Healing Your Wounded Soul: Growing from Pain to Peace

Item No. 9781944967833

by Fr. Joshua Makoul

In our broken world, many Christians find their spiritual progress hindered or stalled by psychological wounds from their past. But these wounds can be healed with the proper treatment. Priest and licensed therapist Joshua Makoul shows how we can draw on the insights and resources of both the Church and modern psychology to help us come to terms with the past and use it to further our path to union with God.

About the Author: Fr. Joshua Makoul has been serving as the dean of St. George Cathedral in Pittsburgh since 2012. Before that time, he worked in the counselling field for sixteen years. This involved work in family-based, school-based, and outpatient settings. Fr. Joshua received two years of training in family therapy at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Centre and completed a one-year certificate course in cognitive behaviour therapy at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Fr. Joshua received his master’s degree in counselling psychology from Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia and his bachelor’s in psychology from Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is licensed in the state of Pennsylvania for counselling. For seminary he attended Holy Cross Seminary in Boston and received an M.Div.

Praise for Healing Your Wounded Soul

"We are pleased to have his book available to those on the Christian pilgrimage to healing and salvation. His expression of the wisdom or our faith and modern social sciences is comprehensible and accessible. I recommend this book to everyone serious about their faith and their health." -Bishop John, Antiochian Orthodox Bishop of Worcester and New England

"Any Christian serious about their spiritual growth and movement towards union with God would greatly benefit from reading, studying, and being inspired by this book. May this book be a source of edification, hope and salvation to all readers." -Ioana Popa MD, BCC, co-founder of Along The Journey, Coaching, Consulting and Spiritual Care

"Fr. Joshua empowers us to take the steps to walk closer with Christ, with others, and with ourselves. Healing Your Wounded Soul provides the tools we need to comprehend the depth of our woundedness and the peace beyond understanding that emerges from the pain. I would recommend this book to all wounded souls, that is, to everyone." -Dr. Albert Rossi, author of Becoming a Healing Presence and All Is Well

Author: Fr. Joshua Makoul

Paperback: 168 pages

Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 inches

Publisher: Ancient Faith Publishing