Grace and Grenades- Honestly Looking at Trauma

Did you know that laughter can be good medicine? Laughter can help our body and our mind in many different ways.  Join us as we dive into talking about how laughter relates to trauma and how we use it. 

Cindy Crawford joins us to share tools that she uses and coaches people on to help them organize their lives, make decisions, and move forward in life.   When trauma derails our lives and we are stuck coping, sometimes we need help getting back on track.

Have you ever asked yourself why your story matters?  Spoiler, it does.   Have you ever wondered why you should share your story? Join us as Amy and Rachel talk about their stories and why it's important to share them.

Discretion is advised.  This episode dives into the sensitive subject of miscarriage Amy and Rachel and joined by Elizabeth as she talks about her experience with miscarriage.  We will hear her firsthand account.

Do you ever ask questions like:    Am I really healing?      Have I made any progress?      Why am I still struggling? It can be hard to know how far you've come when you are in the middle of it all.  Take a look with us as we reflect on the healing process and what to do when you feel like you should be further along.  

Today we talk about triggers.  What are they?  How do you respond to them? Join us today as we talk about our experiences with triggers and what has helped us deal with them.

Join us this week as we talk about rest.  We dig into why rest is important, what it means and doesn't mean, and how it relates to trauma.

Everyone needs to work self-care into their routine for various reasons.  It can help with our mental health as well as help us avoid burnout.  Join Amy and Rachel as they talk about how they practice self-care and why it's important after experiencing trauma.

Have you ever wondered how your attachment style affects your relationship with God?  Join us as we discuss our attachment styles and how they affect our faith.

Join us as we talk about our attachment styles.  Do you attach with an ambivalent style or avoidant?  How did your childhood dictate this?  How does your attachment style affect your daily life?  Once you know, you can't unlearn it, but it will be a valuable tool to help you grow.

Join us as we talk about our experiences with fragmentation.  We talk about the ins and outs, what it is, how it affected us, and what healing looks like.

Amy and Rachel are joined by Elizabeth as they talk about regression while healing from trauma.  Let's talk about what it means to regress in our behavior and revert back to old behaviors. What triggers it? Why do we change our behaviors around certain people? Join Amy, Rachel, and Elizabet as they talk about their experiences with regression in their lives while pursuing healing.

How does trauma affect us at work?  Does it affect how we interact with our co-workers?  Our expectations? Join us as Amy and Rachel talk about how their trauma has affected work relationships and what changed when they pursued healing.

Amy and Rachel talk about how their trauma has affected their parenting, how they struggled, how they coped, and how things have changed now that they are pursuing healing in their lives.

Amy and Rachel are joined by their husbands as they talk about how trauma and unhealthy patterns carried over into their marriages and what happened in their marriages as they started to address their trauma.

Amy and Rachel discuss how trauma affected their family dynamics and dysfunctions with their family of origin (Parents and siblings).  They explore what those relationships looked life before and after they started pursuing healing.

Join us as we start our series on relationships.  We want to explore how trauma has affected relationships with our family, friends, marriages, and faith.   

In this episode Amy and Rachel talk about what led them to attend their first groups at SRT Services and what their experience was like. 

This week we are talking about emotions.  We are asking a lot of questions like: What are emotions? Why do we have them? When are emotions helpful?   When are they harmful? If you have questions or comments you can submit them at GraceAndGrenades.com

Today we talk about emotional detachment, what it looks like, and how it affects us.

Episode 4, Body memory , continues the conversation from episode 3.  What is the weird connection between the mind and the body?  When you can't remember trauma, your body often remembers it for you.  We only scratch the surfice but we keep it interesting.      -Rachel talks about her repressed memories.

Join us as we talk about our stories and our trauma.  We talk about our experiences growing up, our trauma, how we coped, and how we found healing.  

Join us as we talk about trauma.  What is trauma?  Big T and little t trauma, how it affects us and much more. This episode is called 2.0 because we re-recorded it after realizing we weren't happy with the end product of the first one.

About us, about the podcast, about the healing journey.  Join us and get to know Amy and Rachel as we talk about our vision and hope for this podcast.