Personal Essay: The Recovery Process Of Recovery

Life is a journey filled with highs and lows, unexpected twists and turns, and joys and pains. Even the most collected and put together individual still experiences pain and suffering in life. However, it is far too often that an individual will hold these hurts and emotional scars within and never seek proper help or true healing. As pain and hurt continues to grow within an individual, it can create a path of further sin, hurt, and scarring. It is vital that an individual seek counseling to overcome these situations. To find a true level of emotional healing, a counselee must be able to recognize personal issues, find a safe and good counselor, and follow through with a strategic plan of recovery. While the recovery process may be difficult and slow, it is entirely possible under the correct guidance and circumstances. The first major step to recovery is for a counselee to acknowledge that he/she is struggling with emotional pain. Specific emotional issues that an individual may struggle with are: depression, anxiety, anger, guilt, forgiveness, and loneliness. These issues affect an individual emotionally, mentally, and physically. It is often that these issues stem from an individual’s inability to feel forgiveness from God, others, and most …show more content…
Being very strategic and careful can better help facilitate a true and permanent change within the counselee. In all cases of counseling, the strategic plan should begin with the Christian counselor’s realization of how important the voice of God is in the counseling process. The plan should be followed with basic awareness of the counselee’s background, home life, and cultural surroundings. Further Christian counseling should be, “brief and time-limited, holistic, structured, [involving] assigned work between sessions, and church-based, spiritually focused, and explicitly