Sometimes life keeps coming at us while we're in the middle of healing. Rather than ignoring, or plowing through continuing our journey as if nothing's happened, we desire to give you space to find your footing again.  To breathe, cope, and get grounded.  This phase can take as long as you need it to. 

We only offer 2 books for this stage, and several easy to access prayers and practices to help you as you navigate the uncharted waters of this new crisis.  The important thing is continuing to come to our General Groups! Your group is here to support you through this crisis!  Do your best not to isolate, let us help you through it. 

The first 6 Phases of our program is summarized as Sitting with My Trauma.  Our trauma started with an event, was further compounded by one or more additional events, and has contributed to a whole host of experiences, coping behaviors, hard choices, regrets, denials, and loss after loss.  Taking the time at the begging of the journey to assess what it is your specific trauma has caused in your life will help you rise out from underneath it. It may be tempting to skip the first couple of Phases, but going through them will pave the foundation for an honest, total, and fruitful journey that leads to true healing, restoration, and freedom. 

The resources here are meant to be reviewed 1-1 with a mentor, where you pick and choose what to work on based you your instincts.  If you desire to go into deeper work with a group setting, reach out to us so we can invite you to the next Small Group when they are getting ready to form. 

After we've taken the time to identify where exactly we've been wounded and gone through triage - yes - a rather extensive version of it!  We're able to start making progress and sorting some of our trauma out.  These next six Phases are meant to help us as we process our experiences, and allow us to start to recover our sense of "Self" the self that was abused, abandoned, neglected, assaulted, betrayed, belittled, and cast aside.  This leg of the journey is typically the longest - remember there is no right or wrong path through your healing, only yours, and there is no time limitations, so be patient with yourself, it will take as long as it takes - but trust that there is an end, and it will come at the right time. 

It has been an incredible journey!  You've taken a good long look at what you've experienced. You've accessed feelings you never thought you could again.  You've dealt with the "fallout" and make significant changes in how you respond to things, ensuring that you've corrected the trauma override reactions.  Now you're ready for the next step - Moving Beyond. 

For many the things you'll discuss here are things that will be challenging, and you may find yourself needing to go back and work through previous activities, prayer practices, or resources in order to fully embrace what these phases ask you to do.  While some of it may seem impossible when you start, trust yourself, trust God, and trust His faith in you.  You were created to live a life of abundance, not of scarcity.  Together, step by step, He will bring you into your future.