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Title: When Chronic Pain & Illness Take Everything Away

Subtitle: How to Mourn Our Losses

Author: Esther Smith

Narrator: Sarah Carleton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: Esther Smith

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Chronic pain, illness, and disability take so much away. Sometimes it seems as though they take everything we have ever loved and held dear.

Our physical abilities and our jobs. Our current passions and future dreams. Our finances and our friends. Our sense of community and our ability to engage the world in ways we could before.

Chronic pain takes away our sense of self and who we always thought ourselves to be. How in the world are we supposed to deal with this fact?

In this book, I hope to teach you how to mourn your losses - everything that pain, illness, and disability has taken away. I hope to teach you what to do when life is empty and filled with grief. I hope to point you to the god who gives us Himself when nothing else in life makes sense.

Members Reviews:

Healing Read, Written In a Down-to-Earth Style

Esther Smithâs book aims at healing the chronically ill individual on an emotional and spiritual plane. We generally address the physically ill with solutions to reduce the physical element of the illness which is great but it doesnât hit the emotional and spiritual elements that are greatly impacted by a physical burden. One of the major missing components is the need to grieve, which Esther touches on beautifully in a refreshingly honest approach. An individual facing a physical infirmity needs to be allowed the permission to âhash outâ the horrors of a life altered from their illness with God, just as David cried with unabashed vulnerability to his Lord, and just like Job lamented his life turned to despair. Unfortunately, all too often in the religious community, we wish to bandage up the problem with quick Bible verses that are meant to heal but are not appropriate remedies in the moment. We forget to mourn with those who mourn.

Esther Smith writes in a down-to-earth approach that allows the reader to grieve the life that once was and the life that could have been. Included in the book are her own personal struggles with chronic pain as well as input from others that are along a similar journey that is italicized throughout, all written with sincerity that does not refrain from allowing the reader to sense the palpable pain. Aside from the much admired Joni Eareckson Tada, I have found a lack of books that are both Biblically based and emotionally safe which are specifically targeted to the chronically ill. This book was so refreshingly real, that I could have read two hundred more pages of similar material and still would have wanted more. On that note, I hope to see Esther Smith use her useful skills in counseling combined with her superb writing to publish an in-print book that can be found in bookstores nationwide. If youâre looking for a healing read or if you are seeking to find material to help understand the world of a loved one I chronic pain, this is a perfect place to start.

Excellent book!

Let me start by saying I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

That being said, this really is my kind of book. Christian counseling, spiritually uplifting, and introspective.

As a Christian, I turn to the Lord for help, I cling to His promises, and rely on His power. It is He alone who sustains me! So, it stands to reason, I would want counsel that supports the Word of God.

Chronic pain and illness are very hard to live with 24/7 year after year.