Redeeming Heartache
Your past pain does not dictate your life.
Find freedom and healing from painful memories and relational struggles. Learn how your past has uniquely prepared you to experience more joy.
In a world in which our imaginations are depleted and barren from the infinite array of traumas we perpetrate against each other and the creation, we desperately need voices that can reawaken us to hope and to the action that will embody it. Redeeming Heartache delivers to us that very hope-in-action that we so desperately need.
Redeeming Heartache is a gift to a wounded world -- beautifully written, emotionally powerful, vulnerable and transparent, filled with wisdom. Dan Allender and Cathy Loerzel help us understand trauma and suffering through stories and studies, with sensitivity and sophistication, through the prism of faith.
Coauthors Dr. Dan Allender and Cathy Loerzel invite us to courageously grapple with the pain, suffering, and trauma we all experience “east of Eden” – living outside of the perfection and wholeness that characterized humanity’s first home – and identify our fear, shame and grief.
Rich and profound; compassionate and realistic. But mostly, redemptive. Dan and Cathy have offered up a very, very important book. Honestly - I'm looking forward to my second read through!
Reclaim your sacred role
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.
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How your unique archetype (widow, orphan, or stranger) shapes your healing path
Why traditional methods of coping often lead you away from true restoration
How to transform past wounds into your unique calling as priest, prophet, or leader
Where to find authentic connection with yourself, others, and God through proven methods
"If we are honest, we know that none of us have escaped heartache and trauma in this beautifully broken world. The question then is how we heal in order not just to make it through, but truly thrive in the light of all that God would hope for us.
This book will help you understand how harm and heartache have come into your life and what you have done to protect yourself from it in both brilliant and heartbreaking ways. It will then usher you into the radically hopeful call to remember your name and join God in the redemptive arc of the gospel that is still alive and well and wooing us to be honest, repair that which has been shattered and join Jesus in breathing new life into this shattered world, starting with our own hearts."
-Cathy Loerzel, M.A
"Often, I wonder, ‘what is the point of this suffering?’ I don’t believe every heartache is a trial God uses to teach me something or that I need to find meaning in every event. But the larger question remains: ‘God, what are you up to?’
If we look at the trajectory of our life, God is intimately involved. It is not up to me to figure out how, when, and where, let alone why, but I need to look closely enough to see that my heartache is meant to be redeemed. God intends not only to heal me but also to use my suffering for my and your good.
Our book will help you better understand what you have suffered in small and significant losses and betrayals and how God intends to heal us to empower that trauma to bring goodness to your world. By entering the valley of heartache, my heart is more open to the wonder and glory of Jesus. To name the truth about life is a risky walk on the wild side, but when adversity and suffering are significant, it is the only path that gives us vista worth the journey."
-Dr. Dan B. Allender
Answer the call to healing
Your past pain does not dictate your life.
Discover your life's beautiful story and a future of hope and freedom. Order Redeeming Heartache today.