset. Then the podcast discusses how to deal with inevitable interruptions of our healing practice by discussing how we should approach setbacks, slacking, and obstacles on the journey and our daily practice, as they are a natural part of the path. Lastly, we discuss how to customize your daily practice to your unique nature, needs, situation, and changing experience to help you take the journey with a healthy, constructive, and realistic approach to taking a step toward the healing God can give you every day. We just need to show up.

 Breakdown of Episode
1:17 Intro to New Episode and Season
4:54 The Nature of the Healing Journey
7:01 Natural Challenges, Ebbs, and Shifts on the Healing Path  
12:00 Dealing with Interruptions on the Healing Journey
16:42 What Is the Best Daily Practice for You?
25:18 Future Episodes of the Podcast 

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• What's happening in 2024 on the platform?

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Don't Make Trauma Your Whole Identity, discusses how trauma survivors have their entire brains rewired when they experience trauma. As a result, when we become aware of what has happened to us and start our healing journey, it can be challenging not to make trauma our entire identity. It's easy to get into a loop of overidentifying with trauma and what has happened to us, to the point we can get stuck. This isn't our fault, but we can do something about it. By separating our core identity with what happened to us, and by rewriting our identity, we can start to move past the trauma and not get stuck in this loop. No doubt, trauma impacts our identity, how we think, and how we live day to day, including how our "default mode network," or the part of our brain involved in identity, operates. However, how we relate to trauma, think about it, and work toward recovery can help us build a strong identity outside of our trauma. Additionally, knowing who we are in Christ and what God says about our identity helps us build a strong core self, so we can build a healthy identity separate and free from our trauma. 

Breakdown of Episode
1:17 Info About Podcast
5:16 How Trauma Can Become Our Entire Identity
13:54 What is Identity? 
16:37 Rewriting Your Identity
28:14 What Is the Default Mode Network? 
33:47 How Does Trauma Impact Identity?
41:40 How We Think About Trauma to Move on From It
46:46 What Does God Say About Healing our Identity? 

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What's the Connection Between Love Languages and Healing Trauma? discusses how we can harness the Five Love Languages, based on Gary Chapman's 1992 book of the same name, to cultivate a sense of safety, connection, and practice to help us heal trauma. This episode explains what the five love languages are, how they operate, and how people's love languages are often formed by unmet needs from childhood. We then discuss how our love languages can be our deepest vulnerability, but they can also be an entry point into our deepest sense of connection and safety, two essential parts of trauma healing. Lastly, the episode discusses how using the right healing practices based on your unique language will help you heal most effectively, how we can heal and find safety through our love language, and how we can help those we love find the same through their love language. 

 
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1:17 Info About Podcast
5:46 Intro to Topic and What Are the Five Love Languages? 
21:10 What Determines Your Love Language?
29:12 How Your Love Language Is Your Deepest Insecurity
33:31 A Trauma Informed Approach to Love Languages: What Has Safety Got to Do With It?
54:48 How Can You Be Responsive to Others and Get What You Need Through the Love Languages?

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Fully-certified since 2012 as a crisis pastoral counselor (MAR, Pastoral Counseling), Megan has been successfully companioning clients all over the country while facilitating their self-growth. She offers crisis & spiritual process groups and individual Christian therapy, specializing in abuse, trauma, and dissociative disorders, utilizing therapeutic models such as Development Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR).
Additionally, she is certified in bereavement therapy, crisis response with the AACC, trauma therapies and suicidology with CAMS. She is also a Chaplain, certified with the ACPE. Megan has written curriculum for a domestic violence non-profit advocacy program, spiritual processing groups & identity based therapeutic course. She has also been featured on many podcasts & conferences, such as Courage 365 with Ashley Easter, etc.
Megan resides in Denver, CO, with her four adored and adoring children. She loves her job and will walk through the fire to help a client find healing. You can find her drinking hot coffee and breathing in the fresh mountain air, every chance she gets!
We just began a new course for CPTSD and abuse survivors called SOURCE. This course is designed to bring you home to yourself. Please go here to get more info:
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1:17 Intro to Topic
4:23 What Is Learned Helplessness? 
22:36 Causes, Symptom, and  Effects of Learned Helplessness
25:32 The Solution: Learned Optimism 

Sources:
What Is Learned Helplessness? Medical News Today by Jayne Leonard
Learned Helplessness and CPTSD Psych Central by Jared C. Pistoia
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin Seligman
Season 1: Episode 8: Flip the Script of Your Life: Personal Narratives and Learned Optimism is episode recommended from this talk.

