Resources on Healing

Larry Crabb is a Christian psychologist who talks about his experience with how healing actually happens. Both psychological healing and healing of relationships.

Curt Thompson is a Christian psychiatrist who draws a lot on Brene Brown’s work. He talks about shame being the centerpoint of a lot of the hurt and brokenness in our lives and in the world. He gets into both the science and the biblical theology behind shame and how stories help us to heal.

I’ll be honest. While we have definitely experienced physical healing in our church due to answered prayers, we haven’t experienced it the way described in this book. We do not emphasize physical healing over and above other types of healing in our church, but we do believe God has the power to physically heal and so we are open to it. This is THE book to look into that type of healing.

This is a talk that Brene Brown gave on vulnerability. It’s not a book, but it’s available in audiobook format. Brene Brown is a qualitative researcher who studied shame and how to heal it.

This is a book on depression and one journalists research into depression. It’s very enlightening and interesting, but as with any book, especially a secular one, you do need to be discerning in reading this book. Not all of his conclusions are necessarily correct. That said, many of the conclusions of the bible are very biblical and reflect what we are trying to do at Living Stones. This book is still highly recommended if you can be discerning.

Again, this is another book that needs some discernment when reading. Her research describes just how important a village or community, and specifically face to face relationships, are for the health and wellbeing of a person. Her research dovetails well with Brene Brown’s emphasis on looking people in the face. This is a very important book in light of our individualistic society, but also COVID.