This Wasn't Supposed to Happen to Me: 10 Make-or-Break Choices When Life Steals Your Dreams and Rocks Your World

by Bev Smallwood

Learn the 10 critical choices necessary for wholeness and recovery after life's tragedies and disappointments.  Blending scientifically-validated psychological truths with spiritual principles, Dr. Beverly Smallwood enables readers to overcome the unexpected and unthinkable. Giving readers a roadmap of 10 major choices, she offers hope that no matter what has happened, going forward, we all have the power to choose. Through the power of choice readers will be able to move Denial to Reality Victimhood to Responsibility Why to How Doubt to Faith Bitterness to Forgiveness Guilt to Self-Forgiveness Depression to Grief Avoidance to Courage Isolation to Connection Powerlessness to Purpose

Genres: Nonfiction

322 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Joy]

Great resource for anyone going through loss.

Practical, easy to understand and I love her writing style.

This is a book to turn to again and again as life throws its worst at you.

[Andrea Papadopoulos]

A massive help in PTSD

[Sarah]

I don't know if I'm more surprised that this is apparently the only book Bev Smallwood has written or that it is out of print. This is an excellent book, and I cannot recommend it highly enough for those dealing with devastating losses from a Christian perspective.

[Cathy]

This book was left at my house by a friend, its pretty good, insightful. Being a psychology major I love books relating to self-help and personal growth. This book helps us overcome some of lifes stresses and personal difficulties with coping.

[Del Zimmerman]

Smallwood offers 10 make-or-break choices that we can all make when crisis strikes. Well-outlined with some shining moments, this one is good to keep on the bookshelf for reference during the bad times.

[Cathy Foland]

This book was exactly what I needed. Helped me move forward. Good to read in a group, so you can discuss it, helps you digest what you're going through. God bless all those facing trials.