About When It’s Trauma: Finding Hope in Psalms of Exile
This podcast series walks with you through the Psalms of exile—songs written from places of displacement, injustice, and longing. Each short episode offers a reflection on Scripture to help you name your grief honestly, voice your cries to God, and find hope in His faithful presence. From the ache of feeling far from home to the promise of joy after weeping, these meditations remind us that God keeps his people in every season of suffering. These psalms invite you to lift your eyes to the Lord who restores, redeems, and leads His people safely home. To order the Book https://a.co/d/3lBIh80
This reflection is about our longing for renewal and restoration.
The When It’s Trauma podcast is a devotional journey through the Psalms of Exile. Each short reflection invites you—or someone you love—to breathe, grieve, and encounter the compassionate presence of Jesus. Trauma can silence, disorient, and isolate. However, Scripture provides us with a language for pain and a path toward hope.
Author and counselor Darby Strickland guides listeners tenderly through passages that speak to fear, shame, abandonment, betrayal, and despair—while pointing to the steadfast love of God who enters our exile and walks us home.
What You’ll Experience in Each Episode:
A short, grounding Scripture meditation
Gentle reflections
A picture or metaphor to hold onto throughout the day
A gospel connection that lifts your eyes to Christ
A closing prayer or benediction spoken over you
Why This Matters: Many trauma survivors love Jesus but feel abandoned by him or are overwhelmed by what they carry. Helpers often feel unsure how to come alongside without causing harm. These reflections offer both sufferers and helpers a way to engage with God’s Word slowly, safely, and honestly.
About the Book: When It’s Trauma: A Biblical Guide to Understanding Trauma and Walking Faithfully with Sufferers by Darby Strickland offers a deeply biblical guide to walking with Jesus through suffering. Through themes of exile, lament, presence, and restoration, the book helps readers understand trauma, unburden themselves of shame, and experience healing in Christ and within the community. https://a.co/d/3eENnfz (https://a.co/d/3eENnfz)
9 Dec 2025
“O Come, Immanuel" (Psalm 79)
Psalm 79 gives voice to the sorrow and defilement of people standing in the ruins of trauma, crying out for rescue. Advent answers those cries with the coming of Christ, the God who steps into our devastation and begins restoration right where everything feels lost.
The When It’s Trauma podcast is a devotional journey through the Psalms of Exile. Each short reflection invites you—or someone you love—to breathe, grieve, and encounter the compassionate presence of Jesus. Trauma can silence, disorient, and isolate. However, Scripture provides us with a language for pain and a path toward hope.
Author and counselor Darby Strickland guides listeners tenderly through passages that speak to fear, shame, abandonment, betrayal, and despair—while pointing to the steadfast love of God who enters our exile and walks us home.
What You’ll Experience in Each Episode:
A short, grounding Scripture meditation
Gentle reflections
A picture or metaphor to hold onto throughout the day
A gospel connection that lifts your eyes to Christ
A closing prayer or benediction spoken over you
Why This Matters: Many trauma survivors love Jesus but feel abandoned by him or are overwhelmed by what they carry. Helpers often feel unsure how to come alongside without causing harm. These reflections offer both sufferers and helpers a way to engage with God’s Word slowly, safely, and honestly.
About the Book: When It’s Trauma: A Biblical Guide to Understanding Trauma and Walking Faithfully with Sufferers by Darby Strickland offers a deeply biblical guide to walking with Jesus through suffering. Through themes of exile, lament, presence, and restoration, the book helps readers understand trauma, unburden themselves of shame, and experience healing in Christ and within the community. https://a.co/d/3eENnfz (https://a.co/d/3eENnfz)
3 Dec 2025
Songs We Cannot Sing
Special Advent Episode. “Songs We Cannot Sing” (Psalm 137:1–6) Grief during the holidays—empty chairs, broken relationships, sorrow that makes celebration feel impossible
The When It’s Trauma podcast is a devotional journey through the Psalms of Exile. Each short reflection invites you—or someone you love—to breathe, grieve, and encounter the compassionate presence of Jesus. Trauma can silence, disorient, and isolate. However, Scripture provides us with a language for pain and a path toward hope.
Author and counselor Darby Strickland guides listeners tenderly through passages that speak to fear, shame, abandonment, betrayal, and despair—while pointing to the steadfast love of God who enters our exile and walks us home.
What You’ll Experience in Each Episode:
A short, grounding Scripture meditation
Gentle reflections
A picture or metaphor to hold onto throughout the day
A gospel connection that lifts your eyes to Christ
A closing prayer or benediction spoken over you
Why This Matters: Many trauma survivors love Jesus but feel abandoned by him or are overwhelmed by what they carry. Helpers often feel unsure how to come alongside without causing harm. These reflections offer both sufferers and helpers a way to engage with God’s Word slowly, safely, and honestly.
About the Book: When It’s Trauma: A Biblical Guide to Understanding Trauma and Walking Faithfully with Sufferers by Darby Strickland offers a deeply biblical guide to walking with Jesus through suffering. Through themes of exile, lament, presence, and restoration, the book helps readers understand trauma, unburden themselves of shame, and experience healing in Christ and within the community. https://a.co/d/3eENnfz (https://a.co/d/3eENnfz)
25 Nov 2025
Songs from the Depths
This psalm meets those who feel defiled or unworthy—showing that waiting on the Lord is not passive but hopeful endurance.It is a guide for crying out from shame and guilt after trauma.
