The transformative healing process

The transformative healing process from a Christian perspective:

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of – throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself. ―C.S. Lewis,  Mere Christianity

Go here on Beyond Meds for another great (and very different) quote from C.S. Lewis

Another related post on the transformative process: Christian contemplative prayer/meditation

Stories of transformation:

• Spiritual emergency: one way of interpreting activity of the psyche that is often labeled psychotic

• Drug free recovery from depression, anxiety, bipolar, schizophrenia, etc…