Writing
Articles on healing, story, and shalom
Written for men who are carrying things and looking for language to name them.
Effects of Trauma
Learning to Feel Safe in Your Own Emotions
6 min read
Effects of Trauma
What Your Body Has Been Trying to Tell You
6 min read
Faith & Healing
Rebuilding Trust After Trauma: Learning to Feel Safe With People Again
7 min read
Effects of Trauma
When You Cannot Pray the Way You Used To
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Faith Becomes a Way to Avoid Your Pain
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Letting Your Guard Down Feels Like the Riskiest Thing You Can Do
4 min read
Anger & Grief
What Your Anger Is Trying to Tell You
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Trauma Cracks the Lens You See Everything Through
4 min read
Faith & Healing
Healing Through Story: What Narrative Trauma Care Actually Looks Like
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
Why Your Body Will Not Let You Rest
4 min read
Faith & Healing
When Forgiveness Feels Like Letting Them Win
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
Finding Your Voice After Years of Silence
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Your Memories Do Not Tell the Whole Story
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Home Was Never Safe
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
Finding Steady Ground When Everything Inside You Shifts
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
When the Church Was the Wound
5 min read
Reflections
What Trauma Actually Does to a Man
6 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Joy Feels Like a Trap
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
When a Man Forgets How to Play
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Dreaming Again Feels Impossible
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
Reclaiming Your Imagination After Trauma
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Asking for What You Need Feels Like Too Much
6 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Going Numb Is the Only Move You Know
7 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Food Carries More Than Calories
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
Before You Can Be Kind to Your Body, You Have to Be Curious About It
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Your Body Cannot Settle in Church
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Touch Became Complicated
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Old Wounds Follow You to Work
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Your Imagination Went Silent
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
Why You Cannot Stop Doing
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
Why You Cannot Sleep When the World Goes Quiet
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Your Body Says No and You Cannot Explain Why
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
Why You Disappear When People Get Close
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
Why Every Decision Feels Like a Loaded Gun
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
The Loneliness That a Full Room Cannot Fix
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
When You Cannot Move and Life Will Not Wait
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
Why Kindness Makes You Flinch
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Hope Feels Like a Setup
4 min read
Anger & Grief
When You Only Know Full Throttle or Shutdown
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
Why Recovery Feels Like a Threat After Medical Crisis
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
Why Good News Makes You Brace for Impact
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
Why You Leave the Room Before the Fight Starts
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Your Body Keeps Score and You Cannot Find the Referee
5 min read
Faith & Healing
Finding God in the Ordinary Tasks You Do Every Day
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Rest Feels Like the Most Dangerous Thing You Can Do
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
When You Were Taught That Your Pain Was Not That Bad
4 min read
Faith & Healing
When Your Inner Critic Sounds Like a Sermon
3 min read
Effects of Trauma
When the Holidays Feel Like a Minefield
3 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Your Past Walks Into the Room With Your Kids
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Your Calendar Controls You Instead of Serving You
4 min read
Faith & Healing
Reading the Bible When the Bible Has Been Used Against You
4 min read
Faith & Healing
When No Place Has Ever Felt Like Home
4 min read
Faith & Healing
When Prayer Feels Like Talking to a Wall
4 min read
Faith & Healing
What to Expect When You Start Going Deeper
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
When You Are Holding Everyone Together Except Yourself
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
When You Inherited a Story You Never Chose
5 min read
Faith & Healing
When a Song Reaches What a Sermon Cannot
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
When the Pain in Your Body Is Telling an Old Story
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
Why Your Body Reacts Before Your Brain Catches Up
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Your Life Feels Behind Schedule
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
When a Smell Takes You Back Twenty Years
5 min read
Faith & Healing
What Happens When You Let Your Hands Tell the Story
