Soul Injury: Healing the Relationship You Have With Yourself
A reminder of healing the relationship you have with yourself. The author shares practical insights to enhance your ability to serve others while being mindful in practicing tools to assist in healing for yourself.
Reader Recommendation: Soul Injury: Healing the Relationship You Have With Yourself
Recommended by: Veronica Fallah
Why it might be helpful: “I believe this would give the disciples’ preachers tools and techniques to use in to be mindful of their own healing as they serve the people of God.”
Soul Injury: Healing the Relationship You Have With Yourself is a book that takes seriously the interior life of those in ministry. Recommender Veronica Fallah highlights its value for preachers who are constantly pouring out for others: the book offers practical tools and frameworks for recognizing when your own soul has been wounded, and for tending to that wound rather than preaching past it. This is not self-help in a superficial sense — it is a resource for the kind of honest self-examination that sustains long-term pastoral ministry.
For preachers, the relationship between personal wholeness and authentic proclamation is real. A preacher who has not made space to tend to their own healing may find it difficult to speak truthfully and compassionately from the pulpit. This resource is a practical companion for that inner work.
You might also find helpful:
- Indigo: The Color of Grief — A poetry-style book for preachers tending to their own grief while walking alongside others in theirs.
- Post-Traumatic Jesus — David W. Peters reads the gospels through the lens of trauma, offering fresh homiletical territory for preachers.
- Recovering the Soul of Preaching Through Rest — A reflection on renewal and the inner life of the preacher.
Reader Recommendations are submitted by Disciples preachers and are not created or fully reviewed by the Proclamation Project.
