Get Your Joy Back #bookreview @Litfuse

 

About the book:  Get Your Joy Back

An invitation and a promise for weary Christian parents of special needs kids from a parent who’s been there.

“It isn’t the long day of monitoring a child’s precarious health or being hypervigilant about her mood and mental health challenges that weighs parents down; it’s the wishing that things were different. . . . Resentment, not the intense care they must provide their child, is the parents’ greatest stressor and source of pain.” —Laurie Wallin

Parents of specials needs children are exhausted. They’ve done all the research, consulted all the experts, joined support groups, gotten counseling, fought for the best life for their children. Often just caring for their children’s needs and attempting to maintain a home maxes out parents’ mental, emotional, and spiritual reserves.

Laurie Wallin knows firsthand the difficulties of this journey. With GetYour Joy Back, she steps forward to make a bold, audacious claim: in the midst of this long-term, intense task, it is still possible to have an abundant life, full of joy. The key to radically changing daily life and restoring joy to the weary is forgiveness. Wallin gives parents a lifeline to find that restoration, pulling them back to shore when they feel like they’re drowning.

This book is full of practical, biblical insights and strategies to shed the resentments that leave Christian special-needs parents themselves spiritually, emotionally, and socially drained. Wallin meets readers right where they are, sugar coating nothing, but addressing issues with honesty, humor, and—above all—hope.

Read an excerpt: http://bit.ly/GetYourJoyBackExcerpt  Get Your Joy Back

Get Your Joy Back (Book Trailer)

 

 

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My thoughts:

 

 If you’ve not read up on me and my blog and are visiting for the first time, you might not know that my husband and I have adopted some children into our home.  These children of our heart have some learning speedbumps.  They could be labelled autistic, ADHD, RAD, and so many  more titles that I don’t like to use.  This book is going on my shelf.  This book is getting read on a daily basis.  It is so HARD to homeschool these children sometimes because they are high need.  They have good days and they have bad days.  There are days it’s easy to find my joy and days I think all my joy done up and left me!  But then I remember my why’s and life goes on.  

 

When I first heard this title I knew I wanted to review it.  I knew that this book would pertain to my life and sometimes you just need to know that someone else has been there and knows what you are going through.  I have 9 children.  That alone makes some peoples eyes roll back in their heads.  There is no spot to tell them that some of the kids have special needs.  They’ve already spaced out, gone blank, and just simply cannot understand what my life is like.  In this book I found another mother who understands.  She may not have the number of kids, but she has the issues.  And like she says, you can find joy.  For me it’s a heart issue and making sure my heart is where it should be.  Get Your Joy Back.

 

As a last note, you don’t have to parent special needs kids to enjoy this book.  I think any parent would benefit from the wisdom of finding your joy, keeping your joy, and getting your joy back.