We all experience emotional upsets from time to time. we may need a therapist, a friend, or a book to help us reach a calmer, happier state of mind. The last few months have been a time of emotional stress around the world.
Emotional wounds began or amplified during 2020.
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isolation from loved ones and friends, colleagues, teachers and fellow students made life more difficult as each of us wondered how best to prevent illness and death from covid-19. anyone who had already been experiencing emotional problems before or due to the onset of covid-19 found their issues more difficult to manage if they were unable to access mental health professionals.
It has been a difficult time of confusion about mental health, healthcare and social distancing. Regardless of the source of emotional distress, the rest of the world is reading more books now that we have time.
many of these books can restore the emotional health of the reader. they do so by elevating your soul and intellect to heights of empowerment.
mitch albom tuesdays with morrie tend to elicit emotionally healing tears. the book is about what a young man learned from his lively and then dying sociology professor.
those lessons were about how to set priorities to save the psyche and how to live life fully despite devastating setbacks. all that can be achieved by learning about life from death itself. Superbly written and a wonderful subject for quiet conversation or contemplation, Tuesdays with Morrie is a book that allows you to learn important life lessons over and over again with every read.
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albom’s the timekeeper is for people strong enough to consider the implications of being stuck in a situation until they realize its spiritual lessons. then the problem ends. these excerpts from the book capture its value in helping readers heal from inner pain:
“Knowing something and understanding it are not the same thing.”
“try to imagine a life without timekeeping. you probably can’t. you know the month, the year, the day of the week. there is a clock on your wall or on the dashboard of your car. you have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. however, all around him, the timing is ignored. the birds are not late. a dog does not look at his watch. deer don’t care about passing birthdays. man only measures time. the man only tells the time. and, for this, man only suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature bears. Fear of time running out.”
time is not something that is returned. the next moment may be an answer to your prayer. to deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.”
“what is that?”
“hope”.
The Next Person You Will Meet In Heaven is a wonderful book by Mitch Albom for people who need to forgive themselves for unfortunate mistakes. the stories depict fictional people who do their best while making serious, sometimes deadly, errors in judgment. they all achieve forgiveness and regain self-respect.
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me before you by jojo moyes is just beautiful. is the story of a few people going through extremely painful emotions and realizing that they are somehow helping each other reach a state of insight. several emotional surprises are included in the tale. read the story and grow with the characters.
Empaths are people who feel the emotions and “hear” the thoughts of others, sometimes with uncanny accuracy. the results can confuse empaths. they wonder if the thoughts and feelings originated in themselves or in someone else.
Confusion, not to mention insight, tends to bother empaths who don’t know how to balance their insight gifts. Dr. Judith Orloff’s books can be very helpful for empaths. She is a psychiatrist at the UCLA Clinical School of Psychiatry, whose career she began with the need to resolve her empathic abilities when she was a teenager.
Another wonderful resource for empaths will probably be published in 2021. It’s a coffee table book of insights and sayings from Rabbi Doniel Katz of the Change Network Uplift Project.
here is an intriguing quote from katz, “what many don’t realize is that when it comes to healing some people, it’s not just yours,” comments rabbi doniel katz.
“He is also from his soul family. Whether we are aware of it or not, many of our challenges are an extension of previous generations; things they didn’t deal with or weren’t able to deal with. a person can have anxiety and questions that are not just their own, but have accumulated over generations.”
editor’s note.
10 other helpful books on emotional healing:
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- emotional healing for dummies by helen whitten
- the body keeps score by bessel van der kolk
- no more codependents by melody beattie
- healing the shame that binds you by john bradshaw
- five simple steps to emotional healing: the last self-help book you’ll ever need by gloria areson
- the emotion code by bradley nelson
- recovering your inner child by lucia capacchione
- the art of emotional healing by lucia capacchione
- standing up strong by brené brown
- lo amazing the power of emotions: let your feelings guide you by esther hicks and jerry hicks