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
When the Old Pain Finds You Again
6 min read
Faith & Healing
The Difference Between Hope and Hurrying
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Every Place Reminds You of What Happened
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
Why Money Feels Like a Threat
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
Why You Cannot Plan Tomorrow When Yesterday Still Controls You
4 min read
Faith & Healing
Why Your Friendships Feel So Complicated
4 min read
Faith & Healing
Scripture That Meets You in the Wreckage
4 min read
Faith & Healing
What Trauma Touched But Could Not Take
4 min read
Faith & Healing
When Healing Takes Longer Than You Expected
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
When His Past Enters Your Marriage
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Sex Becomes a Way to Manage Pain
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
Why You Cannot Throw Anything Away: Trauma, Clutter, and the Fear of Letting Go
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
When the Church Was Where It Happened: Abuse, Betrayal, and the Long Road Back
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
Why Scrolling Hits Harder When You Carry Wounds
4 min read
Faith & Healing
When Your Faith Split in Two: Living with a Divided Spiritual Story
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
The Armor of Humor: When Laughter Is How You Survived
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
When No One Believed You: Healing from the Wound of Silence
5 min read
Faith & Healing
Why Big Decisions Feel Impossible After Trauma
5 min read
Faith & Healing
When Your Wounds Shape Your Work: Trauma, Calling, and Finding a Truer Path
5 min read
Faith & Healing
The Man in the Mirror: When Trauma Changes How You See Yourself
6 min read
Faith & Healing
When Joy With God Feels Off-Limits: Reclaiming Delight in a Faith That Was Mostly Serious
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
Why Focus Feels Impossible: Trauma, Concentration, and the Man Whose Mind Won't Stay Put
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
Trauma, Aging, and the Man Running Out of Time
4 min read
Faith & Healing
When God Feels Like a Threat: Spiritual Hypervigilance and the Man Who Can't Stop Scanning Heaven
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
When the World Burns and So Do You: Trauma, Global Crisis, and the Man Who Can't Stop Watching
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
When You Can't Find Your Bearings: Trauma, Disorientation, and Feeling Lost in Your Own Life
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
Taste, Memory, and the Man at the Table
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Practice Becomes Punishment: How Trauma Shapes a Man's Relationship With Music
4 min read
Effects of Trauma
Why You Go Quiet: Trauma, Speaking, and the Man Who Lost His Voice
5 min read
Faith & Healing
When Praying Out Loud Feels Dangerous: Group Prayer and the Man Who Learned Silence Was Safer
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
When a Smell Stops You Cold: Understanding Why Scent Triggers Hit Without Warning
5 min read
Faith & Healing
The War You Didn't Know You Were Fighting: How Childhood Trauma Shows Up in Your Marriage
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
What Your Nose Knows That You Don't: Using Scent to Ground Yourself When Trauma Surfaces
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Good News Feels Heavy: Why Celebration Is Hard for Men Who Carry Trauma
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
Church Air Carries More Than Worship: Scent, Spiritual Spaces, and the Body That Remembers
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
Smells Carry Old Stories
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
Trauma, Development, and the Man Who Grew Up Out of Sync
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
Why Sound Becomes a Threat Your Body Can't Ignore
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
When Time Stops Making Sense: How Trauma Warps a Man's Internal Clock
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
Why Criticism Hits So Hard: What Your Story Does With Feedback
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
What You Learned to Survive: How Complex Childhood Trauma Shows Up at Every Stage of a Man's Life
7 min read
Faith & Healing
When Holidays Stir Old Wounds
7 min read
Resources
Why You Do Not Need a New You to Begin the New Year Well
7 min read
Resources
Are You Tired of Living in Survival Mode?
6 min read
Anger & Grief
Understanding Anger after Trauma
7 min read
Reflections
When Your Forgiveness Feels Forced: How Narrative Focused Trauma Care Makes Space For Authentic Healing With God And Others
10 min read
Effects of Trauma
Learning to Feel Safe in Your Own Body Again
7 min read
Faith & Healing
Choosing Curiosity Over Judgment for Healing and Shalom
6 min read
Reflections
How Naming Harm Opens the Door to Restoration
5 min read
Resources
How Shame Gets in the Way of Healing
4 min read
Anger & Grief
Grief: A Companion on the Journey
5 min read
Resources
The Impact & Effect of Trauma
5 min read
Effects of Trauma
Long-Term Impact of Sexual Abuse: Healing, Health, & Hope
5 min read
Resources
From Brokenness to Restoration: The Shalom Journey
4 min read
Reflections
Uncovering the Power of Your Story: Healing from Trauma
25 min read
Resources
Is Handwriting Really Better Than Typing When Journaling?
2 min read
Resources
An Introduction to Narrative-Focussed Trauma Care
4 min read