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Rethinking Our Thoughts Part I: What Are Cognitive Distortions and How Can I Overcome Them? discusses how hope is not just something we have in Christ, but is also something we can cultivate on the healing journey, even if we're feeling hopeless. We learn hope by practicing it daily. Investing in our healing and taking daily steps toward progress today can give us hope for the future. Think about a time you made good choices or cultivated healthy daily habits in the past that you are benefitting from now. Now connect this experience to a current difficulty. If you make good choices now, you are giving yourself something to look forward to and hope to your future self. However, the process cannot be forced. It's accepting our difficult emotions with compassion--and not forcing healing--that moves us forward in hope. But the path doesn't always appear on its own. Cultivating a daily practice, meditating on hope in Christ, and trying something constructive will move us forward. When we take a leap of faith, then the path appears.

Breakdown of Episode
1:17 Intro to Topic
5:30 What Are Cognitive Distortions? 
18:16 What Causes Cognitive Distortions and Examples of Them
22:36 Why Working on Cognitive Distortions is Scriptural
26:28 The Ten Cognitive Distortions
1:00:00 Healing Cognitive Distortions

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Breakdown of Episode
1:17 Intro to Topic
3:45 The Nature of Hope on the Healing Journey 
6:00 Investing in Healing Now helps Our Future Self
13:42 Acceptance Helps You Move Forward With Hope
19:59 Scriptures on Hope for Healing Trauma
25:38 A Step of Faith Toward Healing Makes the Path Appear

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 This unofficial episode includes updates to the platform and podcast. Check out this episode to learn the following:
  

• What's new with the podcast
• Upcoming episodes to the podcast
• Why I'm taking a *temporary* break from the podcast
• How you can help the podcast to grow and help more people
• Upcoming interviews for future podcast episodes
• What you can expect in the next few weeks and months
• New and exciting events occurring on the platform.

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Integrating Our Faith and Practice on the Healing Journey discusses the relationship between daily practices to heal trauma and our relationship with God. While these may not be completely separated, carving out a space for each separately, as much as we're able, is important. The episode also discusses how to use discernment in the healing practices you use and  to follow what God is telling you to do and give other people the grace and space to do the same. Everyone's healing journey and relationship with God is unique. Through discernment, in the practices we choose to do, we have agency under God's authority. While we are called to be part of the flock and respect the church, remember it's okay to explore different churches, practices, and congregations, with your relationship with Christ and healing journey in mind. You have agency, autonomy, and choice on this healing journey. You are safe and loved, and God will guide you on the journey.

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1:17 Intro to Topic
5:48 How to Integrate Our Faith and Practice on the Healing Journey

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1:18 Intro to Topic
5:47 The Nature of CEN and How It Leads to Abandonment Trauma
11:45 The Impact of Emotional Childhood Neglect on the Brain
15:47 Three Emotional Needs of Children
18:39 The Tricky and Evasive Nature of CEN
35:57 The Connection Between CEN and Abandonment Trauma
41:49 Ways to Overcome CEN and Abandonment Trauma

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Why You Need to Be Gentle With Yourself on This Journey is a talk God put on my heart after encountering so many trauma survivors who struggle with their faith because of harsh treatment from people within the Christian community regarding their struggles. Many people have not only not received compassion, love, and understanding, but they've been blamed for their trauma. We're often taught not to have compassion for ourselves, and not following the fruits of the spirit of gentleness, meekness, lowliness, and kindness to others is rampant even in the Christian community. There is oftentimes even narcissism and abuse within the church. This talk calls for us to be kinder and gentler with ourselves on the healing journey, as we are called to be with others, to give ourselves a little credit for our progress, and to learn to take a gentle approach when navigating the healing journey.  

