Emotional Healing

Learning Again To Love and To Trust

Begin Your Journey to Emotional Healing

From humiliation to ridicule, to a broken family, to the end of a relationship, to the death of a loved one, to physical or emotional abuse, the sources of emotional pain are endless and the suffering is immeasurable.  The trauma, the abuse, and the devastation create feelings of hopelessness and a sense that we are losing control of our lives.

To escape from the hopelessness of emotional pain we must release the past and look forward to the hope of the future.  Hope will give us the power to act, and through action we will be free to discover our peace, and our strength, and our resilience.

Emotional healing is more than healing emotions and healing emotional abuse. 

Emotional healing is about learning again to love and to trust. 

Emotional healing gives us the power to release injustice, and to protect and strengthen our emotions.  Ultimately, emotional healing is about forgiveness and the freedom to enrich meaningful relationships. 

Our journey begins when we can embrace hope and recognize that there are solutions to the intolerable symptoms of emotional pain.  Many others before us have suffered as we do now, and yet time has given them peace and strength, and resilience.  But was it time alone, or were they driven by something more powerful?

Indeed, it was something more powerful.

Emotional healing is about the power of the human spirit.  And it resides within you.

We strive to inspire all of those who will travel on the journey to freedom.  We hope the accompanying resources and the following inspirations will provide you with the support and inspiration to begin your journey from pain and sadness and hopelessness, to healing and joy and hope. 

1.  We begin by seizing control.  We must move to assume every aspect of our life, to regain the power that was taken away from us.  We recognize that each of has the power to respond, and so we act.

2.  Emotional healing means overcoming reluctance and fear of extending our relationships.  Yet if we are to attain that which we can become, we must relinquish what we are.  And so, emotional healing means taking the risk to move forward and to discover new, healthy relationships.

 3. We need not act alone.  To the contrary, we must seek help from other sources and from other people - a mentor, an expert, clergy, a family member, or a friend.  We shall learn to share our experiences, to talk about what has happened to us.  By relating our feelings, we shall begin the process of emotional healing.

4.  Sharing means learning to trust again.  We begin by seeking out those who would not hurt us and who have our best interests at heart.  Those who minimize our pain …"don't worry about it … just forget about it …" are not acting in our best interests.  Emotional pain cannot be ignored.  We must dismiss all barriers, all negative messages that would prevent us from having the freedom and life happiness we deserve. 

5.  A positive way of extending relationships is to select someone we admire and respect and invite them to share a fun experience.  Look to civic groups, volunteer organizations, support groups, or faith-based opportunities.  From there we must extend our circle of friends, aiming for perhaps five people we can bond with.  Bonding means listening to and sharing positive thoughts and life experiences.  And in the process we are drawing from the experience of our life.  We are responding to our suffering with positive action and anticipation for what were are to become as we journey away from unimaginable emotional pain to the freedom of emotional healing.

6.  We learn to strike a balance in our life by relying on others and yet depending on ourselves.  Depending on ourselves means taking control of our lives, and meeting our day to day responsibilities.  We are learning to take on our problems, with decisive, positive action, recognizing that we cannot change what has happened to us in the past, but we can alter our response to the future.  We embrace even our smallest accomplishments, recognizing that one step at a time we shall free ourselves from the emotional pain of the past.

7.  And indeed our journey involves self discovery.  Through positive interaction and self growth we understand that while there remains some vulnerability, it is through pain that we are growing.  We recognize our greater sense of strength, our ability to solve problems, and our resiliency.  And with these realizations we have learned to trust, to forgive, to love ourselves, and to enhance the relationships we cherish.

Emotional healing is enriched by the wisdom and support of mentors who can lead us to an even deeper interpretation of our inner strength.  We encourage you browse our selections and to seek inspiration from those who hold the knowledge of those who have suffered before us.  From the depth of their pain to the pinnacle of their success, we trust you will be inspired and invigorated to follow their lead.