The Courage to Heal: Moving Beyond Your Habits, Your Past, and Your Pain

Can you really start over again and have a meaningful life?

After experiencing deep emotional hurts?

After struggling with ingrained dysfunctional habits?

After falling into addiction?

After making destructive choices that alienate your family and friends?

Can guilt, shame, and regret ever be healed?

Many people feel that once they've made mistakes or bad decisions, or once they've been damaged by others, they can never set their life on a positive course again. If you feel this way, the real answer is that you can.

Author Tracy Strawberry, wife of baseball great Darryl Strawberry, says it starts with who you are. Both she and her husband have been in that hopeless place and successfully moved past it. Tracy knows what it takes to get free and to stay free in multiple areas of life, and, for twenty years, she has helped numerous people do the same. She knows how hard it is to face the daily challenges of moving forward from the past and the consequences it brings. She understands that it takes step-by-step direction, faith, and encouragement to achieve it, and you will find all of that in abundance in these pages.

This book presents proven, practical, systematic steps for attaining healing from past pain, addictions, and dysfunctional patterns of living. Tracy explains that God does not just evacuate us out of our struggles. It requires a process of change where we learn to make positive and creative new choices. You can live a victorious life by relying on the transformative power of God and actively engaging in the process of change, one choice at a time.

Your struggles are not who you are--they are what you are overcoming. No matter where you are in life, you have permission to hope and dream again. To dare to image yourself in a better place with a good future. To have The Courage to Heal.


Author: Tracy Strawberry
Publisher: Whitaker House
Published: 10/11/2022
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781641239011
ISBN10: 1641239018
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Living | Spiritual Growth
- Religion | Christian Ministry | Counseling & Recovery
- Self-Help | Substance Abuse & Addictions | General

About the Author
Dr. Tracy Strawberry is an international speaker, a published author, a CEO, and the wife of baseball legend Darryl Strawberry. After many years of battling addiction, alcoholism, dysfunction, and other life-controlling issues, Tracy surrendered her life to Jesus Christ and experienced a radical transformation through the power of God and the process of change. Now she shares her testimony openly as she provides biblical solutions and practical application for those who are struggling with similar issues. Tracy is a highly sought after international speaker, receiving many requests to deliver her powerful messages on how to experience lasting change, reinvent yourself, experience God in the most difficult of times, overcome your past, and become the very best "you" that God created you to be. Tracy has a doctorate in theology with a focus on cultural restoration and leadership, a master's degree in business administration and management, and a bachelor's degree in ministry leadership. She is the author of several publications, including Imperfect Marriage: Help for Those Who Think It's Over (with Darryl Strawberry) and Clean Sober & Saved, a Christ-centered recovery curriculum that is used globally. In her weekly programs and traveling ministry, she delivers a message of faith, redeeming hope, restoration, and freedom in Jesus Christ. Tracy believes that those who are lost will be found and those who are bound will be free! In addition to her biblical teaching and preaching platform, Tracy is an international business consultant with a specialty in assisting pastors, governmental officials, and other leaders with infrastructure and organizational development, strategic planning, and the creation of innovative solutions for reaching culturally diverse demographics and territories.