Rising from the Dead
Stories of Women's Spiritual Journeys to Sobriety
Price: $95.00
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-7890-3173-0
- Binding: Hardback (also available in Paperback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 5th October 2007
- Pages: 136
About the Book
Help bridge the gap between the non-religious recovering community and the religious communityRising from the Dead: Stories of Women’s Spiritual Journeys to Sobriety details the recovery stories of alcoholic women in long-term sobriety and the role spirituality has played in transforming their life histories into healing narratives. This powerful book guides helping professionals to an understanding of how the 12-step spirituality practiced by women in long-term sobriety has helped them through difficult life experiences and how the stories of those experiences can act as a rich resource for communities of faith.
The stories told in Rising from the Dead demonstrate the catastrophic nature of alcoholism, illustrating models of therapeutic listening and pastoral counseling that can help pastors, pastoral counselors, and chaplains working in the Christian community assist those who suffer from addiction. The book examines barriers that are specific to helping professionals and pastoral counselors, offering suggestions for the use of story in pastoral ministry and strategies for counseling. It includes practical applications for constructing a spiritual life story and suggested journal questions.
Rising from the Dead examines:
- narrative construction
- stories as sacred containers
- stories from a therapeutic perspective
- shame and guilt
- threshold experiences
- finding a path through Christian traditions
- God language
- constructing a life story and a soul story
- and much more
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- PART I: WE COME TO TELL OUR STORY
- Chapter 1. A Conversation in Ordinary Time
- The Power of Stories
- From Ordinary to Extraordinary
- Chapter 2. Entering Sacred Space
- Storycrafting
- How It Was
- What Happened
- How It Is Now
- Weaving a Sacred Container
- PART II: WE COME TO BREAK THE BREAD
- Chapter 3. From Story to Theory
- The Minnesota Model of Treatment
- Entering the Wasteland: Revisiting How It Was
- An Unlikely Oasis: Revisiting What Happened
- Finding the Sure Path: Revisiting How It Is Now
- Chapter 4. Descending into Hell: Shame and Guilt
- A Poverty of Soul
- Catastrophic Shame
- Defending and Despairing
- Healing the Rift
- PART III: WE COME TO KNOW OUR RISING FROM THE DEAD
- Chapter 5. Standing Between Sin and Grace
- Falling in Love
- Life at the Threshold
- Chapter 6. Navigating Within Traditions
- A Feminist Presence
- Facing the Shadow
- No Longer a Stranger
- Acting As If
- Chapter 7. To Speak Rightly of God
- Tuning In
- Imagining God
- A Brand-New Life
- Chapter 8. Radical Brokenness and Radical Relationship
- Healing Experience
- Sacred Experience
- The Body of Christ
- Chapter 9. On the Road to Emmaus
- To Be Reconciled
- Crafting a Community
- Standing in the Presence
- Chapter 10. More Conversations in Ordinary Time
- Constructing a Life Story and a Soul Story
- What Is a Spiritual Autobiography?
- Life at the Limit
- Lifescape and Soulscape
- Walking and Praying a New Life Journey
- Walking into New Life
- Appendix
- The Twelve Steps
- The Twelve Traditions
- Notes
- Index
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