{"id":2948,"date":"2017-03-01T14:46:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T14:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2017-03-01T14:46:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T14:46:48","slug":"locked-memories-past-hurts-trauma-path-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/2017\/03\/01\/locked-memories-past-hurts-trauma-path-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"Locked in Memories of Past Hurts: Trauma and the Path to Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Dr. Rhonda &#8220;Roni&#8221; Pruitt<\/p>\n<p>Causes of trauma can be the loss of a parent from divorce or death, or being the victim of personal assault that renders your soul powerless of defense.\u00a0 Many express it as \u2018the day my life flashed before my eyes and I knew I could not stop what was happening\u2019. It becomes lodged in the person\u2019s memory, a replayed mental event that will not stop being rehearsed.<\/p>\n<p>Trauma is an imprinting of pain on the soul that bears ongoing pain.\u00a0 A closer look highlights a person who struggles with some elements of depression, anxiety, chronic illness, phobias, obsessive thoughts, and, maybe, PTSD.\u00a0 Amazingly, even if the person(s) who created the threat and pain has died, they continue to live submerged in silence of the mind, entangled in memories of the past.\u00a0 Fragments of the traumatic experience remain in memories and pain is often displayed in the human body in various forms of illness.\u00a0 Illness will often have features that doctors cannot fully explain.<\/p>\n<p>The life of a person suffering with traumatic symptoms centers around emotional wounds.<\/p>\n<p>And life becomes about the person constantly reaching into the past in attempt to find a mental resolution to the pain.\u00a0 The present centers around trying to repair the pain.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this is a vicious loop as a resolution can never be identified.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the vicious loop has been explained well by a person who experienced a trauma. \u201cWhat I failed to realize at the time is that when we try to resist feeling something painful, we often protract the very pain we are trying to avoid.\u00a0 My mind continually taunted me.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> Revisiting the event to dissolve the pain only extends the pain, but does not resolve it.<\/p>\n<p>It is common for the person to question, \u201cwhy does the traumatic event impact me so deeply\u201d?\u00a0 \u201cWhy can I not just resolve what happened in the past and move forward with my life?\u201d\u00a0 There are different levels of impact from a traumatic experience.\u00a0 Rarely are the factors that determine the level of wounding considered by the individual.\u00a0 Jasmin Lee Cori defines some of the factors that create different levels of trauma:<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">*\u00a0 If you were able to do something in the moment (such as helping to facilitate an escape), you will be less shattered than if you could do nothing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">* If you were very young, you were more vulnerable and had fewer resources to help you cope or recover. Therefore, you will likely have more scars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">* If someone you know, and especially someone you love, was the cause of the trauma, that is even more shattering to your sense of safety. There could be an element of betrayal, which brings injury to your sense of trust and self-worth; this type of trauma leaves the most scars.\u00a0 The worst trauma is felt as being deliberately and maliciously inflicted, and more harmful if caused by a parent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">* If the exposure to trauma is repeated rather than a one-time event; it is more disabling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">* Traumatic events that are unpredictable have a greater impact than those you can anticipate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">* Violation by another person is always worse than impersonal trauma. Close to half of sexual assault victims will develop symptoms of trauma.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">* Help during the event, or support after the event, is critical in determining long-term effects of trauma.<\/p>\n<p>It is highly unlikely the individual can stop reliving the event by self-determination. Healing almost always requires another person entering the mental event with training to bring emotional healing.\u00a0 Something valuable can be going on inside us, but another person is needed to help us tune into a new perspective.<\/p>\n<p>What is needed is surrender of the self so the grip of fear and anger is loosed.\u00a0 Naturally a common response to victimization is anger with a sense of, \u201cWhy did this painful event happen to me?\u201d \u201cDoes anyone understand what this has cost me in my life?\u201d\u00a0 The process of emotional healing begins with surrendering anger.\u00a0 Yes, that is correct, give up the right to be angry.\u00a0 Grief over the numerous losses cannot begin until anger is released in exchange for embrace of grief.\u00a0 God knows what the wound has cost you.