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Paying Attention: Trauma & The Enneagram (SOLO)

This episode is a follow up episode to “Because I Matter Too” (YouTube Audio Version)

AMY’S STORY: “This Is My Story, These Are My Songs” (YouTube Audio Version)

Back to the Cheetah Life, referenced in season 1, Hospitals & Courtrooms

Recognizing Childhood Trauma: Attachment Styles Episode with Erica Cuni, LMFT—YouTube Audio

Jireh by Maverick City, Elevation Worship

Scripture: Psalm 121:1, Luke 3:21-22, Psalm 139, Matthew 11:28

Referenced Book:

Try Softer, Aundi Kobler

Referenced Music:

“Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus”

O for grace to trust Him more

Lyrics by Louisa M. R Stead

“I Just Wanna Be Real” Chris August

“I may be throwing down words I don’t really understand, I could be talking to myself, but I don’t think I am”.

The enneagram paired with scripture and a coach can yield jaw dropping healing moments in the life of a PTSD patient. How can we use the enneagram as a tool in our ever- growing tool kit? In this bonus episode, Amy shares her experience working with an enneagram coach—gaining awareness and continuing to heal—healing that doesn’t make sense.

Awareness is essential to healing, understanding the blueprint of how God made us can change everything.

Paying attention to trauma, leaning into the pain, and choosing resources to help us heal is the way through. We hope to provide a little of that for you in this episode.

We all have core fears, and desires. Most of us have received wounding messages at one point in our lives. Most of us have realized our deepest fear at one point in our lives. While both of these often start in childhood, they can come at any time, and that leaves us living in our worst fears, and not the best versions of ourselves, or who God made us to be. Often our behaviors are driven by these things. Our coping styles (or lack of coping styles) often originate with our core need not being met and/or the realization of our core fears.

The Wednesdays With Watson podcast has a genesis of Amy sharing her journey with. PTSD. This is one of those episodes, may you find Hope in the healing story, what can actually happen when we pay attention to how God made us?

PTSD, Jesus and YOU: Raising My Ebenezer (SOLO Finale)

My Favorite part of podcasting is YOU and interacting with you. Please feel free to reach out to me using any of the options here. I would love to connect!

This is the follow up to an earlier episode where Amy shares her story and some of her favorite songs (special guest Phil Baker). You can find that episode here. This content was originally part of a cross over event with The Faithful Podcast, with host Stephanie Baker. On her own podcast, Watson leaves listeners on a cliffhanger, and in this bonus episode, she shares the follow up episode with the Wednesdays With Watson listeners who may not have popped over to The Faithful Podcast.

May you be encouraged by the power of surrender, regardless of how painful your life is, or has been, most often times the only way to survive is to walk through it. Watson chronicles one of those such times in this hopeful and creative episode. This is exclusive content and is actually a portion of Watson’s developing manuscript.

THANK YOU to those of you who have continued to walk through this journey with us. We are not done, we are in full on planning stages for Season 3, that title to be announced soon. Until then, we will provide bonus episodes and will continue to remind you that YOU MATTER, and that you are SEEN, KNOWN, HEARD, LOVED & VALUED. Here in the healing zone, we believe that 3 things can drastically change the trauma narrative. It is vital for trauma survivors to flank themselves with a strong community. It is imperative for them to also seek trauma informed counseling and in some form, church can be part of the healing process (this is my experience, but sometimes church is the causation of trauma). We believe in Jesus, and Watson refers to Him as the Star of her own story and firmly believes he can be yours too.

PTSD, Jesus and YOU: Finding Purpose In Spiritual Abuse, Special Guest Tiffany Countryman (Season Finale)

Contact AMY: My favorite part about podcasting is interacting with YOU! Please reach out to me using any of the options here.

