Suffer Strong: How to Survive Anything by Redefining Everything

by Katherine Wolf, Jay Wolf, Louie and Shelley Giglio (Foreword by)

Overview

Is it possible to embrace suffering as a privilege, rather than a punishment? Beloved authors Katherine and Jay Wolf offer readers the bold invitation to trust a known God with an unknown future, as well as practical insights into surviving anything by redefining how we think about everything.

After miraculously surviving a near-fatal brainstem stroke at age 26, as told in their memoir, Hope Heals, life for Katherine and Jay Wolf changed forever - and so did the way they viewed God, the world, and themselves in it. There was no going back to normal after such a tragedy. Yet Katherine and Jay learned that suffering is not the end, but rather the beginning of a new story.

In Suffer Strong, they invite us into this new story as they share universal lessons and helpful practices that will help us to:

• Recognize we are being equipped for an uncommon assignment, not cursed by our story.
• Transform our unmet expectations into brave anticipations.
• Disrupt the myth that joy can only be found in a pain-free life.
• Rewrite the narrative of hard circumstances by turning our definitions of suffering into declarations of strength.
• And, ultimately, thrive even in the lives we never imagined living.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780310344575
Publisher:	Zondervan
Publication date:	02/11/2020
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	359,200
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Katherine Wolf is a survivor and advocate who leverages her redemptive story to encourage those with broken bodies, broken brains, and broken hearts. She and her husband Jay have coauthored two books, Hope Heals and Suffer Strong. In 2017, they founded Hope Heals Camp, an intergenerational retreat experience for families with disabilities. In 2023, they opened Mend Coffee & Goods, a community hub offering dignifying employment to adults with disabilities in a beautiful, universally-designed space for customers of all abilities. Katherine and Jay live in Atlanta with their two sons.

Table of Contents

Foreword Louie Shelley Giglio 11

Prologue: Hope Prevails (JAY) 15

1 Invisible Wheelchairs: Redefining Limitations Katherine 19

2 Telling a New Story: Redefining the Past Jay 37

3 Joyful Rebellion: Redefining Celebration Katherine 53

4 Post-Traumatic Growth: Redefining Trauma Jay 65

5 Opening Our Hands: Redefining Loss Katherine 79

6 Fully Known, Fully Loved: Redefining Failure Jay 93

7 Walking Away from Shame: Redefining Beauty Katherine 109

8 In Sickness and in Health: Redefining Commitment Jay 125

9 The Power of "We": Redefining Community Katherine 143

10 Glorious Scars: Redefining Healing Jay 163

11 The Path before Us: Redefining Calling Katherine 179

12 Waking Well: Redefining Hope Jay 197

Epilogue: The Good/Hard Life (Katherine) 215

Acknowledgments 219

Notes 221