\u00a0 God wants to walk with you on a journey of you fully knowing what you have lost, so healing can flow into the wounds.\u00a0 There is a balm in Gilead (Jeremiah 8:22).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Recommended Books:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>A practical book that is recommended for those who would like to read more on the subject of trauma is, Jasmin Lee Cori, <em>Healing from Trauma: A Survivor\u2019s Guide to Understanding Your Symptoms and Reclaiming Your Life.<\/em> Cambridge, MA: Marlowe &amp; Company, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>If a Christian integrative approach is desired with a boarder view of God and Suffering, then a good book is:\u00a0 Diane Langberg, Suffering and the Heart of God: How Trauma Destroys and Christ Restores. (New Growth Press, 2015).<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in how the church can play a role in trauma healing; a recommended book is:\u00a0 Harriet Hill, Margaret Hill, Dick Bagge, and Pat Miersma, <em>Healing the Wounds of Trauma: How the Church Can Help, Expanded Edition 2016<\/em>. (American Bible Society, 2016).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Mark Wolynee,<em> It Didn\u2019t start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Vapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle. <\/em>(New York, NY: Viking Publishers.)<em>\u00a0\u00a0 p. 4<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> Jasmin Lee Cori, <em>Healing from Trauma: A Survivor\u2019s Guide to Understanding Your Symptoms and Reclaiming Your Life.<\/em> (Cambridge, MA: Marlowe &amp; Company, 2007).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Writer<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/03\/dr-roni-pruitt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2950\" src=\"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/03\/dr-roni-pruitt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rhonda Pruitt has served as a missionary for 30 years in Asia and Europe. Out of her experience flows a passion for missions and the care of missionaries who serve globally. Dr. Pruitt is a pioneer in the field of Member Care with dual academic training in Counseling Psychology and Intercultural Studies. She designed the first academic training program in Member Care at Columbia International University. Creative platforms for international ministry has been a part of her missions service.She served as a university professor in China at the Taiyuan University of Technology, and later, in the Japanese Study Program at Limestone College. Along side of church planting projects, Roni served as a psychotherapist visiting fellow at Leport Mental Hospital in Hungary. Later she opened a missionary counseling private practice in Berlin, Germany. As a missionary with Pentecostal Holiness World Ministries since 1989, Dr. Pruitt currently provides international missionary care services to resource IPHC missionaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":2949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[628,629,630,626,627],"class_list":{"0":"post-2948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general","8":"tag-emotional-healing","9":"tag-locked-in-memories-of-past-hurts","10":"tag-path-to-healing","11":"tag-roni-pruitt","12":"tag-trauma","13":"entry"},"title_es":"Encerrado en las memorias de las heridas del pasado: El trauma y el camino hacia la curaci\u00f3n","content_es":"Por Roni Pruitt Causas de traumatismo puede ser la p\u00e9rdida de uno de los padres del divorcio o la muerte, o ser v\u00edctima de un asalto personal que hace que su alma impotente en la defensa. Muchos expresan como \"el d\u00eda que mi vida pas\u00f3 ante mis ojos y yo sab\u00eda que no pod\u00eda dejar de hacer lo que estaba pasando\". Que se aloja en la memoria de la persona, un suceso mental repetido que no va a dejar de ser ensayado. El trauma es una impronta de dolor en el alma que lleva el dolor continuo. Un an\u00e1lisis m\u00e1s detallado pone de manifiesto que una persona que lucha con algunos elementos de la depresi\u00f3n, la ansiedad, las enfermedades cr\u00f3nicas, fobias, pensamientos obsesivos, y, tal vez, trastorno de estr\u00e9s postraum\u00e1tico. Sorprendentemente, incluso si la persona (s) que cre\u00f3 la amenaza y el dolor ha muerto, que siguen viviendo sumergido en el silencio de la mente, enredado en los recuerdos del pasado. Los fragmentos de la experiencia traum\u00e1tica permanecen en la memoria y el dolor a menudo se muestran en el cuerpo humano, en diferentes formas de la enfermedad. La enfermedad a menudo tienen caracter\u00edsticas que los m\u00e9dicos no pueden explicar plenamente. La vida de una persona que sufre de s\u00edntomas traum\u00e1ticos se centra alrededor de las heridas emocionales. Y la vida se convierte en la persona constantemente buscando en el pasado en un intento de encontrar una soluci\u00f3n mental para el dolor. Los actuales centros alrededor de intentar reparar el dolor. Por desgracia, esto es un bucle vicioso como una resoluci\u00f3n no puede ser identificado. El prop\u00f3sito del bucle vicioso se ha explicado bien por una persona que experiment\u00f3 un trauma. \"Lo que no se dio cuenta en el momento es que cuando tratamos de resistir la sensaci\u00f3n de que algo doloroso, a menudo prolongar el dolor que estamos tratando de evitar. Mi mente se burl\u00f3 de m\u00ed continuamente. \" <a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> Revisi\u00f3n del evento para disolver el dolor s\u00f3lo se extiende el dolor, pero no lo resuelve. Es com\u00fan que la persona a la pregunta, \"\u00bfpor qu\u00e9 yo no influye en el evento traum\u00e1tico tan profundamente\"? \"\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 no puedo simplemente resolver lo que sucedi\u00f3 en el pasado y seguir adelante con mi vida?