Review of Inner Healing

[Pranav Dewangan]

[Following is an official OnlineBookClub.org review of "Inner Healing" by Pastor Polly Sanders-Peterson.]

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5 out of 5 stars

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In her book Inner Healing, Polly Ann Sanders-Peterson guides readers through a 12-week journey rooted in faith, aimed at uncovering an individual's unique journey toward spiritual, mental, and emotional well-being. Through this process, readers come to understand and connect with God—referred to as Elohim, our Father—whose boundless and unconditional love offers healing and the promise of a more fulfilling life. 

While the teaching consists of a duration of 12 weeks, along with lessons and stories about God-Elohim, each week includes questions that help us turn inward and ask ourselves the important questions, probing us to dig deeper into God, ourselves, and our connection to Him. On top of that, each week correlates with a personal story from the author, which helps us readers connect with the teachings. The teachings begin by asking, Who is God? This encourages us to delve into our curiosity about spirituality and questions about creation and higher existence. Once that is established, it talks about what is stopping us from discovering this higher power—who is the enemy? While God made us in His image and likeness, what is stopping us from living that truth? This question targets our beliefs and tendencies that are hidden from our awareness and are keeping us from living a life of love, compassion, and faith. 

Then the author nudges us deeper into the enemy and targets the root cause, backed up by a scientific approach to mental and emotional health, and addresses topics like rejection, how we deal with it by hurting ourselves, building walls, or hurting others, and most importantly, why we tend to feel rejected. In the same manner, the author tackles unforgiveness, depression (the broken spirit), conflicts in relationships, shame and guilt, and disappointment and despair, systematically addressing the root causes, tendencies, and why of all these common human emotions. 

Once all these emotions are avoided, we tend to surround ourselves with unnecessary suffering. The author talks about trust. Trust that you are loved; that is a purpose and reason for your suffering, and most of all, for your existence. This trust, once built slowly, allows us to hope for the future, for ourselves, and most importantly, in Him. This trust is made even stronger as the remaining part helps us discover ourselves in Christ and dispel all fears. 

This book is a journey for ourselves.

What I liked about the book is that through its comprehensive 12-week faith-based teaching, it addresses a lot of common but harrowing emotions of mankind—rejection, abandonment, guilt, vengeance, shame, depression, anger, disappointment, and so much more. There is a science of emotions given as to how one emotion can give rise to other emotions if left unchecked. And what childhood events might have led to this? This helps us understand the roots of our emotions in childhood and how faith and spirituality can lead us to overcome these emotions. 

However, the one thing I felt this book was missing was validation for sinful emotions. Harboring vengeance is considered a sin, even though you may or may not act on it. An individual who is depressed or anxious may feel unable to help himself. So, I felt that the root of these intense emotions (disappointment, hurt) can be addressed through faith so that the main emotion (vengeance, for example, which is considered a sin) can be resolved. 

Despite the drawbacks, I would still rate this book 5 out of 5 stars.

I have given it 5 stars because, despite the drawbacks, this book is a welcome guide to healing. It incorporates and covers a lot of aspects related to emotional intelligence, which is very important for the overall health and well-being of a person. This book is ideal for people belonging to the Christian faith.

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In her book Inner Healing, Polly Ann Sanders-Peterson. The book explains the process of connections and understanding God. And how faith lead is to overcome emotions.