In this season finale of PTSD, Jesus and You, we are joined by special guest Tiffany Countryman. Tiffany is the Founder and CEO of MinistryIsMe Ministries LLC., a Crohn’s Awareness Advocate, a Global Influencer, an accomplished Playwright, a Writing Coach, a member of the Board of Directors for “Neighborhoods Over Politics, INC.”, a member of the Board of Directors for “Sharing Ministries International, LLC.”, a Co-Host of the thriving Podcast titled, “Millennial Motherhood: Uncensored”, and is the delighted wife of Terrence Countryman. Together, they parent two children (Terell & Gabrielle).

It is the primary goal of Tiffany Countryman to lead souls to Christ, to assist others in fulfilling their destinies and to creatively contribute to her community until her mission is complete.

But there was a time when everything fell apart for her and the very institution that she dedicated her life and time, had no grace for her when grace upon grace was needed. Scared, poor, and pregnant out of wedlock, Countryman recalls “I couldn’t even afford to park at the hospital for ultrasounds and checkups”–yet nobody in her church offered to help in any way, instead they allowed her to sit in shame week after week as she at times contemplated abortion. Having grown up without a father, she often found that need met in church leadership, all of whom neglected her in her greatest hour of need. In this candid interview, Countryman offers practical advice for places of worship when faced with a situation like hers. Countryman’s interview will usher the Wednesdays With Watson podcast into our third season, where we will address more trauma in places of faith and worship.

Scripture References I John 4:4

Podcast Host: Amy Watson
Podcast Guest: Tiffany Countryman
Podcast Producer: Amy Highland
Podcast Cover Art: Brittany Knight
Original logo design: Anna Roberts
Graphics for all of season 2: Rebekah Millet

PTSD, Jesus and YOU: Weaponizing the Gospel

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Find the entire transcript of this podcast here

It is so important that we understand how we use the gospel when we are walking with the hurting, broken and bruised. This solo episode seeks to unpack the use of scriptures often given to trauma survivors. It is important to lead with compassion, to get in the trenches, weep with those who weep and mourn with those who mourn.  We must use scripture in context and most important, we need to earn the trust of those need us.  Right time. Right place. Right sprit.

This is a trauma survivors plea, use the gospel as the weapon it is not for what it is not.

Scripture References in the podcast:

Mark 5:1-20
John 1:1-2
John 11:35
I Tim 3:16-17
Phil 4:6-7
Mark 1:21-28
Mark 10:46-52
Hebrews 4:12
Luke 9:62

Join the conversation on Instagram, where for the the next 10 days, we will post a scripture often misused in the mental health sphere. If you are listening to this post July 27, 2021—those post are in the highlight section of Amy’s Instagram account.

Song “My Weapon” by Natalie Grant

“Your presence is my greatest weapon, pushing back the darkness, breaking every chain. My worship opens up the heavens, crushing every stronghold, when I speak Your name, cause Your presence is my weapon”

The North Face Of God, By Ken Gire

Podcast Host: Amy Watson
Podcast Producer: Amy Highland
Podcast Cover Art: Brittany Knight
Original Logo Design: Anna Roberts

PTSD, Jesus and YOU: Grieving The Loss Of A Child, Special Guest, Randy Mortensen

Episode sponsored by Pop Fusions Gourmet Ice and Wine Pops. Click the hyperlink for your amazing collision of fresh fruit flavors straight from Florida or if you are feeling like an extra kick, pick up one of their wine pops. Likely at a beach town near you or their website. We are so grateful for their support!

Little Jay was just five years old, when a mistake changed the lives of everyone around him.

Randy Mortensen joins the Wednesdays With Watson, AKA as “the healing zone” podcast to share his story of losing his five year old son, and shares the crooked roads of pain and despair that took him and where he found Hope and Restoration.  He has turned his immense pain into incredible purpose. After living with  substance abuse disorder for decades, Randy answered the first alter call he ever experienced and gave his life to Jesus. He tells the story of his journey to God, his recovery from substance abuse and his impactful calling now, including Jay’s House Of Restoration in Haiti.