\" Hay diferentes niveles de impacto a partir de una experiencia traum\u00e1tica. Rara vez son los factores que determinan el nivel de herir considerado por el individuo. Jasmin Lee Cori define algunos de los factores que crean diferentes niveles de trauma: <a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">* Si usted fuera capaz de hacer algo en el momento (por ejemplo, ayudar a facilitar una v\u00eda de escape), se le destrozado menos que si se pod\u00eda hacer nada.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">* Si usted era muy joven, que eran m\u00e1s vulnerables y ten\u00edan menos recursos para ayudarle a hacer frente o recuperar. Por lo tanto, es probable que tenga m\u00e1s cicatrices.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">* Si alguien que conoce, y sobre todo un ser querido, fue la causa del trauma, que es a\u00fan m\u00e1s destrozando a su sentido de seguridad. Podr\u00eda ser un elemento de traici\u00f3n, lo que trae lesi\u00f3n a su sentido de la confianza y la autoestima; este tipo de trauma sale de las mayor\u00eda de las cicatrices. El peor trauma se sent\u00eda como siendo deliberada y maliciosamente infligido, y m\u00e1s perjudicial si es causada por uno de los padres.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">* Si la exposici\u00f3n al trauma se repite en lugar de un evento de una sola vez; es m\u00e1s incapacitante.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">* Los eventos traum\u00e1ticos que son impredecibles tienen un impacto mayor que los que se pueden anticipar.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">* Violaci\u00f3n por otra persona es siempre peor que el trauma impersonal. Cerca de la mitad de las v\u00edctimas de ataques sexuales se desarrollan s\u00edntomas de trauma.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">* Ayuda durante el evento, o el apoyo despu\u00e9s del evento, es fundamental para determinar los efectos a largo plazo del trauma.<\/p>\r\nEs muy poco probable que el individuo puede dejar de revivir el evento por la autodeterminaci\u00f3n. La curaci\u00f3n requiere casi siempre a otra persona que entra en el acontecimiento mental con el entrenamiento para traer la curaci\u00f3n emocional. Algo valioso puede estar pasando dentro de nosotros, pero se necesita otra persona para ayudarnos a sintonizar con una nueva perspectiva. Lo que se necesita es la entrega de s\u00ed mismo por lo que se ha desatado las garras del miedo y la ira. Naturalmente una respuesta com\u00fan a la victimizaci\u00f3n es la ira con un sentido de, \"\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 este acontecimiento doloroso pasar a m\u00ed?\" \"\u00bfAlguien entiende lo que esto me ha costado en mi vida?\" El proceso de curaci\u00f3n emocional comienza con la entrega de la ira. S\u00ed, eso es correcto, renunciar al derecho de estar enojado. El dolor por las numerosas p\u00e9rdidas no puede comenzar hasta que la ira es liberado a cambio de abrazo de la pena. Dios sabe lo que la herida le ha costado. Dios quiere caminar con usted en un viaje de ustedes sabiendo plenamente lo que ha perdido, por lo que la curaci\u00f3n puede fluir en las heridas. Hay un b\u00e1lsamo en Gilead (Jerem\u00edas 8:22). <u>Libros recomendados:<\/u> Un libro pr\u00e1ctico que se recomienda para aquellos que le gustar\u00eda leer m\u00e1s sobre el tema del trauma es, Jasmin Lee Cori, <em>Curaci\u00f3n de Trauma: Gu\u00eda de supervivencia para la comprensi\u00f3n de sus s\u00edntomas y recuperar su vida.<\/em> Cambridge, MA: Marlowe &amp; Company, 2007. Si se desea un enfoque integrador cristiana con miras frontera de Dios y el sufrimiento, a continuaci\u00f3n, un buen libro es: Diane Langberg, el sufrimiento y el Coraz\u00f3n de Dios: c\u00f3mo el trauma destruye y Cristo Restaura. (Nuevo Crecimiento Press, 2015). Si usted est\u00e1 interesado en c\u00f3mo la iglesia puede desempe\u00f1ar un papel en la curaci\u00f3n del trauma; un libro recomendado es: Harriet Hill, Margaret Hill, Dick Bagge, y Pat Miersma, la <em>curaci\u00f3n de las heridas de trauma: \u00bfC\u00f3mo la iglesia puede ayudar, Edici\u00f3n 2016 Ampliado.<\/em> (American Bible Society, 2016). <a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Marcos Wolynee, <em>no se inici\u00f3 con Usted: \u00bfC\u00f3mo hereda Familia Trauma Vapes Qui\u00e9n somos y c\u00f3mo poner fin al ciclo.<\/em> (Nueva York, NY: Editores de Viking.) <em>P. 4<\/em> <a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> Jasmin Lee Cori, <em>Curaci\u00f3n de Trauma: Gu\u00eda de supervivencia para la comprensi\u00f3n de sus s\u00edntomas y recuperar su vida.<\/em> (Cambridge, MA: Marlowe &amp; Company, 2007). <strong>Acerca del autor<\/strong>","author_name":"","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/02\/Trauma-and-The-Path-to-Healing.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4T9u2-Ly","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}