07.05.23 The 5th Practice for Developing Personal Emotional Healing and Forgiveness as You Wait Allow Emotional Renewal and Restoration

5. Allow Emotional Renewal and Restoration

Restore calm and order within by quietening your inner life. Maintain habits that preserve composure and self-control, guarding your speech and remaining deliberate in how you respond. Reestablish simple and consistent routines that bring order to your day and foster emotional balance, while guarding your thoughts from unnecessary disturbance.

Train yourself to think and weigh situations before you react. Allow God’s Word to shape your thinking so that your responses are guided by understanding rather than impulse.

Rebuild healthy engagements. Strengthen your ability to relate well with others by practising reliability, remaining engaged and avoiding emotional overreaction. Maintain stability in conduct, so that you are prepared to build and sustain a relationship that is emotionally safe, secure and enduring.