Understanding True Healing: A Journey Beyond Pain

Healing Series

REVEALING GOD’S HEART FOR RELATIONSHIPS

Susan Adeyemi

Susan is a professional who works in business and organisational restructuring. However, over the past 6 years, she’s felt a heavy ministerial burden to reach the wounded through God’s word. After being in an abusive relationship, she sought the face of the Lord concerning how to repurpose her pain for the benefit of God’s kingdom. She believes she has been called into a unique position to reach out to people, particularly those who find themselves in wrong relationships. She wants you to know that God hears your prayers. He wants to encourage you to not give up or give in. He wants to heal the brokenhearted and restore you to your rightful place. He wants to bind up your wounds and strengthen you in His love and set you free. To keep up, follow my social media pages. Feel free to contact me below and sign up for our weekly letters.

By Susan Adeyemi, Counsellor, & Author

What Does Healing Look Like?

Healing is often imagined as a straight line, clean, simple, predictable. But anyone who has walked through emotional pain knows that healing is rarely tidy. Healing is the process of becoming whole again, piece by piece, layer by layer. It isn’t about pretending the past didn’t happen; it’s about learning to live beyond it with clarity, strength, and renewed identity. True healing touches not just the mind, but the heart and the soul.

From a Christian perspective, healing involves allowing God to come into the broken places we’ve tried to manage on our own. It means giving ourselves permission to slow down, feel, rest, and rebuild with grace. It is courageous work. Healing isn’t the absence of pain, rather, it’s the restoration of hope, the return of peace, and the rediscovery of the person God always intended you to be. And God walks with you every step of the way.

Counsellor’s Corner

If the idea of “true healing” feels big or unfamiliar, write one word in your safe space journal that captures where you are right now. Something along the lines of: “beginning,” “curious,” “tired,” “ready,” or anything in between. Reflect on how your understanding of healing has shifted after reading this.

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