18: Unlearning Learned Helplessness

Finding God at Work · Jun 24, 2025 · 19m · transcript

Can work be a place of healing?

Certain workplaces are traumatizing in themselves.

But at its best, work is an ennobling experience. It confirms our sense of agency. It helps us gain confidence. It confers meaning on our time.

When work is like this, it can even serve as a place of healing for past wounds—particularly the wound of learned helplessness.

By God's grace, work is often where we discover how much we really are capable of.

Sources:

Deuteronomy 31:6 (ESV)

Psalm 118:6 (ESV)

Hebrews 13:5-6 (NIV)

Shanna B. Tiayon, "Four Ways We Can Be Sensitive to Trauma at Work," Greater Good…