Be Restored: Healing Our Sexual Wounds through Jesus' Merciful Love
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Winner of a third-place award in the healing and self-help category from the Catholic Media Association.
In Be Restored, bestselling and award-winning author Bob Schuchts of the John Paul II Healing Center offers you concrete steps for healing and wholeness, relying on a combination of clinical expertise, Catholic theology, and personal experience as a survivor to guide you.
An essential guide to healing sexual wounds, Be Restored speaks to our deepest longing for sexual wholeness. It reveals the way to be freed from debilitating shame, sexual compulsions and sin, identity confusion, and wounds in psychosexual development. You will discover the reasons behind your emotional pain and how it’s connected to your sexual wounds—whether those wounds come from acute moments of sexual trauma in the past or from the more subtle trauma of living in our sex-saturated world.
Speaking from his own experience of sexual woundedness and his professional background as a marriage and family therapist, Schuchts—the bestselling author of Be Healed—is sensitive to the shame of sexual wounds. In Be Restored, he compassionately guides readers through a comprehensive understanding of potential areas of sexual wounds and shame. He then lays out a practical roadmap for restoring sexual wholeness.
Each chapter in Be Restored contains “Take a Moment” reflections and personal activities that include prayer and scripture-based exercises, emotional mapping, and thought-provoking reflection questions.
Four appendices offer specific instructions and prayers for restoring sexual wholeness.
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About the author
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.
Sr. Miriam James Heidland, SOLT, is a popular Catholic speaker, cohost of the Abiding Together podcast, and author of the bestselling books Loved as I Am, Restore: A Guided Lent Journal for Prayer and Meditation, and Behold: A Guided Advent Journal for Prayer and Meditation, which have sold more than 165,000 copies collectively.A former Division I athlete who had a radical conversion and joined the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity in 1998, Heidland has shared her story on EWTN’s The Journey Home, at numerous SEEK and Steubenville conferences, and through many other outlets.She is affiliated with the ministries of Friends of the Bridegroom and the John Paul II Healing Center in leading healing retreats for priests and religious sisters across the United States.Heidland earned a master’s degree in theology from the Augustine Institute and speaks extensively on the topics of conversion, authentic love, forgiveness, and healing.
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.
