RESOURCES, ENCOURAGEMENT AND MORE
Welcome to the Share the Struggle Blog
Each week we bring you resources, insights, and stories that illuminate the path to mental and spiritual flourishing, guiding you on your journey towards wholeness and healing.
Archive of Posts
- Accountability 2
- Addiction 1
- Anxiety 27
- Bible 15
- Bible verses 1
- Christ 1
- Christian Coaching 9
- Church 1
- Coaching 3
- Comfort 1
- Community 1
- Confusion 1
- Course: Freedom From Anxiety 19
- Course: Freedom From Pornography 24
- Course: Loss Of A Loved One 13
- Course: More Than Your Past - Shedding Shame and Guilt 10
- Course: Moving Through Trauma 21
- Depression 5
- Fear 4
- Forgiveness 2
- God 1
- Grief 17
- Growth 2
- Helping Helpers 23
- Identity 3
- Isolation 1
- Jesus Christ 1
- King David 1
- Leader Training 23
- Leadership 1
- Life 1
- Listening 1
- Love 8
- Loving Difficult People 2
- Mental Health 3
- Mental Health Disorder 1
- Mental Health Programs 1
- Mental Health Struggle 1
- Overcoming Fear 1
- Patience 3
- Paul 1
- Pornography 25
- Relationship 6
- Scripture 4
- Shame 12
- Stress 5
- Therapy 1
- Trauma 29
- Where is God in my Struggle? 1
- Work 5
Grounded in the Present
When you're caught in a whirlwind of thoughts and emotions that feel beyond your control, it can be incredibly difficult to find a sense of calm.
Relationship with Others
Anxieties linked to childhood wounds require a nuanced approach. While revisiting those experiences can be helpful, it's crucial to acknowledge the potential for retraumatization.
How We Heal
We've laid a foundation by understanding how trauma impacts the brain and body, and the crucial role of resilience factors like safety, problem-solving, and connection.
Breathing in Hope
If you're feeling overwhelmed, with racing thoughts and an unbearable present moment, you're not alone. That feeling of being stuck in a never-ending cycle can be incredibly distressing.
Trauma’s Connection to our Health and Wellbeing
We've discussed how trauma affects our emotions and brain. But a crucial question is: what can we do to heal? Before exploring solutions, we need to understand that trauma's impact extends beyond our minds to our physical health.
How Family & Collective Systems Impact How We Experience Trauma
A key factor in how trauma impacts us lies in our early caregiving environment. Three elements are crucial for a child's healthy development: attunement, containment, and rupture and repair.
Lowering Stress in the Nervous System
Before we delve deeper, let's add another valuable tool to your grounding toolkit – a simple tapping technique. These activities can be used in moments of stress, overwhelm, or even as a gentle way to start or end your day, helping you anchor yourself in a state of calm.
Our Three Primary Responses to Trauma
When we experience trauma, regardless of whether it's a significant, life-altering event ("Big T" trauma) or a series of smaller, yet impactful experiences ("little t" trauma), our minds and bodies often engage in three key survival responses: fragmentation, dissociation, and isolation.
How Trauma Functions in our Emotions, Brain, and Body
We've discussed how past trauma can continue to affect our present lives. To move forward, we need to increase our ability to process these experiences without feeling overwhelmed.