Up From the Ashes: How God Brought Beauty from the Ashes of Trauma, Tragedy, and Loss in My life - Paperback

by Andi Cook (Author)

MY JOURNEY TO MENTAL HEALTH STARTED WITH GETTING OUT OF MY OWN MINDDo you battle anxiety or depression? Are you stuck in a pattern of toxic relationships? Up From the Ashes offers insights into the lifelong impacts abuse, trauma, tragedy, and loss make on our mental and emotional health. Author Andi Cook personally experienced how abuse and toxic relationships become tethered to a person's identity and ultimately become the reflection they see in the mirror. In Up From the Ashes, Andi guides readers through her life journey and the lessons she learned while overcoming childhood abuse, toxic relationships, divorce, miscarriage, chronic illness, anxiety, depression, self-harm, eating disorders, and church scars. Her fearless commitment to full transparency reveals the imprint that heartache left on her life and relationships. In Up From the Ashes, Andi will help you: -Detect cracks in the foundation of your peace and learn how to repair them.-Deal with anxiety and depression, and even stop panic attacks in thirty seconds.-Break the cycle of toxic relationships and build healthy ones.-Identify your purpose and pursue it relentlessly.-Create mental and emotional freedom in your life by healing from the wounds of the past.Up From the Ashes is not a tell-all memoir, nor is it a replacement for counseling or medical attention. Rather, it is a real-life account to use in conjunction with outside help you receive from your pastoral, counseling, and medical teams.