Journey to Shalom: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Freedom In Sacred Stories

by Molly LaCroix

Do you wonder if healing, transformation and lasting change are possible? If so, you’re not alone. All throughout history, people have struggled with pain, loss, trauma and rejection—and cried out to God for hope and peace, for shalom.

Using the latest, research-backed psychotherapy and neuroscience, Journey to Shalom presents the sacred stories of Scripture like you’ve never seen them before. The human struggle of alienation, shame, and exile is brought to light and a vision of restoration and wholeness is made clear.

· Your suffering can be redeemed.

· Your relationships can be reconciled.

· You can learn to love yourself, others and God without religious striving.

· You can find the deep, lasting peace of God within yourself whenever you need it.

Including gentle, practical guided exercises for identifying your emotions, your subconscious reactions, and your hidden inner world, Journey to Shalom offers a fresh perspective on ancient truths that will restore hope for healing your deepest wounds.

About The Author
Molly LaCroix is a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in treating the impact of trauma and adversity. She earned her master’s degree in marriage and family therapy from Bethel Seminary San Diego, where she returned as an adjunct professor. She is a Level Three trained and Certified IFS therapist and IFS Clinical Consultant. Her first book, Restoring Transforming Fear into Love Through Connection, helps readers identify and resolve barriers to loving themselves, others and God. She and her husband have two adult children who are married and parenting, and Molly’s greatest joy is being Minnie to her grandchildren.

Genres: Faith

230 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 23, 2024

About the author

Molly is a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice. She received her master’s degree in marriage and family therapy from Bethel Seminary San Diego and returned to Bethel as an adjunct professor in the MFT program. Specializing in treating clients who experienced early adversity, Molly has the highest possible training level in the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model. Her first book, "Restoring Relationship: Transforming Fear into Love Through Connection," explores why Christians talk so much about love but sometimes fail to be loving. She and her husband live in Central Oregon, visiting their children and grandchildren in Southern California as often as possible.

Reviews

[Meghan Sundquist · Rating 3 out of 5]

The ideas in here are great. I found the IFS system fascinating, but the prose was rather choppy. Still a good read overall!

[Taylor Chitwood · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 stars rounded up. The IFS stuff was interesting, but wasn’t explained well enough to understand as a beginner. I had to seek out other sources in order to fully comprehend what the author was trying to teach. I also wish the anecdotes at the beginning of each chapter had been much shorter - at times they didn’t really align with the teaching, or they went on for too long and took up half the chapter. I think with a re-edit and clarification, along with longer descriptions of IFS and less artistic (and more direct) writing, it could be an easy 5 star book.

[Nicole Stango · Rating 5 out of 5]

Forgot to mark as finished but such a deeply profound approach to inner healing; calls for compassionate introspection to heal, grow, and unite the internal family system, our “parts”, to the “self”.