Healing from Despair: Choosing Wholeness in a Broken World

by Rabbi Abraham J Twerski, Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz, and Erica Shapiro Taylor

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The suffering that brings you to despair and even desperation can-with healing-become a source of hope, purpose and blessing. Are you: Feeling anxious? Feeling depressed because of the loss of health, a relationship or a job? Grieving the loss of a loved one? Grieving loss by a suicide? Feeling hopeless? Concerned about a friend who has suicidal thoughts? This wise and helpful guide explores the nature of personal suffering and brokenness and the potential for personal crisis as a source of strength and renewal instead of despair and death. Examining the personal journeys of biblical and historical figures such as Moses, Maimonides, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Buber - as well as the author's own personal experience with despair - it looks at brokenness as an inescapable element of the human condition. It traces the path of suffering from despair to depression to desperation to the turning point - healing - when first - hand knowledge of suffering can be transformed into blessing.
  • ISBN10 1459680758
  • ISBN13 9781459680753
  • Publish Date 1 June 2014 (first published 20 March 2012)
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint ReadHowYouWant
  • Edition [Large Print]
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 354
  • Language English