Comments on: Emotional and Psychological Healing through the Grace and Mercy of God https://anitamathias.com/2012/03/10/emotional-and-psychological-healing-through-the-grace-and-mercy-of-god/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Thu, 21 Jan 2016 23:01:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Pareto’s Law, The 80/20 Rule (and My Progress in New Year’s Goals) | Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com/2012/03/10/emotional-and-psychological-healing-through-the-grace-and-mercy-of-god/#comment-17304 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:01:26 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/03/10/emotional-and-psychological-healing-through-the-grace-and-mercy-of-god/#comment-17304 […] I break the habit of comfort eating, and don’t eat when I am tired, or bored or stressed, but pray for an infilling of the Holy […]

]]> By: In Which I Boast of my Weaknesses | Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com/2012/03/10/emotional-and-psychological-healing-through-the-grace-and-mercy-of-god/#comment-17303 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:18:43 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/03/10/emotional-and-psychological-healing-through-the-grace-and-mercy-of-god/#comment-17303 […] it or not, I only acknowledged that comfort eating or emotional eating was a weakness of mine earlier this year. I am not yet wholly free of it–it was a habit of […]

]]> By: Anita https://anitamathias.com/2012/03/10/emotional-and-psychological-healing-through-the-grace-and-mercy-of-god/#comment-17302 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:54:06 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/03/10/emotional-and-psychological-healing-through-the-grace-and-mercy-of-god/#comment-17302 Hi Diane, It wasn't pray for deliverance healing, just regular prayer for help and healing.

As I said, my emotions generally heal slowly, though I remain enamoured by the idea of sudden deliverances and transformations.

That's a great plaque. Should make one!!

Love,
Anita

]]> By: Diane Stortz https://anitamathias.com/2012/03/10/emotional-and-psychological-healing-through-the-grace-and-mercy-of-god/#comment-17301 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:02:52 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/03/10/emotional-and-psychological-healing-through-the-grace-and-mercy-of-god/#comment-17301 Hi Anita,

I don't think most emotional healing comes as deliverance healing. I think many times God says, “OK, here's the path, I'll help you walk it” And renewing our minds with what he says about himself, his path, and how to walk it … as we do what he says, we change our thinking, which changes our doing.

You're wise to have asked for help and to be sharing about this, because a big component of God's path is being connected to others as well as to him.

Another key piece is figuring out what's in those uncomfortable feelings that drive emotional eating and being willing to sit and feel those feelings instead of running to food to make them go away.

I used to have a sign up: FOOD WON'T FIX IT. WHAT WILL? I still think that sums it up.

I should add that I don't do any of this perfectly!

Blessings to you,

Diane

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