Trauma
When something exceeds our ability to cope, we become emotionally dysregulated. Trauma lives in the body and in the story we tell about ourselves — and repeated traumatic experiences often push toward a disorganized attachment style. Healing weaves together nervous-system care, safe relationship, meaning, and grace.
Understanding Trauma
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk — how trauma reshapes the body and brain, and paths to recovery.
Find the book →What Happened to You?
Bruce Perry & Oprah Winfrey — reframing "what's wrong with you" as "what happened to you."
Find the book →Emotional Dysregulation
What it is, why it happens, and why safety and consistency are the antidote.
Read →Therapies That Help
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing — well-researched for processing traumatic memory.
Learn more →Somatic & Polyvagal Approaches
Body-based methods for calming a dysregulated nervous system.
Learn more →Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Working compassionately with the wounded "parts" of ourselves.
Learn more →Faith & Inner Healing
Be Healed / Be Restored
Bob Schuchts — Catholic frameworks for inviting Christ into wounded memories.
Find the books →Healing Prayer Resources
Resources on healing prayer within the Catholic tradition (used alongside, not instead of, professional care).
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