trauma - MandyGunter.com https://mandygunter.com Striving for biblical literacy and hope in a broken world. Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:53:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://i0.wp.com/mandygunter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-MG-logo.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 trauma - MandyGunter.com https://mandygunter.com 32 32 227822906 The Forgotten Healing – Limping Not Skipping Towards Eternity https://mandygunter.com/the-forgotten-healing-limping-not-skipping-towards-eternity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-forgotten-healing-limping-not-skipping-towards-eternity Thu, 16 Jan 2025 02:56:42 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=728 I had a distinctly unpleasant conversation with a person recently. I suspect if you also talk with human beings, you have those interactions from time to time too. 😉 As any good overthinker would do, I replayed the conversation in my head repeatedly, trying to make better sense of it....

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]]> 728 The Suffering Tree – Trembling Branches and Secure Roots https://mandygunter.com/the-suffering-tree-trembling-branches-and-secure-roots/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-suffering-tree-trembling-branches-and-secure-roots https://mandygunter.com/the-suffering-tree-trembling-branches-and-secure-roots/#comments Wed, 26 Jun 2024 01:09:35 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=654 Lament is not the absence of praise. It is simply the path through pain to praise.

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]]> https://mandygunter.com/the-suffering-tree-trembling-branches-and-secure-roots/feed/ 2 654 Holding Onto Hospitals and Hope https://mandygunter.com/holding-onto-hospitals-and-hope/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=holding-onto-hospitals-and-hope Fri, 12 Apr 2024 22:41:23 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=559 The last month has been nothing like I planned. We spent almost half a year preparing for a major spinal surgery for my son, whose scoliosis suddenly curved to 100 degrees and was in the beginning stages of compromising his heart and lungs. CJ carries on his small shoulders a...

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]]> 559 The Suffering Table https://mandygunter.com/the-suffering-table/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-suffering-table https://mandygunter.com/the-suffering-table/#comments Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:30:46 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=522 God has repeatedly brought a verse to mind over the last few weeks. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and as one from whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. Isaiah 53:3 My husband, Chris,...

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]]> https://mandygunter.com/the-suffering-table/feed/ 2 522 Triggers and Therapy https://mandygunter.com/triggers-and-therapy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=triggers-and-therapy https://mandygunter.com/triggers-and-therapy/#comments Sun, 17 Mar 2024 02:28:54 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=494 Our culture and social media are flooded with language that would have baffled the population a mere decade ago. The trend of therapy and working on the self seems to climb upward every day. I, for one, find it to be a fascinating swing from what was considered the norm...

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]]> https://mandygunter.com/triggers-and-therapy/feed/ 2 494 The Basics of Loving a Traumatized Child https://mandygunter.com/the-basics-of-loving-a-traumatized-child/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-basics-of-loving-a-traumatized-child Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:07:40 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=312 Childhood and trauma is a sobering paring of words. Events painful enough to cause a wound to the mind and nervous system can rock the strongest adult, but how much more devastating trauma is to a developing child! Statistically, almost every adult in the United States is in some sort...

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]]> 312 Adoption Memories July 2015 https://mandygunter.com/adoption-memories-july-2015/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=adoption-memories-july-2015 Sun, 04 Feb 2024 00:21:58 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=130 Learning to Laugh One year ago today, Little Man’s case was brought before a judge on the other side of the world, and he was legally declared our son.  I think back to this time last year and I can remember the overwhelming flood of emotions- the relief that he...

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]]> 130 Adoption Memories – 9 months home 2015 https://mandygunter.com/adoption-memories-9-months-home-2015/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=adoption-memories-9-months-home-2015 Sun, 04 Feb 2024 00:19:28 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=128 Always Victorious Little Man has been home for 9 months now.  I marvel at the changes we see in him on a weekly basis. It seems that things have truly settled into a normal routine.  Things do not feel “new” anymore.  Instead, life has become a beautiful phase of rest...

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]]> 128 Adoption Memories – 8 months home 2015 https://mandygunter.com/adoption-memories-8-months-home-2015/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=adoption-memories-8-months-home-2015 Sun, 04 Feb 2024 00:15:58 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=126 Then they will be brave and free… Little Man has been in our arms for just over 8 months now.  Can you believe it?  I can’t.  He has learned SO much in the last two or three months.  We were recently at an appointment with a new doctor when he...

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]]> 126 Adoption Memories – December 2014 https://mandygunter.com/adoption-memories-december-2014/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=adoption-memories-december-2014 Sun, 04 Feb 2024 00:08:29 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=122 The Light of the World Today is 4 months since Gotcha Day!  It honestly feels like an eternity ago.  I don’t really even remember life with just one kid, although I am trying to figure out why I used to think I always had my hands full then.  I had...

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