Everybody has stuff they can't get over!  
  
__Sometimes you can't just pick yourself up and move on.  
But even then, there is hope.__   
When hard times strike, we long for the day when we will "get over it" and have closure. This is a difficult--often impossible--road to travel. There are some things in life that we must learn to live with because they will never truly go away for good. Despite that truth, there is life--rewarding and abundant life--after heartache and pain.  
  
With deep compassion, John F. Westfall leads you beyond your pain and into a life of confidence, freedom, and secure joy. With humor and vulnerability, he shows you how to move forward beyond fear, regret, guilt, and bitterness into a life worth living.  
  
You may carry the wounds of the past, but that doesn't need to keep you from living a hope-filled future.  
  
  
__John F. Westfall__ is founding pastor of Harbor Church, a creative new congregation in the Pacific Northwest, and has pastored churches in Washington, California, and Minnesota. A former radio show host, an ordained pastor, an adjunct professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, and a popular retreat and conference speaker, John lives in the Seattle area with his wife, Eileen, and their dog, Maggie, who appears to have a personality disorder.

__John F. Westfall__ is founding pastor of Harbor Church, a creative new congregation in the Pacific Northwest, and has pastored churches in Seattle, California, and Minnesota. A former radio show host, an ordained pastor, an adjunct professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, and a popular retreat and conference speaker, John lives in the Seattle area with his wife.

When hard times strike, we look forward with longing to the day when we will "get over" the event and have closure. This is a difficult--often impossible--road to travel. There are some things in life that we must learn to live with because they will never truly go away for good. Despite that truth, there is life--rewarding and abundant life--after heartache and pain.  
  
John F. Westfall leads readers beyond their hurts and into a life of confidence, freedom, and secure joy. Sharing stories with wisdom, humor, and vulnerability, he shows how to move forward beyond fear, regret, guilt, anger, and bitterness into a life worth living.

A compassionate pastor equips readers with biblical wisdom, encouragement, and strategies to get past what they'll never get over.

\["For anyone struggling with unresolved trauma or loss", "Teaches you how to cope with what you can't change", "You will find joy and freedom beyond your hurts"\]

This eBook helps you navigate life after deep pain.

Westfall, John F.

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Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Acknowledgments

1 The “Get Over It” Fallacy

2 Baby Steps to a New Reality

3 The Myth of Normal

4 The Joy of Depression

5 It Can’t Happen Here!

6 Fear

7 Regret

8 Guilt

9 Anger

10 Bitterness

11 Life’s Unfair—What Will We Do about It?

12 Walking in the Light while Living in the Shadows

13 Glancing Back while Moving Forward

Steps for the Journey

Notes

About the Author

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When hard times strike, we look forward with longing to the day when we will"get over" the event and have closure. This is a difficult--often impossible--road to travel. There are some things in life that we must learn to live with because they will never truly go away for good. Despite that truth, there is life--rewarding and abundant life--after heartache and pain.  
  
John F. Westfall leads readers beyond their hurts and into a life of confidence, freedom, and secure joy. Sharing stories with wisdom, humor, and vulnerability, he shows how to move forward beyond fear, regret, guilt, anger, and bitterness into a life worth living.

\["For anyone struggling with past emotional pain", "Helps you cope with unresolved grief and trauma", "You will find hope and healing through God's word"\]

This book offers biblical wisdom to help you heal from life's deepest hurts.

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Westfall has an alternative for those grappling with the ?rub some dirt on it? approach to dealing with pain and heartache. Rather than suffer the dual insult of a painful experience and the inability to get over it, he suggests that we become comfortable with the permanence of our wounds in order to truly come to terms with them. The founding pastor of Seattle?s Harbor Church, Westfall walks readers through discussions on fear, bitterness, and other negative emotions that bind us to past angst, in an easy, approachable manner. He draws upon a host of personal experiences culled from his own life and those of his family members and friends to paint intimate portraits of how life?s hurts and disappointments can stymie us, and how to make peace with them. Westfall is always careful to draw the reader?s attention back to scripture and its usefulness in emotional problem solving, but he does so in a way that won?t scare off more secular readers. For those seeking a gentle, faith-based approach to coping with trauma, this volume is just the thing.

Westfall has an alternative for dealing with pain and heartache

Getting Past What You'll Never Get Over [eBook]

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