According to the University of Toronto Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), trauma is “the lasting emotional response that often results from living through a distressing event.”

Sometimes we don’t even realize that our emotional responses to certain situations at work are rooted in our own trauma. Yesterday’s distressing event is today’s emotional workday overwhelm.

Trauma isn’t an explanation for every difficult work experience. Sometimes stressful situations at work are just . . . stressful, not clues to some hidden distress in our earlier life.

But trauma *is* an explanation for some of our difficult work experiences. And we do well to pay attention to it.

As we get to know our own stories better, we see how they’re shaping our experiences each day on the job. And we can welcome the healing of Jesus into the painful moments we’re still carrying with us.

Sources: Psalm 23 (ESV)

“Trauma,” Mental Illness and Addiction Index, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Katy Waldman, “The Rise of Therapy-Speak: How a Language Got Off the Couch and Into the World,” The New Yorker, March 26, 2021.

SuiXi3D, comment in “'How' (exactly) does child abuse or neglect affect grades?” r/TrueAskReddit, April 8, 2021.

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