Signs that I need healing:
1). I fear pain.
2). I am given to addictions (food, drugs, medicines, sex, pornography, shopping, hoarding, etc.)
3). I tend to be very stubborn and defensive (because I can’t afford to be seen as wrong)
4). I give up easily.
5.) I am a perfectionist
5). I live a life sold out for something other than God
6). I am completely surrendered—I have no hope. I secretly know that nothing good will ever really happens to me. Even everything that looks good will turn bad.
7). I am driven.
8.) Shame is my default emotion.
9.) Anger is my default emotion.
10.) I am mentally tormented or confused
11.) I am a procrastinator
12.) I am indecisive
13.) I am unable to stand up for myself
14.) I compromise my morals and values
15.) I am prone to doubt or rationalization
16) I have speech problems
17.) I am physically ill
18.) I fear rejection or I have a pattern of rejecting others
19.) I am depressed
20.) I spend a great deal of energy protecting myself
21.) I feel inferior
22.) I am resentful
23.) I am obsessed with someone or something
24.) I don’t know how to be happy or joyful
25.) I don’t know how to be content
26.) My wounds are my identity
27.) I feel hopeless (see below)
28.) I am a worrier
29.) Fear controls my decision making
30.) I live in Doomsland/victimhood
31.) I am overcome by Grief
32.) I experience curses in my life
33.) I wear a mask (I lie, hide, pretend. I am afraid to be real.)
34.) I’ve experienced trauma
35.) I have codependent relationships (relationship where one person is a caretaker and the other person takes advantage)
Hopelessness
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feeling alienated, feeling different, feeling like an outsider
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feeling forsaken or abandoned
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feeling uninspired, just taking life as it comes
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feeling powerless—you do not have enough strength to navigate where you need to go.
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feeling oppressed— crushed by circumstances
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feeling limited—not having enough resources
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feeling doomed
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feeling captive—feel like you are in a prison; a lot of time we place ourselves in prison based on curses we believed (see *******)
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feeling exposed to trauma through uncontrollable circumstances