How Does God Redeem a Dysfunctional Childhood? | Nathan Sheridan

Are your childhood memories less than ideal? Do you struggle to see God’s goodness in it? Join Colleen Swindoll Thompson and singer/songwriter ‪@NathanSheridan‬ as they dive into his tumultuous childhood and how God took the pieces and transformed his life.
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· The people God used along the way
· How Nathan’s choices changed his future
· What he did with the grief and hurt
· How the setbacks set him up for success
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Hearing the first eight minutes, I can attest to the lasting effects of childhood trauma. But similar to the layers of an onion, the layers of pain do dissolve, however this process happens over many many MANY years.
As an adult in my late fifties, I am still combating childhood PTSD or Chronic PTSD: COTSD. And this combating is due to what Colleen shared about the child’s brain being developed. When trauma is so present in children, especially abandonment, abuse, neglect and more, the brain is completely rewired so the child can survive. But those survival instincts are the very issues that result in lasting character traits that affect abuse survivors throughout a lot of our adult lives. Sadly, a lot of those internal issues fail to surface until another aspect of trauma is dealt with, in my opinion.
Nevertheless, I have found, the benefit of having a close intimate honest relationship with the Lord, our Creator via the power of the Trinity, can reveal to us how we truly are fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalms 139:14), and how “we are created for good works in Christ” (Ephesians 2:10). Through him, we can be used thoroughly in this broken and fractured flawed world.🙏