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TRAUMA does NOT exist?
We hear about trauma everywhere—from therapy sessions to timelines. But what if trauma, as we define it, is more of a psychological label than a spiritual truth? In this episode of TheeSoulFuel, we expose the myth of trauma’s ultimate power and reclaim what the Word says about brokenness, healing, and identity. Is trauma your truth, or is it just a temporary wound that God already made provision for?
What if I told you that trauma doesn't exist, not because pain isn't real, but because it was never meant to define you? A culture has convinced you to wear your wounds like a name tag. We've built entire belief systems around pain and called it healing. But what if I told you that in Christ, trauma doesn't just fade but it doesn't exist at all, not because the pain, again, wasn't real, but because it has no power over you and who you have become? Let's break the lie, let's talk. I just want to walk in obedience. What's going on everybody? Welcome to another episode of the SoulFuel podcast, the pit stop for your soul to be fueled for your journey in life, as you do it with Christ. Listen, today is another feather ruffler. This is a topic that I believe truly needs to be talked about, because I hear a lot of people in church really claim this word that you heard me talk about in the introduction, which is trauma, and let's just break the lie. Let's go ahead and just break the lie and break free of the label.
Speaker 1:What is trauma for real? The clinical definition from APA, trauma is an emotional response to a terrible event, and I want to give you the statistics on this right. 70% of US adults have experienced a traumatic event. According to Mental Wellbeing Council, six percent have PTSD. According to the National Center for PTSD, ace study links trauma to chronic health issues. Now what does that say? Trauma is real as an event, but it's become misused as an identity. So many people have really wrapped their mindset around the things that have happened to them, the things that it just seems that they can't get over. But we know that we're overcomers by the blood of the lamb and the words of their testimony, and I just believe that there are not a lot of people who are really giving all of their trauma, all of their issues, all of their history to Jesus.
Speaker 1:But this is interesting I was listening to a book. I was listening to a book and I believe it's called the Courage to Be Disliked and I'm getting ready to get there and I want to pull something from that book in just in just a second. It's not the content from the book, but it is a psychology, is a school of psychology that we'll get to. But I want to talk about how trauma has literally become a label. Culture has used it so much and if I'm always talking about culture these days on the pod. Then you got to know why. Because there is this ridiculous amount of people who speak to trauma, who are talking about trauma all over social media. So you hear trauma, trauma, trauma, trauma, trauma. Oh, that's my trauma, that's my trauma.
Speaker 1:Everybody blames their, their bad character on trauma. They blame the way that they uh uh move in relationships, whether it be friendship, uh, intimate relationships or just regular friendships. They tend to love to pull up that word trauma and use that as an excuse. But trauma has become a label. As we spoke to, we're talking about breaking free of the label, but trauma has become a label.
Speaker 1:It's not a wound to be healed, but it's something to wear. It's almost as if it has become a medallion. It's almost as if it is a purple heart or a war wound, something that people love to dress up and and and and put tattoos around, right, people love to have this mindset based on their trauma, like trauma is their foundation and not Jesus, and that's a big difference. If Jesus is not the foundation of your life, then, quite naturally, whatever has been ailing you, whatever has been a big issue in your life, that's where you're going to build everything off of and this is going to get real good in just a second.
Speaker 1:But here's the common issue with the problem that culture has made for trauma, and that is that it creates a victim mentality. It creates a victim mentality. It creates nothing but a victim mentality. There is an avoidance of personal and spiritual responsibility, and this is where you get your deliverance ministries. They thrive right here. They thrive right here because they take away the personal responsibility. They take away the spiritual responsibility that you have to get free, because I've talked about this many, many times and James talks about this. The book of James talks about this and it says something like this faith without works is dead. If you're not doing anything to change it, it's not going to change. If you do a little bit of work and you're just limited to that little bit of work and you don't do anything else or you feel like you've done enough work on yourself, then eventually it's only a matter of time before those same issues happen again or start affecting you again.
