Fractured Into Wholeness

"I didn't see it coming. I sat in the darkness of the spare bedroom hours after the man I loved and planned to spend the rest of my life with announced he wanted something different. I was no longer enough.""But I was, and I am enough. I didn't get a choice in how my marriage ended, but I got to choose how I responded. I felt as if my life had exploded into a million pieces. In the consuming darkness, I felt a tiny speck of hope. I chose to trust in the dark what I had learned in the light." We all experience crises. The details differ, but some of the emotions of our experiences are the same. Fractured Into Wholeness is a story of struggle, forgiveness, and redemption. It's messy, and it's authentic. It will encourage and challenge you to take the next best step no matter what is going on in your life."Is God preparing me? Pruning me? Killing me? Healing me? Sometimes it all feels the same.""I can't tie my fractured into wholeness journey into a tidy bow. It's a knotted, frayed gathering of what remains of shredded threads. But it still binds."

Wholeness is about removing invisible boundaries from our lives that keep us from realizing our highest potential. In order to live an outer life without limits, we have to uncover and address the inner limitations that hide in our blind spots. This life-changing book explains that regardless of where you are in life, Wholeness will take you higher. Wholeness will elevate your sense of fulfillment in life, produce healthier, more rewarding relationships, and will position you for optimum success in every endeavor. International thought leader and pastor Touré Roberts explains we can't always choose the experiences that keep us from being whole, but we can take control of our lives today and bring healing to any broken area. Key chapters include an in-depth relationship guide titled "Two Halves Don't Make a Whole." "The Cracked Mirror" shows how unprocessed experiences can negatively shape our view of self, others, and the world around us. "Ghosts of the Past" gives powerful, practical tools for avoiding the traps of the past and ensuring that we enter into the amazing future that God has planned for us. Wholeness is filled with wisdom garnered from Touré's own life--raised by a single mom, narrowly escaping the trappings of inner-city life, and finding success in corporate America. His insight is further broadened by his role as founder of one of the most influential churches in the nation, with over fourteen years pastoring thousands of millennials, couples, families, and a diverse group of individuals. Wholeness will take you on a transformational journey that won't leave you the same. Concluding with a "Wholeness Test," Wholeness will help you track and maintain your progress while walking out your journey to your full potential.

A wise, uplifting memoir about a rabbi’s search for understanding and his discovery of hope and joy after his young son suffered a catastrophic brain-stem stroke: “Deeply moving, extraordinarily thought-provoking, and entirely humane” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). As a young, ambitious rabbi at one of New York’s largest synagogues, Charles Sherman had high expectations for what his future would hold—a happy and healthy family, professional success, and recognition. Then, early one morning in 1986, everything changed. His son Eyal spiked a fever and was soon in serious respiratory distress. Doctors discovered a lesion on the four-year-old’s brain stem. Following high-risk surgery, Eyal suffered a stroke. Sherman and his wife later learned that their son would never walk, talk, feed himself, or breathe on his own again—yet his mind was entirely intact. He was still the curious, intelligent boy they had always known. The ground had shifted beneath the Sherman family’s feet, yet over the next thirty years, they were able to find comfort, pleasure, and courage in one another, their community, their faith, and in the love they shared. The experience pointed Rabbi Sherman toward the answers of some of life’s biggest questions: To what lengths should parents go to protect their children? How can we maintain faith in God when tragedy occurs? Is it possible to experience joy alongside continuing heartbreak? Now, with deep insight, refreshing honesty, humor, and intelligence, Charles Sherman reflects back on his life and describes his struggle to address and ultimately answer these questions. The Broken and the Whole “inspirationally sets forth how to survive in the face of calamity” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) beautifully showing what it means to embrace life after everything you’ve known has been shattered to pieces.

An evocative debut novel chronicles the lives and fortunes of four generations of Jewish women, as their stories span two continents, from Eastern Europe to modern-day Cleveland, and one young woman, Hannah Felber, struggles to resolve her troubled relationship with her mother. Reprint.

Effective, real-life strategies, tools, and encouragement for those desiring to help others find healing from severe trauma and discover the Father's truth and love.

