Pathways to Healing

Healing past hurts or emotional wounds has been referred to by a number of names: “inner healing”, “healing of memories” and “soul healing”. Regardless of what you call it, this POWERFUL one day workshop addresses those hurts & emotional wounds that result from events in our lives.

Have you experienced:

rejection       abandonment

abuse           neglect

violence       insecurity and being embarrassed

shamed       terrorized

scared manipulated or otherwise controlled?

Our concern is with hurts, wounds and pain that remain long after the events that caused them, hurts that have not healed and therefore disrupt people’s lives. Calling such hurts “scars” is inappropriate: A scar indicates healing of a wound, and the tissue of a scar is typically stronger than the tissue around it. Unhealed hurts are open wounds that continue to fester and flare up, causing emotional pain and suffering, sometimes physical discomfort and illness, sometimes even serious disruption.

If allowed to remain unhealed, such hurts can lead to many types of problems, some quite serious! Psychologists inform us that depression often results from anger that has not been released or resolved. The anger arises from a particular hurt, which for various reasons, the person feeling it is not able or allowed to express constructively but stuffs down inside. Sometimes depression results from fear and anxieties that people suppress and do not discuss, leaving a feeling of hopelessness, what some describe as having no control. In some people that depression can lead to suicide or acts that harm other persons, including close family members. Other people experience what medicine calls psychosomatic illnesses, actual physical illnesses that have psychological roots. Sometimes people with such unhealed hurts withdraw into a shell, while others may exhibit various forms of rage or an inability to relate to others in a healthy way. Some with such hurts inflict on others the same acts that produced the hurts in them, particularly in abuse cases. Healing past hurts helps!

When a person:

• feels particularly anxious or insecure
• becomes addicted
• is easily angered or hurt
• frequently feels resentful
• bitter or depressed
• finds it difficult to hold or enjoy a job
• or cannot maintain healthy relationships with others

then they should consider healing past hurts.  When suffering anxiety attacks, autoimmune conditions and similar conditions or diseases  such conditions often (not always) arise when people suppress and do not express the emotions they feel while undergoing negative and painful experiences, whether physical, verbal, or psychological. The normal reaction to such experiences is ‘fight or flight’, to respond aggressively or to escape. Unfortunately, too many victims do neither but merely endure the hurts and ‘stuff’ the emotions into some internal closet. And for some people, when a person does that over a long period, suffering repeated hurts that don’t heal, the body begins to react in harmful ways.

Too often, we have forgotten the deep, unhealed wound of such accumulated hurts after having gotten away from the source for several years. But the wound remains and festers. And the physical reaction appears later in life and may contribute to serious illnesses, such as autoimmune conditions, some forms of arthritis or cancer. Even a small measure of healing for such past hurts can help when a person suffers from a physical problem that does not have a clearly discernable external, physical cause (and maybe even when it does).

A healthy soul is one that is mature, whole, unblemished in God’s eyes. In a healthy soul, we see an ability to love unconditionally, understand deeply and act and react appropriately and consistently. Healing past hurts or emotional wounds helps a person toward that maturity.

Join Dale Carnegie Trainer & Performance Coach Roland Gilbert for this POWERFUL one day seminar and start down YOUR Pathway to Healing!