The Wednesdays With Watson podcast seeks to encourage those who are walking or have walked painful roads in their lives, whether officially diagnosed with PTSD or not, we seek to bring Hope and remove stigma of mental health in the community, family, church, and work place. Keep it here, in the healing zone, we are always going to bring you stories of Hope and resources that educate you and opportunities to help.

If you are interested in the many recovery programs that Randy offers, head to his website. To learn more about Jay’s House Of Restoration also head to that website. If you or someone you love is suffering with substance abuse, head  to Randy’s podcast as his podcast seeks to serve you.

Scripture: Hebrews 4:15, Revelation 21:5

Quote by Tony Dungy, “Quiet Strength”–“Life will never be the same, but it won’t always feel like this”

Quote by J.R.R Tolkien: “all the sad things will become untrue”

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Podcast Host: Amy Watson
Podcast Guest: Randy Mortensen
Podcast Producer: Amy Highland
Podcast Cover Art: Brittney Knight
Logo Design: Anna Roberts

PTSD Jesus and YOU: Parenting PTSD, Special Guest Troy McLaughlin

Thank you to our podcast sponsor this week!!
Podcast Sponsor: Amy Meek of Meek Real Estate. We are INCREDIBLY grateful for her sponsorship of this podcast and our mission to help provide counseling to to those who may not be able to afford it. If that is you, contact Amy Watson on Instagram. To contact Amy Meek about real estate call 352-364-​4132 or visit their website.

As we continue our second season, PTSD, Jesus and YOU, we are highlighting PTSD in the stories of others and how they found Hope for the crooked roads of their trauma. Joining the Wednesdays With Watson Podcast is Troy McLaughlin, a fellow podcaster, but a parent of a child who’s trauma resulted in PTSD and all of its fall out.

Sometimes, as Christians, we think that statistics like 1:4 women will be assaulted and 1:7 men in their lifetime does not apply to us. As human and flawed parents want the best for their children–it is a special kind of hard when a statistic like this literally hits smack dab in the middle of a Christ centered–two parent home. Our guest today shares his family’s struggles and fall out from his child’s trauma, much of which they still very much live with today.

Because of the sensitive nature of the topic, we handle this story with the delicacy that it deserves and listeners will be nothing but encouraged as Troy shares the deep lessons of faith, forgiveness, love and moving on through the hard.  This is Parenting PTSD

Scripture References: Phil 4:8, Hebrews 4:15, Revelation 21:5

References: Multiple Quotes by Henri Nouwen, find those by visiting his website.
Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien “all sad things will become untrue”

“True belonging is the spiritual practice of believing in and belonging to yourself so deeply that you can share your most authentic self with the world.”
Brenee Brown, look for more resources on her website.

Podcast Host: Amy Watson
Podcast Guest: McLauglin
Podcast Producer: Amy Highland
Podcast Cover: Britnany Knight
Logo Design: Anna Roberts

Closing A Chapter: Amy’s Story–This Is My Story, These Are My Songs

After 30 plus episodes, it is time. It is time to tell you the whole Amy Watson story. True to self, this podcast is Amy’s story on her terms and in the most hopeful way possible given the body of trauma that is her story. Special guest Phil Baker recorded some of Amy’s favorite songs and they are interwoven into the podcast.

Sometimes it is time to close a chapter, and at least for the purposes of this podcast, this is the last time this story will be told in a public forum. God could always change that, but in this podcast journey, Amy has found healing and Hope of her own and is happy to close this chapter–the one that built her and the whole reason for this podcast.

Her mission will not die, in fact, quite the opposite. But moving forward, the focus will continue to be on the stories of other people, and the mission will continue to provide Hope in the veins of unimaginable pain and suffering. But God is keeping His promises, and is redeeming all the years the locust stole, and so it is our desire that as you listen to Amy’s story, and her favorite songs, that you will know that the God of the universe is able to and will redeem it all. This earth may not be the place where all the sad things become untrue, but this podcast points you to the Star of the story, Jesus, Who will, one day make all things new.

