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Story on C-PTSD & PTSD: I’ve been meditating on Jesus as Redeemer. Redemption can mean diff things to diff people. One definition is “restored to original state”, another is “a redeemer brings something back that was lost or taken away”.
When I was in Nashville a few weeks
When I was in Nashville a few weeks
ago, i experienced two moments where I had these severe “emotional flashbacks”. It FEELS like you’re in immense danger and unsafe, so your body and mind go into flight or flight mode. It royally sucks. My therapist walked me thru our CBT work, and I was able to acknowledge that,
I was safe, that no one was out to hurt me and that fear itself is just a feeling and can’t hurt me. Another time I will tell all my story but it has many onion layers I’m still working through. I’ve been reading the abuse, affairs, and and other disheartening headlines, often
centered around the man causing hurt, and less commonly, the women (or men) who’ve suffered deeply. We hurt ppl bc we hurt inside. He (or she) deserves his own healing w/o the detriments of enabling. As someone working in the recovery field, I have immense compassion for humans.
Redemption in Jesus means he paid the high cost for our relationship. True redemption is your most original self, with every bruise, scar, story, pain, hope, joy, promise, sorrow, grief - not negating or escaping those, but embracing healing as bringing forth the resilient person
God created you as. But the healing. The healing is going to suck until you get to those moments where you REALLY dig deep and face the pain. I cried, panicked, was angry bc why do I have to face something done to me? I was bottling so much, I wouldn’t allow myself to feel. It
was not my original self. So when I did, like really did, the level of freedom and love in my heart was like a massive weight off my shoulders. Jesus, as redeemer, gave me love for myself now, for me as a child, for my sorrows, and for those who’ve hurt me. So while I don’t need
to negate the sorrows, I certainly felt loved in the healing.
And then you find out, it was just one of the onion peels, and you have more to face. But God is so gracious and pure, he just meets us where we’re at.
If men who hurt women and/or others, can do the grilling work &
And then you find out, it was just one of the onion peels, and you have more to face. But God is so gracious and pure, he just meets us where we’re at.
If men who hurt women and/or others, can do the grilling work &
find true health, healing, and wholeness, then imagine if they can thrive by advocating for the very people group they hurt. Believe. Its in them, the fierce warrior who wants to fight for something. We need unhealthy church cultures to see the enabling and to stop so that we can
witness more of the redeeming part, bringing back what’s lost or taken away. Change the roots and maybe more advocacy will come.
