Redemption Stories: Unwasted Pain - Softcover

Ciofalo, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1449051529 ISBN 13: 9781449051525

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2009

Synopsis

The author has collected and shaped interviews into a book of true stories of the stunning journeys that ordinary people have made from pain to redemption. Unwasted Pain, the subtitle of the book, refers to the process of facing and distilling pain from such difficulties as abuse, hatred, crime, war and evil-and finding more peace and equilibrium (sometimes more than there was before). Besides the twenty-one stories that comprise the chapters of this book, Mary Ciofalo has also written four essays and an introduction that include more vignettes of redemption stories along with her observations about the nature and activation of redemption. She tells us what she has gleaned while compiling this book. She also includes the view of an Advaitan Swami and an Episcopalian minister, as well as those of a former warden of San Quentin Prison. This book is inspirational; and it has the potential to expand one's thinking to include the possibility of redemption to both the harmed and the harmer-in situations where one might not even conceive of mercy or forgiveness or the possibility of redemtption.

About this title

About the Author:

Mary Ciofalo is a native San Franciscan who enjoys stories and has written a few herself. She has worked as a therapist and couples' counselor for almost thirty years, and loves the work. A big fascination for her is how people make really difficult changes, and she teaches what she can about those 'hard U-turns' to those who ask for her help. She's seen a lot of redemption in her time.

About this edition

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1449051529
• ISBN 13: 9781449051525
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260