When you’re walking through trauma, it can feel like your life fractures into pieces. For me, healing from PTSD hasn’t been a straight line. It’s been a journey of rebuilding what was broken and rediscovering who I am beneath the scars, before and after, then and now.
For me, one unexpected part of that healing has come through my blog.
Blogging Gives My Pain Purpose
Writing allows me to make meaning out of the mess. When I share my story, I transform my pain into purpose. Each post becomes a testimony and a quiet reminder that the past doesn’t define me, but it can refine me. What once silenced me now serves to give voice to something sacred:
Survival, redemption, and grace.
2 Corinthians 1:3-5 ESV
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.
Blogging Creates a Safe Space for Reflection
My blog is like a sanctuary. It’s a place where I can process my thoughts, emotions, and memories without judgment. Writing slows the storm inside my mind. It helps me observe rather than react, reflect rather than repress. Every post I write is a small act of reclaiming peace.
Blogging Reconnects Me with Others
PTSD can isolate you. Thankfully, blogging reminds me I’m not alone. When readers comment or share that something resonated with them, I feel genuine connection; real, human, healing connection. The screen becomes a bridge, not a barrier.
Blogging Restores a Sense of Control
Experience has taught me that trauma often steals our sense of control. But growing a blog gives me something I can shape, build, and nurture. I prayerfully decide the design, the words, the message. Each small choice affirms: I’m not powerless anymore.
Blogging Nurtures Hope
When I plan content, set goals, or dream about future projects, I’m doing more than growing a platform. I’m practicing hope. Hope that tomorrow can be better. Hope that my story still matters. Hope that God isn’t finished with me yet.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Closing Thoughts
Healing rarely happens in a hurry, and it rarely happens in isolation. For me, blogging has become both therapy and testimony. It provides me with a living reminder that God can use even broken things to build something beautiful.
So, I keep writing. I keep sharing. I keep growing, not just my blog, but my heart, my faith, and my capacity to heal.
Reflection Question
How might creating and sharing your story help you take another step toward healing?
Call to Action
Write one honest post this week. Don’t worry about perfection. Focus on truth. Healing begins when your heart finds the words to express yourself.
Until my next post…
Be salty, stay lit.
Rainer Bantau —The Devotional Guy™
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Thank you, Barb. That’s my hope as well.
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I am confident that your vulnerability and honesty will aid others on their road to healing.
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Thank you 🙏! And thanks for subscribing to my blog. I hope you continue to enjoy the content.
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I’m so glad, Karolina. It’s important to me that my writing resonates with people. I believe both our good and bad experiences shape us into who we are. I’m just trying to keep it real in this noisy world we live in. I’m grateful for your encouraging support and that you continue to be a faithful subscriber. Blessings.
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I say, David, I do think that you’ve found a perfect elevator pitch that captures the essence of why you write and what you write about. That’s awesome!
I agree, blogging is a medium that allows us to minister to one another (as I unpacked in earlier post this week). That’s a beautiful thing.
I’m grateful the Lord caused our paths to cross and I am thankful for your comments about my writing. It truly means a lot, David. I’m just trying to keep it real in a world full of noise.
Blessings to you and Nancy. Hope the pups enjoy the weather. Peace.
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I remember when I first found your blog, back in 2019ish. It was your handle—The Devotional Guy—that drew me in. I stayed because of the great content, and the real person behind it. I say real, because, then and now, you don’t pull punches in your writing. You tell it like it is, or was, or is going to be.
For me, blogging has been a way to continue being a minister—even if it’s a digital one. I enjoy sharing modern day parables in the life story niche from a Christian perspective. Woh! That sounds like a sales pitch! Blessings, my brother! I’m glad our paths crossed, and continue to do so.
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Can relate, so thankful for this space and writing like yours 😌
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I appreciate your uplifting comment. Thanks for reading my post. Blessings.
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Thanks for courageously sharing this story! Very inspiring!
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Keep doing your thing!
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😃 🙏
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🔥🔥🔥
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