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A Faith-Driven Voice for Trauma Healing, Hope, and Recovery
Zebulon Thomas is a trauma survivor, author, and speaker who helps audiences understand trauma, healing, and what recovery actually looks like — from the inside out.
Rooted in lived experience and shaped by EMDR therapy, Zebulon speaks with honesty, care, and deep respect for survivors, clinicians, faith communities, and educators.
🕊️ This is not a story of “overcoming.”
It’s a story of healing — and the courage it takes to begin.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Zebulon Thomas speaks to faith communities, educators, clinicians, and organizations that want to engage trauma with honesty, care, and responsibility.
His work is especially relevant for churches and ministries navigating trauma-informed conversations, schools and educators focused on emotional safety and resilience, therapists and mental health professionals, and conferences or nonprofits serving survivor-centered communities.
Audiences leave with a clearer understanding of how trauma affects the nervous system, language for healing without shame or spiritual bypassing, and a deeper respect for evidence-based therapy.
Most importantly, they walk away with a grounded sense of hope — one that honors pain instead of rushing past it.
A STORY SHAPED BY HEALING
Out of Fight or Flight is a trauma-informed memoir written inside real EMDR therapy — not after healing was complete.
Each chapter reflects what trauma recovery feels like in real time: body memories, protective responses, breakthroughs, resistance, and the slow return of safety.
This memoir is written from the client’s chair — not the therapist’s.
It offers a rare, first-person account of EMDR therapy as experienced from within the nervous system, moment by moment.
The book supports the speaking work by offering deeper context, but the message always begins in the room — human, grounded, and present.
The book supports the speaking work by offering deeper context, but the message always begins in the room — human, grounded, and present.
WHY EMDR MATTERS
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a research-backed therapy used worldwide to help people heal from trauma, PTSD, and nervous system dysregulation.
Zebulon does not teach therapy or provide clinical instruction. He speaks from lived experience — from the perspective of someone who sat in the client’s chair and discovered that healing was possible.
Faith and evidence-based therapy are not in conflict here.
They meet in compassion, safety, and truth.
SUPPORT FOR TRAUMA SURVIVORS
If you are a survivor seeking grounding, education, or a place to breathe, this space exists for you too.
Here you’ll find gentle explanations of EMDR, simple grounding tools, and survivor-centered resources offered with clear ethical boundaries and deep respect for safety.
You are not required to share your story.
You are not rushed toward healing.
You are welcome exactly where you are.