Complex Trauma: Dr. Diane Langberg Video

October 20, 2022

Complex Trauma: Dr. Diane Langberg Video

I first read Diane Langberg’s, “On the Threshold of Hope”, around 2006. It was hard to read. Trauma is contagious.

I was a pastor in Newport, Wales. A young black woman from the Caribbean who had outstayed her visa in England came to me for counseling. She and her two sisters were sexually abused by their father. He started early. Her mother knew. He was arrested and went to prison when she was 12. The family blamed her.

She was in a relationship with a young man. She wanted me to help her understand how to give and receive love. I did the best I could, which was not enough, but we made some progress.

I helped her get back home to work out her visa status. Her father had gotten out of prison and her mother offered her to come and stay with them. Imagine that, if you can.

It was then, listening to her story, that I read the book. More of Langberg’s work would follow.

I highly recommend a more recent book of her’s in which she takes up complex trauma. It is called, “Suffering and the Heart of God: How trauma destroys and Christ restores”. It is available on Amazon in print or Kindle. I recently bought the audio version too.

Later, on returning to America and pastoring here, Icame across her videos. This is one I appreciate very much. It is on understanding complex trauma and its treatment. You will find a deeper treatment in her book which I believe is the basis of these lectures.

I’ve come back to it again, this video, out of my own need to understand who I am, why I am. Why did I become an addict, why did I relapse, why have all my relationships with women failed? Why the clinical depressions? Why am I still alive to tell the tale? I have the answer for that last question. God is love.

By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
— 1 John 4:9-10

We love, because He first loved us.
— 1 John 4:19

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janalanmckenzie

Hi…Thanks for checking in. I live in rural Kentucky, moving from Louisville in 2016. I have a small degree in pastoral theology, studying and pastoring in the U.K., from 2000 to 2009, then in the U.S. until 2012. I am now a part-time driver for the local Amish community. I’m making an honest effort to write more, to write out some thoughts on the spiritual life, occasional comment on current events (I’m apolitical, so not much there), and with some emphasis on my life in recovery from addiction. And then there are those marriages and divorces, not for the sake of raking dirt, but for support for others and perhaps a little for myself. In living, like gardening, I tend to follow the seasons of life.

One response to “Complex Trauma: Dr. Diane Langberg Video”

Sasha/Sonya Sargeant Hitchner

October 22, 2022 at 11:22 am

Another thing we have in common. I share her videos with those who need free help to deal with trauma. She was my first real help.

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A Christian, thinking, vlogging, and writing online. I live elsewhere as well. I follow the theology of the cross in the faith and practice of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Formerly a pastor in Europe and America, now living semi-retired in Kentucky (U.S.), driving for the Amish and in-home carer.

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