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0:00 Intro
4:13 Intro to Episode and Why Gentleness is So Important When Healing
7:11 What Happens When There's No Gentleness in Religious Communities 
15:48 Why It's Important to Be Gentle With Ourselves 

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Inner Child Healing: 35 Practical Tools for Growing Beyond Your Past by Jeremy Sutton in Positive Psychology is one of the articles consulted.
What Is Inner Child Work: A Guide to Healing Your Inner Child by Tiffany Trieu in Mind Body Green 
Why Is Everyone Working on Their Inner Child? in Time by Angela Haupt
10 Exercises to heal Your Inner Child in Psych Central by Traci Pederson 
Reparenting to Heal the Wounded Inner Child and Healing Trauma Through Inner Child Work by Shirley Davis from the CPTSD Foundation
Encouraging Bible Versus About God Our Father is a list of scriptures in Jolly Notes  

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In The Four Trauma Responses and How to Heal Them we discuss the four major ways our bodies respond to trauma. Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn are the main ways people who've experienced trauma respond to extreme stress and traumatic situations. Everyone has these responses to some degree, and they are healthy in certain situations. Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn serve a purpose in protecting us in stressful or dangerous situations, but if we have sustained experiences in these states, we can stay stuck in these states, because the nervous system gets overstimulated by stress and trauma. By understanding the four responses to trauma and which ones you might be more prone tone, you can begin to identify how you respond to trauma and take action to become aware of, work on, and overcome your responses from the ground up. The key here is partly changing behavior, and the other key is to find out what your response is, where it comes from, and heal it at the root. 

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This episode is a repurposed YouTube video on the YouTube Christian Emotional Recovery Channel. Check out and subscribe to the channel (link below) which has mostly original material different from the podcast. 
 
DARVO, or Deny Attack Reverse Victim and Offender, is an acronym for how toxic people will often manipulate others if they are confronted about an issue or wrongdoing. If you've ever been in this situation, you may confront an abuser, manipulator, or narcissist about their behavior, and somehow by the end of the conversation, you're the one apologizing to them. This tactic is tricky and deceitful. By learning about DARVO and  how it works, you can empower and protect yourself if someone uses this gaslighting technique on you. This talk discusses who is most likely to use DARVO and why, who it targeted and why, how to recognize DARVO, circumstances when DARVO is most used, and impacts of DARVO on the victim and on groups. Then we discuss how to identify, respond to, and protect yourself from this tactic so you can take your power back and live the life God intended for you. 

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Real. Relevant. Relationship. The Role God Plays in our Recovery is a concept God put on my heart, and I didn't know what I would say until the podcast was recorded. The role God plays in our recovery is everything. Some will say if you aren't recovering from difficult emotions, trauma, depression, anxiety, or abuse, you don't have enough faith in God or you're not doing enough of something, but most of the time, this simply isn't true. It's both our relationship with God and the scientific modalities that target trauma at its source combined, that help us make progress in recovery. While this is true, our real, relevant relationship with God lights the way, and as we heal, the holes we punch in our trauma let the light and love of God in, so we can live the vivid and beautiful life God meant for us, in full living color. 

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 0:00 Intro: What's Happening on the Channel
5:32 Intro to Topic: How Faith and Science Play a Role in Trauma Recovery
10:39 Real
12:46  Relevant
18:23 Relationship
23:04 How Clearing Trauma Lets in God's Love 
29:56 Closing

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How Internal Family Systems Can Help You Heal Trauma describes a therapy called IFS for short, what IFS is, how it can help you heal trauma and difficult emotions, and how you can use this therapy for your own healing journey with a therapist or on your own. We learn about how IFS is broken down into parts and self, how these parts and self interact based on your past experiences, and how you can relate to these parts and self to help you heal emotionally. By learning how your mind works through this process, you have a way go inside the roots of your thoughts, emotions, and trauma and understand how they function. With this understanding, you can relate to yourself and parts with more compassion, deal with past experiences with more awareness, and build an identity that is strong, more integrated, and healthy, so you can live the life God made you to live. 

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These articles introduce you to the concept of IFS, how IFS was created, and how it work in a therapeutic setting.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapy-types/internal-family-systems-therapy
https://psychcentral.com/health/internal-family-systems-therapy
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-ifs-therapy-internal-family-systems-therapy-5195336

In this YouTube, Richard Schwartz explains in his own words how IFS works and describes parts and self.
https://ifs-institute.com/about-us/richard-c-schwartz-phd

These articles were used in the podcast to break down how IFS works in more detail--including the parts and self, the 8 C's, 5 P's, and 6 F'-- and how you can use these to manage different types of parts and distinguish self from parts.
https://foundationifs.org/images/banners/pdf/The_8_Cs_of_Self_Leadership_Wheel.pdf
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There is a direct link between addiction and trauma, and many addictions have traumatic and psychological roots. Trauma and codependency recovery programs have their roots in original twelve-step programs like AA. We'll discuss four twelve step programs--Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Codependents Anonymous (CoDA), Celebrate Recovery, and Al-Anon--and what each one does, who each helps, how each can help you, and how these programs can strengthen your faith in God. Then we'll discuss how addiction and trauma recovery have similarities when it comes to behavior, causes, and relapses, as well as strategies to stay on the path to recovery. Lastly, we'll discover how the steps in these programs can help you cut the roots of trauma and addiction in your life for good. 

