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Unshackled: Finding God's Freedom from Trauma
Break through Barriers to Healing from Trauma and Discover Paths to Healing
Trauma can either be used as a catalyst for growth, sparking empathy and a closer relationship with God, or as fuel for shame, avoidance, and isolation. Many veterans and first responders know firsthand the toll that trauma can take but lack the knowledge of how to grow from it and move forward.
In Unshackled, Elizabeth Stevens uses her unique perspective as both a trauma survivor and a professional psychiatrist to help veterans and first responders, as well as other trauma victims, learn how to grow and heal from their traumatic experiences so that they can experience the abundant life God has for them.
Specifically, you will come to understand and learn
the effects of trauma from Elizabeth's story of brain injury, multiple sexual assaults, an eating disorder, post-traumatic stress, suicidal thoughts, depression, and loss of independence;
how to get past barriers to healing;
which paths will move you forward;
the importance of holistic healing--physical, psychological, and spiritual; and
that Jesus Christ delivers the ultimate healing.
Trauma can either be used as a catalyst for growth, sparking empathy and a closer relationship with God, or as fuel for shame, avoidance, and isolation. Many veterans and first responders know firsthand the toll that trauma can take but lack the knowledge of how to grow from it and move forward.
In Unshackled, Elizabeth Stevens uses her unique perspective as both a trauma survivor and a professional psychiatrist to help veterans and first responders, as well as other trauma victims, learn how to grow and heal from their traumatic experiences so that they can experience the abundant life God has for them.
Specifically, you will come to understand and learn
the effects of trauma from Elizabeth's story of brain injury, multiple sexual assaults, an eating disorder, post-traumatic stress, suicidal thoughts, depression, and loss of independence;
how to get past barriers to healing;
which paths will move you forward;
the importance of holistic healing--physical, psychological, and spiritual; and
that Jesus Christ delivers the ultimate healing.
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247 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 4, 2022
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November 27, 2022
Real, raw, based upon a Warriors path. Perhaps the best book out there for those dealing with PTS & Trauma of any form. Incredibly useful tips for dealing with what is real and for getting out of denial that cripples healing.
Thank you Dr. Stevens for having the courage to share your journey and lead others on a path to healing..
Thank you Dr. Stevens for having the courage to share your journey and lead others on a path to healing..
November 6, 2022
BROKEN IN A GOOD WAY!
This book approached so many things that I have struggled with personally and also professionally. In medicine, daily primary and secondary trauma effects and molds so many. During the last almost three years of the COVID 19 pandemic, this has become more and more obvious and problematic. Our relationship with God, through gratitude AND lament, is the only way! Dr. Ellie Stevens' book approaches this through her personal experience of TBI and PTSD, as well as through her professional experience as a psychiatrist, working with veterans and others dealing with personal and secondary trauma. If you want to read a book that approaches this Biblically, this is that book. This book is SO vulnerable and authentic.
I was so blessed to find this book through NetGalley! I have bought several copies of this book to reread and to share.
Thank you to Ellie Stevens for sharing her story and the stories of those around her!
This book approached so many things that I have struggled with personally and also professionally. In medicine, daily primary and secondary trauma effects and molds so many. During the last almost three years of the COVID 19 pandemic, this has become more and more obvious and problematic. Our relationship with God, through gratitude AND lament, is the only way! Dr. Ellie Stevens' book approaches this through her personal experience of TBI and PTSD, as well as through her professional experience as a psychiatrist, working with veterans and others dealing with personal and secondary trauma. If you want to read a book that approaches this Biblically, this is that book. This book is SO vulnerable and authentic.
I was so blessed to find this book through NetGalley! I have bought several copies of this book to reread and to share.
Thank you to Ellie Stevens for sharing her story and the stories of those around her!
March 2, 2024
This book read as a memoir as well as a nonfiction, what to do to heal book. It kept me interested from the first page. This was a new to me author but I loved her style and i loved her personal stories that drew me in and kept me reading more. This is a book that will be a wonderful resource for first responders as well as ordinary readers dealing with trauma in their lives.
June 8, 2025
Very engaging book with many real life trauma stories to illustrate the different healing methods. Includes reflection questions to help those who may be struggling or helping someone with similar traumas. Practical references to the scripture and how the power of faith is the essential part to healing.
July 7, 2025
YESS!!!!!!!! Where has this book been as I have been reading about trauma voraciously?! This has so much insight and includes the role of sin and God and how we can heal. So thankful for this. It is the first book I would recommend to any Christian dealing with their own trauma or that of a loved one.
November 16, 2022
Book that brings TBI and PTSD to the forefront and the courage to heal with God as your pilot. A great book to help manuver through the long healing process. It is the journey of the author's healing and the start of her own non-profit ministry to veterans and emergency response workers.
November 30, 2022
Great points and reflections. This book is somewhat memoir, somewhat self-help, and somewhat infomercial for her Tribe program (which sounds fantastic, I was just a bit turned off by the infomercial-ness of it).
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