Trauma and Renewal: Toward Spiritual, Communal, and Holistic Transformation

With the compelling pull of personal interwoven narratives and explorations, this book invites the sacred work of tending to trauma to be done holistically, through conscious spirituality, and in community. Addressing prominent themes in trauma care from the experience of both a spiritual director who has endured trauma and his father, a primary care provider and theologian addressing and addressing trauma, Yong and Yong provide practical tools for bringing spirituality to bear on the individual's traumatic experience as well as for spiritual directors and trauma care providers who desire a spirituality for and insight in support trauma care efforts and post traumatic growth. By offering practical invitations on integrating contemplative paradigms and new models of trauma care, this book shifts the conversation and engagement beyond individualist approaches to community- and culturally based trauma care and posttraumatic growth.