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Trauma Poems and Prayers

For years, I could not find liturgy that spoke to my experience and what I saw in the world, so I started to write my own

Prayer of the Trauma Survivor

God, grant me relief from every flashback, every sense memory, every dissociative episode

Help me to remember 

The beautiful present I have

Allow me to feel when I need to feel

To escape when I need to escape

 

God, grant me the humility

To reach out for kindness and support

The strength to hold complicated feelings in my heart

Towards you and towards all those in my life

 

God, bless me with calm

Over the raging storm within my mind

Untie the bonds of culpability

Over the things I’ve lived through

 

God, help me along my wandering journey

As you guided my people 

Through Egypt and through Shushan

Allow me stability to take each step

 

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