Trauma can happen to anyone at any time. None of us is exempt from a life-shattering event occurring in the form of natural disaster, human sinfulnes or other wounding experience that leaves us with questions, fear, anger and many other unspeakable and unexplainable emotional and physical responses.
Surviving the Storms of Life is a helpful guide for processing one’s own traumatic experience or walking with someone else through the healing journey. Also included are special chapters on the unique needs of children, as well as insight on how we can become a healing church.
This is a must-read for every youth worker who inevitably will be called upon to minister to a student and his/her family during a difficult time.
Revell, 2008, 208 pp., $12.99