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Experience Mental, Emotional and Relationship Health
Do you know how to access nurture and practice healthy care for your heart? This is a critical healing skill that we all need to learn when it comes to receiving comfort and recovery through the difficult emotions that we experience hardship, trauma and the neglect that many experience in life.
When mental and emotional challenges arise in us, we can feel trapped within ourselves. At times, our instinct is often to reach out—call someone, text someone, schedule an appointment. And that’s good. We need community and support. But there are also moments when it’s just you, God, and the devil. In those moments, we need more than a crisis reaction. You need something cultivated and built up inside of you—a healing atmosphere of nurture that you’ve learned to cultivate.
But most of us recognize that nurture is not something that always flow easily, especially for ourselves. So today, I am going to address nurture, self-compassion, and the practice of caring for your heart. This is critical in trauma healing, but also for every aspect of our mental and emotional health.
When I talk about nurture, I’m referring to the provision of spiritual and emotional nourishment that builds healthy connection, equips us, fosters growth, and empowers us for recovery during hardship and trials.
Nurture has a two-fold impact. It first welcomes you into compassionate connection, care and comfort. But it also equips you with emotional and spiritual resilience so you can step back into life and embrace an overcoming journey.
Three Main Keys of Nurture
1. Provision of Spiritual and Emotional Nourishment
When we think of nourishment, we think of food and nutritional health. You’ve probably eaten a meal where you felt full but weren’t actually nourished because it was junk food. What about your emotions and spiritual life? What does it look like to feel truly nourished?
There are four components I call the “4 Cs”:
Compassion sets the stage for relationship connection. It’s how love operates—seeing yourself and others through the lens of loving kindness, patience, and embrace.
Connection has to do with the bond that is built. Your ability to bond to someone in a healthy way is established first and foremost by your parental relationship. The first person you meet is your mother coming right out of the womb, with your father right alongside. Through the father and mother relationship, you learn nurture by bonding with them.
How many of us never built a healthy bond? Then we come into the body of Christ, and now we’re connecting to God who is our Father. But what’s a father? What does that even look like? The Bible also speaks about the bond we have for one another as brothers and sisters, showing us this bonding is important.
God is very nurturing. The Bible speaks of His tender care. Peter talked about “casting your cares upon Him...
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