PTSD 12-Step Recovery
PTSD 12-Step Recovery
Spirituality Many trauma survivors have a problem with spirituality. In fact, you have one or more of the following issues with spiritual beliefs and a Higher Power concept. Where was God? What do I believe in now? How do I reconcile a belief in God with what has happened? How do I face the reality of my fragile life? How can I trust God again now that I know bad things can happen to me? I cannot forgive my perpetrator I am lacking in my faith. Why??? How can I believe in a Higher Power when there is evil and cruelty in the world? How does God view suffering in the world? What is the meaning of what happened? I don’t feel safe anywhere. My life no longer feels predictable I am angry with God, is He angry with me? I feel like God abandoned me. I feel betrayed by God. What is my relationship to God now? I feel ashamed; God wouldn’t want me anymore. I feel dirty; so, I cannot get close to God. I feel distanced from the community now that this happened. No one will ever understand. Am I at fault? I feel so powerlessness. What do I believe in now? How do I make sense out of what happened? I no longer understand the meaning of life. Where is there value in my suffering? My perpetrator was never punished, what now? I don’t feel like I belong anywhere anymore. Goodness doesn’t protect anyone. How can I believe in a loving, all-powerful God after what happened? How do I resolve my feelings of guilt with a faith in a Higher Power? I still feel God abandoned me. It is difficult to think of God as a loving Father after what my own father did to me. These are very deep questions. You have a right to this difficult struggle with ideas related to faith and belief in God. Your struggle doesn’t prevent you from working a 12-step program of recovery. In fact, being in this struggle is one aspect of working a 12-step program of recovery on your PTSD. |
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