Dealing With Trauma: Steps Toward Faith-based Healing
Rhonda Gist
Trauma is any experience that causes deep emotional pain and can cause deep wounds that affect a person’s mind, body, and spirit. There are many causes of trauma, including abuse, loss, violence, betrayal, illness, or natural disasters. These painful life experiences often change the way a person views themselves, others, and even God. The emotional pain may be carried silently for years, and a person may feel trapped by shame, fear, anxiety, anger, sadness, or all these emotions. Healing is possible with support, faith, and perseverance. Trauma and the Bible There are many stories in the Bible of people who experience grief, heartbreak, persecution, abuse, betrayal, and other forms of...
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