Attachment to Trauma or Friendship with God: The Key to Healing Victimization

   Secular psychologists, therapists and healers of various sorts have stumbled upon one of the reasons for the ongoing pain of victims of violence and have discovered it within the realm of attachment.  Their findings locate one of the main obstacles to healing and moving on in life to a paradoxical attachment the victims have to the trauma itself and the mood altering aspects therein.  What they have not figured out yet is how to predictably help these individuals effectively change their attachments to healthy sources and not return to abusive situations, hoping for it to turn out differently.  In this regard, they have discovered that their methods should not just involve reprocessing old trauma, reliving it and then letting it go or even employing a host of neurological tools for disrupting unhealthy neurological patterns stemming from the abuse.  These approaches are helpful but there is something in all of these models that misses and does not address the god given need for attachment that God created in us all.  More perceptive therapists have noticed that the traumatized individuals being referred to here that find that they hold a place in the minds and hearts of their therapists during and following therapy are the ones who heal the best.  What is going on here?
   Clearly, therapy techniques, even good ones, are not enough to heal and help resolve the soul mutilating effects of sexual abuse, domestic violenc ...

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