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I’ve spent more than 25 years operating on the human brain, changing lives by making precise, structural interventions in the nervous system. I’ve spent just as long coping with my own brain, which was reshaped by a series of life-altering events.
While deployed as a combat surgeon during the Iraq War, I learned firsthand how trauma reshapes the brain under threat, and I returned home struggling with PTSD. Then, as a father, I learned what it means to grieve the loss of a child in ways no medical training can prepare you for.
Those experiences taught me something uncomfortable but necessary. Many Christians, including myself, are sincere in their faith and faithful in their prayers, yet remain quietly overwhelmed by anxiety, fear, and despair. We wonder why God doesn’t take it away when we ask Him to — and too often, we have no idea what to do to get help.
We tend to oscillate between two extremes, either spiritualizing anxiety as a failure of faith or pathologizing it as entirely outside our responsibility. Neither approach is faithful to Scripture or to what we now know about the brain, and neither leads to lasting healing. But I’ve discovered another approach, one that has changed my brain and life for the better.
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While deployed as a combat surgeon during the Iraq War, I learned firsthand how trauma reshapes the brain under threat, and I returned home struggling with PTSD. Then, as a father, I learned what it means to grieve the loss of a child in ways no medical training can prepare you for.
Those experiences taught me something uncomfortable but necessary. Many Christians, including myself, are sincere in their faith and faithful in their prayers, yet remain quietly overwhelmed by anxiety, fear, and despair. We wonder why God doesn’t take it away when we ask Him to — and too often, we have no idea what to do to get help.
We tend to oscillate between two extremes, either spiritualizing anxiety as a failure of faith or pathologizing it as entirely outside our responsibility. Neither approach is faithful to Scripture or to what we now know about the brain, and neither leads to lasting healing. But I’ve discovered another approach, one that has changed my brain and life for the better.
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Why Christians are losing the war against anxiety (and how God designed us to fight it)
Self-brain surgery is not about self-reliance or replacing God s action
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