The Healing of Trauma Challenges to rebuilding southern

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The Healing of Trauma

• Challenges to rebuilding southern Sudan

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Trauma is the most significant health problem for
southern Sudan

• Everyone is sick with it Fr. Paul Boyle,
  Director of Holistic Trauma Healing, Nairobi
• If unrecognized or undervalued it will undermine
  all attempts to rebuild the society and the
  Church.

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The first five years after the Peace

• If there is no longer an enemy
• The impact of the trauma must be displace on
  someone, somewhere if not healed
• The displacement will go back to the culture
• Spouse
• Child
• Addictions alcohol, drug, sex abuse

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Healing Process

• You need to
• Name the trauma
• Claim the trauma
• Tame the trauma

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If you dont deal with trauma, trauma will deal
with you.
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Trauma doesnt go away like stress

• It remembers itself somewhere in our system, in
  our souls
• Often in the place that wants to be gratified

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There is always a trigger

• Something that will evoke a memory

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Terms

• Stress
• Strains our ability to cope
• Internal/external events push us to our limits
• Tension
• We feel pressure, confined focus, panic
• Response is different according to the situation

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Trauma

• Holistic it effects the mind, body soul
• Effect frozen, numb, helpless, emotionally
  detached
• Brain cant cope so it turns off

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Indicators of Stress Trauma

• Stress
• Anger
• Sadness
• Fear
• Distrust
• Feeling Controlled
• Helpless
• Anxious

• Trauma
• Violence Rage
• Depression
• Terror
• Paranoia
• Feeling Manipulated
• Hopeless
• Threatened
• Cant control emotions

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One traumatized person can traumatize 100 people

• Experience of stress is momentary
• Post Trauma Stress Disorder
• A way of life

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Two emergency responses to trauma Hyper-Arousal
or Dissociation

• Fight or flight
• Fear Terror
• Adrenal System increases
• Heart/Blood pressure system increase
• Serotonin decreases
• Cognitive Process hyper
• Respiration increases
• Adult male response aggression
• Potential homicide

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Dissociation

• Defeat surrender
• Numbing dissociation
• Freezing feelings Compliant
• Fainting
• Heart Rate decreases
• Sensory alterations
• Muscles go numb
• Passive
• Potential suicide

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Possible Responses

• Denial
• Trauma remains unconscious and is subject to
  triggers where the trauma is stored the place
  where the brain wants stimulations
• Drugs, Sex, Violence
• Reward gt addictions

• Healing
• Begins by reflecting on the symptoms and the
  traumatic event
• A supportive environment that takes serious the
  reality of trauma
• Prayer

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Process of Trauma35 of symptoms on regular
basis indicates presence of Trauma

• Shock
• Numbness
• Denial/Disconnected
• Reoccurring anxiety
• Nightmares
• Changes in appetite
• Trouble sleeping
• Shame/Guilt
• Being on edge
• Despair/Hopeless

• Easily startled
• Low energy/depressing
• Constantly busy
• Memory Problems
• Overly Alert/Agitated
• Unable to focus
• Resentful
• Difficulty making decisions
• Spontaneous crying
• Over-protective of loved ones

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Healing Process

• You need to
• Name the trauma
• Claim the trauma
• Tame the trauma

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Recommendation

• Goal Each Sudanese Community in the US have a
  trauma healing workshop
• Each project proposal include funds for a trauma
  healing workshop for the principle participants
  in the Sudan