Healing Your Heart Of Painful Emotions

Events in our lives, both good and bad, form rings in us like the rings in a tree. Each ring records memories that affect our feelings, our relationships, and our thoughts about God. In this classic work, David Seamands encourages us to live compassionately with ourselves as we allow the Holy Spirit to heal our past. As he helps us name hurdles in our lives—such as guilt, poor self-worth, and perfectionism—he shows us how we can find freedom from our pain and enjoy the abundant life God wants for us.

Memories - sometimes they're sweet, sometimes they're unbearably painful. Hurting memories that cause believers to struggle with crippling emotions and behaviors need a special kind of healing. Pastoral counselor David Seamands provides it in this powerful four-in-one guide. Writing with compassion and understanding, Seamands (the pioneer in memory-healing therapy) shows readers how God's power can free seekers from the tyranny of painful memories, childhood traumas, and the driving need to achieve. Only the liberating power of true grace can repair damaged emotions. Readers are gently guided step by step through the process, from healing inner hurts and changing old behavior patterns to discovering how to grow in spiritual and emotional maturity. WIth a blend of clear biblical theology, solid psychology, and practical common sense, Healing Your Heart of Painful Emotions helps readers find the peace and permanent freedom that so many are searching for.

Recovering from memories that cause our pain.

Nautilus Book Award Gold Winner A psychotherapist offers “crucial” guidance on how to “alter fundamentally our fearful relationship to deep feelings,” from depression and anxiety to grief and fear (Los Angeles Times) We are all touched at some point by the dark emotions of grief, fear, or despair. In an age of global threat, these emotions have become widespread and overwhelming. While conventional wisdom warns us of the harmful effects of “negative” emotions, this revolutionary book offers a more hopeful view: there is a redemptive power in our worst feelings. Seasoned psychotherapist Miriam Greenspan argues that it’s the avoidance and denial of the dark emotions that results in the escalating psychological disorders of our time: depression, anxiety, addiction, psychic numbing, and irrational violence. And she shows us how to trust the wisdom of the dark emotions to guide, heal, and transform our lives and our world. Drawing on inspiring stories from her psychotherapy practice and personal life, and including a complete set of emotional exercises, Greenspan teaches the art of emotional alchemy by which grief turns to gratitude, fear opens the door to joy, and despair becomes the ground of a more resilient faith in life. “This remarkable book has taught me a whole new way of thinking.” —Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People “A beautiful piece of work destined to become a perennial classic.” —Martha Beck, author of The Joy Diet

Alternate title: Redeeming the past.

When life causes you to build a wall around yourself, this guide will help you learn how to let go of blame, to forgive, to feel gratitude, and to "revere" your divine Self.