Pentecost gift and blessing

 

“Pat has a gift for saying profound things very simply.

Oh, how our church needs that gift!”

a very humbling endorsement of "Healing Life's Wounds" from Jan McFarlane, Dean of Lichfield Cathedral

Saying things simply.  Jesus was good at that, but his words aren’t always easy to live out. His teachings about finding emotional healing couldn’t be simpler:

Don’t worry.  Don’t be afraid.  Don’t be angry.

Forgive often.  Let go of your burdens.  Be thankful.

Be still.  Rest.  Pray.

But how? How to begin to live those things out can feel a real challenge when you’re struggling. The words of Jesus can feel like reprimands rather than invitations.

This Pentecost, it’s my privilege to offer you a solution. The Holy Spirit anointing on the very first Pentecost propelled the early disciples to go out and share the good news with people in a language they could understand.

“Healing Life’s Wounds; Beyond Feeling Broken” 

aims to do just that. 

Combining modern day medical and psychological insights with those teachings of Jesus, the book is a practical step-by-step guide to help you find healing and freedom from all the troubling inner stuff you never speak of, written by someone who has lived it out and helped others to do the same.

Written in a simple style, it’s appropriate for those who know a bit about Jesus and those who haven’t yet discovered the reality of his presence with them.

It’s selling fast. It’s potentially life-changing. 

And it’s available here.

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Emotions are OK

 

I’m feeling very emotional this morning, as I sit here with my newly released book in my hand. Emotional in a good way. Wonder, gratitude and a quite beautiful amazement are surging (tearfully) through me.

Though I never intended it to be such, “Healing Life’s Wounds” is in some ways a testimony to how God broke through into my life and led me through some dark and difficult times to a place of peace and healing. Not that this is a memoir - it’s not. It’s very much a book to help the reader. But elements of my story are woven through it. Because it’s only when we’ve found a way through our own vulnerable times that we can help others through theirs.

As Brené Brown writes …

When we have the courage to walk into our own story and own it, we get to write the ending.

So perhaps it’s not surprising that I feel emotional as this book becomes available. After all, that’s what “Healing Life’s Wounds” is all about; emotions, and how to process them in a healthy way.

If you know anyone who’s struggling, why not make them a gift of it? It’s perfect for chaplains, pastors, spiritual directors, and all who come alongside others compassionately.

Join me in releasing it to the people whom God wants to help, so they can find the courage to walk into the difficult bits of their own story and write a new ending.

You can buy it here.

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Finding a way through

 

When you're stuck in a deep, dark place the mind can play tricks on you and make you think there's no way out.

My new book 

Healing Life's Wounds; Beyond Feeling Broken 

is designed to help you.

Don't just take my word for it - this is what a Christian Life Coach kindly said, after reading it:

This simple book is full of profound truths and practical exercises that are not necessarily simple to do but are the root to freedom and release. Reading the book feels like being held in a warm embrace by a sensitive and empathic friend who is prepared to sit with you amongst the painful emotions you are experiencing and lead you deeper into the loving and safe arms of Jesus. The exercises are clear and helpful without being prescriptive and build chapter by chapter to help the reader face their wounds without fear. Pat achieves a wonderful balance of encouraging the responsibility each of us needs to take to do our own work, with the need to trust and rely on Jesus for the strength and love to do this work. A really helpful, beautiful and practical book for anyone wanting to move into more freedom and lightness.

Catriona Futter, Equip For Life Coaching.

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                             I'd love help you find a way through.

                         Learn more about it and purchase it here.

                             Find a new freedom.

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It's here - the new book!

Healing Life's Wounds - Beyond Feeling Broken.

Available for pre-order now!

This is the book that I wish I could have read thirty years ago, when I was in a deeply unhappy place and struggling to see a way through. I was on a long, broken and difficult road through depression and breakdown.

Through a combination of pursuing everything I could find about healing, and being unexpectedly ‘found’ by a God I’d only loosely believed in, I slowly emerged from the crippling darkness.

I healed my depression, walked away from my career, and began to lead Christian healing retreats. And now, twenty years later, this is the book that distils the essence of all I have learned. 

It’s the book I wish I could have read half a lifetime ago.

Purchase your copy here!

Orders will be despatched from June 14th

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Anyone for a quiz?

I don’t know about you, but I’ve always been partial to a quiz. 

Here’s a question for you: 

What have the following got in common - 

a bird bath - a bunch of carnations - a little red tractor - a very high mountain - a broken vase - 

a blind beggar - an Olympic runner - a rucksack full of stones - a kitchen drawer - a canal boat

a Swedish arrow - a flight of geese - a barbecue pit - a city centre map - a slate chalkboard … 

and the Bible! 

                                                      The answer: 

Just as Jesus used familiar objects to illustrate his teachings, 

these are all things you’ll find in my new book,

Healing Life’s Wounds. 

It’s a book full of healing insights, grounded in everyday life. 

It's published on June 14th and available for pre-order soon.

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My new book - it's nearly here!

 

Here it is!  My new book!

I’m grateful to the skills of the publishing team who have turned my words into a beautiful, attractive book. I love the imagery in the cover design, capturing the ideas of light shining through, bringing hope in the darkness, and the symbolism of beautiful love enabling us to become radiant, living into the fullness of life that Jesus desires for us. These concepts are at the heart of the book. New life is possible, no matter how bleak things feel right now.

Author, retreat leader and spiritual director, Amy Boucher Pye, says this of the book:

 

Can I really find relief from this pain? Yes, says Pat Marsh resoundingly. She leads us through a gentle but deep exploration of what lies beneath the anguish as she points us to the One who sets us free. She’s a trustworthy guide who understands what we’re feeling, having trodden the road of suffering before finding freedom and release in God. I’ll recommend this book in the years to come.

New life is possible, no matter how bleak things feel right now.

It would be the greatest privilege to let me guide you to that place through this book.

It's coming soon - out on June 14th!

It will be available from 

my website, Christian bookshops and all the usual online Christian booksellers.

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Beyond Feeling Broken

 

It’s easy to become disillusioned, I find, with social media. How many people do you know who post truthful images of themselves online when their life is at its unimaginable worst?  In that context, the snapshots we see of others aren’t a complete picture of real life are they.

Because all of us are wounded.  You.  Me.  The lady at the checkout.  The stranger at the bus stop.  The person who just served you at the coffee shop.  We all gather wounds along life’s way.  And our remarkable brains and bodies retain the memories of all we have experienced. Everything. Both joyous and painful. 

 

None of us have had a perfect past (whatever we think that might look like). We cannot photoshop out the experiences that have wounded us, or the behaviours we wish we had never adopted. And our wounds have a disarming habit of impacting us long after we gathered them.  But that doesn’t mean that our wounds have to define us.

And that’s the heart and soul of my new forthcoming book, 

Healing Life’s Wounds: Beyond Feeling Broken. 

It’s possible to heal, move on and live into fullness of life.  Resurrection is not just for Easter; it’s for today, now, whoever you are and whatever cross you are privately carrying.

 

The book’s out on June 14th.

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