22. The Goal = Health (Claim Your Freedom #4)

Physical therapy isn’t for the purpose of staying physically injured, it’s for the purpose of walking in health + wholeness.

Emotional therapy is the same…

Perspective: Emotional health (in fact, health in general) isn’t so much about what’s wrong with us as it is about what’s right- and walking into what’s even better. In our medically-driven, diagnosis-prone Western world we’ve been conditioned to look at problems rather than seek solutions.

And, we’ve been trained to “fix issues” rather than walk in wholeness.

This applies to emotional health, too.

Whenever I speak to a group about emotional wholeness, many people assume that my goal is to convince people they have emotional scars which need healing. That’s simply not true.

Therefore, my goal is never for people to “get a diagnosis.” Or even to take a psych eval. I’m simply honest about my story (I took a psych eval) because, well, that’s my story.

**My goal is to help people walk in freedom. Period. **

If a diagnosis or even just an evaluation is the path to freedom, so be it. Many times, it's not, though. In fact, most of the time simply having the information is enough.

In this episode of the podcast, we talk about this ^^^ and define what PTSD is, what it looks like, and more…