Seize Your Copy On The Threshold Of Hope: Opening The Door To Hope And Healing For Survivors Of Sexual Abuse Written And Illustrated By Diane Langberg Ready In Audiobook

is an incredible compassionate counselor, This book is a vital tool for those seeking healing from abuse and those who walk alongside them, Highly recommend. This book is a wonder and a gift, If you've experienced sexual abuse or are called to walk beside those who have, this book is invaluable, Langberg provides a good overview on sexual abuse, trauma, and recovery, Recommended. Diane Langberg has such a gift for speaking big truths gently to hurting hearts, The power of the gospel is the lifeblood of her work, This book is no exception, If you or anyone you know has experienced sexual trauma spoiler alert: they have, this book is a strong and beautiful resource.
On the Threshold of Hope offers hope and healing to men and women who have been traumatized by sexual abuse.
Dr. Langberg's insights and the quotations from many survivors assure readers that they are not alone and that Christ, the Redeemer, can heal their deep wounds.
Through stories, Scripture, questions, and encouragement, Dr, Langberg walks with survivors on the road to healing through Christ's love and power, It took me a while to finish this book because I cried every single chapter, but it has been very helpful.
She gives practical thoughts for healing through the lens of the gospel, I felt seen. She communicates truth about the weight and destruction of abuse while also pointing to hope in Christ, Would recommend to any sexual abuse survivor, Christian, therapist, family member, or friend! Dr, Langberg is sharp, compassionate, experienced, and a great writer, Her work is an encouragement to my heart, A good addition to one's recovery toolbox, It grieves me deeply that this book exists, Yet, it gives me hope that this book exists, Great book that I have used with client survivors of sexual abuse, Highly recommend! This book is a must read for those who have walked through sexual abuse or you know someone who has and you are trying to walk the journey of healing with them.
Through her years of counseling countless men and women who have been abused she understands the deep trauma the victim experiences.


As I read this book I kept saying, "Yes! Finally someone understands!" She gently walks along side the victim and helps point them to the only One who can truly understand, Jesus.
This book helped me understand myself better and the effects of chronic abuse, It also helped me see the where and whys of God in the midst of it all, A difficult but must read, Langberg shows herself to be a good teacher and a better learner and listener, She also shows the path toward deep, true healing, found in the Healer,

"They draw on deep Wells of courage, endurance, creativity, strength, and determination,

I have great respect for the survivors I have known over the years, The characteristics they developed to live against the odds will serve them well when they decide to embark on the healing process.
" Someone who has suffered sexual abuse is the intended audience, Helpful to see Langberg's posture of gentleness and clear speaking, I most appreciated the sections considering the different ways in which abuse can harm a person longtermwise, and her steps laying out what healing can look like in those areas.


I appreciate her intentional use of the term 'survivor' rather than 'victim' to help people understand the significance of what they've endured without turning it into something they can now do nothing about.
The difference in her mentality from many people, who treat a person who has endured abuse as a passive sufferer with no agency which perpetuates some of the worst mental effects of abuse is evident.
IE, she really does affirm that a person has the ability to work through, process, and heal, Unfortunately, it seems to me in the general popular level conversation, 'survivor' is increasingly used as just a nice way of meaning 'victim'.


While Langberg points to Christ regularly throughout the book which is good, the main focus is on Christ's suffering as commiseration and bringing/ensuring healing if not in this life, in heaven.
The atoning nature of Christ's suffering is obscured, In fact, in general, any suffering mentioned in the book is presented as suffering because of living in a sinful world even Adam and Eve's! And sure we can all agree they bore some responsibility for causing their own suffering.
Now, Langberg is working hard against the lie that so many survivors believethat they are somehow at fault for the abuse they experienced.
That is definitely a lie that needs to be killed, But it seems to me that the crucial battle against that lie seems to often overwhelm the reality that survivors are also sinful, and will respond to their suffering in sinful ways, and need someone to atone for their sin, not simply restore them from brokenness.
Which is to say, the atoning work of Christ's suffering is very good news for survivors too,

Lastly, while there is much, much good wisdom in this book, it presents the healing process as primarily done through a professional counselor.
Though Langberg indicates that in the last section she wants to help churches think through how to help someone confronting and processing their abuse, the church is actually completely absent from that last section.
With that, there's no redemptive picture of the role of the church presentedonly the pictures of how pastors can abuse their authority and those under their care.
My concern is that without a redemptive picture of the role of the body of Christ in helping survivors heal, the individualistic view of Christian discipleship so pervasive these days is perpetuated.


Recommend to pastors, those walking with someone processing sexual abuse, Not sure if I'd directly

recommend to the intended audience, at least not by itself, I read this for a training I am doing for working with women that have been sexually exploited, While it didn't apply to me personally, it was helpful for understanding what these women may be going through, I really appreciated the insight this offered on a very difficult subject, I recently ordered this book because my life skills coach/discipleship mentor had mentioned it several times over the past few years we've known each other.
I decided to read it as I pondered whether or not it was okay to uncover secrets and hurts from the past, and I'm now convinced that it's important to say them out loud with a safe person, in order to heal.
I'm not doing a "treatment" psychologists call "regression therapy," which is antibiblical, What was missing or taken from me can be restored as I acknowledge these losses and learn the skills that I was unable to learn on my own.
I'm becoming an adult emotionally as well as spiritually, The book affirmed what I'm doing in several ways, First, that I'm not the only one who took decades to say what actually happened and that I could not move on in life without some help.
It showed me that others have taken a similar journey, over an unhurried length of time, heading toward the same place, of redemption and supernatural forgiveness, and a decluttered heart that has room to love others.
Another truth I heard repeatedly in my mind as I read the book is how lavishly blessed I am, that the Lover and Redeemer of my soul has made himself known to me, through the dear friends he has brought into my life.
They tell me the truth, they show me the way, and I'm coming back to life, I read this book because our church's support group for survivors of sexual abuse uses it, The book is excellent on every level as help for a survivor and help for someone wanting to help a survivor.
Nothing is sugarcoated, and yet there is a feeling of hope for healing, A great book to read if you are a survivor and a great book to have in your toolkit if you want to be there for survivors.
Overall a great intro to healing from sexual abuse and growing in faith in that, however loses a point for recommending Focus on the Family.
There are so many memorable quotes in this book, I learned so much about the pain and suffering that people who have experienced sexual abuse both inside and outside of the church.
The work of healing is undoubtedly the work of the Holy Spirit, but He often helps us as counselors in that work.
I pray that as a result of reading this book that He will continue to work in my own heart in helping those who have suffered great pain.
This was a beautiful treatment of a very tragic topic, Not clinical, yet very informative, Spiritual hope and healing weaved throughout, It is tough to explain just how warming and encouraging Dr, Langberg's words are to a weary, battered, abused, and abandoned soul, She wrote a similar book which worked from the part of a psychologist's chair, advising the listener, as if we were the patient, walking us through her perspective of our ailments.
In this one, however, she sits in our chair of misery, discomfort, pain, and abuse, and endures the hurt with us, one difficult topic and question at a time.


Nothing in this book feels rushed and the advice comes from a well of time, experience, and yes, godliness.


I would love to say the world needs more psychologists like Dr, Langberg and it does but I pray we get more human beings who reflect her faith and her care, for one another, more.


Wonderful work. Anyone struggling with the dastardly hiddenness of abuse, please, consider this book and work your way out of that hiddenness from there.
Dr. Diane Langberg is a practicing psychologist whose clinical expertise includesyears of working with trauma survivors and clergy, She speaks internationally on topics related to women, trauma, ministry and the Christian life, .