Posts Tagged "bk-addiction&trauma"

Addicted to Busy: Recovery for the Rushed Soul

By Brady Boyd For those moving too fast through life, a guide to help them slow down and discover rest. Speed is the single greatest threat to a healthy life-but often we make it a way of life. Brady Boyd invites readers to reexamine the speed at which they are living and discover that God desires for them peace and rest. We are too busy, overstressed, and overworked to figure out how to slow down, but Boyd says that slow down, we...

The Soul of Recovery: Uncovering the Spiritual Dimension in the Treatment of Addictions

By Christopher D. Ringwald Millions of alcoholics and addicts recover through spirituality. In The Soul of Recovery: Uncovering the Spiritual Dimension in the Treatment of Addictions, author and journalist Christopher D. Ringwald tells how and why they seek and achieve these transformations. Ranging as far back as the Washingtonian Total Abstinence Society in 1840, Ringwald illuminates the use of spirituality within a wide range of...

Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury after War

By Rita Nakashima Brock & Gabriella Lettini   The first book to explore the idea and effect of moral injury on veterans, their families, and their communities. Although veterans make up only seven percent of the U.S. population, they account for an alarming 20 percent of all suicides. And though treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder has undoubtedly alleviated suffering and allowed many service members returning from combat...

Washed by Blood: Lessons from My Time with Korn and My Journey to Christ

By Brian Welch   An Out-of-Control Rock Star. An Inescapable Addiction to Drugs. A Miraculous Redemption through Jesus Christ. You think you’ve heard this story before but you haven’t. Washed by Blood is a look at the dramatic saving power of Jesus Christ unlike any other — one that shows how God looks out for all of us, even those who seem farthest away from his grace. Brian “Head” Welch was a rock star who...

Victims and Sinners: Spiritual Roots of Addiction and Recovery

By Linda A. Mercadante More than one million Americans participate in nearly 50,000 Alcoholics Anonymous groups in America. Addiction recovery groups such as A.A. often rely on religious themes in their work, offering a form of spirituality as a way to deal with life’s problems. Many recovery groups borrow selectively from theology because the full Christian doctrine of sin can be alienating for those in recovery. Linda...