An intimate guide to self-acceptance and discovery that offers a Buddhist perspective on wholeness within the framework of a Western understanding of self. For decades, Western psychology has promised fulfillment through building and strengthening the ego. We are taught that the ideal is a strong, individuated self, constructed and reinforced over a lifetime. But Buddhist psychiatrist Mark Epstein has found a different way. Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart shows us that happiness doesn't come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting go. Weaving together the accumulated wisdom of his two worlds--Buddhism and Western psychotherapy—Epstein shows how "the happiness that we seek depends on our ability to balance the ego's need to do with our inherent capacity to be." He encourages us to relax the ever-vigilant mind in order to experience the freedom that comes only from relinquishing control. Drawing on events in his own life and stories from his patients, Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart teaches us that only by letting go can we start on the path to a more peaceful and spiritually satisfying life.

ECPA BESTSELLER • An invitation to love like Jesus and step beyond distraction and division into the joy we long to experience—from the author of The Deeply Formed Life, winner of the Christianity Today Book Award “A stunning book with power to reshape our world . . . if we let it.”—Glenn Packiam, pastor and author of Blessed Broken Given We long for a good life, a beautiful life, a kind life. But clearly that’s not the world we live in. We carry the stress of our fractured world in our bodies and relationships. Families that once gathered around tables have converted those tables into walls. Hostility, rage, and offense is the language of our culture. How did we lose goodness, kindness, and beauty? And more important, how do we get them back into our lives? These are the two questions crying out in our streets, homes, churches, and from deep within our souls. Pastor and author Rich Villodas is convinced that only Jesus offers a way of being human that is both strong and tender enough to tear down the walls of hostility we experience daily. In Good and Beautiful and Kind, he reveals how… • These three essentials are stolen by sin, powers and principalities, and trauma. • We can get goodness, beauty, and kindness back through contemplative prayer, humility, and the cultivation of calm presence. • The traits of healthy conflict, forgiveness, and justice lead to wholeness, healing, and a new collective future—when rooted in the ancient way of Jesus. Filled with fresh energy, classic truth, and practical solutions, this is your road map for stepping beyond distraction and division to love like Jesus. Doing so will change the atmosphere within you…and around you!

Born with cerebral palsy, Diana Ventura has known brokenness her entire life. Through telling her story, she shares what it means to live with and overcome brokenness of all kinds. As she reflects on her own experience and that of others, Diana offers understanding and insight. There is a mystical path through the landscape of suffering, she says, and those who travel it can find God and healing even in the midst of pain and sadness. Readers who join her on this journey of prayer and faith will be better equipped to meet the everyday challenges of living with brokenness with hope, dignity, and true love.

"Broken pieces can be turned into a Master-piece"Hurt, pain, betrayal, deception, and feelings of worthlessness are all heart-crushing attacks. These conditions causes one's heart to become broken. If you have suffered hurt over a damaged relationship, don't worry, you are not alone. Many people, Christians alike, tend to waddle in the broken pieces of their heart and never pull themselves together. This ministry, through the inspiration and guidance of the Holy Spirit, has empowered others to allow God to take their broken pieces and mend them together and create a master-piece for His service.In this book, Brokenness to Wholeness, chronicles the authors' experiences dealing with hurt and pain and over-coming such. The AuthorsYolanda Y. Everett, BA., MA a Southern California resident and successfully completed formal education from CSULA. She has been in ministry for over 25 years, ministering to the very soul of young ladies. Jamil Everett is a business owner, Battleflex Fitness. He is the author of Position Yourself For The End Game. His passion is for everyone to be whole, mind, body and soul.Jamil and Yolanda were joined together on February 13, 2016. They have a combined family of seven adult children, whom they cherish. Their vision is to create a platform of healing and wholeness through faith in the Lord and His word. This dynamic dual is available for speaking engagements. You may contact them at [email protected]"

You are about to study various principles (not guarantees) that, when applied, will put you on the path to wholeness. For some, this will be a difficult journey filled with heartache and pain as you uncover the source of your internal difficulties. For others, you'll find this to be a great resource for future reference for yourself or one you care about. Regardless of the need, you'll find this work to be enlightening, helpful, and perhaps even life changing. May the Lord bless you as you pursue a life of wholeness.