Trauma-Informed Faith
Episodes
10 episodes
10. The Role of Listening in Trauma Recovery
Do you feel like you just don't have the bandwidth to listen to people talk about their problems right now? You are not alone. The collective trauma of Covid, on top of any other traumas you have experienced, decreases your capacity to empathiz...
9. How Vulnerability Is Both the Challenge and Way of Healing from Trauma
In this episode, Paul and Ken explore how our instinct to cover up our woundedness is the very thing that keeps us from healing. Being vulnerable with safe people opens us up to healing and restored relationship.
8. How Does Trauma Impact Your Ability to Regulate Emotions?
Trauma can shut down your emotions and it can spin them out of control. Ken and Paul discuss how trauma impacts the ability to regulate our emotions. How can forgiving what happened to us help restore our emotional regulation? ...
7. Forgiving Others and Healing from Trauma
Are you being held captive by your trauma? Forgiveness sets your free to begin to heal. In this 4th episode on forgiveness, Ken and Paul explore the relationship between healing from trauma and forgiving others.
6. The Challenges of Self-Forgiveness
A common response to trauma is the tendency to blame oneself for what happened. As a result, some people become stuck in their ability to move through healing. In those cases, healing from trauma requires self-forgiveness. Paul and Ken co...
5. Myths about Forgiveness
Is it forgiveness that you struggle with or do you struggle with one of the false notions about forgiveness? In this second episode on forgiveness, Ken and Paul debunk common myths about forgiveness and define it in essential terms...
4. Self-Differentiation, Forgiveness, and Trauma Healing
An unhealed trauma experience arrests our ability to grow in our relationships with God, self, and others. Within the God-Personal-Social (GPS) model of spiritual health, self-differentiation is essential in our ability to have healthy, loving ...
3. How Does Trauma Impact Your Sense of Nearness to God?
Trauma often causes us to feel isolated and distant from each other and God. Paul and Ken discuss the effects of trauma on our ability to be intimate in our relationships and how cultivating a sense of nearness with God can provide the safety a...
2. How Does Trauma Impact Your Ability to Communicate with God?
Communicating your experience of trauma is key to healing, but trauma can cause you to withdraw from relationship with others and God. Paul and Ken explore the impact of trauma on our ability to communicate. They examine the storie...
1. How Does Trauma Impact Your Ability to Trust God?
Is God there for us during trauma? Are we there for each other? In the debut episode of Trauma-Informed Faith, Dr. Ken Logan and Dr. Paul Burns examine how trauma impacts our ability to trust God and people. They look at two ...