Don Neufeld, Social Worker/Therapist

Don Neufeld, Social Worker/Therapist A forum for sharing with my clients and others the materials that I find meaningful, as resources for personal and societal change. I welcome your feedback.

I have chosen to set up this page as an opportunity to share resources and personal comments for clients and friends who choose to follow. I am committed to the confidentiality of my clients, and I caution you from posting in ways that will identify you. You will find general clinical and social materials that I feel add helpful information as food for thought. You will also note that some of the content has a "religious" flavour, and I hope that no one will feel compelled to believe or follow any specific creed that is not comfortable for you. I post such content because I do have a fair number of clients for whom faith is central to their journey of life.

03/03/2026
03/01/2026

The more I work with and understand trauma, the less I believe that it is an individual phenomenon. Our perception of it being about individuals - just minds, just bodies, just this person or that person - is itself a symptom of the trauma. There is no way to talk about trauma and the people who experience it without talking about the context within which it emerges and even wider circles of influence. From Holy Hurt by Hillary McBride

03/01/2026
03/01/2026
02/25/2026

For those of you who have spiritual trauma, your healing gets to look the way that you need it to look. This might mean leaving the context, relationship, community, or religion where the harm happened. Finding safety, renarrating your past, allowing for the grief of what happened to clean out a space inside you that hopes for something more: all of this will happen when you are able to begin to name what happened and to know that your trauma deserves to be witnessed. From Holy Hurt by Hillary McBride

02/23/2026
02/23/2026

Trauma and its healing are connected to what is happening in our social contexts... Our social contexts and how we are witnessed in our experiences profoundly impact both how we are able to process trauma and what our nervous systems code as traumatic... Consistent and high levels of social support shape a person's experience of mental and physical health... How people around us respond to our trauma has a dramatic impact on our well-being, our resilience to stress, and the psychobiological symptoms that follow our trauma. - from Holy Hurt by Hillary McBride

02/22/2026

If trauma is about fragmentation, then healing is about connection. - from Holy Hurt by Hillary McBride

02/19/2026

Healing is the ability to attend to whatever is hurting, to turn toward where the injuries are and patiently, with courage and clarity, let them be loved, and eventually to love them ourselves. As they are. This means we are in relationship with the wounds we carry, even as they are wide open, telling the truth for as long as necessary about how much pain we endured and what caused it. This does not mean we love what happened; rather, this is about our relationship with ourself. - From Holy Hurt by Hillary McBride

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