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