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What if the hope you've been searching for isn't gone — just buried?
After trauma, loss, or a season that's left you feeling undone, it can be hard to believe that anything is still steady beneath the rubble. The ground has shifted. Hope feels fragile, or distant, or simply out of reach.
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Trauma counselor and author Jennifer Hand has spent years in the hardest places — from earthquake zones in Nepal and Turkey to exhausted caregivers and grieving families — and she keeps finding the same thing: hope is there. It just needs to be uncovered.
In this conversation, Jenn brings both clinical training and personal experience to an honest, practical discussion about what trauma actually does to the brain and body, how to recognize when you're stuck in survival mode, and why healing doesn't require rebuilding everything at once.
She also shares what she believes is the most important thing to reestablish after any trauma — and the one question she asked every single counseling client before anything else. It isn't in her book. She saved it for you.
Key Scriptures: Psalm 139 | Psalm 91 | Psalm 121 | Romans 8
In this episode:
- What trauma really is — and why you may not recognize it in yourself
- Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn explained in plain, compassionate language
- Why safety must come before healing — and how Psalm 91 speaks to that need
- Practical grounding tools you can use today, most of them free
- Why caregivers experience trauma too — and what they need to hear most
- The one question Jenn asked every counseling client first — and never put in her book
Your story is not over, friend. One gentle step at a time, hope can be uncovered again.
Check out Jennifer's book, Hope Beneath the Rubble: Healing After Trauma.
Read the full article here.
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Resources Mentioned in this Episode
Hope Beneath the Rubble: Healing After Trauma by Jennifer Hand
Holy in the Moment: Simple Ways to Love God by Ginger Harrington
How to Scripture Journal (Episode 69)
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