• Do you know your past traumas?
• Do you know how you were wounded?
• Are you close to the pain in your soul?

Why are these questions important? Because your emotional health depends on it. The quality of your relationships depends on your trauma awareness.

For a long time, I’ve worked with men to unwrap the question: Why is it some men have great emotional awareness, and others seem oblivious to their own emotions? What makes the difference?

Why it Matters

If you are minimally aware of your trauma, you will overcompensate in other areas. It will be obvious to other people by your overuse of logical and behavioral solutions. Your lack of emotions makes you seem distant.

However, if you are close to your past trauma, you are more emotionally aware. If you know your own pain, then you recognize the pain in others. Your pain helps you connect with their pain.

The more you engage your childhood story, the greater your emotional health potential. The opposite is also true. The less you know your own story and related trauma the less emotional development.

If you’ve been working on and in your story, then excellent work! If you have not, today is a great day to put more of your story pieces together.

Prayer

Father, I make you Lord of my story and my heart. Please help me see how my childhood story and current fears connect. I have never understood myself very well. It’s time for me to stop and learn more about myself. Please help me. Today is the day I dig in and ask better questions. May it all be to your glory. Amen.

Bible Connection

Jesus said this to his disciples:

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have told you. – John 14:26 (CSB)

Holy Spirit please teach us how our wounds shaped us.