A word for organizations and churches trying to care for members who have experienced trauma. If you expect a logical, linear or "neat" manifestation of the pain they're suffering, you're terribly misguided and will likely re-injure. + Though the events that caused the trauma might be clearly defined, trauma responses (behaviors, emotions) are by nature disregulated, confusing and often unpredictable, even to the person embodying them. What you label "inconsistent" might actually be the brutalized brain... +

Brace yourselves... It's taken 3 days to get to the point where I can speak of #ShinyHappyPeople without developing hives. As @BethMooreLPM suggests, I'll try to use "ladylike" words, but here are the 4 excerpts sitting heavy in the gut of this spiritual/sexual abuse survivor. 🧵 Note: I’m not trying to attack people who embrace these stances. I'm attempting to explain how these 4 points can be bludgeons in the hands of believers and not yield the blessings vaunted by IBLP ideology. +