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Quiet Time With God

The most important thing for anyone looking to heal emotionally is to grow spiritually. The reality is that the God of Scripture is ultimately the One Who is able to heal your heart, mend your broken spirit, show you those places in your life that need to be addressed, can help connect your neurons, can connect the memories to the emotions that are lodged deep within, can provide the forgiveness that we all need for the ways we have hurt others, and can bring us into relationship with Him in order to experience His strength, peace, and rest.
 
Without starting with your relationship with God, you will be left with only your own limited ability, power, insight, and wisdom as you try to:
(1) find sufficient strength to overcome the darkness and waves of emotions as memories surface,
(2) find the comfort you need in the midst of the depression,
(3) find understanding into the source of your inability to be still and rest,
(4) heal those deep places within you,
(5) discern the nature of shame that you have carried for so long,
(6) successfully move through the stages of grief while coming to terms with the losses you've experienced, 
(7) resist the old ways, methods, patterns, and compulsions you have experienced  while dealing with your emotional pain,
(8) realign relationships in your life, and
(9) establish boundaries, and make the kinds of decisions which will enable you to move forward successfully in your life. 
The following are designed to help you in the process of meaningfully growing in your relationship with the God who made you, and Who wants to help you find the answers, the insight, the healing, and the inner peace and rest as you move through the journey into healing.
The best place to start is with a reliable and accurate version of the Bible, that has been translated into a readable and engaging form of current English. There are many good versions of the Bible that have been reliably translated, but the one we recommend is the New Living Translation (NLT), as it was the product of years of dedicated work by very trustworthy scholars from trusted graduate schools (Seminaries). A good companion to go along with that during your Bible reading time is the Amplified Bible, as the editor invested years of her life in bring to the reader the sense of the meaning of each verse in its original language. Jon K. Uhler, LPC uses both of these as he approaches his own "quiet time" with God, and has found both version very helpful in helping draw out the meaning of each verse. And, he recommends getting actual paper versions of each Bible, instead of electronic versions, as having an actual Bible in hand help with a deeper degree of processing and recall.  The following video will help give a sense of why using an actual Bible will enhance your experience and spiritual growth better than simply an electronic version:

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