Lonely No More: A Woman's Journey to Personal, Marital, and Spiritual Healing

Karen Burton Mains shares her journey of soul healing as she struggles to break through traditional mindsets about her life, marriage, ministry and place in Christendom into a more Biblical view of herself, her husband, her place in God's work. She comes to peace and integration over the conflicting parts of her life: she loves her husband and works well with him in ministry situations, yet faces her painful loneliness as she comes to self-honesty about his continued workaholism. She chooses to honor her husband and marriage, to accept and work with the reality that he probably will never stop his workaholism, that she needs to take care of herself where he lacks attentiveness to her. That the traditional church definition of a wife's role and the ways a wife should show love may not be Biblical when it prevents God from being able to get through to her husband. Through dream imagry, Biblical insight and kind male support, she comes to healing as she deals with the fact that each of us have both masculine and feminine inside ourselves.The book is written in almost a journal format, with intensely personal thoughts and imagry mixed in, very understandable to those of us on the same path. This book may disturb those who are against using any "worldly" psychological insights or symbolism.For a discussion of "worldly" psychological symbolism, and how God invented the symbols, (Jung etc just document them) and how God wants to use them to bring our whole being first to the Cross, then to New Life in Christ, read Restoring the Christian Soul Through Healing Prayer by Leanne Payne.