Traveling with the Life-Giver

About the Book

Are you a survivor of verbal, physical, emotional, sexual or spiritual abuse? If you are, or if you know someone who is, this book is for you. The healing journey can be difficult and lonely. Pain is isolating. Your pain may be isolating you. Do you realize that the Life-Giver, Jesus Christ, wants to journey with you through your pain?

Traveling with the Life-Giver is written as an aid and companion for you as you move toward psychological and spiritual recovery. You will become acquainted with Cherished, the main character, and her struggles toward wholeness following her abuse. Travel with her through her shadowy journey into the Valley of Despair, and you will meet her enemy, Shame, as he draws her into a cavern asylum. Finally, you will meet Life-Giver and the Spirit who are faithful to show her a way out of the darkness into the place of life.

Traveling with the Life-Giver will enhance your healing process and can be used for personal or group study. Whether you have just begun your healing journey or have been on the pathway for a while, would you invite Life-Giver to travel with you?

About the Author

Carol Romeo is a licensed marriage and family therapist with a specialty in trauma and abuse issues. She feels passionately about her goal to bring wounded people to health, and she possesses a unique blend of skills, experience, and training that have helped many find wholeness.

 While Carol has broad experience in treating all kinds of disorders, she has found her niche for the past fifteen years in treating men and women suffering from the aftermath of physical, verbal, sexual and spiritual abuse. She has received extensive training in therapeutic techniques designed for trauma resolution. Carol is also a substance abuse treatment specialist who treats all kinds of addictions, including alcohol, drugs, sex, eating disorders and co-dependency. 

  For the past thirty years Carol has functioned in the church as a prayer counselor. She views the spiritual as foundational to her counseling theory and her work. Believing that Jesus Christ is the real healer, Carol has a unique way of bringing psychological and spiritual tools together to achieve wholeness in those she counsels.

Carol is a gifted speaker and teacher. She enjoys explaining to others the pathway into a better—happier, more fulfilling—way of life. Her mission to care for those in pain is furthered through her books, Traveling with the Life-Giver: A Spiritual Journey through Recovery from Abuse (an allegory focused on recovery from all forms of abuse and gaining right relationship with Jesus Christ) and Meditations from the River: Healing Waters for Troubled Times (meditations and poems for those suffering from loss, chronic illness or other chronic distresses). As you read these two books, you will recognize immediately the depth of Carol’s personal and professional understanding as well as the unmistakable touch of God’s love on all she writes. 

            Carol received her bachelor’s degree in psychology and her master’s degree in marriage and family therapy from Azusa Pacific University. She is trained by the EMDR Institute in the therapeutic practice of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for traumatized individuals. In her ministerial pursuit Carol holds a master’s degree of practical ministry from Wagner Leadership Institute.