The Jacked Up Life: When Guilt, Failure, and Shame Shakes Your Foundation
About this ebook
Using the powerful metaphor of jacking up a house to repair its foundation, DiMarco offers a compelling framework for emotional and spiritual renovation. He explores how shame seeps into our homes, churches, workplaces, and relationships, convincing us we’re defined by our worst moments. But with practical tools, biblical truth, and stories of real people who’ve been lifted from rock bottom, The Jacked-Up Lifeshows that transformation doesn’t begin with hiding your mess—it begins with exposing it to the light of grace.
This is not a self-help book offering surface-level solutions or behavior tweaks. It’s a guide for anyone ready to do the deep work of replacing a shame-based identity with one grounded in truth, grace, and the love of a God who still restores what others might condemn. Whether you’re navigating personal collapse or walking alongside someone who is, this book is a bold reminder: your life may be jacked up, but it’s never beyond repair.
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About the author
Michael DiMarco is a bestselling and award-winning author of numerous books including God Guy, The Heart, Head, and Hands of a Disciple, Texting God, and the forthcoming The Jacked Up Church. Michael has served as a general editor on three Bible projects, most recently The TEXT Bible found at textbible.com. He often collaborates with his wife (also a bestselling author) through their publishing imprint Hungry Planet (hungryplanet.net) creating winsome and spiritually-based content for all ages. After almost twenty years of writing and ministry together in Nashville, Tennessee, and three years in their home state of Oregon, the DiMarcos now live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Michael served as a pastor in all three states. For more from Michael on living a jacked up life, visit godguy.com.
