Healing Emotional Wounds: Thirty-Day Journal

By Tosha McCraney

After being delivered from drug addiction and emotional devastation in 2011, God led Tosha Mcraney on a powerful journey of healing. Over the next five years, she studied the word of God, receiving valuable lessons that she now shares to help others unlock or heal a past or present wound.

In a thirty-day journal, Tosha offers an introspective roadmap that leads believers down an insightful path within to overcome a variety of emotional challenges that include rejection, loneliness, depression, guilt and shame, grief, fear and anxiety, abandonment, bitterness, addiction and lust, and others. While blending her personal observations with thought-provoking scripture and reflection questions, Tosha offers effective strategies extracted directly from the word of God and inspired by His never-ending love to guide anyone struggling with emotional trauma to find hope and ultimately heal from the inside out.

Healing Emotional Wounds is a thirty-day journal that shares personal observations, reflection questions, and scripture to help believers identify, accept, and then heal from emotional trauma.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jan 26, 2023
• ISBN: 9781664289291

Tosha McCraney

Tosha Mcraney is a life coach and mentor specializing in emotional healing and addiction. Her focus is to provide reflection and direction for those seeking to break free and receive healing from both childhood and life wounds. Tosha and her husband, Mark, are the parents of four daughters. Healing Emotional Wounds is her first book.

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WestBow Press rev. date: 01/18/2023

CONTENTS

Day 1Rejection and Strongholds

Day 2Loneliness

Day 3Harsh Words

Day 4Ungodly Soul Tie

Day 5Depression

Day 6Division

Day 7Choices and Decisions

Day 8What About Me?

Day 9Liberty and Deliverance

Day 10Stuck in the Past

Day 11Change

Day 12Discouragement and Defeat

Day 13Guilt and Shame

Day 14Endure

Day 15Storms

Day 16You are Loved

Day 17The Family Wound

Day 18Being an Overcomer

Day 19Grief or Death

Day 20Vision

Day 21Fear and Anxiety

Day 22When Protection Feels Like Rejection

Day 23Abandonment

Day 24Bitterness and Offenses

Day 25Scars

Day 26Addiction and Lust

Day 27Cutting and Self-Harm

Day 28The Mind

Day 29Return to Hope

Day 30Wisdom

DEDICATION

First, I would like to thank my Lord, Jesus. Thank you for saving and healing me. I have released this word to your people, and I ask you to anoint it and send it to every heart who needs to hear it. I am also so thankful for my pastor and his wife, Jerry and Ruth Terrell, for pouring wisdom into me throughout the years. To my parents, Hazel and Chuck, thank you for the life and love you’ve given me. To my husband, Mark, and my four girls, Stacey, Chloe, Bailey, and Brooklyn, a million thank-yous for all the time that you’ve allowed me to spend serving the Lord, teaching my classes, and writing this book. Girls, I am grateful to be your mom. A shout-out to the ladies at the Refuge for all their support in writing this book. And a personal thank-you from the bottom of my heart to Lileana Ríos-Ledezma, for walking me through the very last mile of editing this book. I love you all.

So Jesus answered and said, Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel’s, who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life" (Mark 10:29–30, NKJV).

DAY 1

REJECTION AND STRONGHOLDS

According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of rejection is to feel refused, not accepted, or dismissed. This wound can make us feel unwanted and cause feelings of being unloved or not good enough. When a person feels rejected and subsequently unwanted, it can also cause he or she to lash out in many unhealthy ways.

Healing

When my father and mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up (Psalm 27:10, KJV).

The Word tells us that even if our parents reject us, the Lord will pick us up and hold us close. It almost seems as if the more we are abandoned, the closer God draws us to Him. He will be our parent, spouse, and friend. The Lord has appeared to me of old, saying, ‘Yea I have loved you with an everlasting love therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn thee’ (Jeremiah 31:3 KJV). Remember, He loves us with an everlasting love that doesn’t end. He accepts us and draws us near with