Healing Work - by Joshua Makoul (Paperback)

About the Book

The healing journey can be disorienting and mystifying. Where do we begin? How do we know which way to go? Like a trusted map, Healing Work orients readers within the practical strategies and insights they need to navigate healing's ebbs and flows, successes and set-backs, with wisdom and confidence. It recognizes that deep emotional pain can defy easy answers, even those offered by a well-intentioned Orthodox Christian perspective. From identifying the roles and life projections that hold us back, to creating a life narrative and insight to move us forward, Healing Work is about finding freedom from distressing life experiences so that we can more fully attain the freedom we are granted in Christ. Not only is true and total healing possible (even when we have been stuck for years or decades), it can be learned and attained. No matter how deep our wounds may be, we can choose to acquire the skills of healing so that we can finally let go of the pain and fear that hold us captive.--From publisher

Book Synopsis

When we begin our healing journey, we often feel mystified and disoriented. Where do we start? How do we know which way to go? Like a trusted map, Healing Work orients readers with practical strategies and insights they need to navigate healing's ebbs and flows, successes and setbacks, with wisdom and confidence. While recognizing that deep emotional pain can defy easy answers, Healing Work shows that true and total healing is possible for us, no matter how severe our wounds. With the techniques in this book, we can acquire the skills that enable us to finally let go of the pain and fear that hold us captive.

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What readers are saying about

Healing Your Wounded Soul

No one, Christian or not, can go through life without experiencing some form of brokenness. Father Joshua's book is uniquely helpful in that it assists the person recovering from trauma along the path of recovery while keeping an Orthodox perspective, focused as it is on the wholeness of the human being as revealed in Christ. Even people who are not actively struggling with recovering from trauma should read this book, both to understand the path being trodden by their brothers and sisters and to turn over some of the stones in the dark corners of their own souls, so that the light of Christ might truly enlighten all.

-Athanasios

Father Joshua Makoul has written a beautiful invitation and guide to healing the wounded soul-which is, in fact, all of us. His insights from psychology and the healing wisdom of the Orthodox Church are intertwined in such a way that there is no tension between them at all, as well there shouldn't be. His words radiate compassion, nonjudgment, and kindness as he lays out simple-to-apply ways to begin discerning one's woundedness, along with concrete ways to begin moving toward healing.

-Mary

Father Joshua Makoul's book Healing Your Wounded Soul was incredibly instrumental in my personal journey of healing from past trauma. It was a powerful catalyst that propelled me to look inward and face the pain and brokenness I had been carrying subconsciously for many years. It led me on a long journey in my efforts to process and master painful memories and begin a long overdue healing process. By the grace of God I am able to break away from reenacting old patterns and break the cycle of generational dysfunction, while extending forgiveness to myself and others and finding a true freedom in Jesus Christ.

-Anelia