Overcoming Father Wounds: Exchanging Your Pain for God's Perfect Love

by Kia Stephens

Overview

If you have been hurt, neglected, rejected, or abandoned by your father, it may feel like every aspect of life is affected by that broken trust. Even your relationship with God can feel tenuous, but there is hope.

In this vulnerable book, author and speaker Kia Stephens shares her own story of father wounds, along with eye-opening examples from wounded women in Scripture who were transformed by the love of God. With great compassion, she helps you identify your father wounds and offers practical tools to help you overcome insecurity, low self-esteem, perfectionism, and trouble connecting with God as your loving heavenly father.

Take heart. Your father wounds do not have the last word in your life; God does. With help from Kia and love from God, you can be made whole again.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800740924
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/07/2023
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	280,892
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Kia Stephens is the founder of Entrusted Women, which she created to equip Christian women communicators of color. A contributing writer for iBelieve.com, Beloved Women, Proverbs 31 Ministries, and Crosswalk, she is a recurring speaker at She Speaks, the Beloved Women's Conference, and the Entrusted Women's Conference. Kia's writing has been featured on (in)courage and Ann Voskamp's blog. She has also been a featured guest on the Proverbs 31 Ministries Podcast, Chrystal's Chronicles with Chrystal Evans Hurst, Better Together with Barb Roose, and The Dream of You Podcast with Jo Saxton.

Editorial Reviews

12/05/2022

In this mixed debut, Stephens, founder of Entrusted Women, an organization dedicated to empowering Christian women of color, discusses how she healed from a painful father-daughter relationship through God’s love. Growing up in a single-parent household, the author became adept at glossing over the pain of her father’s frequent absence. But when, in adulthood, she was rankled by a minister’s derisive remark about women with “daddy wounds,” she came face-to-face with her own, and embarked on a quest to “exchang father wounds for the Love of the Father.” Here, she aims to help others do the same, advising readers to identify their own father wounds and assess how they’ve affected personal attitudes toward romantic relationships, and posing questions like “In what ways have you attempted to receive affirmation from males that you did not receive from your father?” She also emphasizes forgiveness and acceptance, though readers will get varying mileage out of the exercises (e.g., writing a “forgiveness letter” to one’s father). Stephens’s candid personal stories captivate, even if sometimes the father/Father connection feels forced, and statements like “Though my father didn’t affirm me as a child, God affirms me through his word” land more as platitudes than useful lessons. Patient readers will find some useful insights. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly