How to Break Free from the Pain of Past Experiences

It’s no fun breaking your ankle. I can tell you that from experience. It happened to me a few years back when I tumbled off my motorcycle on a winding mountain road. The result was surgery and weeks in a recliner with my ankle elevated. One thing I learned was that the connection between physical brokenness and pain is obvious.

Emotional brokenness, on the other hand, is often a different story. It’s much harder to connect symptoms to their cause, making the pain easy to mistake for other issues. Depression is often confused with fatigue or dismissed as laziness, for example.

As a result, emotional struggles often go untreated and steadily grow worse. Which is why our counseling department at Focus receives tens of thousands of calls every year from people who are suffering from something beyond their control. Many feel stuck and wonder if it’s possible to “begin again” and chart a new path toward wholeness.

Dr. Erwin Lutzer, renowned theologian, award-winning author, and pastor emeritus of the Moody Church in Chicago, is joining me on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly to encourage you to believe that God is faithful and offers restoration and healing.

We discussed how to:

End living in denial.
Find freedom from guilt and shame.
Combat lies through prayer.
Confront addictions.
Break free from sexual sin.
Heal from the emotional wounds of abuse.
Find our way back to God and good emotional health.

Pain is a messenger. It tells us something is wrong. But that message is only helpful if you understand how to interpret it. Tune in to my full conversation with Dr. Erwin Lutzer for help breaking free from past guilt, regret, and heartache to experience healing in Christ.

This program isn’t graphic, but it’s probably not suitable for younger children, so please use your discretion and occupy your kids elsewhere, or listen later on your local radio station, online, on Apple Podcasts, or take us with you on our free phone app.

Dr. Lutzer’s book Putting Your Past Behind You: Finding Hope for Life’s Deepest Hurts is available for a gift of any amount. Click here for more information or call 1-800-A-FAMILY (232-6459).