Speaker 1:Even with this problem of the trauma culture, there is a constant revisiting without restoration. That's how you know there's no work done, because you're going to keep revisiting these moments. The moment that watch this somebody's going to always trigger you because there is no true healing going to always trigger you because there is no true healing. People are only triggered when they have not been healed. Hmm, that's good. Right there, I think that's good, that's good. People are only triggered when they have not been healed. And I've heard many people say, uh, that's triggering, that's triggering. Uh, no, that that that trigger. I was triggered, I was triggered. Why are you triggered If you healed? Why are you so triggered? Why do you result to being offended? And I heard somebody say this, which is so true and I'm going to use it right here, and he said that if you're easily offended, you are easily controlled. And it's true Because you will constantly keep revisiting the trauma restoration if you are not healed, if you do not put aside and lay aside the victim identity, the victim mentality, if you do not lay aside taking on the responsibility of getting free.
Speaker 1:Here's that part from the book that I was telling you about. There was a school of thought of psychology titled the Adlerian psychology. And here's the interesting thing when I was listening to this book, I froze so hard on it. I believe I was listening to it while I was in the shower and it just really, it really made me think and it really pushed me back into Scripture, because it was closely related to Scripture. But we know that psychology is more science and not at all really spiritual. But watch this the Adlerian psychology, or the Adlerian psychology says that we are not shaped by trauma itself, but by the meaning we assign to it. We are not listen to that. We are not shaped by trauma itself, but by the meaning we assign to it.
Speaker 1:So it's my, it's always on me about how I think, of how my mama treated me, how, like, what, what, what, what it? What did my parents divorce do for me? What did it do to me? Well, for, if I can, of course, I can speak on it. For me, it freed me from seeing my dad being be abused verbally, mentally and physically. Not that he's a punk, because he wasn't, but he was. He was a man of God. He a man of God and he never put his hands on my mom, but my mom put her hands on him and I witnessed this, and so for me, the divorce, in my eyes, was a great thing.
Speaker 1:Now there are other children, we'll get to it, but I'm going to go ahead and say it. There are other children, who who experienced their parents divorce and are completely shattered, who experienced their parents divorce and are completely shattered. But for me it was great. It was great because my dad was well off. You know, it was better. It was better for for for people to split them, for somebody to end up dead.
Speaker 1:But the point in this, at Lyrian thought, is that it's not the event, it's the interpretation. It's not the event, y' event, it's the interpretation. It's not the event, y'all, it's the interpretation. How do you interpret a divorce? That was I just gave y'all my interpretation of it. Right, my interpretation was this, this and that was going on. This led to that and then this happened and all of a a sudden, I'm, I'm being split between two homes and I'm traveling. I'm, I'm going, I want to live with my dad, but I'm going to see my mom uh, based on court orders and what she wants and I'm going back and forth, right, but I got used to that and it was kind of cool. I kind of liked being able to leave my dad's crib and go be with my mom in orlando, florida, and and vice versa. Then I wanted to go back home because I could only be there for a certain amount of time.
Speaker 1:But this is a quote from Alfred Adler. He says we are not determined by our experiences. We are not determined by our experiences, but the meaning we give them. This makes this is so rich y'all. Two people can experience the same trauma and respond differently, based on belief and goals. Watch this.
Speaker 1:This aligns so much with scripture. How? Because proverbs 23 and 7 says as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. If that's what you think you are, if that's what you believe, if that is your goal, to kind of live up to what you believe, then that's all you will ever be. Oh, come on, I'm trying to free. I'm trying to free somebody. I'm trying to free somebody who's listening to this. And we know what Romans 12 and 2 says Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Can I borrow just that one line Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then go back to Proverbs 23 and 7. As you think in your heart, so are you. That's what you are, but you can only be what you have renewed your mind to be. So there's a bridge between this Adlerian psychology theory and this scripture. And what is that? Psychology, when it's honest, often echoes what God already revealed. It just continues to repeat what God had already revealed.
Speaker 1:You are not what happened to you. You are what Christ has redeemed you to be. And there are a couple of scriptures I want to throw at you real quick Isaiah 53 and 5,. By his scourging we are healed. By his stripes we are healed. Jehovah Rapha means to restore, make whole. That is the God that we serve. Jehovah Jireh, our provider. He has provided restoration, he has provided wholeness for us.
