No matter how traumatic the event, healing is an option. Strength to explore healing may not be as strong but with a supportive community to provide encouragement. Healing is an option. To Learn more about exploring ways to heal your trauma, sign up for this small group discussion on Exploring Healing.
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For those who have experienced “church hurt.” Sometimes it is hard to find a safe place when “church” has been the go to place of refuge and safety. Understand that there are spaces that are created to address these specifics types of hurts. Spaces to regain hope to learn to trust again. To learn more, sign up to join the Religious Trauma small group discussion.
Sign up for this small group discussion to explore Trauma and how we have been impacted. Most groups will meet in-person. Keep checking as we expand our location offerings.
Trauma is real and it is a costly public health problem which happens as a result of physical, sexual or emotional abuse, neglect, violence, war, loss, disaster, and other emotionally harmful experiences. Like individuals, communities can be traumatized as well. Everyone processes traumatic events differently. Your response may not look like another person’s response to the same event.
Each individual processes pain, and abandonment differently. Some people may not have time to even attend to, or address that fact that they’ve suffered a life altering event. Others deny or ignore their suffering. Some people can become incapacitated by their experience. However one chooses to process a traumatic event, their lives are altered whether they acknowledge it or not. While others may experience greater difficulty responsibly managing the details of their lives.
Trauma can have a devastating impact on physical, emotional, and mental well-being. To learn more explore one of our small groups session or women’s retreats today.
Small groups can provide the support and community needed to facilitate the healing process. Isolation is not a recommended step toward healing. Isolation can actually delay or stop the healing forward moving of healing altogether. Where people feel safe whether in a one-on-one situation or small group session, support and community are powerful vehicles to move forward with healing.
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Cricket and Rounders were the sports I played in my youth. Imagine my surprise when I learned that these sports weren’t played widely in the States. One afternoon after school, a friend invited me to try out for softball. Softball? That was the first time in my life I had heard those two words used together to describe a sport.
It was interesting to see all the students try out with gloves, bats, and cleats looking so official. After observing the first round of hitters, softball looked like a combination of Cricket and Rounders. When it was my turn to hit, imagine my surprise when I reached for the bat only to realize the softball bat designers had made a mistake or faulty bat designs. How do you hit a round ball with a rounded bat?
The bats weren’t made of wood, they were made of aluminum, and they were round. When the ball connected with the bat it ricocheted and it stung pretty badly. I looked at all the bats on the ground and tried to find a flat one. Since there were none, I had to do what we have been doing since arriving in America, make an adjustment. Each hitter was given ten tries. After about four hits or so it became very clear that I would be the gold champion for fouls and my hands hurt. I made another adjustment. I switched to a smaller bat, and moved away a bit from home plate.
My goal was to hit the ball at the widest end of the bat without missing. With about four hits left in the first round, I finally hit the ball without scoring a foul. I adjusted again, this time I switched to a bigger bat, then moved away from the plate a little bit again. The last three hits were home runs. I had two more rounds, almost all the hits were home runs. So how did I get here? I’ve made adjustments. I am still making adjustments. I’ve learned that nothing is wasted, skills and talents from our previous experiences can be transferred and used in new or even challenging environments. I made the team. Wait until I tell you the part where they made me catch the ball with a glove.
