From Trauma to Transformation: A Path to Healing and Growth

God will not waste your painWe have all heard of post traumatic stress, but few of us think about the possibility of post traumatic growth--the positive ways in which we can be transformed by our trauma. Yet this is precisely what can happen when we face our hurts, struggle through the rubble of our broken relationships, and unearth the ways God wants to use our trials to refine and mature us.With compassion born from personal experience and insights gathered from years of counseling others, licensed marriage and family therapist Debra Laaser helps you stop asking "Why me?" and start asking "Lord, what would you have me learn from this?" She offers tangible steps you can take to move beyond daily survival toward a future in which you can thrive.God does not waste our pain. With Laaser's expert guidance, you can experience positive life change not in spite of the hurt, loss, or betrayal you have undergone but because of it.

Self-Help

Debra Laaser

Personal Transformation

Revell

In this new Faithful & True publication, Mark and Debbie Laaser have created a new collection of ten of their most effective “Practical Recovery Tools for Individuals & Couples”.

A Toolkit for Growth – Practical Recovery Tools for Individuals & Couples

Mark R. Laaser

Faithful & True Publications

When a couple first comes together, the knee-weakening, heart-stopping, pants-dropping passion exhilarates. But turning that love into an intimate bond comes no more naturally than learning to ride a bicycle or use chopsticks. What we are socialized to assume should be spontaneous and effortless requires patience and learned skills. Worse, should any problems erupt we fear the relationship and ourselves are irrevocably broken. We need help. Though written by two noted psychologists, Open Hearts is not technical but gentle and uplifting. Patrick Carnes, along with Mark Laaser and Deb Laaser, share how they found their way to joyous and fulfilling intimacy. While these concepts originated in the recovery movement, they can transform any couple seeking renewal or trying to restore a broken relationship. Open Hearts starts with basic truths: • We can only work on a relationship when we're in that relationship. Running away never solved anything • If we have not resolved childhood developmental issues, we will seek out partners we think will resolve them • It's perfectly healthy to fight. We just have to learn to do it better. • As partners w'ere often stuck in "coupleshame." However, working through it leads to true intimacy Open Hearts is a book a couple reads together. It takes techniques that Carnes and the Laasers developed in their psychotherapy practices and weaves them into a series of individual and joint exercises. It looks at tough issues: shame, anger, money, betrayal, sex, parenting. It encourages fun: drawing up a family motto, expressing spirituality together, taking gentleness breaks. It works. Open Hearts addresses coupleship to show how a relationship, no matter how imperfect or new, can be transformed and restored to loving intimacy.

Open Hearts: Renewing Relationships with Recovery, Romance & Reality

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Patrick Carnes

Mark Laaser

Addiction & Recovery

Gentle Path Press

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