Our journey has just begun, but this chapter is closing–may you find peace in the God of comfort in Amy’s story, and know it is yours too.

Finished Listening? For the REST and BEST part head here, to the Faithful Podcast

Podcast Sponsor: Pastor Anthony Shannon. Pastor Shannon is hosting the Hard Reset Conference June 22nd-June 24th. You can register for FREE here. This conference will focus on faith, family, fitness and finance and will help you recognize and activate your spiritual gifts. We are so grateful to Pastor Shannon and his support of this podcast.

Podcast Host: Amy Watson
Special Music: Phil Baker (you can find his music by clicking on his name)
Podcast Producer: Amy Highland
Podcast Sponsor: Anthony Shannon
Accompanying Podcast: The Faithful Podcast, host–Stephanie Baker

PTSD Jesus and YOU: Defining Safety, special guest Crissy Loughridge

Returning guest Crissy Loughridge is back for a check in from her episode “Shattering Safety” (Season 2, Ep1). When using the most rudimentary definition of PTSD it can be said that at some point safety has been compromised. As the world continues to adjust to life with
Covid-19, everyone’s safety was compromised at one point. Crissy shares her struggle and need for safety and how she is doing with that now. She also helps listeners understand how it has been walking through the pandemic with PTSD herself as well as with Amy. This is the second in a series of 3 “Check In” episodes from guest that have appeared on the podcast this season.

Scripture: Hebrews 13:8
John 16

“Could he accept the more complex truth” excerpt from “Let It Be Me” by Becky Wade.
You can purchase that book here. Find Becky’s social media here:
Twitter
Instagram
Facebook

This podcast is sponsored by Anthony Shannon, author of Live Generously. We are grateful to Anthony for his generous contribution to our cause. His sponsorship helped fund pro bono counseling for those who can not afford it and also to fund the Wednesdays With Watson podcast.

“You Are” Merchandise can be purchased here

Amy’s Instagram:

Podcast Host: Amy Watson
Podcast Guest: Crissy Loughridge
Executive Producer: Amy Highland
Logo Design: Anna Roberts
Podcast Cover: Brittney Knight
Song, “Marked By You” used by permission by Phil Baker off his album, Babylon

PTSD, Jesus, and You: Surviving Cancer with PTSD, Returning Guest: Lindsay Tozer

In the first of the “Where Are They Now” episodes, special guest Lindsay Tozer is back for an update. Lindsay told her story on episode 2 of season 2 of the podcast. We check in with her, ask how telling her story was for her and how she has been since guesting on Wednesdays With Watson. Lindsay, a PTSD patient, also battled cancer and a multiplicity of health issues. Lindsay is the text book PTSD patient, her body has truly kept the score, a principle highlighting in the book by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD.

This episode is vital to our understanding of the body’s response to trauma and what we can do to ensure that we do the hard trauma work so that we can live in whole bodies and no longer be affected by our trauma.

Podcast Host: Amy Watson
Podcast Guest: Lindsay Tozer
Podcast Producer: Amy Highland
Podcast Cover Art: Brittany Highland
Amy Watson Logo: Anna Roberts
Song, “Marked By You” by Phil Baker, used with permission.

PTSD Jesus and YOU: Understanding Co-Occurring Disorders–Mental Health Awareness Month

Licensed clinical psychologist Dr. Patrice Berry joins the Wednesdays With Watson podcast to help us understand other mental health illnesses and their presence with PTSD. Dr. Berry walks listeners through Bi-polar disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, OCD, social anxiety, and Major Depression. She also helps listeners understand miss diagnosis and strongly suggest that individuals engage a therapist that works for their individual struggles. Not all therapist are created equal and patients have every right to find the right one for them.

Follow Dr. Perry on all social media (TikTok, Instagram and YouTube) and learn more about her credentials here.

