[PDF] Ashes To Beauty A Spiritual Journey Of Healing From Trauma And Addiction eBook

Author : Wendy Noll
Publisher : Guardian Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 37,77 MB
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781460011317

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What does it mean to be in relationship--relationship with God, with nature, with others, with ourselves? Is it possible the deepest meaning of life is in the journey and discovery of answers to these questions? We are born in darkness; a mystical journey that few embrace. Where did we come from? Why are we here? What lies beyond the mystery of death? Are these not the premises of all spiritual teachings? In Ashes to Beauty, you will read a brutally honest and vulnerable account of the spiritual journey of healing embraced by a brilliant and beautiful young girl--a young girl who wills to find her purpose in life despite the terror that looms in darkness. Driven by an intrinsic yearning for real love, the young girl emerges into a powerful woman who, despite several setbacks and poor choices on her journey of healing and freedom, eventually unveils the magnificent story of God's plan for her life--a life beyond her wildest dreams. This is a must read for those entrenched in the grips of trauma and addiction. "The author tells her personal story of tragedy and triumph. This book encourages readers to persevere through devastating circumstances and proves that God loves us dearly. He really does give us the desires of our heart. Nothing is impossible with Him. A wonderful memoir of hope and healing." --Carolyn Woods, Director, The R Factor Ministries "Wendy Noll is a special breed of humanity. Life threw at her its 'best' to try to take her out and Wendy threw back her 'better, ' not only for herself but for the thousands who have gained from her strength and determination to overcome, to thrive, to live fully. In raw form, Ashes to Beauty tells the tale and leads the way to recovery." --Rev. Michelle Sim, Founder, Northern Praise Ministries, Inspirational speaker and author Wendy Noll holds a bachelor's degree in Biblical Studies from North Carolina College of Theology and has recently attained credentials as a certified minister. She is a certified addiction counsellor and has served in the field of addiction in various capacities including counselling and teaching for over twenty years. Wendy has appeared on 100 Huntley Street and is an accomplished speaker. She has made it her life's work supporting trauma survivors and those entrenched in addiction. Wendy's greatest blessing is her family: her children, her grandchildren, and her beloved husband, Dale, with whom she lives in Southwestern Ontario.

Author : Wendy Noll
Publisher : Sisters Ignited Media & Publishing Incorporated
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 34,52 MB
Release : 2022-06-24
Category :
ISBN : 9781990533075

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In the Authorized, REVISED EDITION of Ashes to Beauty, you will read a brutally honest and vulnerable account of the spiritual journey of healing embraced by a brilliant and beautiful young girl. A young girl who wills to find her purpose in life despite the terror that looms in darkness. Driven by an intrinsic yearning for real love, the young girl emerges into a powerful woman who, despite several setbacks and poor choices on her journey of healing and freedom, eventually unveils the magnificent story of God's plan in her life--a life beyond her wildest dreams.

Author : Joyce Meyer
Publisher : FaithWords
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 2008-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0446548820

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Learn how God's grace can help you heal from emotional wounds and abuse in this spiritually uplifting guide to living a beautiful, healing, and fulfilling life. Many people seem to have it all together outwardly, but inside they are a wreck. Their past has broken, crushed, and wounded them inwardly. They can be healed. God has a plan, and Isaiah 61 reveals that the Lord came to heal the brokenhearted. He wants to heal victims of abuse and emotional wounding. Joyce Meyer is a victim of the physical, mental, emotional, and sexual abuse she suffered as a child. Yet today she has a nationwide ministry of emotional healing to others like herself. In Beauty for Ashes she outlines major truths that brought healing in her life and describes how other victims of abuse can also experience God's healing in their lives. You will learn: How to Deal with the Emotional Pain of Abuse How to Understand Your Responsibility to God for Overcoming Abuse Why Victims of Abuse Often Suffer from Other Addictive Behaviors How to Grab Hold of God's Unconditional Love The Importance of God's Timing in Working Through Painful Memories.

Author : Emma Leigh Levine
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 2024-04-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN :

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Statistically speaking, as many as one in five women experience childhood sexual trauma. With a topic like this, one person with this experience is too many! Emma Leigh Levine is one of those one in five women spoken about in that statistic. In Beauty for Ashes: A Journey of Healing, Emma shares her experience with her trauma. Throughout her journey of healing, she learns to hold hurt in one hand and hope in the other. While it is a collection of poetry, it also can be read as a story. In the first section of the book, Emma writes about the darkness surrounding her home life. These poems describe what it is like to be in her shoes growing up with a "Christian" father who was abusing her. Naturally, this led to a lot of confusion about her earthly father and heavenly Father. In the second section of the book, you can see Emma wrestling through these things. To her, it felt unrealistic that her father was abusive, and that created unnecessary shame. At this point in the story, God started to show her who she is as well as who He is. While it sounds great, seeing the stark contrast between her earthly father and heavenly Father was challenging. Amid her trauma, Emma met and experienced Jesus. Hope started to be interwoven with the darkness. In the final section of her book, Emma writes about healing. Don't be misinformed; not everything is rainbows and butterflies. Challenges still arise, but Emma can now put her trauma into perspective. God created her to be more than her traumatic experiences! It breaks Emma's heart to know that even one other person can relate to her story. She spent a lot of time being confused and terrified. If you are in that position, Emma wants you to have this book. Despite it feeling impossible right now, you can heal!