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0:00 Intro to the Year
6:22 Introduction to the Topic and When to Get Help
10:47 Four Different Twelve-Step Programs 
36:13 What's the Connection Between Trauma and Addiction?: It's All About Recovery

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• Celebrate Recovery Page 
• Celebrate Recovery 12 Steps
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• Alcoholics Anonymous Page
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Welcome to Season 3! I'm excited for a new season of Christian Emotional Recovery. This episode, What Will It Be in 2023? includes updates on Season Three of Christian Emotional Recovery--the podcast, Facebook group, and Youtube channel: 
  

• When will the new season be out and what updates will the podcast include? 
• What's new with the YouTube channel?
• What topics are we covering this season?

These questions will be answered, plus I'll tell you what I've been up to, on this short, special episode of the podcast. Please see the link in shownotes for the Christian Emotional Survey. Please take five minutes to take the survey and help me better serve you in the coming season! Thanks. 

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3:00 What We'll Cover in This Episode and What I've Been Doing
9:10 What's New with the Podcast
20:08 What's New with the YouTube Channel

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In this episode, we discuss updates to the podcast and YouTube channel at the end of the year and in the new year. We also discussion strategies for cultivating peace, coping with stress, and dealing with difficult people and loneliness during the holidays. In this episode, we'll discuss the following:

• Surviving holiday get togethers with unhealthy family
• Coping with the sadness of having unhealthy family
• Coping with the loneliness of no contact
• Coping with the loneliness of missing family
• Coping with holiday stress brought by more responsibility
• Coping with the general challenges the holidays bring
• Keeping your peace during the holidays 

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This episode was adapted from a recent Youtube video. Check out and subscribe to the Youtube channel linked below for more talks like this one not found in the podcast. This talk discusses what healthy boundaries are and what they are not. In the first half, we discuss what a boundary is using Henry Cloud's metaphor of property lines and why setting healthy boundaries is not only okay, but healthy. Setting boundaries is not selfish. You must set healthy boundaries to be a functional human being and to build loving relationships. We also discuss ways setting boundaries helps us obey God and consider others' needs. In order to set good boundaries, you need to understand the value of your own agency, autonomy, and individuality. Through this episode, we discuss who we might set boundaries with, reasons we don't set boundaries, differences between people with healthy boundaries and those without good boundaries, and ten specific strategies to set healthy boundaries. This video will help you learn to take care of yourself and love who God made you to be.

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10 Ways to Build and Preserve Better Boundaries in Psych Central by Shannon Martin, LCSW is an article I reference in the video that discusses what boundaries are, why they are necessary, why we are afraid to set boundaries, strategies to set them, and specific scenarios that give examples of healthy boundary setting. 

Boundaries: When to Say YES and When to Say NO to Take Control of Your Life by Henry Cloud and Peter Townsend was mentioned as a recommended book to go more into detail with setting healthy boundaries in different situations and with different people.

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This episode repurposes two related Youtube videos that contain visuals. If you would like to view these, feel free to watch the two videos with visuals instead, linked here ("Applying Polyvagal Theory to Heal Trauma" AND "Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Trauma Recovery"), OR you can consult the visuals linked below at these time intervals in the episode as you listen to the podcast. 

