Walking Through Fire: Mindfulness in Crisis and Conflict

By Rev. Lee Hodge

In the heart of chaos, you can become the calm.

In Walking Through Fire: Mindfulness in Crisis and Conflict, Lee Hodge draws from real-life experience in psychiatric units, street outreach, and crisis intervention to reveal how mindfulness becomes a life-saving force in the most intense moments. This book isn't about avoiding the flames of life; it's about learning how to walk through them with clarity, composure, and compassion.

Whether you are a caregiver, frontline worker, leader, or someone navigating personal storms, this guide teaches you how to ground yourself in presence, de-escalate high-stress situations, and transform conflict into understanding. Through wisdom, practical tools, and lived insight, you will discover the power of becoming unshakable even when the world around you burns.

You are not just surviving anymore; you are leading, teaching, and embodying peace.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FQBWF4PT
• ISBN13: 9798263988043
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Rising From the Ashes

As valuable as they may be, so many books on mindfulness seem like collections of quotes from others' works on meditation, Buddhism, yoga, spiritual warfare, etc. One might ask, where is the lived experience that informs the author's work? Not the case with Rev. Hodge's latest work. The man's own personal crises and professional storms have given him more than ample opportunity to "road test" such aphorisms as "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." "Healing is not about forgetting pain. It's about integrating it into wisdom." "We are not here to rush back into the same old cycles of dysfunctions just because it feels familiar." Oh, and this: ""Tending to your own well-being is not selfish; it is a responsibility to yourself and to those you serve." Hodge's own painful personal losses and his work with psychiatric staff and patients, some distraught, others violent, is what lends credence to these and other sayings in his book; they spring from the worst life can dish out. His recipe for dealing with such events, for rising from the ashes of your life, is invaluable. -- Rev. Russell W. Goodman