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Welcome to the Healing Trauma blog. This space is created to share my personal thoughts and experiences of healing from trauma. My aim is to share triumphs as well as struggles and tools that have worked and are working to promote healing from trauma. My hope is that you will find this to be a place where you belong, where you can find inspiration and healing. Choosing healing together.

Jesus' love for us is steadfast, strong, bold, brave, never wavering and always available! Our love for victims/survivors needs to mirror His!

https://youtu.be/p4XS3BLNTJM?si=llXum6WGpKr8qLkj I encourage you, this week, to click on the link above and take a listen to this podcast recorded this past weekend. You will here more about my story and the current events that are impacting it. What you will also hear is how incredible people, like Vanessa, are coming around survivors and supporting us. She and others are exposing this evil and giving survivors a space to talk and find healing. If you are a survivor, I hope

Dear Survivors, It was not your fault. You did nothing to bring about or deserve that treatment and I will repeat that over and over to you as many times as you need. I’m so sorry for the incredible harm that has been done to you. I know you’re probably confused, angry, sometimes feel like your emotions are swirling out of control. It’s ok. What was done to you was something you were never meant to experience. Your brain and your body are doing their best right now to protect

When you hold abusers accountable, you are supporting a victims healing. Cover up culture is part of my story. I spent a majority of my younger years (6yrs old to almost 30yrs old) in the same church. There are 3 different times the act of sexual abuse was covered up by leadership and these are just the stories I know of. One of the stories played out while I was a young teenager and didn’t pay much attention to what was going on around me. Another story happened while I was

The process of healing from trauma quite often involves revisiting past experiences. It takes a trained professional in most cases to help us navigate this process. We learn new skills and techniques to deal with the pain that was caused us. We first learn to admit there is pain. We learn how unregulated our nervous system became because of the abuse and trauma. We grow to understand that if we don’t learn to regulate our nervous system, it will physically affect us adversely

My healing journey from childhood abuse and trauma started in 2005. Over the course of the following 10 years, I had been to counseling, support groups and an outpatient program for a major episode of depression and PTSD. In 2020, I finished writing and published a book about the abuse and what I have learned during the healing process. Journaling was a tool that helped me to process the pain of childhood sexual abuse so I had plenty of material for my book. Fast forward to