welcome to another episode of therapy and theology i’m lisa turkhurst joined today by dr joel mutamale and licensed professional counselor jim kress thank you guys so much i’m so excited about our topic today we’re talking about moving through the impact of trauma here’s something i want you to keep in mind every time we experience a wounding or a betrayal or a trauma-traumatic event in our life there’s two parts there’s the fact of what happened that’s the initial hurt that you’ve experienced or the initial rejection that you’ve
experienced so there’s the fact then there’s also the impact so the fact happens but the impact you’re gonna have to move through and it could leak into your life for quite a while so today we want to talk about what are those stages um just like we’ve heard there’s stages to grief and oftentimes trauma moving through the impact of trauma and moving through the impact of the grief that comes from a loss either because of death or because of someone walking away or an ending of a relationship those things mirror each other the the
grief from a loss and the grief of a trauma and sometimes the trauma is because of loss in our life so today i want to talk about these stages because i’ve been through some significant trauma if you’ve been watching therapy and theology for a while i’ve been very upfront and honest sometimes i feel like joel is here to bring the theological depth and jim is here to bring the therapeutic wisdom and i’m here to bring the issues so uh we just make our really good team here but i’ve been through significant trauma
and um and loss and um i know jim we’ve worked together so much jim is my personal counselor and then joel is my personal theologian really joel and i work together every day and he does the theological research and study and and we spend many many hours studying the bible together but both of you familiar very very familiar with what i’ve walked through and jim you’ve called divorced before the death of a marriage and i do feel like i’ve not only walked through the traumatic event surrounding what caused the death of
this marriage but also having to learn to accept it and move on and the grief has at times been pretty intense because it is a loss so whatever the impact is that you’re processing or you’re walking through most of us have some kind of hurt wounding possibly even trauma that we are facing in front of us and even if you haven’t had something dramatic happen in your life i would suspect you’re grieving something or you’re trying to move through something that maybe you had an expectation of a certain relationship and that
