Writing

Articles on healing, story, and shalom

Written for men who are carrying things and looking for language to name them.

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