18:30 Visual of Polyvagal Theory--Three States

29:18 Organizing Principals of Polyvagal Theory

55:09 Role of the Vagus Nerve and Benefits of Vagus Nerve and Mind-Body Practices

59:30 Ten Vagus Nerve Stimulation Exercises

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Polyvagal Theory helps you understand how your nervous system works, how trauma gets stuck in your body, why you can't just "think" you way out of trauma, and how you can find ways to heal trauma by targeting it in the body. Understanding this system will help you know why trauma gets stuck in the body, and you can become aware of these states and start practicing specific techniques to stay in a regulated state. This video includes visuals based on established research to clarify how polyvagal theory

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Somatic Practices for Healing Trauma Part II: Practices You Can Do With a Professional is Part II of a two-part series on somatic therapies for healing trauma. This series covers practices you can do on your own or with a professional. Somatic therapy is based on more recent research and generally more effective than talk therapy for healing trauma. It's basically another name for body work, or connecting with the body's sensations and resources to heal trauma stuck in the body so it can release through your neural network. This may include therapies with a specialist who does body work with you to release trauma or heal the effects of trauma. Part II discusses co-regulation with a therapist, body therapies you can do with a specialist, and breakthrough treatments in trauma recovery that are still in their experimental phases like micro dosing under a special doctor's care, and utilizing new devices for healing trauma.
 
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1:45 Introduction and Disclaimer 

5:02 The Store is Open!

5:54 Intro to the Therapies

11:37 Co-Regulation With a Therapist

21:19 Chiropractic (Atlas Orthogonal)

33:25 Cranial Somatic and Cranial Sacral Therapy

37:39 Massage

45:18 Acupuncture

48:24 Disclaimer on Chemical Substances and Ketamine

30:41 Micro-dosing Using Psychedelics

103:18 TMS--Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

107:45 VNS--Vagal Nerve Stimulation

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• Connection and Co-Regulation in Psychotherapy by Arielle Schwartz in Center for Resilience Informed Therapy is the resource used to discuss co-regulation with a therapist.
• Improvement in Depression Following Reduction of Upper Cervical Subluxation Using Osteospinology Technique by Glenndon Genther, Harris Friedman, and Charles Studley and

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Somatic Practices for Healing Trauma Part I: Practices You Can Do on Your Own is Part I of a two-part series on somatic therapies for healing trauma. Somatic therapy is based on more recent research and generally more effective than talk therapy for healing trauma. It's basically another name for body work (AKA Somatic Experiencing®), or connecting with the body's sensations and resources to heal trauma stuck in the body so it can release through your neural network. This two-part series covers practices you can do on your own or with a professional. Part I discusses how somatic therapy works, explains five somatic practices you can do to heal trauma, and includes resources that can help you dig further into these practices. Part II will cover practices you can do with a professional.

Breakdown of Episode
3:18 Introduction to the Series, Episode, and Topic
6:55 What Is Somatic Therapy?
12:14 How Can It Help Me Heal Trauma and Why Is It Effective?
18:08 Can I Do Somatic Practices on My Own?
21:53 Intro to Five Somatic Practices
23:29 Body Sensation Awareness Through Body Scan
30:41 Grounding and Centering
41:29 Resourcing and Visualization
45:58 Self-Regulation
54:29 Titration and Pendulation

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• 4 Somatic Therapy Exercises for Healing Trauma in Psych Central by Susan Aybar discusses what somatic therapy is, whether you should do it on your own, and four somatic practices you can use to heal trauma. 
• 10 Somatic Interventions Explained in Integrative Psychotherapy by Esther Goldstein describes ten somatic interventions in detail that you can use to help you heal trauma. 
• How Somatic Experiencing Can Help You Process Trauma in Healthline by Crystal Raypole explains how somatic therapy can help you heal trauma and physical symptoms of trauma, as well as what some important somatic practices are you can do.
• Somatic Experiencing Therapy: Ten Exercises and Examples by Daniela Rimerez-Duran PhD in

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Breakdown of Episode
3:18 Introduction to the Episode and Topic
5:07 Conflict and Cortisol Addictions
7:24 Chemical Addiction and Getting to Its Root Source
12:45 Sin, Guilt, Shame, Repentance, and Healing 
17:43 When an Unhealthy Person From Your Past Contacts You

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• Episode 12 Season 1 Christian Emotional Recovery Podcast Why We Need to Talk About the Shame of Mental Illness is a podcast episode I mentioned in this episode to help you understand and overcome shame. You can heal shame if you know the difference between healthy guilt and toxic condemnation/shame. 
• Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life by Henry Cloud and Peter Townsend is a book I've recommended in many episodes, and it can help you learn not to feel guilty for setting healthy boundaries, learn what healthy boundaries are, and learn to stick to your boundaries once you've established them. 

