Posts with the tag “emotional-healing”
Three Steps Toward Healing 3
by Steven Pawley on July 9th, 2023
Have you sought the Lord for emotional healing over some painful or sinful event but the help just didn’t seem to arrive?
You’re in good company. Be of good comfort God is nearby.
These messages (steps) weren’t intended to become a “formula for success” over the challenges of life. But they are helpful steps toward getting some vital emotional healing when life hurts.
Moving from the hiding place - wounds, to the honest place - war, can be painful and frustrating.
Sometimes we skip or misstep getting to the place we want to be.
Toxic environments inhibit spiritual health and wellness. So do toxic people.
Make some space. God permits you to get around others who encourage steps toward and into....
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Three Steps Toward Healing 2
by Steven Pawley on July 2nd, 2023
When your story is dotted or defined by painful events, losses, abuses, traumas, failures, and sins committed against or by you it is easy to retreat to the hiding place. Hiding people are everywhere.
Like a wound under a bandage, the pain doesn’t go away in the hiding place. It can fester and manifest itself in all kinds of distorted beliefs and behaviors - sometimes for years or decades.
Emotional wounds left uncared for may become a silent or violent war that rages within and outward toward others. You really can’t hide it; you just learn to disguise it – we “mask the pain”.
Here's the second step to emotional healing...
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