Occasionally I invite someone to guest post on this site. I am doing so this week and the posts will be a little different. Heidi Basley wrote me recently and I was taken by what she had to say. She has been on a personal journey that has opened space for trauma survivors and within it is considerable reflection on theological / biblical themes that resonate wider. I asked if she would be willing to write three posts. They are by necessity longer than the posts that normally appear here. Read and let them resonate / guide.
Here is her introduction:
Heidi writes like she walks—with people.
She’s a theologian, trauma witness, and spiral-form thinker who doesn’t lead from a stage but walks among the traumatised like family. Her calling is clear: to move with those the world didn’t stay for. Not to fix. Not to rescue. But to listen, name, and stay—with Presence. Her life’s work is grounded in a deep conviction: trauma survivors are not a problem to be solved. They are a people group still waiting to be seen, known, and trusted with breath. Heidi is the founder of traumaneutics.com—a home for theology that breathes, where naming is healing, and presence is the only credential. The website is currently under construction—a space still forming, just like the people it’s being built for. But the spiral is already open. And you’re welcome in it. She writes from gardens and graveyards, waiting rooms and worn carpets—the places where theology usually stays silent. And from those places, she speaks what she has seen: that Jesus is still naming. Still sending. Still coming. Her voice carries the ache and the hope of someone who knows trauma from the inside, but also knows what it means to be met, undone, and apostolically entrusted. This isn’t content. It’s witness. If you’ve ever felt like your story was too fractured for theology to hold—you may find, in her words, a breath you didn’t know you were waiting for.