May is Mental Health Awareness month and Amy is posting a Mental Health Tip every day this month on her instagram, check it out, and follow along!

You matter, and so do your needs. If you or someone you know needs help, please see resources below:

To search your area for a therapist click here

Other resources

United States 🇺🇸

Access Help Call 211

Suicide Help 800-273-8255 Text 741741

Domestic Violence Hotline 800-799-7233

NAMI 800-950-6264

Text 741741 free crisis counseling.

POST Partum Help: 800-944-4773

Biblical Counseling nationwide: Baylightcounseling.com

Podcast Host: Amy Watson
Guest: Dr. Patrice Berry
Executive Producer: Amy Highland

PTSD Jesus and YOU: Experiencing Near Death (Medical PTSD)

Special guest and award winning author Rebekah Millet joins the Wednesdays With Watson podcast. Rebekah is married with two boys and makes her home in the bayou state. Fiercely in love with Jesus, Rebekah shares her experience of her otherwise healthy 36 year old husband almost losing his life. “I thought it was so odd that the ambulance did not have on their sirens on the way to the hospital”, she said. Rebekah also shares, in part, her own near death experience and how years later she could relate to PTSD symptoms and realized that she could live with them as she understood them. Listeners will hear how she came to learn about PTSD and that some of the things she still endures is as a result of these experiences.

She is a champion of the Gospel and of Christian fiction. Rebekah loves people, and wants to help, so she brought her story to the Wednesdays With Watson podcast. There is no question about the source of this much power in her testimony and she beautifully shares this difficult time in her life in such a way that listeners are encouraged, not traumatized–most will hit stop and feel Hope.

Here are a few of her own words about herself:
“I grew up on beignets and cafe au lait, and love infusing my colorful New Orleans culture into my stories. My husband goes crazy with me rearranging the living room furniture, while my kids share in my love for strawberry Pop-Tarts.”

But she is a warrior, a fighter, and when your faith is hard to find, you can borrow hers.

To keep up with her and to join her on her writing journey head to her website.

Scripture Hebrew 13:8
Isaiah 61:1-6
“Graves Into Gardens” by Elevation Worship and Brandon Lake.

“I am not afraid to show you my weakness, my failures and flaw- Lord You have seen them all, and You still call me friend…there is not a place your mercy and grace won’t find me again.
There is nothing better than You. There is nothing better than You, Lord there is nothing better than You. You turn mourning to dancing, you give beauty for ashes you turn shame into glory You are the only One Who can. You turn graves into gardens, You turn bones into armies, You turn seas into highways, You are the only one Who can. There is nothing better than You, there is nothing better than you, nothing is better than you.”

Podcast Host: Amy Watson
Podcast Guest: Rebekah Millet
Executive Producer: Amy Highland
Podcast Cover Art: Brittany Knight
Logo Design: Anna Roberts
Song” “Marked By You” by Phil Baker, used by permission

PTSD, Jesus and You: Remaking Marley (Survivor, Advocate and Thriver)

Special guest Marlena Kandell, pediatric ER nurse, advocate, child abuse survivor and thriver brings first hand value to the Wednesdays With Watson podcast. Think you can recognize child abuse? Maybe Marlena’s story will help re-frame flawed assumptions about this subject, and what we should observe–and more importantly ACT.

What if a harmed child just wanted you to ask if you cared? What if they just wanted you to ask if they are okay? Marlena shares her own desire to have had just one person ask her even one of those questions. What if just paying attention stopped wounded children from becoming wounding adults? WHAT IF?

Marlena also brings vulnerability to podcast by answering faith questions with beautiful honesty and transparency. She asks the questions we all ask, “Where was God?” She beautifully works out her own answer (or lack thereof) answer to that question.

