LASH UP!

arky4jesus
Jan 27
2 min read

Updated: Jan 27

Some people LASH OUT when they are troubled or life knocks them down, a few too many times. Some people LASH IN instead; they project all their frustrations inward. Neither scenario is healthy. When life comes at us, we instinctively throw up a Force Field, a Boundary, to Protect our most Sensitive parts. We LASH OUT and LASH IN to Guard ourselves.

Going through life this way leads to the physical manifestations of trauma in our bodies. By not absorbing the hit, processing it as it happens and taking the time to Heal; the LASHING keeps the energy trapped within our physical body. It oozes emotional pain out, in the form of physical disease and mental weariness.

The Solution, the most obvious Prescription, is to go to the Creator of our body's system and ask what to do!

God is the only Physician we can Truly Trust.

He wants to Bless us and Heal us, not drain us of provision.

I was a LASH IN type of person. My childhood was rewritten for "Shields Up", "Protection Mode", "Be Unseen"; but I was not created that way.

For years, LASHING IN manifested its effects between anorexia, bulimia, and semi-functionality. There were other issues too, but God created me to be different than what I was in order to survive. I just couldn't see clearly through the Lens of Shame I was viewing my life.

God did use it all to create who I am now, so I am able to look back, in gratitude, that He Walked With me through it all.

I may have LASHED IN and hurt myself instead of others, but the experience gave me Divine Discernment and a well-developed Reliance on the Holy Spirit. I wouldn't be here without Him.

LASHING OUT hurts others the most and it too, is a survival strategy for trauma. It's just more noticeable because the effects are obvious. LASHING IN keeps it all buttoned down, proper, in the form of pain and disease. Both create a High-Risk for addiction and other behavioral patterns of coping with trauma.