Carolyn Hughes Speaks on Healing Life’s Hurts, Offering Hope for those Caught in Addictions and Mental Health Challenges

For 20 years I called alcohol ‘The Hurt Healer’ It numbed me from being abandoned as a child by my mother and abused by my father. It gave me confidence to deal with the present and took away my fear of my future.  But it also kept me trapped in depression and hopelessness.

It is nothing short of a miracle that I am alive today but I was given the opportunity to heal and I grabbed it. By reclaiming my life I have found  the freedom to live life in sobriety and to recover from chronic depression.

Today it is faith, forgiveness, serenity and joy that make up ‘The Hurt Healer’… Join Carolyn on an inspirational journey to live life as the person you were meant to be.

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Carolyn is the daughter of a misogynist father and a mother who abandoned her on a park bench at the age of three. Her father abused her every day of her childhood. Her story is raw, real, and rare. Journey through Carolyn's stories as she shows you what God did in her life to completely restore her!

The following articles have been published with gracious permission from the author, Carolyn Hughes, from The Hurt Healer website.

Carolyn's testimony has also been recorded at Monahan Elim, where you can listen to her beautiful, musical voice as she shares in her own words her story of amazing grace as God saved her from a mental and emotional hell that describes the lives of so many Christians today.

I have known Carolyn for a few years and although she lives in Ireland and I am here in the United States, we embrace each other through our stories. Distance and time are not the barriers they once used to be as we share our homes in our hearts. You'll see when you read Carolyn's words… she is a precious treasure!

A sample of her stories is listed below.

"I'm 98% certain that Carolyn will be dead within a week, but there's a slight chance that she won't kill herself because she seems to have a bit of faith."

Those were the words of a psychiatrist as he discussed the probabilities for my future. He was absolutely right. Having been admitted to a secure psychiatric  hospital following an alcohol-fuelled suicide attempt there was no doubt that I was in extreme danger of attempting to harm myself again.

After battling chronic depression since childhood and spending years of self-medicating with alcohol I had hit rock-bottom. The impact of being abandoned by my mother as an infant, together with being abused by my father, had become too much to bear. And in an attempt to numb the pain I had turned to vodka as my healer, with disastrous consequence. Addiction took over and destroyed everything I had in my life and it was on the verge of destroying me. —Read More

Who Do You Think You Are?

The turning point for me was a complete physical and mental breakdown. I could no longer go on existing as a product of my past. Enough of the fake smiles that covered the heartbreak. Enough of the false mask of confidence that hid the fear. Enough of the pretense. Enough of the uncertainty.  I had had enough of it all.

It was time to reclaim my life and find out who I really was. It was time to listen to my inner voice, nurture the child within and allow my authentic self to emerge. And in doing so I found out that I was everything I thought I wasn’t and a little bit more.

Refusing to enable my past to have power over my present, I was able to allow the real me to emerge. Initially the fears of who I had become revealed my rawness and vulnerability,, but over time my confidence and self-worth grew. No longer was I controlled by others.  No longer did I compare myself to others. After all the years of believing otherwise, I was okay being me.     Read More

To meet Carolyn Hughes and read more of her stories, you can visit her website, The Hurt Healer.