Mending the Soul Workbook for Men and Women, third edition, is redesigned to coordinate with the newly updated and expanded book, Mending the Soul: Understanding and Healing Abuse. It retains the original content and flow of the previous workbook, integrating social science research with the voices of survivors, original art, and a theology of healing and forgiveness. This workbook and book provide a path to recovery and wholeness for those isolated by the effects of abuse in all its forms, promoting healing within safe and nurturing relationships. The expressive art, contemplative meditations, and interactive exercises offered here deepen one's intimate connections with God and others, prompting individual healing that facilitates mentors and friends in trauma-informed, holistic care of each other. Additional abuse education and healing resources for children, teens, families and adults-including MTS facilitator training-can be found on our website: www.mendingthesoul.org
Mending the Soul Workbook for Men and Women, 2nd edition, incorporates subtle but important changes reflected in the new research that has emerged in the field of trauma and recovery; integrating this research with the voices of survivors, original art, and a theology of healing and forgiveness. This transformational workbook is an interactive tool to be used as a companion resource to the book, Mending the Soul: Understanding and Healing Abuse, and is being utilized effectively in individual healing, one-on-one counseling, and in small group settings. It provides a path to recovery and wholeness for those isolated by the effects of abuse and neglect, promoting healing within safe and nurturing relationships. Expressive art, contemplative meditations on Christ, and interactive exercises deepen one's intimate connection with God and others, promoting both individual healing and guiding advocates in the compassionate and holistic care of others. Men and women alike will find their own redemptive story to tell--informing their ministry to others
This book provides a well-researched biblical and scientific overview of abuse. A broad overview, it deals with the various types of abuse, the various effects of abuse, and the means of healing. Abuse can be sexual, physical, neglect, spiritual, and verbal. The chief arguments pursued throughout the book are: (1) abuse is far more rampant than most Christians realize, but due to human depravity and satanic influence, widespread abuse is predicable. (2) All types of abuse create profound, long-term soul damage due to the way abuse perverts various aspects of the image of God. (3) God is the healing redeemer. Human salvation came through horrible physical abuse. (4) Healing must take place in the context of relationships. Humans are deeply impacted by others due to being made in the image of God. Just as surely as abusive relationships have tremendous power to wound the soul, so healthy relationships have tremendous power to nurture and heal the soul. Questions answered in the book include: How can a genuine believer abuse a child? Why would someone abuse a child? How can parents and children's workers identify abusers? How can abuse victims heal? What does genuine healing look like? Is anger appropriate or hurtful for abuse victims? Where does forgiveness fit in? This second edition has been updated to reflect research conducted and published in the past 15 years on abuse and trauma. It accounts for the significant social changes and increased mental health struggles in our culture, including dramatic escalation in rates of depression, anxiety, suicide, and isolation, which exacerbate the effects of abuse and complicate the healing process. Based on their now-extensive trauma care experience, this new edition helps readers how to minister to new domestic and global victims such as sex trafficking survivors, foster children, refugees, and survivors of genocide. Examples and illustrations are updated with more recent ones from high-profile abuse cases and the aftermath of the #MeToo movement. The appendixes include lists of helpful resources for child protection policies, worker/parent child abuse education, warning signs of potential abusers, and general abuse resources (books, internet sites, and organizations) to equip ministry leaders are provided in appendices. Illustrations, case studies, and art therapy drawings.
This book provides a well-researched biblical and scientific overview of abuse. A broad overview, it deals with the various types of abuse, the various effects of abuse, and the means of healing. Abuse can be sexual, physical, neglect, spiritual, and verbal. The chief arguments pursued throughout the book are: (1) abuse is far more rampant than most Christians realize, but due to human depravity and satanic influence, widespread abuse is predicable. (2) All types of abuse create profound, long-term soul damage due to the way abuse perverts various aspects of the image of God. (3) God is the healing redeemer. Human salvation came through horrible physical abuse. (4) Healing must take place in the context of relationships. Humans are deeply impacted by others due to being made in the image of God. Just as surely as abusive relationships have tremendous power to wound the soul, so healthy relationships have tremendous power to nurture and heal the soul. Questions answered in the book include: - How can a genuine believer abuse a child? - Why would someone abuse a child? - How can parents and childrens’ workers identify abusers? - How can abuse victims heal? - What does genuine healing look like? - Is anger appropriate or hurtful for abuse victims? - Where does forgiveness fit in? Helpful sample child protection policy, application, screening interview, and warning signs of potential abusers equip ministry leaders. Illustrations, case studies, and art therapy drawings.
At the crossroads of self-care and faith is Julia Pferdehirt's Soul Mending: Healing into Wholeness.Soul Mending: Healing into Wholeness is a seven-session curriculum for understanding hurt, harm, and trauma and learning how to apply solid counseling tools to change fear and trauma-driven ways of thinking and acting. Pferdehirt also encourages participants to come to Jesus through Immanuel Prayer for deep healing of the broken places in our souls that undermine and confuse our thoughts, decisions, emotions, and identities.This workbook is for use with groups as well as by individuals and is accompanied by supportive instructional videos, which can be found at soulmending.live.
M. Robert Mulholland Jr. fleshes out a carefully worded definition of spiritual formation that encompasses the dynamics of a vital Christian life and counters our culture's tendency to trivialize, methodize and privatize spirituality. Now revised and expanded by Ruth Haley Barton with a new foreword, practices and study guide.
Bestselling author Alberto Villoldo presents ways to heal yourself from past and future events through soul retrieval. This fascinating book by best-selling author, psychologist, and medical anthropologist Alberto Villoldo explains the practices for healing outside of ordinary time and space. It shows you how to enter the timeless now to heal events that occurred in the past, and to correct the course of destiny. Dr. Villoldo discusses ways in which you can heal yourself and your loved ones by employing intention through practices used by shamans of the Americas—which, until now, have been inaccessible to most of the world. The shamans of old called this journeying. In this book, you’ll discover that you have a four-chambered heart in the same way you have a four-chambered soul. In the first chamber, you store away the memory of a wound that derailed your destiny. In the second, you keep the limiting beliefs and soul contracts that you entered into at the time of your loss. In the third, you recover the grace and trust that will make you whole again; and in the fourth, you remember the calling and mission that you choose to unfold in this lifetime. “While everyone has a future,” Villoldo says, “only certain people have a destiny.” This book shows you how to find and manifest yours.
Explore is a self-guided journal for men and women who have survived difficult childhoods. Through the medium of water-color, it prompts and supports creative expression, deepening the reader's self-awareness and connection with God and others. Explore offers a gentle path from pain to understanding and transformation, nudging the reader towards self-compassion and hope.
When your partner betrays, what are the first steps to picking up the pieces of your shattered heart? Many unsuspecting people wake up every day to discover their loved one, the one person whom they are supposed to trust completely, has been living a life of lies and deceit because they suffer from a disease-sex addiction. This is a disease shrouded in secrecy and shame. This is your go-to-guide for what to do when you discover your partner is a sex addict. Each chapter is based on frequently asked questions by partners such as: Should I Stay or Should I Go? Is This Going to Get Better? How Do I Set Boundaries and Keep Myself Safe? and What Should I Tell the Kids?
The bestselling author of "Minding the Body, Mending the Mind" reveals the interconnected loop of the mind, body, and spirit in a pioneering book that will teach women how to maximize their health and well-being as well as discover the extraordinary power that comes with each stage of the feminine life cycle.
