Finding Hope: From Brokenness to Restoration

By Heidi Goehmann

Book Overview

When life feels weighty, Jesus meets broken identity, fractured relationships, and everyday sorrow with a hope that does not disappoint.

Life can be beautiful and still feel unbearably messy. Beneath the good days may sit grief, anxiety, shame, chronic pain, strained relationships, or the quiet sense that something is not as it should be.

In Finding Hope: From Brokenness to Restoration, mental health professional Heidi Goehmann explores the reality of human brokenness with honesty, compassion, and biblical hope. Rather than offering quick fixes or asking readers to ignore their pain, she names suffering for what it is and points to the One who enters it with us.

Drawing from Scripture, counseling experience, and real-life struggles, Goehmann examines how brokenness touches every part of life--from identity and family relationships to community, loss, and emotional pain. She provides language for experiences that often feel difficult to name and offers a Christ-centered perspective on guilt, shame, healing, and redemption.

Readers will discover how to:

Recognize brokenness without being defined by shame Navigate difficult emotions with honesty and grace Understand how brokenness affects identity, relationships, community, and the world around us Find comfort in God's promises when answers seem distant Hold on to hope while living in the tension between suffering and restoration

At the heart of this book is the assurance that hope is not positive thinking or self-improvement. True hope is found in Jesus Christ, who entered a broken world, carried our burdens, and continues His work of restoration. Even when healing feels incomplete and answers remain elusive, His promises endure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0758669348
• ISBN13: 9780758669346
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Concordia Publishing House
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.8"