Be Healed: A Guide to Encountering the Powerful Love of Jesus in Your Life

Bob Schuchts is the bestselling author of Be Healed, Be Transformed, Be Devoted, and Be Restored. He is the founder of the John Paul II Healing Center in Tallahassee, Florida, and cohost of the Restore the Glory podcast with Jake Khym.After receiving his doctorate in family relations from Florida State University in 1981, Schuchts became a teacher and counselor. While in private practice, he also taught graduate and undergraduate courses at Florida State and Tallahassee Community College. Schuchts later served on faculty at the Theology of the Body Institute and at the Center for Biblical Studies—where he taught courses on healing, sexuality, and marriage—and was a guest instructor for the Augustine Institute. He volunteered in parish ministry for more than thirty years.He retired as a marriage and family therapist in December 2014.Schuchts has two daughters and ten grandchildren. His wife, Margie, died in 2017.

Fr. Mark Toups is the pastor of Our Lady of the Isle in the Diocese of Houma–Thibodaux, Louisiana, where he has served as a priest for more than twenty-five years. He is the cofounder of the Ministry for Priestly Support, through which he works with priests in spiritual direction and mentoring. He has extensive experience accompanying priests and seminarians, particularly in spiritual and human formation, contemplative leadership, and mentoring.Toups has held several key diocesan leadership roles, including ten years as vicar general and chancellor of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux. He has also directed and taught the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola for many years.Toups earned a master of divinity degree from Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans. He is the author of numerous Catholic books and resources, including Oremus: A Guide to Catholic Prayer.He lives in Grand Isle, Louisiana.