Speaker 1:Second Corinthians, chapter 5, verse 17. You are a new creature and all things are passed away. You are a new creature, not a traumatized one. You're new. The old, you might have been traumatized and paralyzed, but you are in christ and and clearly I'm talking to believers right now you are new. None of the stuff that happened to you can define you, except what you allow it to define. Romans 8 and 37. For we are more than conquerors. Hypernikau. Hypernikau Now, I'm probably butchering that, that's the Greek word right For more than conquerors. To prevail mightily. To prevail mightily. You prevail mightily. Why? Because you are a new creature. Why Because through his stripes, by his scourging, we are healed. And watch this A lot of people take Isaiah 53 and 5 and say, oh, that means my body is healed.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no, no, no, that means your mind and your soul is healed. That's what he was beat for, that's what he died for, so our souls could be free, not our flesh, because this flesh is going to die. Many things happen to the flesh. We can walk outside, trip and scrape your knee Ouch, that's imperfection, right there, boom. And then we want to say, oh, by his stripes I'm healed. No, it ain't talking about that. It's talking about your soul. That's why you're more than a conqueror.
Speaker 1:Jesus asked the lame man that was sitting by the pool of Bethesda for 38 long years. He says do you want to be healed? And that's the question that I'm asking you in this episode Do you want to be healed? Because if you want to be healed, you will do what it takes. You will rid yourself of the victim mentality and do what it takes. Philippians, chapter 3, verse 13 and 14. Just to sum that up, it says Paul is pressing forward despite severe suffering. If paul is enduring like actual physical suffering, but yet he's not allowing that to define who he is, because he was once a persecutor of christ. He was an instigator of getting Christians killed, but now he is finding joy in prison Because it is for the sake of Jesus Christ, our Lord. And here's what I want to leave you with. Here's what I want to leave you with.
Speaker 1:Satan is the one that is full of trauma. He lives in trauma. This is why drama comes from the trauma. The only being that is truly traumatized is Satan. He acts from the pain of his own rebellion and loss. He wants his spot back, but it ain't happening. It's not happening. He wants to reproduce that dysfunction in you by anchoring your identity and connecting it to your pain. He's trying to find all the pain points pain. He's trying to find all the pain points. He's one heck of a seller. He's trying to sell you on flesh and and and uh, elementary principles of the world and ways that you shouldn't. He's trying to sell you on the programming of the world than jesus, because he's stuck there and he wants you in a permanent, consistent place of dysfunction. But Jesus broke the pattern. Jesus broke the pattern. He broke the pattern on the cross.
Speaker 1:So you are not what happened to you.
Speaker 1:You are not what happened to you. You are not what happened to you. You are what's been healed, and trauma very well, for you believer, who I'm talking to? And for the person who is not a believer, you can apply this same thing, but it really only works if you're in Jesus, if you have Jesus in your life. So I'm inviting you, I'm inviting you and I'm challenging you to, even as you write a review or leave a comment on this episode if you don't know Jesus say I want to be saved. Just say I want to be saved and we'll get with you. Somebody in the community will get with you, because this is really, this is true therapy, and Adlerian psychology speaks.
Speaker 1:This Speaks to the flesh and tells you that, hey, it's possible to flip how you're interpreting this, but I want you to understand that trauma does not exist, not in the eternal identity that Jesus gave us. So what are you going to decide to do? You're going to change it up. You're going to change the way you think, are you going to allow your mind to be renewed, because you're more than a conqueror. I hope that you grabbed as much as you could out of this. Listen to it over and over and over again. Get this in your spirit. All right, listen, I really do love y'all and I want you to win. Whoever's listening to you the stranger. I want you to win. The Lord wants you to win and it's possible.
Speaker 1:All right, this has been another episode of the SoulFuel podcast. I know that you know I've been hitting on some very touchy subjects, but it's necessary, it's necessary. So I want you to make sure that this share this episode with somebody in your circle who needs to hear this truth. And be sure to subscribe and hit the like for the algorithm if you are watching this uh podcast on youtube, and make sure, again, you share it, rate it, uh, go to the all the podcast platforms and rate of the podcast and support the. Support it through patreoncom for slash the soul fuel. Uh, the soul fuel, patreoncom, slash the soul fuel. It's how we keep bold, uncompromised truth flowing. So until next time I'll see you. Stay filled, stay fueled, be safe, peace. I just want to walk in obedience.
