How Trauma Reshapes your Life Part 1

Trauma isn’t just an emotional wound—it literally changes how the brain functions.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study by the CDC and Kaiser Permanente (1995–1997) surveyed 17,000 adults about childhood trauma (abuse, neglect, household dysfunction).

67% reported at least 1 ACE.

➡️ 1 in 8 reported 4 or more ACEs.

➡️ The higher the ACE score, the higher the risk for:

➡️ Depression & anxiety

➡️ Substance use

➡️ Heart disease, diabetes, & other chronic illnesses

➡️ Shorter life expectancy (up to 20 years)

Romans 12:2 (NIV)

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

➡️ This speaks to how trauma wires us to live in survival patterns, but God rewires us through renewal.

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2 Timothy 1:7 (KJV)

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

➡️ Trauma often plants fear and dysregulation, but God’s Spirit restores peace, stability, and a sound mind.

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