April is child abuse awareness month, and Marlena is passionate about bringing awareness and solutions. In her advocacy work, she created {Re} Making Marley, an endeavor to empower abuse survivors and to create a safe place to undo child abuse and even have the opportunity to {Re] write our stories. In her [Re] Parenting Series, she guides adults survivors into an encouraging space that allows us to be the parents we never had.

This powerful, vulnerable episode is a must listen–for all of us. It is time to act, start by pressing play. There is a practical way you can help, join Marlena’s Instagram challenge, and help us raise $100 for Philadelphia Children’s Alliance and Prevent Child Abuse USA.

Host: Amy Watson
Guest: Marlena Kandell
Executive Producer: Amy Highland
Podcast Cover: Brittney Knight
Logo Design: Anna Roberts

Amy Watson socials:

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Twitter
Clubhouse: @amywatsonauthor

PTSD, Jesus and You: Recognizing Childhood Trauma, pt 2–Special Guest Jeremy Fox, LPC, EMDRI

Recognizing childhood trauma is as important for us are the solutions. The solution could be you, and your ability to recognize childhood trauma and so that we can help children’s forming brains, healing them as we recognize.

Special guest, Jeremy Fox, LPC, EMDRI joins the podcast to highlight the effects of trauma on a child’s brain particularly as it pertains to abandonment and neglect in all forms. Jeremy brings his knowledge of a well established trauma informed therapy, EMDR and is an approved EMDR trauma consultant.

He discusses the eight phases of the EMDR process:

1. History & Treatment Planning
2. Preparation
3. Assessment
4. Desensitization
5. Installation
6. Body Scan
7.  Closure
8. Revaluation

Why is faith important to healing from trauma?  “Purpose in Life Predicts Better Emotional
Recovery from Negative Stimuli.”  APA style citation below:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0080329

Schaefer, S. M., Boylan, J. M., Van Reekum, C. M., Lapate, R. C., Norris, C. J., Ryff, C. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2013). Purpose in life predicts better emotional recovery from negative stimuli. PloS one, 8(11), e80329.

ADHD and PTSD article citation

Barkley, R. A. (1997). Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity disorder, self-regulation, and time. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 18(4), 271-279. doi:10.1097/00004703- 199708000-00009

The effects of abandonment on the young brain:

DeBellis, M. D. (2005). The psychobiology of neglect. Child Maltreatment, 10(2), 150-172. doi:10.1177/1077559505275116

Perry, B. D. (2002). Childhood experience and the expression of genetic potential: What childhood neglect tells us about nature and nurture. Brain and Mind, 3(1), 79-100. doi:10.1023/A:1016557824657

Wilkerson, D., Johnson, G. & Johnson, R. (2009). Children of neglect with attachment and time perception deficits: Strategies and interventions. Education, 129(2), 343.

PTSD, Jesus and YOU: Recognizing Childhood Trauma, Special Guest Erica Cuni, LMFT

Erica Cuni, LMFT joins the Wednesdays With Watson podcast to help us understand and recognize childhood trauma and its effects on a child’s brain. She shares her expertise of Adverse Childhood Experiences and helps us understand the pathology of trauma and ACE scores as well as a CDC study addressing adverse childhood experiences. She cites a Centers For Disease study  here.

Erica also helps us understand attachment styles and how they are fundamentally formed by trauma, but also promotes hope and healing. Erica has a passion for helping people and she herself a trauma survivor both in her young life as well as an adult. Erica speaks of trauma, and the poly-vagal industry and integrating into therapy. Finally, Erica shares with us an exciting treatment modality called Internal Family Systems. This evidence based therapy is a different take on popular trauma treatments like EMDR and CBT etc. It is based on the newest research on trauma and how to treat trauma. Find out more information about Internal Family Systems here,

The United States reported almost 2,000 child abuse deaths in 2019. April is child abuse awareness month, and the Wednesdays With Watson Podcast is going to continue to bring awareness so that wounded children do not become wounding adults.

