How do I start healing from trauma?

If you are a man who has tried to fix yourself with books, programs, and promises you made at two in the morning, and nothing held, this episode is about what comes first.

There is an order to healing, and almost nobody tells you.

A soldier goes down in the open, still under fire. The medic doesn’t start on the wound. He gets the man behind cover first, because a medic who works in the open can lose them both. Bill Anderson asks how long you have been trying to heal while the fire is still coming in.

Bill shares what he got wrong: getting away from his father without being healed, and building a whole life on top of the wound. He walks through the three stages of trauma recovery laid out by Harvard psychiatrist Judith Herman in her 1992 book Trauma and Recovery, starting with safety. Then he describes what cover looks like in a grown man’s life: a safe place, a safe person, and a safe pace. The episode closes with Zechariah 4:6 and one simple thing to do this week.

This is Part 1 of The Healing Journey.

Watch the short videos from this week on YouTube at @WarriorMedicPodcast, and on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Rumble. Monday and Tuesday are personal. Wednesday is marriage. Thursday is fathering. Friday is healing. Saturday is a letter to one man. Sunday is one truth and one passage.

If this episode helped you, please leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. It helps other men find The Warrior Medic.

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No man left behind.

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