Estranged: Finding Hope When Your Family Falls Apart

By Julie Plagens

Book Overview

In Estranged: Finding Hope When Your Family Falls Apart, Julie Plagens shares about her life as a child of well-known parents in full-time ministry and the hardships it puts on families to maintain an image of perfection. After many years of anger and unforgiveness, Julie and her husband walked away from the family to find healing after a life-altering health diagnosis. This is the amazing story of how God knitted a Christian family back together through a series of miracles that can only be explained by divine intervention after seven years of estrangement. This book is written for families who are struggling to get along in a healthy manner all the way to those who are experiencing a full-blown family estrangement. Julie gives her story from the perspective of an estranged adult child but also gives tips for parents and adult children who are struggling to find a connection between the two generations. Julie's mother, Joanne Ventura, wrote the afterword to help parents who are struggling with the rejection of their adult children. Estranged is unique in that it not only gives personal stories from both sides of the estrangement (which is rare), but it also gives tips to help families move towards hope and healing, even if there is never reconciliation. This is a must read for anyone dealing with shame, anger, rejection, and unforgiveness. You can find hope when your family falls apart.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1798206668
• ISBN13: 9781798206669
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Very very useful! If they don't get this book back in stock, go find it somewhere else!

This book gave me the tools I needed to actually begin to solve my estrangement! (Hopefully forever.) (Get also, "Done With The Crying" to help when things are not healed or to go more in depth) This author really made me mad as I was reading because SHE actually DID the estranging! That part was painfully hard to read because I was in the thick of estrangement. & I feel there is NO excuse for inflicting the kind of pain estrangement causes, especially among believers. Shame on us for tolerating this craziness. Anyway, forgiveness is also Christian & you need to find that place in order to heal & move on. But this little gem of a book gives so much more hope than other books I've read. I get it. The reality is there is very little hope of reconciliation. But Julie Plagens gives hope. (& It has worked for our family so far)