Quick answer: As children, we make sense of pain by reaching conclusions about ourselves, such as “I’m behind,” “I don’t belong,” or “I’m not enough.” Those conclusions often stay with us into adulthood, and a present-day rejection can trigger the same old feelings. Hagar’s story in Genesis 16 shows that […]
Trauma & Recovery
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I could see it beginning to happen — the early warning signs that he was heading back into his old patterns. His addiction pathway was so deeply worn into his brain that it turned his head like a magnet snapping into place. (It’s one reason why habits are so hard […]
Words spoken can become sentences we carry. Verdicts we live inside. Discover how faith rewrites generational trauma. Jump to: What Is a “Sentence”? Generational Trauma Isn’t Just Personal — It’s Cultural Where Faith Meets Generational Trauma How to Break the Cycle: Trace It, Face It, Replace It You Are Not […]
There are things about me that I don’t want others to see. In fact, I probably don’t want to see them myself. There is a resistance to go “there,” but I have a good shepherd who keeps calling me back to an ancient path intersection. A place where there is […]
I was brought up on a sheep farm, and one of the most fascinating features of that farm was the tracks the sheep made across the paddocks. Right in the middle of a field, you’d find this narrow, well-worn path — pressed down by hundreds of hooves, over and over, […]
You step out to make a change, but then it stops. There is sabotage, a self-sabotage, but with good listening we can see movement forward. One of the saddest things you can see is when someone sets out to change some aspect of their life, they get to a certain […]
Contention and stress can become too much. Sometimes it is better to live in the corner of a roof, in the simplicity of almost nothing, than in the complexity of strife. Quick answer: Proverbs 21:9 says it is better to live on a corner of the roof than share a […]
We all have problems, but we can over-personalise them. But the problem is the problem. Not the person. There is something sneaky about problems in that, over time, starting from being a little child, problems can morph and sneak into your thinking so much so that you see yourself […]
We have obvious problems, but real problems, the ones that drive us to unwell ness, can only be resolved by deep soul work. What’s going on underneath? We have problems. Every one reading this will have multiple problems. I just got news from a family member that the biopsies came […]
We all have painful experiences in life, but redeemed pain is more impressive than removed pain. What good can be found within in our pain? Sometimes I am given a gift voucher. It has no value tangibly in itself. It is but a piece of plastic the size of […]