Hello and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Your mind is the greatest gift God has given you. That's why today we continue with a series called

rethinking your life.

In these lessons, Rick shares nine biblical pillars

we need to reshape our minds so that we can become more like Jesus Christ.

Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with a message called recovering from traumatic experiences.

I want us to look at the subject of recovering from traumatic experiences.

Recovering from traumatic experiences.

We're in this series called

Rethinking your life, and we're rethinking different areas of our life,

and one of the areas that we're gonna have to rethink

to be all that God wants us to be

is rethinking how we handle traumatic experiences in life.

Now let me start by just giving you a definition of trauma.

I wrote it down.

Trauma is an experience of feeling either of

I wrote it down. Trauma is an experience of feeling either overwhelmed or helpless or paralyzed.

Overwhelmed, helpless, paralyzed, maybe frightened by a deeply distressing event.

That's what trauma is, being overwhelmed or paralyzed or frightened or just feeling helpless by some kind of deeply traumatizing

event in your life.

Now trauma can come from a lot of different places.

It can come from abuse. It can come from a lot of different places. It can come from abuse, it can come from abandonment, it can come from,

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