Healing the Wounds of Trauma

CONTENTS

About This Book........................................................................................ 2 The Goals of This Book............................................................................. 5 How This Book Came About..................................................................... 6 How to Use This Book............................................................................... 8 Lesson 1 If God Loves Us, Why Do We Suffer?. .....................12 Lesson 2 How Can the Wounds of Our Hearts Be Healed?.....21 Lesson 3 What Happens When Someone Is Grieving?...........32 Lesson 4 How Can We Help Children Who Have Experienced Bad Things?................................. 43 Lesson 5 How Can We Help Someone Who Has Been Raped?. ...... 50 Lesson 6A Domestic Abuse.................................................................. 60 Lesson 6B Suicide. ............................................................................... 69 Lesson 6C Addictions. ......................................................................... 76 Lesson 7 Caring for the Caregiver.................................................... 83 Lesson 8 Response: Taking Your Pain to the Cross. ..............90 Lesson 9 How Can We Forgive Others?. ...............................95 Lesson 10 How Can We Live as Christians in the Midst of Conflict?................................................... 102 Lesson 11 Looking Ahead.................................................................. 113 Forgiveness Ceremony. .......................................................................... 120 Recommended Readings........................................................................ 123 Acknowledgements. ............................................................................... 124 About the Authors.................................................................................. 125

(Titles in bold are the core lessons.)

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