How to live in a broken world
You can’t live in a broken world without eventually being marred by brokenness on a personal level. All of us to a greater or lesser degree carry around emotional wounds in varying stages of healing. We are the sum total of all our experiences.
Emotional wounds affect;
- Your behaviour
- Your relationships
- Your choice in a marriage partner
- And your relationship with God
Many individuals struggle with questions like;
- Why do I feel the way I feel?
- Why do I do the things I do?
- What’s wrong with me?
- Why can’t I change?
Emotional wounds cause you to take off your rose-coloured glasses and replace them with lenses of darkness. You learn to distrust, fear, and control, manipulate, hide, please, and do anything else necessary to survive.
Living in a broken world we all have our own W.A.R.R.R. story the wound, the affect. the response, the recovery, and the redemption. My W.A.R.R.R. story is unique to me as yours is to you. Our stories may have many common threads but each affects us in a deep personal way.
Turn and Face the Darkness
The first step toward emotional healing is to turn around and face the darkness. Shake off denial by talking about the traumatic event with someone you trust. How were you wounded? Share your story with trustworthy friends.
When someone has a car accident, they usually must tell the details of what happened to several people before they are able to put it behind them. Talking about how you were wounded or hurt helps you process it. As I began to share my story, my roller coaster of emotions gradually began to level out.
Brokenness of every kind has its root cause which will need to be addressed if healing is to take place. If you deny the extent of the damage or blame someone else for your reactions, healing will be unreachable.
Saying you have dealt with a wound but not having examined the pain, is just throwing the situation under the rug. The problem with that is, there ends up being so much junk under the rug you eventually trip over it and fall on you face.
Take Ownership
The second step to healing when living in a broken world is – owning your brokenness. You need to look at how the hurtful incident affected you.
How did your emotional wound affect how you view
yourself?
What impact did it have on your self-worth?
How does it affect your relationships today?
It is essential that you allow yourself to feel the pain caused by the incident. If healing is your goal, you need to acknowledge the affect the traumatic event has on you.
Time does not heal all wounds. In fact, time often causes the wound to move deeper. The full destruction of the wrongdoing against you must be faced, felt, and expressed before true healing can take place.
- Walk with me through the experiences that caused extensive brokenness in my life.
- Discover how emotional wounds affected my behaviour, my relationships, and my spiritual growth.
- Interact with my story and receive hope for your journey.
There is victory on the other side of the valley. Press on!
Excerpts From book three of “Healing Emotional Wounds” series, Subtitle “Facing the Darkness”,
by Grace Gayle
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