Do you know anyone processing past trauma while muddling through this pandemic trauma?

Maybe it is you? Maybe it is a friend? Maybe it will be someone you meet tomorrow?

How can we hear and love them well? How can we care for ourselves if we have gone through pain in our past and things have resurfaced in the pandemic? How can we process how this season has been challenging for everyone–whether or not we have gone through another traumatic event?

How can we process our pain?

Speaker and author of We Too, Mary DeMuth, has some tender, encouraging words for us today.

Highlights:

“Things that stay inside don’t do well … An untold story never heals.” –Mary DeMuth

“This is hard. Whether you have had trauma or not, this is hard.  But just because everyone is experiencing it doesn’t mean it’s not real to you.” –Mary DeMuth

“Err on the side of belief … it’s not up to you to try to dissect and try to figure out if it’s true or not. If it isn’t true it will come out in the end, but wouldn’t you want your first response to be empathetic? Wouldn’t that be Jesus’ first response: empathy?” –Mary DeMuth

“I try to look at [the healing journey] like an adventure because healing is difficult. If I look at healing like climbing Mount Rainier in Washington State, it seems a lot more interesting to me … It’s not going to be easy, it will be very difficult, but it’s an adventure. Instead of dreading this fact that you had this flash of a memory, see it as a healing adventure.” –Mary DeMuth

Do the Next Thing:

Explore more of Mary’s resources related to We Too here

Find Mary’s book We Too here

Read about a time I processed trauma through a prayer process here