“GETTING OFF THE ROLLERCOASTER OF EMOTIONS” SERIES

 As Hurting Moms we experience many different emotions.  Most of them are very painful and they interfere with everything else in our lives.  We have lots of ups and downs along the way, but even when we are up, we are anxious because we are anticipating when the next drop will happen.  We feel like we are on a roller-coaster and even though we want to, we don’t know how to get off.  The one thing we can be sure of is that we are not alone.  All Hurting Moms can identify with the emotions that Cathy describes in this blog series.

The good news is that we have a loving God who does not want us to remain in bondage to our emotions.  As you read you will learn how to take His hand as he lovingly helps you to disembark from the roller coaster of emotions.


We hope you enjoy this series!

Roller-coaster of Emotions Introduction

"Getting off the Roller Coaster of Emotions"...    As Hurting Moms, we experience many painful and debilitating emotions. We can’t seem to move past them and even during the times we are feeling pretty good, in the back of our minds is the fear that the next “drop” is...

Fear

"FEAR"...    Fear is one of the most prevalent emotions we experience when we are hurting over our children. We fear we will never see them again, we fear they will never experience the joy of knowing the Lord, we fear for their safety and health, and the deepest fear...

Anxiety

"ANXIETY"...    Anxiety is described as an emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil, often accompanied by nervous behavior such as pacing back and forth, sleepless nights, and rumination, which means to go over the same things repeatedly in our...

Disappointment

"DISAPPOINTMENT"...    Mixed in with all the other emotions we experience when we are hurting over our children is a profound sense of disappointment. This isn’t how we imagined it would be when our children came into our lives. This isn’t what we signed up for when...

Anger

"ANGER"...    As a natural response to pain, anger often becomes one of the most predominant emotions we deal with. Anger can affect not only our own sense of peace and well-being, but it can affect others around us because we tend to lash out, usually those closest...

Discouraged

"DISCOURAGED"...    We are discouraged because every time it seems like things are going to turn around with our child . . . the other shoe drops. We find ourselves heading into another drastic drop on the roller coaster of emotions. Each time they seem to be moving...

Hurt

"HURT"...    The hurt we experience when our children are making destructive choices, or have walked way from our family, is an actual physical pain. Even though initially we think of this kind of pain as emotional pain, there is a definite agonizing and physical ache...

Guilt

"GUILT"...    Guilt is a feeling of responsibility or regret for a wrong or offense. It can crush us from inside, sapping the joy out of life and leaving us lonely, bitter, and discouraged. As Hurting Moms, we often experience guilt because of our actions, whether...

Shame

"SHAME"...    Have you ever wished you could slip through a crack in the floor when your friends, neighbors, or co-workers start talking about their kids? Why does it always seem as though everyone else has perfect kids? I can remember listening to my friends talking...

Sadness

"SADNESS"...    When our journey as a Hurting Mom continues for any length of time, eventually a deep and penetrating sadness moves in and takes up residence in us. We carry on with our day to day activities and our other relationships, but the sadness is always...

Disconnected

"DISCONNECTED"...    As a Hurting Mom I was disconnected on so many levels.  Of course, I was disconnected from the daughter who was breaking my heart.  She didn’t want anything to do with me and I was so hurt and ashamed about what was going on with her that I really...

Grief

"GRIEF"...    As we begin to realize that our child is out of control our dreams for them and for our family become broken or fragmented.  We begin to experience tremendous loss and we can’t move on in our own lives until we go through a process of grieving for what...

Confused

"CONFUSED"...    What happened?  Suddenly the child that we dreamed about, have loved so deeply, and had so much hope for is moving in a direction that we never anticipated.  When and where did things go off track?  What did we do wrong? Every family has bumps in the...

Numb

"NUMB"...    Several years into my journey as a Hurting Mom my husband and I began to attend church. I was seeking something . . . anything to help me to start to feel again. I couldn’t cry, I couldn’t laugh, and I rarely even smiled. In order to protect myself from...

Wrap Up

"WRAP-UP"...       Let’s face it, a roller coaster is an amusement park ride that none of us want to be on. Especially when it is the roller coaster of emotions that we experience when we are Hurting Moms. We have talked throughout the month of September about the...

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