Spiritual awareness must be intimately personal. It must celebrate our imperfection. It must provide relief from despair and hopelessness. It must comfort us and it must be real. It must provide us with direct experience of our continuity and our unity.
Beliefs direct our ideas and select our choices for our awareness.
Those very beliefs are what are shattered by the trauma experience. If the therapist simply helps the survivor reconstruct new beliefs which are also based on the interaction with the environment, very little of long term recovery will have been accomplished. An eloquent statement that could describe most trauma survivors. The role of trauma in spiritual development. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol.