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FAQs

  • Story Work, also known as Narrative Focused Trauma Care (NFTC), is a gentle, integrative approach to healing that brings together the wisdom of theology, psychology, and neuroscience. It honors the whole person (mind, body, and soul) and creates space to explore the stories that have shaped your life.

    Rather than focusing only on symptoms or behaviors, Story Work invites you to pay attention to the deeper narratives formed through relationships, family dynamics, sexual development, and experiences of harm or loss. Together, we begin to understand how both personal and collective trauma may still be impacting your present.

    This approach is rooted in the work of Dan Allender, whose lifelong commitment to trauma care is grounded in a core belief: healing is not only possible, but is deeply woven into the story God is telling in and through us.

    At the heart of Story Work is a movement from places marked by shame, contempt, or confusion toward places of compassion, goodness, and even delight. This doesn’t happen through pressure or performance, but through telling the truth of your story with honesty and care, grieving what was lost, and beginning to offer kindness to the parts of you that learned to survive.

    As you share your story in the presence of safe, attuned others, something begins to shift. When your wounds are named alongside your goodness, you grow in your capacity to live with greater freedom, to engage meaningful relationships, and to more fully step into your calling.

  • We were created for connection, with God and with one another. At our core, we are relational beings, designed to love, to create, and to belong.

    And yet, we all experience rupture.

    In a broken world, many of us carry stories marked by pain, disconnection, or unmet needs—often within our earliest relationships. These experiences, especially within our family of origin, don’t just stay in the past. They quietly shape how we see ourselves, how we relate to others, and how we navigate the world.

    No two stories are the same. The ways we experience harm and the ways our bodies and minds respond are deeply personal. But over time, these experiences can leave us feeling stuck, disconnected, or unable to fully live as we were created to.

    There’s a phrase often shared in this work: we are shaped by moments of harm.

    But that is not the whole story.

    Healing is possible. New patterns can form. And with care, courage, and the presence of others, your story can begin to move toward restoration, connection, and hope.

  • So how do we begin to live and respond differently?

    It starts by telling the truth of our stories by gently naming what has hurt and allowing those experiences to be seen and held with care. In the presence of attuned, compassionate support, we begin to experience something many of us have longed for: to be known without being overwhelmed, and to be supported without being alone.

    There is also a growing understanding within neuroscience that this kind of storytelling matters. As we revisit and make sense of our experiences, our brains begin to reconnect what was once fragmented which allows memories, emotions, and meaning to come back into relationship with one another.

    In many ways, the process is similar to the healing of a broken bone. What was once fractured is carefully realigned, and over time, strengthened. In the same way, as our stories are tended with honesty and care.  We are not simply restored; we are transformed.

    And as this healing unfolds in the mind, the body begins to follow. We find ourselves with greater capacity for presence, connection, and peace.

    Over time, we begin to see more clearly: our lives are not defined only by what has been broken, but by the beauty God is restoring within us.

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