Resources: Prevent Child Abuse, USA

During this month, Amy has a #lostchildchallenge on her Instagram account. While highlighting child abuse awareness month, the host of the healing zone is seeking healing that our guest today insists exists after child abuse. Find those videos on this Instagram handle: instagram.com/authoramywatson.com

Special Guest: Erica Cuni, LFMFT
Executive Producer: Amy Highland
Podcast Cover: Brittney Knight
Logo Design: Anna Roberts
Promotion Video: Rebecca Reed
Song “Marked By You” used by permission, words and music by Phil Baker.

PTSD, Jesus and YOU: Desiring Wellness (Solo Episode)

Previously on Wednesdays With Watson:
“I have never prayed for God to heal my PTSD”

That was a live admission and this solo episode examines this statement and as Wednesdays With Watson listeners have come to expect, there is a a twist. This solo episode is a twist on that striking admission in the middle of a live interview.

Do we desire wellness? Is something required of us to get it? Is something required of us to keep it? How does community, church and counseling factor in to our desiring wellness? Why wouldn’t a patient want to get well?

This solo episode examines all of that, and more. In this deeply personal episode, trauma survivor Amy Watson gets behind the mic and tells you what she had forgotten. This episode is meant to highlight the Star of the story first and foremost, but also the journey of healing, and how Jehovah-Rapha is just that, the God Who heals.

This episode is raw and real and is journey of one person’s memory of something she had forgotten, but God had not forgotten, He never does.

Scripture I Peter 4:15, Mark 5, Phil 1:6, Joel 2:25, Romans 8:18

Host: Amy Watson
Executive Producer: Amy Highland
Podcast Artwork: Brittany Knight
Promotion Video: Rebecca Reed

PTSD, Jesus and YOU: Healing PTSD, Shea’s Story

PTSD, Jesus and YOU: Healing PTSD, Shea’s Story

Shea Watson first fought battles of abuse and then he chose to fight for his country. Diagnosed with PTSD in 1997 by the US Army, Shea spent two years in the hospital when the trauma finally demanded his attention. In a Wednesdays With Watson first, this episode is part of a podcast crossover event, but in this episode, Shea tells us what Jesus did.

This is a special podcast crossover event, as Amy joins forces with The Pantry Podcast, of which Shea Watson is one of the curators. He is joined by his wife as well as the curator of The Spiritual Life and Leadership podcast. As Shea shares his story and answers hard questions, Michelle and Pastor Markus Watson do the same.

I Peter 2:9 “You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, that you may be able to declare the praises of the One that called you out of darkness into marvelous light.”

This episode is hopeful, it is fun, but there is no doubt that it addresses identity and it addresses trauma as well as PTSD.

2 Cor 5:13

PTSD, Jesus and YOU: Living With PTSD (A Warrior’s Story)

In November of 1989, the Rivera’s life was changed forever as a the events in their home rendered them all four orphans. Angel is the second of the four, his sister’s episode is the one before this one “Holding On To The Unseen Hand”

In this episode, Angel talks to us how witnessing the horror of his parent’s death has affected him over the last thirty years. He talks about his fight to keep his family; he talks about the people that he loves and he talks about Jesus, Who never left him, and will also never leave you. He talks the demons of drugs and how that almost destroyed his life.

Angel talks about coming out of darkness, into light and we are reminded of I Peter 2:9–and being called out of darkness into that glorious light. We know that we do not love a high priest who is not familiar with our sufferings, and Angel shares that with us too.

Triumph (ing) over tragedy is the thing that happens here in the healing zone. Hope for all the things, because life with PTSD doesn’t have to be lost. Angel proves that to us.

