Healing the Soul of a Woman: How to Overcome Your Emotional Wounds

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Just as Peter told Aeneas that Jesus healed him and he can get up and move on, you can also receive God’s love and healing power and begin moving forward now! All scripture in this book is taken from the Amplified Bible, unless otherwise stated. I appreciate that scripture is heavily dispersed throughout the book. The author relies on God more than her own experiences. Although she does speak from experience.

People don’t abuse you, misuse you, or even mistreat you because there is something wrong with you; they do it because there is something wrong with them. They hurt us because they are hurting. Broken and wounded people absolutely cannot recover until they unload the guilt and shame that they carry.” Joyce endured years of horrific abuse at the hands of her father, and she was abandoned by her mother, who was too afraid of failure and other issues to rescue her. But somehow, when Joyce was able to choose the course of her life, she made aEach chapter begins with either a famous quote or a bit of scripture. My favorite quote from the book is: ‘What comes easy won’t last, what lasts won’t come easy.’ ~ Author Unknown (p. 194) Meyer reminds us that God will use the painful things we have experienced if we let Him. Healing is a process, taking diligence and time. She gives practical steps and techniques as well as personal examples of the way it all works. Meyer is honest in letting readers know of her own successes and failures along the way.

Boundaries are necessary; encourage others; teach our kids that they are special before the bullies scare them; and always try no matter how nervous you are. When we stand up for ourselves we are not trying to control what other people do, but rather we are controlling what they do to us.” I also find it curious that author Joyce Meyer rarely gives specific examples of trials in her life. She will say, "I recently went through something that was troubling me and stealing my peace," but she doesn't like to reveal details. I don't need a play-by-play of every petty moment, but sometimes those details hold all the power. If Jesus has taught us anything, it's that a good story is how you get people to relate to your situation, to empathize with and learn from you. Without that human element, her advice often rings hollow. The chapters were to the point, easy to digest and just enough to hold my attention without feeling bogged down with information. I took moments to consider some of the truths of God as suggested and believe I am better for it.Can a woman who has been deeply hurt by life's circumstances, or even a man she loved and trusted, be healed? Can her heart and soul be repaired? Can she love and trust again? As a woman who endured years of abuse, abandonment, and betrayal by those closest to her, Joyce Meyer's answer is "yes!" Our souls are wounded from the terrible things that others do to us, but often we are also wounded from our own sin.” Self-pity comes from an unwillingness to accept a situation or circumstance in your life. It often develops when there are things that we want but cannot have or things we don’t want and cannot get rid of. It is a feeling that you are a victim of something or someone. It is fed by meditating over and over on your challenges, difficulties, and problems in life and by comparing your life with someone you think has it better than you do. Are you feeding the wrong wolf?” Healing the Soul of a Woman is pretty much what I expected it to be. There's a lot of Christian-ese talk about communing with God, accepting Jesus as your savior, reading the Word, healing your soul, claiming your inheritance, laying it at the cross, and letting "it" go. But behind all that religious jargon, unfortunately, there's just not much clear advice on how to, you know, feel better.

This book may just be Meyer's best. She includes much of what she has written in her other books in this one. If you have not read anything from Meyer, this is a good place to start. Sadly, we often keep our pain a secret, and it festers in our souls until we become truly dysfunctional.” There are scriptures in God’s Word that assure us He wants to heal and restore our wounded souls… For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord, because they have called you an outcast: 'It is Zion, for whom no one cares!'— Jeremiah 30:17 (ESV) Although my father and my mother have abandoned me, yet the Lord will take me up [adopt me as His child].— Psalm 27:10 (AMP) And Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and make your bed.” And immediately he rose.— Acts 9:34 (ESV) No matter what others may say about you or think of you, He loves you and wants to heal your wounds and care for you. What’s your story? How were you hurt and wounded in your soul? Were you rejected by someone you love? Abandoned by your spouse? Bullied by your peers in school?Even if your parents reject you, you’re never alone or without family because God adopts you as His own child. Can a woman who has been deeply hurt by life's circumstances be healed, heart and soul? If she has been wounded by a man she loved and trusted, can she love and trust again? As a woman who endured years of abuse, abandonment, and betrayal by those closest to her, Joyce Meyer can answer with a resounding "yes!" I also read this book to get a better understanding of some of the challenges women face. My friend was reading it and after reading it and knowing some of what she is struggling with I believe this book will do more harm than good due to basing so much of the teaching on a supposed prosperity on earth for people of faith that is not promised in the Bible. In my experience the false expectation that many Christian texts present, that doing the right thing will make your life easy and there won't be any challenges or difficulties if they act the right way, it's actually harmful and leaves people disappointed that promises that are never made in the Bible go unfulfilled. I also thought the text was light on women specific issues. Believe we need to understand ourselves, and that requires taking the time to see the motive behind our behaviors rather than merely the behavior itself.”