Author : Kelly Bramblett
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 2020-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781913479299

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"Forgiveness clears the path to freedom." Everyone goes through some form of trauma or negative experience in their lives. The key to happiness lies in not letting those bad experiences define you or control your journey. In her first book, Alchemy of the Phoenix: From the Ashes of Trauma to the Light of Love, Kelly Bramblett shows that it is possible to heal the hurts of the past and return to a more natural state of love and hope. By sharing her own experiences with the abuse, trauma, and addiction that haunted her early years, Kelly gives a first-hand example of how it is possible to move through the pain and create a beautiful life. Her story is raw, painful, and heartbreaking, but through the powers of forgiveness and self-love, Kelly changed her situation and now lives the life she always dreamed of. And she shows you not only that you can do the same, but she also tells you how. Packed with journal prompts, meditations, practical exercises, and powerful affirmations, this remarkable book is a guide to living your best life, shedding what no longer serves you, and rising from the ashes of trauma into the light of love. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kelly Bramblett is a Law of Attraction practitioner, trauma recovery coach, and Reiki master who supports her clients through their healing journey. She is passionate about spreading her message of hope to those who have lost hope, and inspiring women to heal their lives by first healing their trauma. Her weekly spiritually-based blog can be found along with many other recourses on her website at www.kellybramblett.com. She is also the host of Kelly Bramblett's High Vibe Podcast, which can be found on all major listening platforms.

Author : Jolainne BoRienne
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 24,90 MB
Release : 2007-07-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1462804144

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Rising From the Ashes is more than a book of religious poetry. It is about one woman’s journey, after healing for many years from the effects of childhood abuse, to continued growth in healing her spirit. Much attention has been given in recent years to uncovering child abuse and seeking to punish the abusers. However, that is only the first small step for the victim who will then often spend years and thousands of dollars to finally bring to recognition the insidious unseen effects that abuse has caused psychologically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually. Jolainne was one of those victims. It is easy to see physical scars and bruises, but it is very difficult to see interior scars and bruises. People more knowledgeable and competent than the author have discussed the psychological and social wounds, and she has even described her own long circuitous journey in another volume. However, Rising From the Ashes attempts to show how deeply wounded the victim’s spirit is affected. It also attempts to give hope to anyone else who has been affected by childhood abuse, especially when they recognize the spirit is the core of their being and can only be healed on a spiritual level. Because the journey seems so long, ways to acknowledge growth and progress to keep from being discouraged are often necessary. Rising From the Ashes attempts to demonstrate this progress by using the theme of seasons. A season is cyclical and so is healing. One doesn’t merely heal by first going through acknowledgement of a wound, then anger, then grief, then acceptance and, finally one is free from the abuse. No, the victim goes through many stages, often many times with the same issue. It is the same with spiritual healing. Trust is wounded on so many levels, but healing is possible and it is a wonderful journey when one can finally look back on it and see how God has really been with you all the way, even in the dark days when you cannot see or believe anything. Rising From the Ashes is a compilation from many poems over the years to illustrate the slow steady progress of one woman’s spiritual life encapsulated in a year of seasons. In one’s own life, if you can get through the dark times, you can see the silver lining. So, too, if you can get past the early dark poems of the book, you will arrive at that wonder-filled place where poems are filled with a sense of freedom and joy. The hope is that you will be able to see your own spiritual journey somehow reflected in its verses.

Author : Tarra L. Ray MA LPC
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 10,59 MB
Release : 2022-02-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1098061217

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Beauty for Ashes: Overcoming Trauma to Live in Victory offers a from-the-inside-to-the-outside perspective about the causes of trauma and how trauma is individually and uniquely processed even by those who are spiritual. More than just a story, Beauty for Ashes offers real spiritual solutions that can easily be incorporated into a person's life. Tarra Ray utilizes her unique personal experiences as well as her clinical and biblical knowledge to develop concepts that offer real solutions and hope. The instructional workbook nature of Beauty for Ashes will help the reader process through difficulty in the moment to gain greater insight.

Author : Jacelyn Serrano
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1483451119

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Ashes to Beauty leans into a part of life that many will find difficult to face, but it does so with courage and hope. The author, Jacelyn Serrano, survived twenty years of abuse, mostly during her childhood, at the hands of relatives. As she grew up, she became promiscuous, rebellious, and bitter. But God did not abandon her. The chapters in Ashes to Beauty offer personal accounts of times of abuse and mistreatment, reflections that draw the hope and inspiration of the Scriptures into conversation with pain and injury, prayers that turn to God for sustenance and healing, and power tools-passages from the Bible that speak words of hope. Whether you have endured experiences like the ones that appear in the pages of Ashes to Beauty or you know someone who struggles with a legacy of injury from abuse, the deeply moving words of grace and healing that flow from Ashes to Beauty can help you to find the path to recovery and restoration.

Author : Allyson Kelley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 2023-07-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1000909859

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Through stories and conversations, Drs. Dolores BigFoot and Allyson Kelley reflect on research, clinical work, faith-based topics, spirituality, and recovery. They invite readers to reflect on what it means to walk on a healing path. Beginning with a brief history of broken spirits and a broken world, the book then discusses the causes of brokenness, vulnerability to brokenness, and healing as a construct of social justice and advocacy. The following chapters cover current aspects of healing from the lens of mental health and substance use, addiction, trauma, and recovery. As much of the world struggles with some aspect of brokenness and healing, stories of enduring well provide examples from all relations and walks of life about healing. Theories and research presented throughout the text support stories and concepts presented. Stories about families, coping, grief, loss, and boundaries give readers resources and exercises to help them become whole. Special consideration is given to healing practices and rituals from Native American communities and families. This text is a must-have for mental health practitioners, faith-based organizations, communities, individuals and families, programs, and policymakers interested in healing.