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A.C.O.R.N Meditation I've linked the playlist to all four versions here. I mentioned this meditation in 18:30 of the video as one way to begin to see the difference between your initial trauma and layering more trauma, and it will help you with the other nine strategies as well.
How Not to Get Retraumatized by Trauma Therapy in Gateway Counseling by John Hawkins, Jr., M.S., L.M.H.C., M.C.A.P.
Are You Retraumatizing Yourself? 16 Self-Defeating Behaviors Common in Childhood PTSD by the Crappy Childhood Fairy--This is a video.
PTSD Treatment and Why You Might Stay in It for So Long by Roland Bal
Complex PTSD Treatment and Can You Fully Recover by Roland Bal

While I didn'

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Childhood Emotional Neglect: A Hidden Epidemic illuminates the often hidden and confusing nature of childhood emotional neglect, also called CEN. If you feel like something is wrong with you, but can't put your finger on it, there is a possibility it could be childhood emotional neglect. Because of the hidden nature of childhood emotional neglect, many people go their entire lives unhealed of trauma that isn't their fault. 

This episode discusses what childhood emotional neglect is, how it impacts survivors, why we often don't believe we've experienced this ourselves, how we can overcome this disbelief if there is strong evidence we survived childhood emotional neglect, and how we can overcome and heal from this silent epidemic. 

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4:16 What is Childhood Emotional Neglect?
14:18 How Childhood Emotional Neglect Happens and Its Impacts
27:09 How CEN and Abandonment Trauma Are Connected
32:46 Why is Childhood Emotional Neglect Downplayed?
36:15 How to Deal with the Nature of CEN and Overcome It

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Likewise, many of us have been taught helplessness through example or because we've experienced so much abuse, neglect, pain, and disappointment that we no longer believe healing is possible because we feel we've tried everything. We begin to feel beaten down and hopeless. This is learned helplessness, and while it's not our fault, it CAN be overcome with a trauma informed approach. We CAN heal trauma when we balance grit, resilience, and learned optimism as skills that can be cultivated with self-compassion and body based resiliency techniques. With the right tools, healing is possible! 

Breakdown of Episode
1:15 Introduction to the Episode and Topic
3:58 Why a Balanced Approach to Healing Trauma is Important 
29:43 What's Grit and Resilience Got to Do With It? 
35:29 What Is Learned Helplessness?
45:12 The Spoon Theory
49:14 Ways to Build Resilience

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• Building Your Resilience by the APA references the definition of resilience. This article discusses how resilience is a skill that can be learned to heal trauma. 
• What is Learned Helplessness and Why Does it Happen by Kendra Cherry in Very Well Mind gives a definition and explanation of learned helplessness. Learned helplessness is a research based concept that is the opposite of resilience.
• Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin Seligman is a book I recommended in the podcast. It gives you a more detailed approach to overcoming learned helplessness and learn resilience. 
• The Spoon Theory by Christine Miserandino is a famous artic

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Erikson's Stages of Development and Adverse Childhood Experiences is also a Youtube Video. If you haven't please click the link below and subscribe for exclusive content different than the podcast. Adverse Childhood Experiences (or ACES) can impact our development as children. If we survived narcissistic abuse, childhood trauma, childhood emotional neglect, or any other form of abuse at a specific time in our development, we often get stuck there, and the trauma that impacts our lives will make our reactions to triggering situations similar to that of our reactions at that age. In other words, our social and emotional development becomes stuck and we repeat patterns from childhood.

By understanding Erikson's Stages of Development and how adverse childhood experiences that occurred during these specific stages impacted us, we can begin to take inventory of our own emotional and social development, where and when trauma may have kept us stuck, and start doing healing work around these age periods through journaling, meditation, and inner child work to help us release that trauma and develop emotionally and socially into the healthy adults God made us to be by healing trauma at its true source.

Resources:

Erik Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development by Kendra Cherry in Very Well Mind is an article that describes Erikson's Stages of Development and the significance of each. It describes what healthy development in each stage looks like as well as potential consequences of adverse experiences that can impact development in each stage from infancy to old age. 

The Top Five Regrets of the Dying is a book I mention in the video/podcast in the last of Erikson's Stages of Development as a great book for considering what matters in life. This book was written by a woman who cared for hundreds of terminally ill patients, learned their deepest desires and regrets, and compiled a list of the repeated themes of what these individuals wish they had and had not done. It provides great insights on how to live a full, happy life without regrets. 

