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It is likely that if you don’t suffer from emotional pain through trauma, grief, or mental illness, that you have a friend or family member who struggles.People have pre-conceived notions on how pain should be processed, how long it should take, and what it should look like. But no two person’s experience is the same and should not be treated as such.
Suffering prolonged emotional pain or mental illness is not a character defect, a spiritual disorder or an emotional dysfunction. It’s also not a choice. Asking someone to “try” not being depressed is like asking someone who’s been shot to try and stop bleeding.
This 5-part series on processing pain will be presented along-side my Christian faith and my belief that art can be a tool to help. It will not try to fix, solve, blame, or shame the suffering or those that love them. It will not say that toughing it out or having more faith are the ways to “fix” or “solve” the pain. Emotional pain is much too complex for that with causes that are far too broad for pat answers, solutions, and bandages.
Throughout this series I will reference Scripture and some other books but I will primarily be referencing Sharon Garlough Brown’s latest book, Shades of Light, which compassionately and courageously delves into these difficult topics in an open and engaging way.
The 5-part series will be linked here for easy reference as they go live over the next few weeks:
- Processing Emotional Pain through Treatment
- Processing Emotional Pain with Jesus
- Processing Emotional Pain through Companionship
- Processing Emotional Pain through Creating Art
- Processing Emotional Pain through Praying with Art
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