PTSD and Our Core Story

The robbing of our lives occurs when the core story of who we are—created as “very good” (Gen 1:31) and never downgraded, and “beloved” of God (1 Jn 3:2)—is taken through specific memories and twisted into something far more sinister than any demon possession.

Bessel van der Kolk, known for his legendary work on trauma and the body, notes our minds disassociate with traumatic events by putting them in “frozen, barely comprehensible fragments.” 

We may have memories attached to a certain place, smell, or song. They seem far away or absent at times but are still beneath the…