Finding True Healing From Trauma

By Focus on the Family, featuring Dr. Elizabeth Stevens

A psychiatrist describes her own PTSD. Dr. Elizabeth Stevens was serving in the US Air Force when a brain injury and a series of traumatic events put her on the other side of the desk.

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Information last checked: 2026-08-29

FORMATPodcast Episode

PRICEFree — $0.00 digital download; $9.00 on CD

TIMEAbout an hour

BEST FORPeople living with PTSD or the aftermath of trauma

Directory overview

What it is

Dr. Elizabeth Stevens was a psychiatrist in the United States Air Force when a debilitating brain injury and a series of further traumatic events left her with PTSD — a clinician with the full vocabulary of her field, unable to think her way out of it. That is what makes this broadcast land: she can describe the mechanism and the helplessness at the same time, and she is candid about the spiritual turn that became the hinge of her recovery. Relevant here because trauma sits underneath a great deal of compulsive sexual behaviour, and because a professional saying 'this happened to me too' does something no textbook does. Free as a digital download, $9.00 on CD, and her book Unshackled: Finding God's Freedom From Trauma carries the fuller account.

What it may help with

I'm healing from sexual abuse or trauma
I want to understand the science

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Finding True Healing From Trauma

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