Excerpt: Redeeming Trauma - Session 8 End
Course: Moving Through Trauma
Speakers: Cathy Loerzel
Beyond Self-Improvement: Healing for the Sake of Others
This journey of understanding our stories, the hurts, and the triumphs that have shaped us, isn’t just about personal betterment. It’s about something far greater: equipping ourselves to bring genuine hope and healing to the world around us. God calls each of us to do our own internal work, not for selfish gain, but so that we can become better partners, parents, colleagues, and leaders – people who reflect His love more fully.
The Call to Wholeness: Our Responsibility to Heal
Ignoring the broken parts of ourselves, the shadows we haven’t confronted, can lead to unintended harm, even as we strive to follow God. Our unhealed wounds can color our interactions and limit our capacity to truly connect with and support others.
However, when we take the courageous step to understand our own stories, to grieve the pain we’ve experienced, we unlock a profound capacity for empathy. We become better equipped to grieve with others, to rejoice with them, and to simply be present with them in their most challenging moments – in loss, in heartache, in the everyday struggles of life. We become safer people, capable of offering genuine support when it’s needed most.
Embracing the Journey: Healing as a Lifelong Pursuit
So, let us take this call to do our own work. Let us lean into our stories, not to dwell in the past, but to understand the path that has brought us here, so that we can move forward into the redemptive arc of the gospel.
If you’ve journeyed this far, take heart. You’ve already taken significant steps. But remember, this is often just the beginning. The hope is that you will continue on, continuing to press into this vital work, alongside your communities, your colleagues, and your loved ones.
For many, this isn’t a quick fix. It’s a lifelong process of discovery and healing. But the journey, though challenging, is undeniably worth it. Will you continue to press in, embracing the transformative power of understanding your story and its potential to bring healing to the world?
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Session 1
Welcome to the Moving Through Trauma Course
Video: Welcome
Video: Guardrails & Grace for the Journey
Video: For Those of You Who
Topics: Hypoarousal; Hyperarousal; Grace
Session 2
Video: Grounding Exercise - From a Place of Calm
Video: Unpacking Trauma
Video: Our Trauma Threshold
Topics: Embedded Trauma/Traumatic Event; Traumatic Threshold
Session 3
Video: Grounding Exercise - Breath and Bilateral Stimulation
Video: How Trauma Functions in our Emotions, Brain, and Body
Video: Our Three Primary Responses to Trauma
Topics: Neuroscience Terms; Fragmentation/Dissociation/Isolation
Session 4
Video: Grounding Exercise - Lowering Stress in the Nervous System
Video: How Family & Collective Systems Impact How We Experience Trauma
Video: Trauma’s Connection to our Health and Wellbeing
Topics: Attunement; Containment; Rupture & Repair; ACE Study (Third Video)
Session 5
Video: Grounding Exercise - Breathing in Hope
Video: How We Heal
Topics: Healing: Reconstruction; Release; Acceptance
Session 6
Video: Grounding Exercise - Grounded in the Present
Video: Relationship with God
Topics: Relationship with God; Prayer Practices
Session 7
Video: Relationship with Self
Topics: Cold Water Treatment; Developing Story Awareness
Session 8
Video: Grounding Exercise - From a Place of Calm
Video: Relationship with Others
Video: Redeeming Trauma
Topics: Building Support; Listening Triad
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