"I will give you a new heart." (Ezekiel 36) - Healing Trauma with Scripture

After experiencing acute or prolonged suffering, particularly in conditions like PTSD, the brain and body become locked in survival states. What neuroscience describes as dysregulation, Scripture describes as the condition of a wounded or hardened heart. But the Gospel does not simply invite us to cope with our wounds. It offers us freedom from all the parts of our hearts that are hurting, through promising us a new one.