Rebuilding Beautiful
Welcome What Is, Dare to Dream Again, and Step Bravely into What Could Be
- Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
- Publisher: Nelson Books (Thomas Nelson)
- Published: 2022
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Publisher's Description
Find hope and healing so you can fall in love with life again. Speaker and author Kayla Stoecklein delivers an inspiring message of how she came face-to-face with crushing personal loss and discovered how to rebuild a beautiful life. In the midst of hardship and loss, what you long for most is hope— hope for a way forward, hope that purpose can come from this difficult season, hope that God is still with you. Since losing her pastor-husband to suicide in August 2018, Kayla Stoecklein has been passionate about bringing hope to those who wonder if life will ever hold beauty again. In Rebuilding Beautiful, Kayla shares the hard-won truths she has embraced in these years of grief and new beginnings to help you: Discover practical and spiritual ways to welcome your pain so that you can ultimately surrender it. Step into community in order to be held as well as hold space for the pain of others. Understand the ways your body remembers trauma and find avenues for physical and mental healing. Awaken to the splendor of a life in which sadness and joy coexist, and Dare to dream again—spiritually, relationally, vocationally—as you discover more of who God made you to be in Christ. The journey from agony to awe takes time. Kayla's words, ideas, and inspiration offer the road map and companionship you need to move forward even when you feel stuck—to wake up excited about a life that holds a new kind of beautiful.
Endorsements (5)
“Rebuilding Beautiful takes you on a journey of compassion and hope that helps you pick up the broken pieces in your life and put them back together. It’s filled with hard-earned wisdom and life-giving inspiration that encourages you to seize the season that God has given you and find joy along the way.”
“Kayla has been a friend of mine for a long time, and she is equal parts kind, sensitive, and absolutely ferocious. She loves God and her family passionately and has written another beautiful book. It is a kind and hopeful invitation to us to warm our hands by the embers of whatever may have felt like it burned down in our lives.”
“Rebuilding Beautiful is a tender, tenacious, and at times painfully vulnerable invitation for us to dare to dream again when life has cast us on the shores of devastation. Kayla’s eloquent words are seasoned and tempered by her own encounters with loss. You will find her a faithful guide during seasons of pain and loss. Each chapter is a dose of courage to help you get up, put one foot in front of the other, and walk forward in hope while honoring the painful lessons of the past.”
“Rebuilding Beautiful is a compelling message of resilience. A road map of hope for anyone who has ever wondered how to begin again when it feels as though life has led them to a dead end. It will inspire you to embrace your pain as a pathway to a new kind of beautiful life.”
“What a gift Rebuilding Beautiful is to every heart that reads it! The love poured into every page directs the searching soul to comfort in God but also declares a battle cry of hope over the darkest seasons of loss. I love Kayla Stoecklein and the profound and practical way she shares truth. There is an anointing on her life to illuminate the faithfulness of Jesus in the midst of unimaginable loss. Kayla’s transparency brings freedom and a radical perspective shift that ‘the deeply painful journey of rebuilding a beautiful life is also hope-filled.”
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