Redeeming Heartache

How Past Suffering Reveals Our True Calling

By: Dan B. Allender, Cathy Loerzel

Narrated by: Candace Kirkpatrick, Bill Russell

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 directionless
• How your coping mechanisms create a false sense of health
• How to embrace your divine calling and find lasting reconciliation
• How 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.

Lots to Learn

Had a lot of examples to help understand the guides being presented and the couple did a great job of sharing and helping us to understand those principles given!

loved it

I strongly connected to the content and will be recommending it to others to see their orphan stranger and widow and understanding how through God they lead into the kind of Priest, Prophet, King or Queen God is calling us into

A very transformative Journey

This was suggested to me by my husband. He has a friend at work that is reading this. I picked it up to see why he thought it would be good for both of us. Let me tell you, I was not expecting the way this book opened up the old wounds and helped me realize why they were still being deployed for protection? Odd how we carry things for years and never really realize why. It was not comfortable to poke old wounds, but it relieved me from letting them control me anymore. It was very helpful for our marriage.

One criticism I have is that the chapters are mislabeled. The player is telling me it is Chapter 6, when in fact it is chapter 5 and so on.

Definitely rereading

I am definitely re-reading this with a notebook and pencil in hand, taking notes and wanting to share with a friend to do it together. Thank you for writing this book and making it audible for my drive to work and home.

Great book. Technical glitches.

Fantastic book. Good use of story telling.
Big technical glitch: Titles displayed do not match the section audio.