Disclaimer: This season is about trauma, and it might be difficult at times for some listeners. It’s not graphic, but each episode does cover sensitive topics.
How do you speak to yourself and about yourself? Do you believe you’re too much or not enough? Do you continually analyze how others view you to establish your worth and identity?
Our heart is like a tree rooted in soil. If our soil is filled with lies about our worth, we can establish deeply rooted insecurities and feel shame because of words spoken over us and actions done to us. Trauma makes us feel despised, disliked, and disgraced. Yet God calls us to move away from contempt to kindness. He encourages us to view ourselves through His lens, a lens of kindness. God wants to uproot us from harmful soil and replace our belief system with the truths that we are chosen, desired, and loved.
As a community of believers, we can be His hands and feet to uplift other sufferers. At the same time, we are people who have also suffered deeply and experienced hurt at the hands of others. We bring our own misconceptions and opinions to every conversation. When we seek to comfort, we may fail and hurt other people. But we serve a God who uses the broken to serve the broken. As we carefully and intentionally love others, we can support them on their path to comfort and change with kindness, curiosity, boundaries, safety and repair.
Season 9 of Conversational Counseling is on “Trauma.”
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This podcast is made possible by engineer and producer Shane Selby, executive producer Meleah Smith, and generous donors.Known Ministries is Alex Kocher and Brenda Payne.