Note that much of the content in many of these essays is twenty years old (or even older), so some aspects of our thinking in these essays will feel slightly out of synch with our current (2024) teaching. (For example, helping the recipient to engage directly with the living, tangible, interactive, relational presence of Jesus, regarding every issue, question, and problem that comes up, is now much more central in everything we teach.) Even so, these essays still present many valuable principles and tools.
Triggered Traumatic Content and Verbal Logical Explainer (VLE) Confabulations (1 pg)
Unresolved Issues in the Therapist/Facilitator: One of the Most Important Hindrances to Emotional Healing Unresolved issues in the facilitator (truth-based pain, unresolved trauma, judgments, vows, other sinful defenses, other sin, and demonic infection) are some of the most important hindrances to emotional healing ministry. This essay discusses this important phenomenon, describes examples from our own experience, and provides a number of specific recommendations. (Download pdf, 18 pages)
Not Reporting Everything – An Especially Sneaky Form of Interference A common problem in emotional healing ministry is that the person receiving ministry does not report clues that come to him/her. This essay discusses both accidental failure to report everything and fear-based choosing to not report certain things, and also includes a worksheet with a “sample” process for addressing fear-based choosing to not report.(Download pdf, 12 pages)
“Mind” Memory Phenomena, Parallel Memory Systems, and Explicit vs Implicit Memory (21 pgs)
Different Types of Traumatic Memory (10 pgs)
General Introductory Comments Regarding Ministry Aids (21 pages)
Immanuel Approach With People and/or Parts Who Don’t Know Jesus (15 pgs)
Internal Dissociated Parts Presenting as Jesus (1 page)
Parts Must Participate in Ministry Addressing the Problems They Carry PENDING (2 pgs)
Internal Family Systems (Family Systems with Internal Parts) (2 pages) Being rewritten
Role of Truth Carried In Non-traumatic Memories (8 pgs)
Cognitive Biblical Truth vs Emotional Healing – a Widespread and Expensive False Dichotomy (2 pgs)
Spiritual Disciplines and Emotional Healing Ministry: Choosing Healing (14 pgs)
“Binding” the Enemy: Prayers and Commands to Alleviate Demonic Harassment and/or Oppression (4 pgs)
Understanding and Dealing with Demonic Oppression and Interference: Common Concerns (2 pgs)
Emotional Healing and Physical Phenomena/Manifestations, Introduction (1 pg)
Emotional Healing, Spiritual Opposition, and Physical Manifestations (5 pgs)
EMDR, Emotional Healing, and Physical Phenomena/Manifestations (4 pgs)
Physical Behavior and Manifestations/Phenomena: Summary, Practical Applications, & Sample Prayers (8 pgs)
Just Hold It Up to Jesus (4 pgs)
Judgments and Bitterness Towards the Lord (7 pgs)
Cutting Free Prayer (1 pg)
Self-protection Vows Worksheet (2 pgs)
Prayer for Generational Sins, Strongholds, Spirits, and Curses (2 pgs)
Fasting to Facilitate Personal Healing (1 pg)
Recruiting Intercessory Prayer Support This is a handout that we give to recipients to encourage them to recruit intercessory prayer support for their healing work. (Download pdf, 1 page)
Immanuel: God With Us Charlotte delves into the Biblical uses of the name Immanuel, Hebrew for “God with us,” and draws out essential insights, both for emotional healing, and more broadly, for the life of Christian discipleship. This presentation of Biblical exegesis and real life illustrations can also serve as an indirect and non-threatening, but compelling, introduction to the necessity for emotional healing in the life of the believer. (Download pdf, 12 pages)
Emotionally-Connected Discipleship & New Wineskin Community Charlotte’s presentation for a 2004 conference casts a vision of the lifestyle of healing that comes from living connected to one’s heart, and not by oneself, but in a deliberately formed “new wineskin community.” That new “container” can bring a whole new level of healing and blessing to individuals and to the Kingdom of God as a whole. There are many visions of community and its many benefits; a distinctive about this one is its encorporation of the concepts of Immanuel Approach emotional healing into the vision presented. (Download pdf, 14 pages)
Honoring One’s Parents and Healing the Wounds of Childhood What does it mean to honor one’s father and mother? How does one abide by this commandment, the fifth of the Ten Commandments, when seeking healing for wounds caused by one’s parents? In this essay Charlotte explores the meaning of the fifth commandment, taking into account parents who were wonderful, parents who were awful, and the majority of parents in between. (Download pdf, 6 pages)
Dr. Mark Hattendorf’s PhD dissertation about the Immanuel Approach (457 pgs)