Rebuilding Beautiful: Welcome What Is, Dare to Dream Again, and Step Bravely into What Could Be

by Kayla Stoecklein

Overview

Speaker and author Kayla Stoecklein delivers an inspiring message of how she came face-to-face with crushing personal loss and discovered how to rebuild a beautiful life.

Fall in Love with Life Again

In the midst of hardship and loss, what you long for most is hope—hope for a way forward, hope that purpose can come from this difficult season, hope that God is still with you.

Since losing her pastor-husband to suicide in August 2018, Kayla Stoecklein has been passionate about bringing hope to those who wonder if life will ever hold beauty again. In Rebuilding Beautiful, Kayla shares the hard-won truths she has embraced in these years of grief and new beginnings to help you:

• discover practical and spiritual ways to welcome your pain so that you can ultimately surrender it.
• step into community in order to be held as well as hold space for the pain of others.
• understand the ways your body remembers trauma and find avenues for physical and mental healing.
• awaken to the splendor of a life in which sadness and joy coexist, and
• dare to dream again—spiritually, relationally, vocationally—as you discover more of who God made you to be in Christ.

The journey from agony to awe takes time. Kayla’s words, ideas, and inspiration offer the road map and companionship you need to move forward even when you feel stuck—to wake up excited about a life that holds a new kind of beautiful.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781400234219
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	09/20/2022
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	632,844
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Kayla Stoecklein became an unexpected widow in August 2018 when her husband, Andrew, the pastor of their large church in California, died by suicide. With three young boys also grieving and a heart full of pain, she began sharing her struggles that she captured in Fear Gone Wild (September 2020). It became her mission to bring hope and faith-filled help to others who have faced unexpected hardships, showing them that they not only have a purpose, but that they can build a beautiful life once again.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Packing Up Camp xi

Embrace

1 Embracing the Unexpected 5

2 Cultivating Community 19

3 Befriending Death 31

Heal

4 Who Am I? 47

5 A New Narrative 57

6 Doing the Work 67

Explore

7 Worthy of Love 79

8 The Crisis of Faith 89

9 I'm So Proud of You for Trying 99

Dream

10 Happy Beautiful Life 113

11 Ocean of Fear 123

12 I Chose This 135

Live

13 Habits for Self-Compassion 149

14 Defiant Joy 161

15 It's All a Gift 171

Epilogue: A Wild Ride 181

Acknowledgments 185

For Reflection 187

Notes 193

About the Author 197