Scripture: 1 Peter 2:9, Hebrews 4:15, Psalm 27:10 “When my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will lift me up” Exodus 14:14

Guest: Angel Rivera
Executive Producer, Editor & Engineer: Amy Highland
Podcast Cover: Brittany Knight
Logo Design: Anna Roberts
Song: “Marked By You” by Phil Baker, used by permission with license.
Host: Amy Watson

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PTSD, Jesus and YOU: Holding On to the Unseen Hand (Anna Marie’s Story)

Special guest Anna Marie Rivera Alberts joins the Wednesdays With Watson podcast with her story of the crooked roads of trauma and pain that has led to a beautiful, albeit still difficult life.
Her family’s story made the news headlines. A visit to the scene of the tragedy yielded stories from neighbors who remember the story, 30+ years later. We attempt to tell her story with the delicacy it deserves, yet listeners are still able find Hope in a story that most people would describe as unable to be redeemed. She has broken the generational trauma “curse”.

Hebrews 11:1
For Him “Why”–lyrics. quoted:
“I know down here, I may not understand, so I won’t let go of the unseen hand, because it holds the reasons why”

“What Love Really Means”–JJ Heller
“Who will love me for me, not for what I have done or what I will become, who will love me for me, will somebody show me what love really means?”

Podcast Engineer & Producer: Amy Highland
Podcast Cover Art: Brittany Knight & Anna Roberts
Episode Graphics: Rebekah Millet
Episode Trailer: Rebecca Reed
Host: Amy Watson

**If you or someone you love is in crisis, reach out for help**
NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness. NAMI.org
Text 741741 for free crisis counseling
800-950-6264

Call 211
Suicide Help Line: 800-233-8255
Domestic Violence Help Line: 800-799-7233
NAMI-800-950-6264
Additional support focusing on childhood trauma:
http://remakingmarley.com/

PTSD, Jesus and YOU: Moving Beyond the Wreckage (The Body Keeps the Score)

Because we believe that HEALING PEOPLE HELP PEOPLE

Special guest Lindsay Tozer bravely tells us about a moment that changed everything. She describes her life as a “line” in her life as “before and after” that day. Twenty years have elapsed and she wanted to tell her story as part of her own healing process as well as an intense desire to help others.

Lindsay’s story does not get tied up in a nice bow, her body has recorded the events of that day and yet she still has Hope. She still gets up in the morning, and has dedicated her life and her career in child welfare management, county emergency management and is an accomplished musician.

Diagnosed with PTSD twenty years ago, she still lives with triggers, flashbacks, and floodings. She identifies her community as an important component of her healing and some of her loved ones weigh in on how that day affects her on a daily basis. They help her live with the repercussions of that day and have walked beside her through many more losses, cancer and a host of other health issues. The body truly keeps the score.

She still has questions of God, she is not afraid to tell them to the world. She is living with PTSD and yet another person on our podcast that gives Hope in the face of unimaginable grief, loss and health issues. She bravely tells us of her battle to forgive herself as well.

Her favorite song is “Into The Sea” by Latasha Layton and her favorite verse as Isaiah 54:10

“Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed says the Lord Who has compassion over you”

She has found the three C’s–Community, Church and Counseling as the path to her healing. She calls Jesus her rock and her everything. He is the Star of her story.

Other Scripture Genesis 58.

“Marked By You” by Phil Baker, used by permission.

PTSD, Jesus and YOU: Shattered Safety

Because we believe that HEALING PEOPLE HELP PEOPLE

Season 2 debuts with the first guest of the season sharing her story of a night that changed everything. The second season of Wednesdays With Watson highlights the crooked roads of trauma that lead to hope and healing. That road is not always an easy and nobody’s road is the same, so we are here to tell you stories that help you know a story of Hope can be yours too.

So, we are here to continue to give Hope to PTSD patients and those that love them. Press play for Hope because it is here, this is the HEALING ZONE. Let the healing continue.

“Marked By You”, words and music by Phil Baker and used by permission. Find this song on his album Babylon. We are incredibly grateful to him and we love the message of the song. License provided upon request.

Hebrews 4:15, Joel 2:25, Psalm 91

PTSD, Jesus and YOU: Hope for crooked roads of PTSD

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