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Naming Spiritual Trauma
One of the early and essential parts of healing is noticing, staying with, and beginning to name your experience. Even tentatively finding language for the emotions, dynamics or beliefs that have organized one’s life, can help these key realities be felt and processed. For many people who are survivors of, or currently are experiencing spiritual trauma, it can be a threshold moment to recognize that “what I’ve experienced has a name. This is real.” This is particularly true in the case of spiritual trauma because this kind of harm tends to operate below conscious awareness, in subtle and not so subtle ways, influencing very core layers of a person’s being, including their sense of worthiness, their belief in their own agency, and how they experience their body and how they experience their own body, sexuality and relationships.