Are you suffering from any type of addiction? I'm here to tell you, there's hope!
No one can fully know what that kind of trauma feels like until they’ve lived it. People need to love, support, and care for those who are suffering, unconditionally—because if anyone deserves that, it’s those of you who have suffered this, after all you've been through.
There are people who understand this kind of pain in a real way—trauma-informed therapists, survivor groups, and books written by people who’ve walked through it and found a way forward. One that has helped a lot of survivors, and helped me more than anyone could know, is *The Body Keeps the Score* by Bessel van der Kolk. This book helped me heal from alifetime of deep-layered trauma and a staggering unhealthy addiction to sugar.
I prayed the Lord would help me, and he guided me to this wonderful book. The author knows exactly what he's talking about. I highly recommend it. It explains why the pain stays and how healing can begin, even years later. Healing takes time and patience, and it deserves care at your own pace.
Your feelings and reactions make sense. You were deeply hurt, and what happened to you, damaged your spirit—but that doesn’t make you any less valuable or worthy of love and healing.
Society is reaching for the wrong things, in an attempt to bring quick comfort from any trauma or addiction you've experienced. The broken parts don’t define your entire being. You are still a person who deserves to be seen, cared for, loved, and healed. It's not the alcohol, gambling, stealing, food, or whatever has a hold on you. That's not what you're craving. What you're actually craving is comfort from the constant emotional pain, and you're reaching for anything and everything that you think will fill that void and stop it. But those are not what you're wanting at all. You're wanting the pain to stop and your reaching out for anything that brings quick comfort.
People who experience genuine joy, aren't the ones who eliminated sadness from their lives - they're the ones who stopped treating sadness as a problem, and created room for both things to exist at the same time.
They didn’t become immune to sadness - they stopped fighting it and running from it. In doing so, they found true freedom...making space for something else to exist alongside it. Joy isn’t the absence of pain—it’s what naturally emerges when we no longer treat every difficult feeling as something that needs to be fixed. Doing so, keeps our body in "fight or flight" mode and therefore cannot heal. Meeting challenges face to face, is what brings true freedom. Challenges are there to help us, not hurt us.
There are different ways to cope with pain, than reaching for things that are toxic and harmful to you. The above book I mentioned, will help you see that, then you can finally start healing. I'm living proof of that. I suffered from sugar addiction from about the age of 6 years old. And I don't know if you know this, but the Lord does use therapists to help us reach these deep-seeded wounds from childhood.
This takes therapy, patience, and self-love. It also takes being realistic about the fact that addiction doesn't happen in just one moment. Therefore, it's not going to magically disappear in one day. But working through this is well worth it, I assure you. You will heal. It is an ongoing experience, but worth every minute of your time.
Right now, you could walk in with one of my favorite desserts, red velvet cake, offer it to me, and I would definitely have to turn you down. That right there, is a miracle, my friend. It's not what we're eating or doing, that's the problem. It's what's eating at us, that we need to heal, and The Body Keeps the Score tells you exactly how to do that, and the process is actually lovely and so freeing.
I recently sent this book to a friend of mine who is suffering. It's on sale at Walmart as a used book but like new, for only $7. This book is far more valuable than the cost they present. It is well worth the purchase.
You can move from:
Fear-driven survival mode
to
Love-driven living.
That’s not a crutch.
That’s alignment between your spirit and your nervous system.
Your voice is worth hearing. You’re still here. And that matters. ♥
God bless you in your journey for healing. If this information helps even one person, it was worth the sharing.
"So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed" - John 8:36
And don't forget the Lord's wonderful Jeremiah 29:11 promise:
"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future."
There are people who understand this kind of pain in a real way—trauma-informed therapists, survivor groups, and books written by people who’ve walked through it and found a way forward. One that has helped a lot of survivors, and helped me more than anyone could know, is *The Body Keeps the Score* by Bessel van der Kolk. This book helped me heal from alifetime of deep-layered trauma and a staggering unhealthy addiction to sugar.
I prayed the Lord would help me, and he guided me to this wonderful book. The author knows exactly what he's talking about. I highly recommend it. It explains why the pain stays and how healing can begin, even years later. Healing takes time and patience, and it deserves care at your own pace.
Your feelings and reactions make sense. You were deeply hurt, and what happened to you, damaged your spirit—but that doesn’t make you any less valuable or worthy of love and healing.
Society is reaching for the wrong things, in an attempt to bring quick comfort from any trauma or addiction you've experienced. The broken parts don’t define your entire being. You are still a person who deserves to be seen, cared for, loved, and healed. It's not the alcohol, gambling, stealing, food, or whatever has a hold on you. That's not what you're craving. What you're actually craving is comfort from the constant emotional pain, and you're reaching for anything and everything that you think will fill that void and stop it. But those are not what you're wanting at all. You're wanting the pain to stop and your reaching out for anything that brings quick comfort.
People who experience genuine joy, aren't the ones who eliminated sadness from their lives - they're the ones who stopped treating sadness as a problem, and created room for both things to exist at the same time.
They didn’t become immune to sadness - they stopped fighting it and running from it. In doing so, they found true freedom...making space for something else to exist alongside it. Joy isn’t the absence of pain—it’s what naturally emerges when we no longer treat every difficult feeling as something that needs to be fixed. Doing so, keeps our body in "fight or flight" mode and therefore cannot heal. Meeting challenges face to face, is what brings true freedom. Challenges are there to help us, not hurt us.
There are different ways to cope with pain, than reaching for things that are toxic and harmful to you. The above book I mentioned, will help you see that, then you can finally start healing. I'm living proof of that. I suffered from sugar addiction from about the age of 6 years old. And I don't know if you know this, but the Lord does use therapists to help us reach these deep-seeded wounds from childhood.
This takes therapy, patience, and self-love. It also takes being realistic about the fact that addiction doesn't happen in just one moment. Therefore, it's not going to magically disappear in one day. But working through this is well worth it, I assure you. You will heal. It is an ongoing experience, but worth every minute of your time.
Right now, you could walk in with one of my favorite desserts, red velvet cake, offer it to me, and I would definitely have to turn you down. That right there, is a miracle, my friend. It's not what we're eating or doing, that's the problem. It's what's eating at us, that we need to heal, and The Body Keeps the Score tells you exactly how to do that, and the process is actually lovely and so freeing.
I recently sent this book to a friend of mine who is suffering. It's on sale at Walmart as a used book but like new, for only $7. This book is far more valuable than the cost they present. It is well worth the purchase.
You can move from:
Fear-driven survival mode
to
Love-driven living.
That’s not a crutch.
That’s alignment between your spirit and your nervous system.
Your voice is worth hearing. You’re still here. And that matters. ♥
God bless you in your journey for healing. If this information helps even one person, it was worth the sharing.
"So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed" - John 8:36
And don't forget the Lord's wonderful Jeremiah 29:11 promise:
"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future."
