The Complicated Heart: Loving Even When It Hurts
How do you forgive when the wound is still open?
People often ask Sarah, "How did you forgive your alcoholic mother?”

How do you forgive someone who carelessly brushed aside your pain, who caused such destruction, and who doesn’t show remorse? How do you know when to stay and when to go?

In The Complicated Heart, you will travel through Sarah's story with her, from age 14 and beyond, as she wrestles with these very questions. Prepare yourself: she holds nothing back.

If you’ve struggled with a difficult relationship, if you’ve felt torn-up and crazy and confused because of it, if you just want to know how to move forward and be okay, this story is for you.

Dysfunction does not have to be your destiny or your identity.

Victory is on the table.

What's more: you’ll not only travel with Sarah, you’ll travel with her mom as well as you read her mom’s journal entries and letters. What goes on in the mind of the person who hurt you the most? In this story, you’ll get a rare peek into that mind and heart.

In these pages you'll be reminded that light always finds a way in, even in the deepest darkness, and redemption and joy are possible in the midst of trauma and unmet needs. If you want to learn how to forgive when your wound is still open, heal when circumstances don't change, and become a generational bondage-breaker, The Complicated Heart is for you.

And if not for you, for someone you know. Pass it along.
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The Complicated Heart: Loving Even When It Hurts
How do you forgive when the wound is still open?
People often ask Sarah, "How did you forgive your alcoholic mother?”

How do you forgive someone who carelessly brushed aside your pain, who caused such destruction, and who doesn’t show remorse? How do you know when to stay and when to go?

In The Complicated Heart, you will travel through Sarah's story with her, from age 14 and beyond, as she wrestles with these very questions. Prepare yourself: she holds nothing back.

If you’ve struggled with a difficult relationship, if you’ve felt torn-up and crazy and confused because of it, if you just want to know how to move forward and be okay, this story is for you.

Dysfunction does not have to be your destiny or your identity.

Victory is on the table.

What's more: you’ll not only travel with Sarah, you’ll travel with her mom as well as you read her mom’s journal entries and letters. What goes on in the mind of the person who hurt you the most? In this story, you’ll get a rare peek into that mind and heart.

In these pages you'll be reminded that light always finds a way in, even in the deepest darkness, and redemption and joy are possible in the midst of trauma and unmet needs. If you want to learn how to forgive when your wound is still open, heal when circumstances don't change, and become a generational bondage-breaker, The Complicated Heart is for you.

And if not for you, for someone you know. Pass it along.
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The Complicated Heart: Loving Even When It Hurts

The Complicated Heart: Loving Even When It Hurts

by Sarah Mae
The Complicated Heart: Loving Even When It Hurts

The Complicated Heart: Loving Even When It Hurts

by Sarah Mae

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Overview

How do you forgive when the wound is still open?
People often ask Sarah, "How did you forgive your alcoholic mother?”

How do you forgive someone who carelessly brushed aside your pain, who caused such destruction, and who doesn’t show remorse? How do you know when to stay and when to go?

In The Complicated Heart, you will travel through Sarah's story with her, from age 14 and beyond, as she wrestles with these very questions. Prepare yourself: she holds nothing back.

If you’ve struggled with a difficult relationship, if you’ve felt torn-up and crazy and confused because of it, if you just want to know how to move forward and be okay, this story is for you.

Dysfunction does not have to be your destiny or your identity.

Victory is on the table.

What's more: you’ll not only travel with Sarah, you’ll travel with her mom as well as you read her mom’s journal entries and letters. What goes on in the mind of the person who hurt you the most? In this story, you’ll get a rare peek into that mind and heart.

In these pages you'll be reminded that light always finds a way in, even in the deepest darkness, and redemption and joy are possible in the midst of trauma and unmet needs. If you want to learn how to forgive when your wound is still open, heal when circumstances don't change, and become a generational bondage-breaker, The Complicated Heart is for you.

And if not for you, for someone you know. Pass it along.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781462796991
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Publication date: 09/17/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
File size: 4 MB
Age Range: 3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Sarah Mae is the author of the book, The Complicated Heart: Loving Even When it Hurts, a story for all the broken-hearted daughters who need to know if their little-girl hearts could ever heal.

She is the host of The Complicated Heart podcast, she speaks all over the country encouraging women to walk in freedom, and she wrangles three extroverted kids, a naughty yellow lab, and new husky puppy, because obviously she loves chaos. Holding down the fort with her in Lancaster, PA is her woodworker husband, Jesse.

You can find Sarah at sarahmae.com and on social @sarahmaewrites.

Table of Contents

Author's Note v

People Always Ask … xiii

She Broke Me

Chapter 1 Dare You 3

Chapter 2 Home 7

Chapter 3 Always Drunk 13

Chapter 4 The Intervention 23

Chapter 5 Culture Shock 31

Chapter 6 Get This Town Off of Me 39

He Bound Up My Wounds

Chapter 7 New Life 51

Chapter 8 Surrender 59

Chapter 9 Obnoxious Jesus Girl 67

Chapter 10 Something Has to Change 71

Chapter 11 Core Lies 77

Chapter 12 Holding the Ball 83

Chapter 13 Mourning the Loss of a Mother 91

Chapter 14 Caked-on Face 101

Chapter 15 He Heals the Brokenhearted 109

Chapter 16 The Accusation 115

Chapter 17 Search Me, God 123

Chapter 18 Jesse 131

Chapter 19 Poppy 137

Chapter 20 The Impossible 143

Chapter 21 Mom Moves In 147

Chapter 22 Sorry 155

Chapter 23 The Last of Nine Lives 161

Chapter 24 When His Breath Leaves Our Lungs 169

She Was Broken Too

Chapter 25 Meeting My Mom 179

Chapter 26 Mourning the Loss of a Mother, Again 185

Chapter 27 Releasing My Vow 193

Chapter 28 Dear Mom 195

Addendum

From Darkness to Light 201

What Do I Do Now? 205

For When You Think It's All Impossible 207

Six Ways to Forgive (When You Don't Know What to Do with the Unfairness of It All) 209

How to Work through Your Core Lies 211

Acknowledgments 217

About the Author 219

Notes 221

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