Break the Cycle-Transform Generational Trauma into Personal Growth and Recovery

In You Are Not Your Trauma: Uproot Unhealthy Patterns and Heal the Family Tree, mental health and addiction recovery expert Caroline Beidler, MSW, uncovers the profound connection between generational trauma and personal healing-and how we can rewrite our stories of pain into recovery. Through personal storytelling, insightful research, and actionable guidance, Beidler shows that while trauma may be inherited, healing can be too.

By exploring five transformative rhythms-about self-worth, compassion, courage, honesty, and grace-this book provides a clear path to lasting change. Also included are practical steps like journaling through family patterns, setting healthy boundaries, and creating self-care rituals that will help you reclaim your life with purpose and strength.

Enriched with powerful stories from Beidler's own mother, Diana Dalles, this book offers a heartfelt and honest look at how trauma takes root across generations-and how we can finally disrupt the cycle. You Are Not Your Trauma empowers you to move beyond inherited pain, embrace personal growth, and step into a future of resilience and renewal. It is more than a book, it is an experience.

As a child, in Farmers Branch, Texas, Christa Brown was preyed upon by her youth minister. Then her church community, people she thought were her friends, betrayed her. She was treated as a seductress while, in their eyes, he remained a good, God-honoring man. Trusted authority figures told her to pray for forgiveness and keep quiet.

Years later, having a teenage daughter of her own made Christa realize that what she'd always thought of as an affair was actually something much more sinister-abuse.

Christa spent decades suffering from the repercussions of her childhood trauma before deciding to break her silence. The story shared in this book is a call for accountability within the Southern Baptist Convention. It highlights the denomination's alarming inaction and downright punishing of victims. Brown's fight for justice casts the Church's widespread culture of denial, the negligence of denominational leaders, and the harmful impact of their do-nothingness in stark relief.

This is not just about one man's crime, but about an institutional failure affecting thousands.

In the fifteen years since its initial publication, the need for institutional reform remains pressing, as Southern Baptist leaders continue to evade meaningful action. This Little Light is both a call to action and a testament to the enduring power of truth.

Brown is also the author of Baptistland: A Memoir of Abuse, Betrayal and Transformation.

In 1890s Pennsylvania, lonesome Clara Waltz falls in love with an aging drifter whom she rescues from a world far stranger than her own.

Much scarred orphan, Truman Kramer, having joined the Peace Corps, is assigned to a small Malaysian community, serving an assemblage of all-but-forgotten handicapped children. Truman, never having kissed a girl, becomes involved with an unloved, married woman; a shopkeeper's wife craving anything of her own. As his service wanes, mired in earnestness and deceit, his lover's husband discovers his wife's affair. Torn with remorse, young Truman acts, plumbing the depths of love, and our need to attach ourselves to other human beings.

What if the savior of the world looked down at modern Christianity and muttered, I died for this?

Now with a new preface, this newly released edition of Becky Garrison's Jesus Died for This? is a hilarious, snark-laden pilgrimage through faith's holy messes. Blending sharp satire with heartfelt reflection, Garrison charts her '07-'08 journey from the Holy Land to the lands of presidential politics and beyond. This isn't your grandma's devotional-unless your grandma enjoys quips about theological tattoos and church-marketing gone wild.

Originally billed as a religious satirist's travelogue, the book serves as a time capsule of the collapse of the Christian Industrial Complex--a faith-fueled circus of branded Bibles, consumer Christianity, and spiritual snake oil. With chapter titles as bold as her wit, Garrison skewers the self-righteous and spotlights the quietly spiritual, those ordinary radicals living out true discipleship beneath the radar of glitzy church culture.

But this isn't just a roast; it's a reckoning. Garrison grapples with how we lost Jesus in the fog of dogma, seeking instead to rediscover him through authenticity and service. Whether you're a jaded pew-sitter or a spiritual skeptic, this book will make you laugh, cringe, and maybe, just maybe, reconsider what it really means to follow the Nazarene.

As someone who finds community and connection in brewpubs and tasting rooms in lieu of cranky churches, Garrison raises a glass in celebration of this singular spiritual journey.