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What Childhood Trauma Has to Do With Your Faith Struggles Today
If you've been struggling with anxiety, shame, difficulty trusting God, or patterns that keep repeating no matter how hard you try — childhood trauma may be the missing piece. In this post, a San Diego EMDR therapist and trauma specialist explains what childhood trauma actually is, how it gets stored in the body and nervous system, and why it so often shows up in our faith lives in ways we've never been taught to recognize.
You Prayed. You Read Your Bible. You're Still Struggling. Here's Why That's Not a Failure.
You've been praying, reading your Bible, and doing everything you were taught to do — and you're still struggling. Before you conclude that something is wrong with your faith, read this. There's a clinical reason why spiritual practices alone don't always reach the places where anxiety, trauma, and depression actually live — and understanding it might change everything.