There’s a song that just came on the radio that says, “Nothing heals the past like time…”
What a load of crap. Time can be a function of healing physically but it does not act on emotional, moral, or spiritual wounds in the same way, or at all.

Time and temperature are functions of cooking. If you want something to be “done,” then it needs to reach a certain degree. If you turn up the heat you can get there in less time or you can use low heat for a lot longer. It depends on how tough you want it to turn out.
It can be quite similar when dealing with emotional stress or trauma. If you turn up the heat on the issue, you’ll probably get through it a lot quicker but it’s going to be tough. If you don’t put much focus on the problem then it’s going to take a LONG time and may never actually resolve. You will be tender, not like something slow cooked but rather an injury that’s warm to the touch and hurts to address.

You need to be real about the past. Don’t sugar coat it. I have friends that have endured childhoods so traumatic that they were numb to the effects of service in war. Others suffered moral injuries in combat and are still struggling.

There’s NO easy way out. No quick fix. You can’t meditate your problems away. Staying busy will only distract you for so long. Drugs and drink are expensive and wear off, relationships fail, you trip while running away, adrenaline highs lead to major crashes- after awhile everything is burned out and you feel worse than before because the problem is still there, unaddressed.

I meet with vets in a variety of places, in person and online. I listen and ask questions. Recently a few friends were discussing trauma that they were processing from both wartime service and childhood. The main conclusion was that you had to start at the beginning. Without resolving your childhood issues, you wouldn’t be able to properly address what occurred in adulthood.

Your adult perspective is shaped by the people and events from your childhood. If something traumatic altered your perception, the rest of your life will be interpreted through that tinted lens.

How can you appropriately process trauma in your adult life unless you have a well adjusted adult mindset?

OVER.

John 5:6
“When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”

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