"Love Letters from the Edge"
by Shelly Beach & Wanda Sanchez

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully composed!

Description

"Meditations for Those Struggling with Brokenness, Trauma, and the Pain of Life by Shelly Beach and Wanda Sanchez"

Millions of women in the United States battle with after-effects of suffering so great they've developed post-traumatic stress disorder—the same suffering experienced by soldiers who've gone through war. Sexual and physical abuse, catastrophic accidents, abandonment, natural disasters, invasive medical procedures, and many other painful and overwhelming events can trigger symptoms they are little equipped to deal with and hard-pressed to recognize.

Love Letters from the Edge provides a voice for those struggling to express this pain and reveals intimate encouragement for those in desperate need to hear God’s words of love and deliverance. This heartfelt devotional focuses on the profound laments in the book of Psalms. Each meditation begins with a letter from someone in the throes of despair and then offers a tender response to their pain from God’s perspective.

Fresh, honest, and intimate, Love Letters from the Edge will reach readers who never expected to hear good news from where they are and point them toward the hope and healing of Christ.

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Biography

Shelly Beach was born in Muskegon, Michigan, and grew up along the shoreline of Lake Michigan. She won the Christy Award with her first contemporary Christian novel in 2008 and was nominated for the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Book of the Year award that same year for her nonfiction. She has written two novels and authored or co-authored nine non-fiction books.

Shelly is the co-founder of the Breathe Writer's Conference in Grand Rapids and the founder of the Cedar Falls Christian Writer's Workshop in Cedar Falls, IA. She is also a co-founder of PTSDPerspectives.org and provides consultation services on post-traumatic stress disorder in medical, mental health, educational, criminal justice, professional, and faith-based settings across the nation. When Shelly is not writing, consulting, or speaking, she loves to travel. The parents of two adult children, Shelly and her husband Dan live in Western Michigan and love doting on their adorable and brilliant grandchildren and being entertained by their 16 year old dachshund, Beanie.

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Wanda Sanchez: Executive producer of the longest running radio talk show in the 

Northern California-San Francisco market. With more than 20 years of broadcast media experience in television and radio, Wanda is the executive publicist at WLS Communications, a public relations/media consulting/communications start-up in Grand Rapids, MI.

She speaks across the nation in prisons, in mental health and physical health facilities, writers conferences and at women's conferences on the topic of trauma, hope and healing. She can be found at www.PTSDPerspectives.org or at www.WandaSanchez.com.

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My Review ~

This 12-week devotional program is written by women for women. Both authors suffered atrocities as children. Victims of post traumatic stress disorder and its influences on the body, mind and spirit, have inspired this beautifully composed book of daily devotions in the form of letters to God, and God's letters in response. Scripture appropriate to the message is presented at the beginning of each day's reading with a time for reflection and prayer at the conclusion of the days letters. Weekends are times for reflection, journaling, drawing, or in some way working through the messages from the previous week.

The daily messages are loving and reassuring as the scripture reveals God's acceptance and assurance to those who have suffered great losses or trauma in their lives. This book is an answer to prayer for women plagued with the aftermath that trauma, loss, abuse, etc., have left in their lives. The first appendix describes and answers questions regarding post traumatic stress, and common therapies. Further appendices offer helpful resources, and scriptural affirmations that I personally found to be excellent daily verses to apply in my own life. This is an impressive approach to guiding women through the most difficult situations in a positive and hopeful Christian approach. I highly recommend "Love Letters from the Edge!" This would make an excellent gift.

Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the publisher through Book Fun's For Readers Only program in exchange for my honest review. All opinions expressed are my own, and no monetary compensation was received for this review.