We don't grow in the dark, growth happens in the light.

I'm challenging you to come out of hiding, to shed secrets, to step beyond shame.

I'm challenging you to stand in the light of truth.

Why go to therapy? Because it's divine work.

When you are emotionally healthy, you are more powerful spiritually.

You are now listening to the in the light podcast hosted by Dr Anita Phillips.

Hey, hey, hey in the light fam. This is Dr Anita and welcome back.

I am always so happy that you take the time to listen to these conversations.

And if this is your first time listening to in the light podcast, I want to welcome you fresh.

I'm so glad to have you here. I'm always excited to see how many new listeners are joining us every week.

And I want you to know I take it really seriously.

That you spend your time with us talking about faith and mental health, culture, life, everything.

And one thing we definitely talk about a lot is trauma.

Well, I'm a trauma therapist, but also because I believe that trauma really has become as pervasive as it seems.

Anytime there's new awareness in the community at large of an issue that's related to mental health or mental illness,

it can eventually seem that the word is being overused.

And so trauma definitely is getting into that area where people talk about it a lot.

People use the word sugar very casually.

And I understand the frustration that can come along with that.

But I will take its overuse much more happily than I would take its underuse.

Because there is hardly anybody alive at this point who has not been exposed to a potentially traumatizing event.

A traumatizing event is an event that has enough pain in it to overcome our body's capacity to hold it.

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