Trauma Informed Ministry

08/31/2020

Many years of brain based learning flushed down the toilet.

Believing in neuromyths, especially concerning learning styles, may be dangerous to personal development. Researchers debunk the concepts surrounding neuromyths.

04/04/2020

Thank you for visiting our page. To make our name shorter and easier to access, we have changed our name to Trauma Ministry. Please join us as we connect at that page and follow us at www.traumaministry.net where we have a free gift for you in your own work and/or understanding of trauma. We exist to address the needs and wellness of survivors of all categories of trauma.

… for congregations courageous enough to be the Body of Christ in the world so that survivors of trauma, abuse, and neglect thrive in their faith.

01/17/2020

The Children’s Ministry of Texas Baptists just published this blog I wrote. Thank you, Katie Swafford. May our children be protected, healed when needed, and taught to grow up strong in the lap of Jesus!

It is in this safe place within the family of God that the child is seen, heard, known and understood

10/02/2019

Trauma Informed Ministry is now Trauma Ministry. We simplified our name and have launched our website at www.traumaministry.net. In addition to streamlining our name which clearly lets you know hat we are about, we dropped “Informed” from our name because reports and research have come back saying some organizations that claimed to be trauma Informed were not acting in a trauma Informed way in their work.

Needless to say, that is not us. Just being trauma Informed is not enough. Such a critically needed ministry needs to be skilled, compassionate and resilient. We teach Story Listening which is one of the most powerful and necessary skills in Trauma Care. This is different from storytelling or narrative work. The sills in Story Listening enable caregivers to hear cries for help even before the survivor is consciously aware of their own need. The skills assist the caregiver in leading survivors to an aha! moment of healing where there is an incredible release of emotions and energy for healing.

Contact us for training opportunities in Story Listening. [email protected].

Blessings. See you at our new page and website.

… for congregations courageous enough to be the Body of Christ in the world so that survivors of trauma, abuse, and neglect thrive in their faith.

08/18/2019

These are the type of people who change the face of mental health treatment for the better.

Producer Tomas Hardiman shares the backstory on his relationship with renegade psychiatrist Ivor Browne and the film he made in his honor.

07/19/2019

I have spent over nine years studying and working in the field of trauma, abuse, and neglect. Each persons story is significant in so many ways. No one Trauma is worse or less than another’s.

At the same time, reading Escape from Camp 14 has put me at the most negative end of any spectrum of trauma, abuse, and neglect. The book is the account of the only known person born in a North Korean prisoner camp who has escaped and lived to tell about it. His story has been corroborated by defected prison guards and other “outsider” who were sent there. North Korea claims the place doesn’t even exist.

Should Freedom ever come to the North Korean people, the effort to work with them toward healing will be a Holy Spirit sized work. They do not know, literally, love, forgiveness, God. The dictator who created the closed State is treated and revered as their supreme being whose impact lives on beyond their dear.

They barely know what even “daily bread” is as they live on a sub subsistent diet, near the precipice of generational malnutrition, chronic health issues, starvation, and death from the added hard labor.

Imagine spending every evening after hard, enforced labor and a tiny meal in extreme self-criticism for what you should have done differently or better that day.

They know no friendships, having been taught to snitch on everyone else or risk extreme punishment or even death for failure to do so.

Join me in praying for the North Koran’s who live under the most extreme oppression on earth. Let’s pray for their liberation. And for those whose lives on earth have been destroyed and killed, join them in praying Revelation 6:10.

07/04/2019

Big news brewing! We have purchased a simpler domain name for our ministry: www.traumaministry.net. Before the end of July we will have a website up and running and an exciting freebie we want to send to you: 10 Commandments of Trauma Ministry. Giving you a heads up as we develop a leaner profile and focus on our work EQUIPPING CHURCHES TO MINISTER TO SURVIVORS OF TRAUMA. ABUSE AND NEGLECT!

07/02/2019

This doctor has his hand on our world’s pulse.

Dr Gabor Maté is a renowned expert in addiction, childhood trauma and mind-body health. In this interview, we spoke about a wide variety of topics, ranging from how he believes that most mental health conditions originate from unresolved childhood trauma, to why he describes current Western culture...

06/24/2019

Trauma Informed Ministry is at The Hispanic Baptist Convention in McAllen TX promoting our work to train church members in trauma ministry. And oh my how my heart aches and prays for the caregivers who themselves are carrying heavy personal loads of trauma, abuse, and neglect. Keeps me on my knees before God asking his Spirit to go ahead of me in all we do.

06/22/2019

Trauma Informed Ministry is now offering Trauma Healing Groups through The Trauma Healing Institute. Contact Ernest Izard at epizard@verizon. net for more information for those you serve.

06/12/2019

Welcome the new logo of Trauma Informed Ministry. Special shout out to Robert Cooper, colleague at Spruce High School, Dallas, TX, art teacher and brother in Christ for his talent and patience with me.