How I Healed the Holes in My Soul!
 

As an Inter-Faith (All Faiths) Minister I started looking at the world one day and wondering why so many people are taking their own life.  People well known and not so well known, people who, on the outside, look like they have it all but on the inside really did not have it all but were empty and in pain, and the only way out was to take their own life.

It got me thinking about my own life and I too have reached the point, several times in my life, where I said it’s just too hard to go on, it’s just too much…  Through God’s grace I have endured and learned to “heal the holes” in my soul.  Though I still have my bad times, they are not as bad as they once were, don’t last as long as they used to or take me to the “poison” in my soul, I learned there are ways through the bad times, and I don’t have to be a victim anymore.

This is my story, a man who went from having “holes” in his soul to being ”whole” again.  I sincerely hope there are some tools in this book that help you on your journey in this game we called life.  Whatever you are going through, don’t give up, there is always hope, there is always God. God will find a way where there appears to be no way. God has not given up on you, so you don’t give up on yourself. I healed the holes in my soul and so can you!
 

       Table of Contents                   

Introduction                                                                                  

PART I –   How I Got This Way

Chapter 1:      My Childhood                                                              

PART II –   The Feelings and Emotions

Chapter 2:      God, Where the Hell Were You!                                 

Chapter 3:      Your Feelings Will Wait…

Chapter 4:      Pain is Pain, just the Wrapper is Different

Chapter 5:      Loneliness, Lonely, Alone…

Chapter 6:      I’m Less Than…          

Chapter 7:      Pain, Anger and Sorrow       

Chapter 8:      I Have Seen the Darkness – Many, Many Times…

Chapter 9:      Depression         

Chapter 10:    Shame               

Chapter 11:    Rage!!!           

Chapter 12:    Addiction – My Crutch to Never Healing

Chapter 13:    I Fooled the World but Was Only Fooling Myself…

Chapter 14:    Meet My Longtime Companion – Suicide   

PART III – Recovery and Rebuilding

Chapter 15:    Adulthood          

Chapter 16:         I’m Not Damaged or Broken     

Chapter 17:         Breaking the Chains of Pain     

Chapter 18:         Wholeness and “Hole-ness”     

Chapter 19:         Healing                             

Chapter 20:         Forgiveness                

Chapter 21:         All You Need is Love       

Chapter 22:         The Animal Kingdom       

Chapter 23:         Mother Nature         

Chapter 24:         Gratitude            

Chapter 25:         The Spirituality of Suicide –
The Spiritual Law of Karma and Other Spiritual Realities                           

 
Chapter 26:         Discovering Our Life’s Purpose –
The Journey Within                       

Chapter 27:         God Will Help Us                  

Conclusion – It’s Not the End It’s a New Beginning  
Resources: Prayers, Meditations, Exercises   

Footnotes                                            

Bibliography                                             

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