Meyer - Healing the soul of a woman: how to overcome your emotional wounds

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Psalm 147:3 ESV

Can a woman who has been hurt deeply either by circumstances in her life or by a person she loved and trusted be healed? Can her heart and soul be healed? Can she love and trust once again? As a woman who was sexually abused by my father, abandoned by my mother, and cheated on by my first husband, I can say without hesitation, Yes! If you are living with a wounded soul and feeling alone, unloved, and misunderstood, I can promise you that you do not have to stay that way.

Beauty for Ashes, which was published in 1994, was the first book I wrote on emotional healing. Since that time I have had a great deal more experience in this area and am more knowledgeable in Gods Word, and I want to share those things with you. I have written other books that include some portions of what I will share in this book, but with Gods help, this will be an all-inclusive manual from a biblical perspective on the subject of emotional healing.

Countless numbers of people are walking around wounded in their souls from past hurts, and they either dont know they can be healed or simply dont know what to do or how to begin. I will share what I have learned on my journey, and although yours wont be exactly like mine, I hope my story can be an inspiration and a guiding light as you step out onto your path of progress toward wholeness.

Just as our bodies can be sick, our souls can be sick, but God wants to heal us everywhere we hurt, including our soul. The soul is the mind, will, and emotions. It is the inner part of us and a very important part. No matter what we have materially or how good our circumstances are in life, if we have wounded, bruised, and bleeding souls, we will not enjoy life. Whether our hurt is from shame, anger, bitterness, depression, doubt, insecurity, guilt, or fear, it needs to be confronted and dealt with.

I limped through life for years thinking I had the best life I could expect considering my past. I can actually remember thinking as a young adolescent that I would always have a second-rate life because of what my father had done to me. I didnt even attempt to deal with any of the problems that were created from my past simply because I didnt think anything could be done about them. But I was wrong.

It is amazing how wrong our thinking can be, but if we dont know it is wrong then we never rise above it. In this book, I hope to show you that a wonderful, amazing, fulfilling life is available for you. With Gods help you can learn to think and behave in ways that will actually set you free to be the amazing woman God created you to be.

Once you know what is available to you, I pray that you will make a decision to go for it! The world offers a variety of remedies for the wounds of the soul, and some of them may be helpful, but Jesus offers us complete healing. He is the healer and restorer of our souls. The psalmist David said God had restored his soul (Psalm 23:3). When something is restored it is made like new once again.

What kind of life did God intend for you as a woman who is created in His image? It certainly is not one of being minimized, devalued, mistreated, abused, used, and battered. He offers us unconditional love, infinite worth and value, wholeness, righteousness, peace, and joyand that is just the beginning of His blessings for those who will believe and walk with Him through life!

As you begin the journey of healing for your soul, I ask you to remember that healing takes time. It is also sometimes painful because we have to let old wounds be opened up in order to get the infection that is festering and poisoning our souls out of them. Women who have need of healing for their soul only have two choices. The first is to continue limping along in life, just trying to get through each day, and the second is to say, Ive had enough misery, unhappiness, pretense, guilt, and shame, and Im ready to do whatever it takes to be made whole!