From Trauma to Transformation: A Path to Healing and Growth Paperback - 2022

From the rear cover

God will not waste your pain

We have all heard of posttraumatic stress, but few of us think about the possibility of posttraumatic growth--the positive ways in which we can be transformed by our trauma. Yet this is precisely what can happen when we face our hurts, struggle through the rubble of our broken relationships, and unearth the ways God wants to use our trials to refine and mature us.

With compassion born from personal experience and insights gathered from years of counseling others, licensed marriage and family therapist Debra Laaser helps you stop asking "Why me?" and start asking "Lord, what would you have me learn from this?" She offers tangible steps you can take to move beyond daily survival toward a future in which you can thrive. With Laaser's expert guidance, you can experience positive life change not in spite of the hurt, loss, or betrayal you have undergone but because of it.


"Debra Laaser's latest book delivers a powerful and hopeful message--you can not only survive trauma but also thrive after trauma. This book is a blessing."--Daniel G. Amen, MD, author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life

"Deb shares her intimate and powerful thirty-year personal journey in this book, filled with practical tools for anyone ready to take their next right step on their path from trauma to transformation!"--Tim Clinton, EdD, LPC, LMFT, president, American Association of Christian Counselors, and cohost, Dr. James Dobson's Family Talk

"This is no trite self-help. This is a deep dive, no-holds-barred, gentle journey with the Holy Spirit. I just wish it had been available when I first started working with my couples many years ago!"--Dave Carder, MA, MFT, author of Torn Asunder and Anatomy of an Affair