This book is her fifth book in the Passionate Heart Series. Her first book, Growing a Passionate Heart, was co-authored with Nancy Keller, MFT, and is curriculum designed to facilitate healing from childhood sexual abuse. Her second book, Growing a Courageous Heart, was written to help women overcome the bondage of eating disorders. Her third book is called Embracing a Feeling Heart, and was written to help people grow in their understanding of the emotions God designed them to experience, and was born out of her own struggle to accept and embrace the emotions God created her to feel. The fourth book, Loving from a Pure Heart, was co-authored with Nancy Keller, MFT, and was designed to help those struggling with dysfunctional relational patterns. This latest book is designed to help people uncover and examine and heal the wounds caused by various kinds of emotional abuse that may be interfering with the life and relationships to which God calls them. Wendy J. Mahill serves as a lay counselor at RiverLakes Community Church in Bakersfield, California. She is a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors and the director of the Passionate Heart Ministry that provides support groups for women who have survived childhood sexual abuse, who have struggled with eating disorders, who have struggled with painful emotions, and who have struggled with dysfunctional relationships. Wendy has been married for 42 years, is the mother of five grown children, and enjoys being grandmother to six grandchildren who've nicknamed her "Jam." She has personally dealt with painful emotions as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and has taken great strides in overcoming a long-term eating disorder. "
