Forming a "new" spirituality after trauma or disorder is not easy, but doable. While we seem to settle in (not necessarily okay) with the other changes we make in our life and chalked them up to the anxiety (or whatever disorder you may suffer) we fail to also apply that allowance to our faith.

Something changed.

We may not know exactly the how or why but it did. When a person of faith has this "change" in our mindset/emotional health/spirituality or whatever, it tends to really upset the foundation of our beliefs. We've never looked at how we believe or why we believe differently perhaps...we've never HAD to look at it differently; it just was.

It was easier to accept what "just was" and build on that. Then trauma or disorder comes into our lives and it's "WHOA! Where's God?" and "Why this?" and "Why that?"

Another note that might not fit here exactly, but I also believe that trauma memories are situated in the same general area as faith. (Did I say that before?) I haven't met anyone who has suffered a severe (well, any trauma is probably severe enough to gain the definition of trauma when you think about it) trauma that didn't also have some issue with faith (in God.)

The phrase I gave--don't doubt in the dark what you knew to be true in the light--is very important. While pliable depending upon what each individual's positive beliefs were prior to, the most important thing to remember is that it is us who changed, and not God.

In that respect, faith and spirituality take on a new look. Faith must truly become faith in the strictest sense of the word, because we no longer have that basic foundation of assurance of what we (used to) believe. Now we have to develop our spirituality and faith based upon well, what we believed about God prior to...

You are not alone, even among other earthbound people...