Cradled in the Arms of Compassion: A Spiritual Journey from Trauma to Recovery

"This is an amazing book that I couldn't put down once I started it. In Frank's brutally honest and remarkably disclosive telling of his story you will find a hope-filled model."-Richard Schwartz, PhD, developer of the Internal Family Systems model"You were like this once. What did you do to get better?" A day out from a mental institution, a woman devastated by flashbacks from childhood trauma poses this question to her big brother. Within a few weeks, she took her own life. This book is the answer that her brother wished he could have offered.Spiritual director and professor Frank Rogers had been there. As a young adult, he too was tormented by trauma suffered in the same family. Wracked by depression, he was on the cliff edge of suicide. From intense despair, he set off on a quest-for answers, for sanity, for a credible God to see him through. Cradled in the Arms of Compassion is at once a narrative of psychological transformation and a spiritual autobiography that details the survi