The dictionary defines trauma as a distressing experience that’s caused by severe emotional shock resulting in ongoing psychological distress. Response to trauma could include helpless feelings of stress or grief which resurface when events are re-experienced in dreams and invasive memories.
Trauma can have a negative effect on relationships by creating feelings of detachment, which are symptoms of continuing stress. Children who undergo trauma are often overlooked until behavioral changes require attention. The inability to focus on schoolwork or acting-out in class are red flag behaviors.
God gave children the capacity to talk through issues and feelings when they feel safe and secure. Our job is to listen and understand. Safety and security are essential necessities for trust to develop so communication can take place.
Staying in touch with God through prayer and worship help families heal and stay together.
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Then God came and stood
before him exactly as before, calling out, “Samuel! Samuel!” Samuel answered, “Speak.
I’m your servant, ready to listen.”
~1 Samuel 3:10 The
Message
“I, yes I, am the one who
comforts you.”
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