Ever found yourself without the resilience you need in order to thrive? Is it sometimes hard to manage your emotions well? Does God seem to be some illusive presence that you just can't seem to sense or hear regularly?

Joy, that feeling you get when someone is glad to be with you, has the power to manage all that goes on inside of us; when there is enough of it. Unfortunately, however, for many of us there is very little joy inside compared to the shame, fear, sadness, anger, and hopeless despair that swirl about. The result of this imbalance is emotional shutdown or meltdown, which leaves us unable to fully connect with those around us.

Depression and addiction run rampant when joy is lacking. And yet most of us are never shown healthy ways to deal with our emotions, to express them well, and to build the joy we need in order to endure the hardships of life. This is precisely what this book intends to do.

This book will show you:

• What it looks like to sense God's enjoyment of you no matter what
• How going back to your past can free you to fully live in the present
• That your needs are valid and that God wants you to learn to receive
• What suffering well looks like when you have been attacked
• The radical mission God is on to seek and save everything that was lost