Healing Hurting Hearts

“My immediate reaction was ‘this is not me.’” Moira says, “I’m happy to come and hear about the course, learn about it, so I could promote it up here in the North. I was certain that was the only reason I was going to be at the course.”  

However, things didn’t quite turn out as Moira expected! The training course is split into two parts, the first half of the week working through the Bible resources which are used with those experiencing emotional trauma. The second half of the week is specific training in facilitation. It was during the first half of the week that Moira realised God may be using this training event for more than just informing her about a new SBS resource!

“Within 24 hours, I came to realise that I had not fully come to terms with the death of my dad…I thought I was fine, but there were aspects of that relationship I think I had never fully dealt with.”

The course trainers had asked everyone to write a letter to their father, Moira was surprised by her own reaction.

“I found myself pouring out my heart to my dad in a way that I had never had the courage to do, or thought about doing, or thought it was necessary to do.”  

Moira was finding emotional healing from the pages of the Bible.

“Those were the moments and the hours when I realised that this course had a really crucial part to play in people’s lives…” 

“Trauma really is about anything which hurts our hearts. It’s anything that wounds us. Anything that causes pain, real pain, ongoing pain. And the course very clearly explains that trauma is the loss of life, and the loss of a loved one, and the loss of health, the loss of employment, the loss of hope.”

Present Day 

Moira began running Trauma Healing courses in Inverness with another trained facilitator, Ali. Through the years the number of people helped and healed has been remarkable. Support from the local church is crucial as Moira and Ali are supported and upheld in prayer.

“We are very conscious that, without prayer, this would be a really, really difficult thing to do because we are dealing with hard stuff in people’s lives.” 

When we spoke with her, Moira recalled one story of a life transformed even when at first it seemed unlikely!

“We had a wonderful moment a number of years ago where we had a gentleman who came along…He was the most unwilling participant I think we have ever seen! He clearly did not want to be there. And he had been sent by his wife, who said, ‘you need to go to this course.’  

That first night he sat really uncomfortable. And at the first small group discussion, we put the three men together and this poor guy did not participate… he certainly didn’t want to open up. But the interesting thing was, he went home that night and opened up to his wife about the family issues that she knew he had to deal with, that he had never talked about before…It just poured out.”

SBS has now trained over two hundred Trauma Healing facilitators, who faithfully run local courses to help those around them with loss and broken relationships. And Moira? Well she is now one of the course trainers helping others learn to become Trauma Healing facilitators in their local community.

Are you interested in training to lead Trauma Healing groups where you live?