Redeeming Heartache, Dr. Dan B. Allender
Redeeming Heartache, Dr. Dan B. Allender
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Redeeming Heartache
How Past Suffering Reveals Our True Calling

Author: Dr. Dan B. Allender, Cathy Loerzel

Narrator: Candace Kirkpatrick, Bill Russell

Unabridged: 8 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 09/14/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Find freedom and healing from painful memories and relational struggles and learn how your past has uniquely prepared you to experience more joy. Tragedy and pain inevitably touch our lives in some way. We long to feel whole, but more often than not, the way we've learned to deal with our wounds pushes us away from the very restoration we need most. Renowned psychologist Dr. Dan Allender and counselor and teacher Cathy Loerzel present a life-changing process of true connection and healing with ourselves, God, and others. With a clear, biblically trustworthy method, Allender and Loerzel walk you through a journey of profound inner transformation--from the shame and hurt of old emotional wounds to true freedom and healing. Drawn from modern research and their pioneering work at The Allender Center, they will help you identify your core trauma in one of the three outcast archetypes--the widow, orphan, or stranger--and chart your path of growth into the God-given roles of priest, prophet, or leader. This book will help you learn: What to do about feeling out-of-place and directionlessHow your coping mechanisms create a false sense of healthHow to embrace your divine calling and find lasting reconciliationHow your heart wounds are your unique invitation to true strength and purpose.Your past pain does not dictate your life. Answer the call to healing and discover your life's beautiful story and a future of hope and freedom.Application questions are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

About Dr. Dan B. Allender

Dr. Dan Allender is a pioneer of a unique and innovative approach to trauma and abuse therapy. After receiving his master of divinity from Westminster Theological Seminary, Dan earned his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Michigan State University. Dan previously served on faculty at the Biblical Counseling Department of Grace Theological Seminary (1983-1989) and Colorado Christian University (1989-1997). In 1997, Dan and a cadre of others founded the Seattle School of Theology & Psychology. Dan served as president of the Seattle School from 2002-2009. In 2011, The Allender Center was founded to cultivate healing and train leaders and mental health professionals to courageously engage others’ stories of harm. Dan continues to serve as professor of counseling psychology at the Seattle School.

About Cathy Loerzel

Cathy Loerzel is cofounder of the Allender Center. Combining her background in organizational leadership and development with an MA in counseling psychology, she is a respected leader, instructor, and speaker. Over the past decade, she has also helped to develop the groundbreaking Trauma Informed Narrative Theory. She and her husband live in Seattle with their two children, two dogs, and a flock of chickens. Visit her at cathyloerzel.com and on Instagram at @cathy.loerzel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by aryssa on February 07, 2023

I had high hopes for this book. Allender theory of story engagement and redemptive living have been transformative for me and others I know. I think most people can benefit from engaging Allender theory. However, this book was not as powerful as I'd hoped. It basic concept was this: the unredeemed a......more

Goodreads review by Crosby on February 06, 2024

3.5 stars This is not for the faint of heart as it oftentimes felt like the book was reading me rather than me reading the book (told my therapist reading it felt like what I would imagine going to a counseling intensive would feel like 😅🤪), but it was nevertheless really helpful and insightful!......more

Goodreads review by Bethany on August 29, 2024

This book gives a really useful framework for understanding your trauma and allowing God to transform it: from stranger, orphan, widow to prophet, priest, and king/queen. Like any framework that introduces a new concept, I feel like I need to reread or study to understand. There are a lot of layers t......more

Goodreads review by Megan Mae on September 15, 2024

3.75 stars!!! Hahahah! This book is good! But dense. There are definitely chapters I will go back to re-read. The ideas presented in this book are brilliant. Insightful. Powerful. But, it’s almost too much for a book format. Loved the handout PDF that accompanies the book— I’d love to do it in a smal......more

Goodreads review by Macy on March 23, 2024

I found this book to be interesting and in some ways insightful. I’m not sold on the priest/prophet/king-queen classifications, I think that it is too narrow of a lens, but I enjoyed the perspectives in this book.......more