LeadToHealing

Buy the book. Extend an invitation, and see if you don’t come to new and deeper levels of connection with old friends, and maybe even make some new friendships with people who are willing to journey alongside you.

This new resource combines practical tips and relatable stories from Lisa Qualls, interwoven with wisdom from Karyn Purvis, who speaks directly into the stories that Lisa shares.

While the whole book is beneficial (especially to those raising or working with adolescents), this book is worth reading for the Attachment section alone.

[Curt Thompson] has a unique perspective within Attachment literature that illuminates God’s design for both vertical and horizontal relationships as seen in both Scripture and science.

Gray uses anecdotes and vignettes to help the reader make sense of the way that early childhood trauma affects the whole child - and provides practical solutions for how to help children build resiliency.

…The beauty of coming to a place of healing (for both the child and the adult) is celebrated. Some of the topics addressed are unmet expectations, how living with a traumatized child affects parents and siblings, the crisis of adoption breakdown, school issues, and self-care.

This is a must-have resource for anyone who is considering adoption or foster care, or who finds themselves in the middle of those worlds without a map.

Read The Body Keeps the Score for a deeper and broader understanding of trauma. But more than that, read it to understand what we can do to help people with a trauma history heal.

Through a skillful use of vignettes, Nakazawa reveals the profound effects of trauma that are oftentimes not seen for what they are.

The Deepest Well is consistently one of our book club favorites, and is one of the only books that I highly recommend listening to through Audible.

Pauline Boss describes multiple circumstances in which a person would feel the effects of ambiguous loss, and describes the struggles that people tend to have when they experience it.