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These misconceptions can cause us harm, making us feel fear, unworthiness, resentment, anger, and even despair in our relationship with God. This causes many to stop believing. It's life changing to separate our misconceptions about God from who God really is based on truth: scripture, healthy psychology, and objective reality. This also helps us heal misconceptions about ourselves. By healing our distortions and projections, we can enjoy a loving, secure, safe, and peaceful relationship with God (perhaps for the first time), run toward God instead of away from Him, and live the life He intended us to live.

Breakdown of Episode
0:00 Introduction to the Episode
3:34 Introduction to the Topic
6:12 How Caretakers Treat Us Impacts What We Think About God
28:39 Distorted Views of God and How We Project These Onto God
44:58 How to Separate Our Projections Onto God With Who He Really Is
56:22 Specific Ways to Heal Our Distortions About God 

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 Someone with codependent traits is more likely to attract relationships with narcissists and unhealthy individuals. Additionally, survivors of narcissistic abuse can also project unhealed past abuse onto healthy relationships. However, by learning the red flags of abusive relationships, healing codependent traits, and taking more honest self-evaluation, we can heal from narcissistic abuse and pursue and cultivate the healthy, loving relationships God intended us to have.

Breakdown of Episode
 0:00 Introduction to the Episode and Topic
4:52 The Impacts of Narcissistic Abuse in Childhood
24:09 Codependency
30:12 How Codependency Can Increase the Chances of Attracting Narcissists
43:08 How We Can Project Our Past Into Loving Relationships
59:40 Ways to Heal

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What You Need to Know About Narcissistic Abuse Part II contains two parts and is the second part of a larger Series on Narcissistic Abuse. Parts I and II are episodes 6 and 7, and they include a "crash course" in narcissistic abuse. Part II, Episode 7 includes what the impacts are of narcissistic abuse on the survivor; impacts in specific kinds of relationships; and ways to heal, educate yourself, and get your life back. This episode further breaks down the connection between alcoholism and narcissism, how this can create codependency, how group dynamics and organizations can be narcissistic, how to deal with different levels of narcissists, and practices to heal from narcissistic abuse. Episode 6, Part I, which precedes this episode explains the nature of narcissists and narcissistic abuse and warning signs of narcissistic abuse. 

Breakdown of Episode
0:00 Introduction to the Series, Episode, and Topic
2:06 What Are the General Impacts of Narcissistic Abuse on the Survivor?
25:07 Impacts of Specific Types of Relationships With Narcissists
59:38 Healing, Educating Yourself, Getting Your Life Back

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Breakdown of Episode
0:00 Introduction to the Series, Episode, and Topic
4:20 Breakdown of Episode
5:30 What Is Narcissistic Abuse and Why Does it Happen?
37:12 Basic Warning Signs of Narcissistic Abuse

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• Effects of Narcissistic Abuse by Arlin Cuncic in Very Well Mind includes what narcissistic abuse is and the impacts of narc abuse. This article is also used at the beginning of Episode 7 that discusses the impacts of narc abuse. 
• How a Child Can Become a Narcissist by Elinor Greenberg, PhD in Psychology Today discusses various scenarios and situations that create a narcissistic, describing what makes narcissists to creating their wiring childhood. 
• What Are the Nine Traits of a Narcissist? By John P. Cunha, DO, FACOEP in E Medicine Health describes the warning signs of narcissistic behavior in this article with the nine most common behaviors of narcissists.
• I'm a Professor of Human Behavior and I Have Some News for You About the 'Narcissists' in Your Life by Melody Wilding in Business Ins

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Mindfulness: Emotional Recovery That Sticks introduces you to the concept of mindfulness, the benefits of mindfulness, and how mindfulness can help heal trauma. Mindfulness is simply coming back to the present moment and into our bodies, but the practice is so much more. This episode covers specific exercises and mindsets you can use to practice mindfulness, and how you can practice Christian mindfulness with the presence of God to help you come back to the present moment, since trauma can so often take us away from it. The episode shows the science behind how mindfulness can help you heal trauma, gives you ways you can practice mindfulness in your daily life, and clarifies how to slowly add this practice to your life to safely use it as a method for healing trauma, abuse, and difficult emotions. 

