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What happens after you survive?
For many people, the wounds that drive addiction, codependency, and self-destruction don't begin with a substance or a relationship-they begin much earlier, in the places that were supposed to be safe: family, faith, and the God they were handed as children. Mike and Christine Gifford know this territory from the inside.
In When Love Heals-the deeply anticipated sequel to When Love Hurts-Mike and Christine move beyond survival into something more radical: choosing the life they actually want. Drawing on over 50 years of marriage, recovery, spiritual seeking, and Christine's extraordinary journey through autoimmune limbic encephalitis, this book charts the courageous shift from pain as a compass to purpose as one.
With unflinching honesty, Mike and Christine explore:
• How religious trauma and abuse become hidden gateways to addiction and self-destruction
• The transformative shift from the Twelve Steps to the Twelve Steps of Divinity
• Saying yes to abundant living-and what that actually requires of a couple
• Reclaiming a personal, loving relationship with the Divine after faith has been weaponized
• What it looks like when two people choose, consciously and together, to heal
Whether you are in recovery, rebuilding your faith, healing a marriage, or simply ready to stop surviving and start living-When Love Heals is your permission slip. Mike and Christine don't offer easy answers. They offer something rarer: a living example that wholeness is possible-and that the Divine has never stopped saying yes to you.
The healing was always the destination.
This is how they found it.
For many people, the wounds that drive addiction, codependency, and self-destruction don't begin with a substance or a relationship-they begin much earlier, in the places that were supposed to be safe: family, faith, and the God they were handed as children. Mike and Christine Gifford know this territory from the inside.
In When Love Heals-the deeply anticipated sequel to When Love Hurts-Mike and Christine move beyond survival into something more radical: choosing the life they actually want. Drawing on over 50 years of marriage, recovery, spiritual seeking, and Christine's extraordinary journey through autoimmune limbic encephalitis, this book charts the courageous shift from pain as a compass to purpose as one.
With unflinching honesty, Mike and Christine explore:
• How religious trauma and abuse become hidden gateways to addiction and self-destruction
• The transformative shift from the Twelve Steps to the Twelve Steps of Divinity
• Saying yes to abundant living-and what that actually requires of a couple
• Reclaiming a personal, loving relationship with the Divine after faith has been weaponized
• What it looks like when two people choose, consciously and together, to heal
Whether you are in recovery, rebuilding your faith, healing a marriage, or simply ready to stop surviving and start living-When Love Heals is your permission slip. Mike and Christine don't offer easy answers. They offer something rarer: a living example that wholeness is possible-and that the Divine has never stopped saying yes to you.
The healing was always the destination.
This is how they found it.