The When It’s Trauma podcast is a devotional journey through the Psalms of Exile. Each short reflection invites you—or someone you love—to breathe, grieve, and encounter the compassionate presence of Jesus. Trauma can silence, disorient, and isolate. However, Scripture provides us with a language for pain and a path toward hope.
Author and counselor Darby Strickland guides listeners tenderly through passages that speak to fear, shame, abandonment, betrayal, and despair—while pointing to the steadfast love of God who enters our exile and walks us home.
What You’ll Experience in Each Episode:
A short, grounding Scripture meditation
Gentle reflections
A picture or metaphor to hold onto throughout the day
A gospel connection that lifts your eyes to Christ
A closing prayer or benediction spoken over you
Why This Matters: Many trauma survivors love Jesus but feel abandoned by him or are overwhelmed by what they carry. Helpers often feel unsure how to come alongside without causing harm. These reflections offer both sufferers and helpers a way to engage with God’s Word slowly, safely, and honestly.
About the Book: When It’s Trauma: A Biblical Guide to Understanding Trauma and Walking Faithfully with Sufferers by Darby Strickland offers a deeply biblical guide to walking with Jesus through suffering. Through themes of exile, lament, presence, and restoration, the book helps readers understand trauma, unburden themselves of shame, and experience healing in Christ and within the community. https://a.co/d/3eENnfz (https://a.co/d/3eENnfz)
18 Nov 2025
When Ruins Surround You
Trauma leaves behind rubble. Psalm 79 gives us words to pray when the ruins are still fresh, pleading for God’s mercy and trusting that His name is tied to our rescue.
The When It’s Trauma podcast is a devotional journey through the Psalms of Exile. Each short reflection invites you—or someone you love—to breathe, grieve, and encounter the compassionate presence of Jesus. Trauma can silence, disorient, and isolate. However, Scripture provides us with a language for pain and a path toward hope.
Author and counselor Darby Strickland guides listeners tenderly through passages that speak to fear, shame, abandonment, betrayal, and despair—while pointing to the steadfast love of God who enters our exile and walks us home.
What You’ll Experience in Each Episode:
A short, grounding Scripture meditation
Gentle reflections
A picture or metaphor to hold onto throughout the day
A gospel connection that lifts your eyes to Christ
A closing prayer or benediction spoken over you
Why This Matters: Many trauma survivors love Jesus but feel abandoned by him or are overwhelmed by what they carry. Helpers often feel unsure how to come alongside without causing harm. These reflections offer both sufferers and helpers a way to engage with God’s Word slowly, safely, and honestly.
About the Book: When It’s Trauma: A Biblical Guide to Understanding Trauma and Walking Faithfully with Sufferers by Darby Strickland offers a deeply biblical guide to walking with Jesus through suffering. Through themes of exile, lament, presence, and restoration, the book helps readers understand trauma, unburden themselves of shame, and experience healing in Christ and within the community. https://a.co/d/3eENnfz (https://a.co/d/3eENnfz)
11 Nov 2025
Remembering When God Feels Far
When the night is long and God feels far, Psalm 77 teaches us to remember. We rehearse his works until our hearts can rest again. https://a.co/d/iDpqN9L
21 Oct 2025
Dreaming of Home
When your days are sown with tears, Psalm 126 says God will fill your mouth with laughter again. We’ll remember past deliverance, pray bold prayers in the dry places, and lean into the promise: those who go out weeping will come home with shouts of joyDiscover the book: https://a.co/d/bVq7fB9
14 Oct 2025
Pouring Out Your Story to God
When you feel scorched, withered, or alone in the night, Psalm 102 reminds you that God hears every groan. Your cries are precious to him—and written in his book. Discover the book https://a.co/d/bVq7fB9
7 Oct 2025
Restore Us, O God
When sorrow feels like your only food, Psalm 80 teaches us to cry, “Restore us, O God—shine on us again.
Buy the book! https://a.co/d/ev4CQCD
30 Sept 2025
Our keeper for the journey
After lament, we lift our eyes. Psalm 121 reminds us that our help comes from the Lord—the maker of heaven and earth—who keeps us, day and night.
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23 Sept 2025
When Injustice Prevails
Trauma often leaves us asking, “Where is God when wrong seems to win?” Psalm 74 shows us that we can bring even those questions into his presence, trusting that the Judge of all the earth will do right.
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16 Sept 2025
God's Song in the Night
If grief lingers like a long night, Psalm 43 gives us words: “send out your light and your truth.” He leads us by his presence, and even in the dark, he sings over us. This podcast is based on the book, When It's Trauma
https://a.co/d/5c4UFwe and www.ccef.org/book
9 Sept 2025
When You’re Thirsty for God
Trauma can leave you parched, longing for God in a way that feels unquenchable. In Psalm 42, the psalmist admits his thirst, names his despair, and reminds his own soul to hope in the God who will one day restore his praise.
Order When It's Trauma https://a.co/d/3lBIh80
14 Aug 2025
When the Song Stops
Trauma can silence even the strongest voices of faith. In Psalm 137, God meets His people in their exile—when the songs have stopped—and reminds us that He sees, He stays, and He knows the way home.
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