Breakdown of Episode
 0:00 Introduction to the Topic
3:21 Breakdown of Episode
5:45 What Is Mindfulness?
12:05 The General Benefits of Mindfulness: How It Can Help You
19:49 What is Christian Mindfulness?
35:50 How Mindfulness Helps Heal Trauma
45:04 Some of the Best Resources on Mindfulness 

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• What Is Mindfulness by Elizabeth Scott, PhD at Very Well Mind defines mindfulness, how it's practiced, different types of mindfulness, conditions that mindfulness can help, and cautions to consider when starting a mindfulness practice. (If any link doesn't work, Google the title and website). 
• Benefits of Mindfulness by Kendra Cherry discusses the benefits of mindfulness on mental illness, emotions, and physical health, as well as various areas of life, while also including some cautions on the practice. 
• Christian Mindfulness Resources is a great website that includes resources on mindfulness from a Christian perspective. Do you own research. There are many like this. 
• 7 Christian Mindfulness Exercises to See God in Daily Life by Sarah from Calming Grace gives seven concrete ways to practice mindfulness from a Christian perspective. 

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Breakdown of Episode
1:17 Introduction
6:16 How Well-Meaning Religious Communities Can Re-traumatize Folks 
10:34 Core Feelings of Unworthiness and Setting the Record Straight on These 
15:35 Being Deeply Rooted in Christ's Radical Love and Grace
28:05 Two Philosophies That Can Re-traumatize You and Why These Are Not the Truth
39:00 Why God Takes Us Down and Deeper When We're Healing Before He Takes Us Back Up

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Mark 15 Parables of the lost coin, lost sheep, and prodigal son.

Psalm 119 God's protection for those He loves.

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• The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning, a Franciscan priest, is a book about God's radical grace and love for us, and how he preferred the company of outliers.
• What's So Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey is a book about God's radical grace and how it works in our lives.
• The Story of the Chinese Bamboo Women's Network Blog, is about how long it took the Chinese bamboo to grow, and how this time and the depth in which is was planted was part of the plan to allow it to grow into a mighty bamboo.
• God Will Heal Your Trauma and Emotional Abuse is the original Youtube video I recorded a few years ago. I expanded on this talk for the podcast to give you a word of encouragement and keep you on the p

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Taking Every Opportunity to Grow and Learn:  Willingness, Non-Resistance and Acceptance to Heal Trauma is a two-episode series that examines the impacts of trauma, what resistance is, and why unhealed trauma survivors resist the reality of trauma instead of accepting it. It further explores the healing power of non-resistance to what is, and how this leads to healing and peace. 

 While there aren't always clear answers, this series explores why God allows difficult and traumatic experiences to happen, how resistance plays a part in these realities, and why we resist instead of accept them. It further examines how willingness, non-resistance, and acceptance toward what is improves our situation and allows us to heal our trauma, grow in these experiences, and find peace and meaning we might not find otherwise. Non-resistance leads us to a place of surrender in our walk with Christ. 

Then, I share concrete practices that will show you how to apply willingness, non-resistance, and acceptance in your own life to heal trauma and ease your experience, even in the face of traumas and harsh realities. 

 2:17 What is Surrender, Willingness, Vulnerability, Non-Resistance, Trust, and Obedience?
14:30 Concrete Practices of Willingness, Acceptance, and Non-Resistance
34:21 Exercises to on Willingness, Acceptance, and Non-Resistance

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Taking Every Opportunity to Grow and Learn:  Willingness, Non-Resistance and Acceptance to Heal Trauma is a two-episode series that examines the impacts of trauma, what resistance is, and why unhealed trauma survivors resist the reality of trauma instead of accepting it. It further explores the healing power of non-resistance to what is, and how this leads to healing and peace. 

 While there aren't always clear answers, this series explores why God allows difficult and traumatic experiences to happen, how resistance plays a part in these realities, and why we resist instead of accept them. It further examines how willingness, non-resistance, and acceptance toward what is improves our situation and allows us to heal our trauma, grow in these experiences, and find peace and meaning we might not find otherwise. Non-resistance leads us to a place of surrender in our walk with Christ. 

Then, I share concrete practices that will show you how to apply willingness, non-resistance, and acceptance in your own life to heal trauma and ease your experience, even in the face of traumas and harsh realities. 

0:00  Introduction to the Topic, Breakdown of Series
10:35 Why Does God Allow Difficulty, Trauma, and Tragedy in Our Lives?
32:01 Why Do We Struggle with and Resist What Is?
47:48 What Are Different Forms of Resistance?
53:30 How Does God Deal With Us When We're in Resistance?

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