Why Am I Like This?

How to Break Cycles, Heal from Trauma, and Restore Your Faith

By: Kobe Campbell

Narrated by: Kobe Campbell

Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins

Publisher's summary

Read by the author.

Why does our past pain continue to affect our present?

Though many of us can point to patterns of brokenness in our lives, we don’t know why they're there. No matter how hard we work, we can’t seem to outrun the very things that break our hearts. That's because our everyday setbacks are rooted in our unaddressed wounds.

In Why Am I Like This? seminary-trained, licensed trauma therapist Kobe Campbell helps us understand why it’s so hard to break these patterns as she offers us a deeper understanding of how our past shapes our present. With tender wisdom, rare vulnerability, and profound honesty, Kobe reminds each listener that they’re not alone, empowering them to step into healing with evidence-based, faith-filled coping skills and resources.

In Why Am I Like This?, you will:

• gain an understanding of what trauma and healing really are,
• explore the roots of your dysfunctional patterns,
• learn how your trauma shows up in your everyday life, and
• find trauma-informed, faith-based coping mechanisms to heal your mind and deepen your intimacy with God.

Kobe marries theological insight with therapeutic principles to give listeners the tools and insights needed to begin their journey of restoration.

Reflection questions, checklists, and personal exercises are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2023 Kobe Campbell (P)2023 Thomas Nelson

Refreshing approach

Kobe’s book is the best I have encountered at blending the science of trauma and psychology with (Christian) spirituality and theology. So grateful to have these words in my life.

About to listen to it for the 2nd time

So much to take in. I “just listened” to the book the first time. I hope to work through the book the 2nd time. I wish that Kobe could be my therapist! So much truth to take in, absorb, work through. Praying for God to use this in a deep way to enable me to walk in the freedom that He intends for me to walk in! At 61 years of age, still trusting God and growing. Thank you Kobe for such a needed book!

Thank you!!

This book was so great in every way, and I thank God for people like Kobe Campbell who pour unto other in such a special way. It was so good that I will be listening again just in case I missed any nuggets.

Spoken directly to me and my community

This book was very insightful, and I plan to give it as a Christmas gift to all my siblings. I think God for giving her the strength and ability to articulate these words.

Changed my life

THANK YOU! I am in tears over how this helped me. I cannot express enough how this is a book FOR EVERY ONE!!! Thank you Kobe. Thank you!

Absolutely excellent!!

This book opens you up to a greater level of healing emotionally, mentally, spiritually, socially, and physically by both challenging and charging you towards growth and healing, and at the same time, inviting you to go back in order to move forward.

Simply opened up my heart

Being a Christian, who grew up in church and suffered abuse as a child. I hit a wall and this booked helped with my journey

Absolutely amazing, eye opening and refreshing

Having grown up in a Christian home and attending a Spirit-filled church, this book has been AMAZING and refreshing! Kobe gives hope for FREEDOM for those of us who experienced spiritual trauma, physical abuse and emotional abuse. Her words echo God’s Word and bring it to life in new ways as she ties it to our real life experiences and shows how God desires us to walk in FREEDOM and JOY! Love this! Recommend it to any hurting heart seeking deeper healing!

Reading again

This is more than just another self help book. This book is like a therapy session in each chapter. It’s one of those books that read me. This is my 2nd go around and I’ll be doing the accompanied pdf this time around. I love when authors read their own books and this one doesn’t disappoint. You can here the sincerity of heart in every word.
It’s beautifully written and I’ve gifted a copy to my sister as well. My prayer is that many more will not only choose to read or listen to this book but take the deep end and go all in. It’s time to heal yal!!!!

An amazing roadmap

Why Am I Like This? is a testament to what authentic living should look like - one that does the work to address the trauma in their lives then allows the Holy Spirit to comfort during the process.

While listening to the audiobook, I was struck at the precision the author took to describe trauma. Biblically, it was done in a way that I’d never heard before. I am forever changed!

I highly recommend this book as it should be required reading for anyone with breath in their body.