You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.

This week, Dan launches a new series about the spectrum of trauma that was prompted by a recent

article on our blog called Post-traumatic Single Disorder. Dan invites us to consider how subtle,

seemingly minor experiences of harm might fit into our larger understanding of how we define trauma.

I'm beginning a series on the spectrum of trauma. We have spoken about trauma to think about is the implication of looking at trauma from the

vantage point of what could be viewed by some as either minor, incidental, or just the normal

reality of living in a fallen world. in the second chapter of my new book

on abuse. The task of dealing with the healing of the wounded heart requires that we engage

more covert, more subtle trauma, and though I'm not comfortable utilizing

the term minor, I want you to begin to at least think about the implications of looking at trauma

at the normal daily heartaches of life, what value, what danger, what complications come by allowing the

spectrum of trauma to include events and situations and experiences that don't fit the capital

T trauma that most of us have in mind when we use that word.

What prompted this was an article, a blog that was written on May 12th by Abby Wong,

a dear friend of mine, and she wrote on what was called or what she calls post-traumatic

single disorder.

And the response that we got, she got from this, was significant, a lot of very positive responses,

but also some pretty strong negatives.

And those negative responses, my attempt is not to dissuade those who view it from this vantage or critique them,

simply utilize their concerns to step into this larger question of how we address this larger spectrum of trauma.

If you want to find that blog, it can be found on the Allender Center, May 12, Abby Wong.

Some of the comments that were written, let me read a few of them.

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