Home At Last Freedom from Boarding School Pain eBook Mark Stibbe
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Sent away to boarding school on his eighth birthday, Mark Stibbe watched his adoptive parents drive down a gravel road, leaving him standing in front of a huge country house with his trunk and his teddy. That night, already confused and frightened, he was given the first of four beatings in his first two weeks. This trauma of abandonment and abuse was to scar Mark’s life until his fifties, when divorce forced him to deal with he calls his ‘boarded heart’. In this ground breaking book, Mark argues that there are many thousands of wounded people just like him, men and women who suffer throughout their lives with homesick souls. This often leads to them being driven to succeed in their work while failing to engage emotionally at home.
Home at Last tells a poignant story and offers a unique model of healing. It provides psychological insights, yes, but it also delivers the blueprint for a spiritual homecoming. Arguing that boarding schools are orphanages for the privileged, Mark shows how we can only truly find healing in the perfect Father’s love. Home At Last is split into two parts. The first part looks the cycle of pain created by the boarding school wound. This involves four deep impacts to the soul desertion, deprivation, disengagement and dependency. The second part, the cycle of healing, embraces the four stages of the healing journey revelation, restoration, reconnection and recovery. These exactly correspond to the four deep impacts to the soul. They are four steps towards the Father’s house. They must be experienced if former boarders are to enjoy the long-awaited end to their spiritual winter.
Home At Last Freedom from Boarding School Pain eBook Mark Stibbe
I couldn’t wait to read this book. I knew it would bring few painful memories and a few happy ones too, but I was longing to dig deeper to find that inner peace I had been yearning for.Each section of this book took me back to aged eight when I was left at boarding school for the first time. Since I often apply colors to days, that particular day was a ‘white’ day. Cloudy, cold and miserable with some spots of drizzle. After my parents left, the words that best describe my feelings were ‘stunned’, ‘frightened’ and ‘numb’. I believe those feelings have stayed with me all my adult life.
One of my favorite sections in this book was Grace for Co-Dependents which outlines the harm that can be done to spouses and children. We can empathize with the emotional shut-downs and how this can impact us in almost every relationship. Looking back, this only added more fuel to the rejection, shame and abandonment I felt - constantly seeking approval, trying to fit in and desperate to be part of a family. This book brought me to the sudden realization that I had been feeling homesick all my life.
For those who have suffered from separation anxiety, whether it be from boarding school or other traumatic event, this book is relevant and life-changing. Clear, concise and so deeply caring, Mark Stibbe takes us through the stages of healing with the Parent of all parents. I no longer feel like that ‘solitary child’ from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, nor do I feel like I have to fill a gaping void. This book has touched me in places I had forgotten I had, and for that I’m deeply grateful.
Home at last, all dangers past. What a great homecoming!
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Home At Last Freedom from Boarding School Pain eBook Mark Stibbe Reviews
Thank you Mark for your brilliant exceptional mind blowing heart beating, soul searching and spirit soaring book !
Cannot wait to encourage all and everyone to please read this book, no matter who you are and what religion you come from. This is a book for each and every person alive. You may not have gone through a Boarding School but you have gone through life ......life itself will mess you up, the daily trials of life on earth is enough to board ones heart up and shut them inside themselves. Life goes, we exist but we really do not live, we have learnt to survive, but the question is ...is that all I want ?! Is there not more ? is there not something called Life Abundantly ? can I have that abundance ?! Yes we can, I am a living example of Life being lived Abundantly!
I welcome each one of you to be blessed to live Life Abundantly to the fullest to laugh to love and to finally live as Life was meant to be lived !
shampa a little mom from India
Interesting book that gives a great insight
I grew up in a former British colony, where boarding school is still standard practice for those families that can afford it. My parents had been through the same experience themselves; it was considered a huge privilege in their day, and they had our best interests at heart.
As Mark Stibbe makes abundantly clear, a few children actually thrive on this experience. Being of a very sensitive disposition, I did not. One does not even have to be abused or bullied at school (thankfully I was not); being torn away from one's loving family in the formative years of childhood is enough to scar some for life.
This book explains very comprehensively a lot of functional difficulties I have had over the years, without understanding why; my unusually solitary nature, avoidance of intimate relationships, recurrent depression, and low emotional resilience, all of which are most unusual in my (West African) culture.
Now a 50-something professional female, I have only recently ceased to dream about the dormitories of my secondary school. Each 'nightmare' was infused with a fearful sense of isolation and inability to escape, despite featuring only mundane activities.
It is a huge relief to know that there is an explanation for these problems, that my personal reaction is not an over-reaction, and most of all, that there is a solution I can totally relate to as a Christian.
Many thanks to God for the healing love of Christ, the Writer of happy endings, and many thanks to Mark Stibbe. I have attended an event at which he spoke on the Father's love, and he is as sound a speaker as he is a writer.
I have recommended this book very strongly to all my siblings; some may need it more than others!
I couldn’t wait to read this book. I knew it would bring few painful memories and a few happy ones too, but I was longing to dig deeper to find that inner peace I had been yearning for.
Each section of this book took me back to aged eight when I was left at boarding school for the first time. Since I often apply colors to days, that particular day was a ‘white’ day. Cloudy, cold and miserable with some spots of drizzle. After my parents left, the words that best describe my feelings were ‘stunned’, ‘frightened’ and ‘numb’. I believe those feelings have stayed with me all my adult life.
One of my favorite sections in this book was Grace for Co-Dependents which outlines the harm that can be done to spouses and children. We can empathize with the emotional shut-downs and how this can impact us in almost every relationship. Looking back, this only added more fuel to the rejection, shame and abandonment I felt - constantly seeking approval, trying to fit in and desperate to be part of a family. This book brought me to the sudden realization that I had been feeling homesick all my life.
For those who have suffered from separation anxiety, whether it be from boarding school or other traumatic event, this book is relevant and life-changing. Clear, concise and so deeply caring, Mark Stibbe takes us through the stages of healing with the Parent of all parents. I no longer feel like that ‘solitary child’ from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, nor do I feel like I have to fill a gaping void. This book has touched me in places I had forgotten I had, and for that I’m deeply grateful.
Home at last, all dangers past. What a great homecoming!
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