Healing Emotional Wounds

Though emotional pain constitutes an inevitable part of life, not only can it be healed, it can be the soil out of which we grow into greater wholeness and wellbeing. This book arose not simply out of the author’s work with others but out of lessons learned as he worked his way to healing and forgiveness associated with his own emotional wounds as well. In helpful, practical language that is filled with real-life examples, Healing Emotional Wounds examines the inner course of events that predictably follows experiences of emotional wounding. This includes a discussion of the ways in which we attempt to cope with hurt, focusing on common but counterproductive coping strategies that actually impede healing. It then examines in detail the emotional, intellectual, and volitional tasks that are involved in healing emotional wounds, each presenting concrete steps that we can take to help ourselves and others experience healing and gain freedom from bondage to our wounds. Such freedom does not involve escape from unpleasant experiences or difficult circumstances, but release from their tyrannizing inner consequences. This also provides the possibility of living a more fulfilling and significant life because of these experiences.

Dr. David G. Benner is an internationally known depth psychologist, author, and transformational coach whose life’s work has been directed toward facilitating not merely healing, or even growth, but the unfolding of the self associated with a journey of becoming whole. His calling and great passion has been to help others walk the human path in a deeply spiritual way and the spiritual path in a deeply human way.

David has authored or edited twenty-eight books that have been translated into twenty foreign languages. Each presents his signature approach to issues at the intersection of psychology and spirituality. He writes for a popular readership in a style that reviewers describe as thoughtful and engaging. David’s books reflect both his Christian faith and the fact that he holds his beliefs with humility as he engages those of any faith or none. He can be found online at www.drdavidgbenner.ca and https: //ca.linkedin.com/in/drdavidgbenner.