Trauma Aware

Hope and Help for Trauma Sufferers and Supportive Helpers



What is trauma? How can we recognize it, and how do we offer help that is biblically faithful and empathetic?



Licensed and trauma-trained counselor Eliza Huie equips you with biblical foundations and clinical insights to help you better understand trauma and offer care to those suffering from its debilitating effects. Trauma can entangle the soul, freeze the body, and cloud the mind. In the face of this struggle, Trauma Aware emerges as an essential resource. This compassionate and informative book demystifies trauma, helping you to


• understand the vitally interactive connections between brain, body, and soul
• promote healing with the aid of assessments, calming practices, and an array of practical tools
• improve care for others with proven strategies that lead to growth and change

Whether you've personally experienced trauma or desire to help those who have, Trauma Aware serves as an accessible guide that will provide you with practical direction on a path to recovery. Trauma Aware equips you with biblical foundations and clinical insights to help you better understand trauma and offer care and guidance to those suffering from its debilitating effects.
"Trauma is an emerging field where we seemingly learn more with each passing month. Theology is a timeless field where we want to remain faithful to our faith's foundations. In Trauma Aware, Eliza takes us by the hand to orient us to the experience of trauma in light of Christian theology; she helps us explore the timely in light of the timeless. As you process your own profoundly painful experiences or come alongside others doing so, this book will help you find God's comfort for life's most intense sufferings."

-Brad Hambrick, pastor of counseling at The Summit Church; author of Navigating Destructive Relationships
"Eliza Huie has written the book on trauma that our generation of Christian counselors has desperately needed. She deftly manages a Herculean task in taking a complex topic like trauma-who it impacts, what it is, how to care for those affected-all while remaining imminently accessible to the lay caregiver and the professional counselor. Readers will come away sobered, educated, and encouraged to walk the hard path with those whose lives have experienced trauma, but they will also come equipped with a hope that restores beauty for ashes."

-Jonathan D. Holmes, executive director, Fieldstone Counseling
"If you've ever wanted to help someone who is hurting, this book is for you. In these pages penned by an author who lives out what she writes, you will find biblical truth, clinical precision, and practical counsel that will enable you to wisely and compassionately help (and not further hurt) people who are hurting. And in the process, you may (like me) find yourself deeply helped amidst your own hurts."

-David Platt, lead pastor at McLean Bible Church, Washington, DC; author of Radical and Something Needs to Change
"We can all greatly benefit from Eliza's well-rounded and God-glorifying approach to trauma. Through these pages, she explores, very practically, the good gifts given us in science, medicine, and psychology so that God may be more glorified in us, body and soul, and that we receive the best in him. She artfully turns an investigation into the dark place of trauma into hope in our loving Savior, Jesus. Patients and providers at my practice benefit from resources like this to learn how best to steward their minds and bodies as they work through traumatic experiences."

-Dr. Adam O'Neill, PA-C, DMSc, psychiatric physician assistant and owner of Adam O'Neill & Associates LLC, Washington, DC.
"In a fallen world filled with brokenness, understanding trauma is crucial. In this accessible and engaging resource, seasoned counselor Eliza Huie defines trauma and its impact on the body, mind, and soul