6. The Way our Stories Lead to Healing

Let's unpack the power of narrative focused trauma care (NFTC). We discuss a way to approach healing that combines scripture with modern psychology. We want the Church to take back what should be ours as we talk through how modern Psychology was birthed out of a shift that left modern Christians lacking. "In the late 19th century, while the Church's understanding of the unconscious motivation behind surface actions was vanishing, Sigmund Freud rediscovered this and recast it in an elaborate and profound secular mythology." Lovelace. Now the deeper aspects of the cure for souls is relegated to the therapeutic world even amongst evangelical Christians.