The Completion of Self: A Book of Healing

By Virginia Murrey NCC LPCMH

The Completion of Self, A Book of Healing, offers a guide of supportive encouraging words, and reflective writing tasks that can assist in increasing self-awareness for the receptive reader. The journey of healing within ourselves can be tough at times. Through grief, depression, anxiety, life transitions and changes we may find ourselves stuck, or climbing an uphill battle. Taking the time to acknowledge and gain understanding to where we are is important in starting to heal. Healing also involves increasing self-love and creating the capacity to operate and function in a healthy way within our everyday lives!

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Mar 18, 2024
• ISBN: 9798350951875

Virginia Murrey NCC LPCMH

Virginia Murrey NCC, LPCMH, holds a master's degree in clinical mental health counseling. She is a Nationally Board-Certified Counselor with a professional license in clinical mental health. Her experience spans working with individuals and families with various supportive practices. These methods have assisted clients through anxiety, depression, grief, domestic violence, traumas, and life adjustments. Virginia strives to create a supportive and understanding atmosphere based on client-centered care and uniquely treats each person to their needs. She is passionate about working with clients to identify hardships, create and explore goals, and assist them in coping, managing, and overcoming their difficulties. She believes each person and path traveled is exclusively different and makes every effort to help the client achieve a more focused sense of self and well-being.

Book preview

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Prologue

Emotional scars may show up through our actions and words as a reminder of how we once exhibited the brokenness of being someone in emotional or mental bondage. Emotional scarring could be from past trauma or any experience that may have negatively affected you. Bondage in the context of meaning—stuck, living in the experience of a challenging circumstance or season of your life. However, life experiences such as a transitional phase, an anxious circumstance, a depressive episode, the loss of a job, grief, or heart break contribute to some of the explorations of finding purpose through brokenness and bondage. This exploration has brought many an understanding, great insight, growth, shift, and/or change from their current circumstances. Through negativity, you must be willing to search for the upside of fear, failure, and rejection on this journey of life!

Do not permit one negative experience to place your mindset or self in bondage from experiencing the greatness of success! Putting oneself in a mental or emotional prison of the mind is a sentence that almost always requires healing of some sort.

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Fear, Failure, Rejection

Fear:

Fear, at some point in our lives, may precede progression. Often, this comes in the form of self-doubt through an inevitable transition. Sometimes, it comes when we feel ready for change. Change often causes fear because it may indicate adjustment in our lives. Adjustments may benefit us, but it does not always feel comfortable. Think about a time when you may have been excited to take your first plane ride. That excitement may have come with worry about the process of flying. A big promotion opens doors you may have never imagined, but the thought of filling the shoes and operating in all its responsibilities may be intimidating. However, it is essential to understand that the things that frighten or cause concern can also elevate us. Our fears often create resistance to this elevation. A comfort zone is something familiar and cozy. Something we might have normalized even if it