I bought the lie this meme states: there is no healing from emotional abuse.
I’ve actually allowed this lie to dictate most of my life. The problem with living this lie, is that it creates more lies and infiltrates even more of your life, including your health.
There CAN BE healing from emotional abuse, but just like overcoming an addiction, it’s a choice.
The challenge, though, is you will have to break free from the bondage this emotional abuse has created and you have endured.
Is it easy? No
Is it possible? Yes
But you have to do some very hard work.
Another challenge is realizing that many times we like living in our own prison of our own doing. What do I mean?
The abuse is no longer there, but we act like it’s an ongoing thing. We have to change our mindset. We have to be willing to walk out of the prison into the free world. We have to be willing to say, no more does this define me or define my tomorrow.
We also have to learn that just because someone says something with a certain tone or uses a certain phrase, and it triggers a response from a time when the abuse happened, it isn’t necessarily emotional abuse, nor intended to be abusive, it just is just something that happened.
Are these real responses and do they need to be dealt with? Yes, but as you are healing you have a choice! I have a choice!
The problem is we have bought the lie that we don’t have a choice and there is no healing from emotional abuse.