Why Am I Like This?: How to Break Cycles, Heal from Trauma, and Restore Your Faith

by Kobe Campbell

Overview

Why does our past pain continue to affect our present?

Though many of us can point to patterns of brokenness in our lives, we don’t know why they're there. No matter how hard we work, we can’t seem to outrun the very things that break our hearts. That's because our everyday setbacks are rooted in our unaddressed wounds.

In Why Am I Like This? seminary-trained, licensed trauma therapist Kobe Campbell helps us understand why it’s so hard to break these patterns as she offers us a deeper understanding of how our past shapes our present. With tender wisdom, rare vulnerability, and profound honesty, Kobe reminds each reader that they’re not alone, empowering them to step into healing with evidence-based, faith-filled coping skills and resources.

In Why Am I Like This?, you will:

• gain an understanding of what trauma and healing really are,
• explore the roots of your dysfunctional patterns,
• learn how your trauma shows up in your everyday life, and
• find trauma-informed, faith-based coping mechanisms to heal your mind and deepen your intimacy with God.

Kobe marries theological insight with therapeutic principles to give readers the tools and insights needed to begin their journey of restoration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780785296430
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	04/04/2023
Sold by:	HarperCollins Publishing
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	585,789
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Kobe Campbell is a Charlotte-based, Ghanaian-American Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC), trauma specialist, writer and speaker. Kobe holds a Masters of Art in Christian Counseling from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. Named one of Charlotte's Most Influential Women by Charlotte Lately Magazine and awarded Rising Star Under 30 by WILMA magazine, Kobe is a decorated and highly sought speaker, facilitator, and educator.

Kobe is the founder of The Healing Circle Therapy & Wellness Center in Charlotte North Carolina and hosts The Healing Circle Podcast. With a kind, compassionate, and energetic spirit, she helps people discover who they are apart from what they've experienced through therapy, support groups, speaking, retreats, organizational trainings and more. When Kobe isn't teaching and training, she's spending time with her husband and kids, playing her guitar, writing poetry, or traveling. She looks forward to sharing her expertise with anyone willing to learn and grow.

Editorial Reviews

02/20/2023

In this flawed debut, trauma therapist Campbell offers advice for challenging harmful behavior patterns. One night in college, the author, who’d long struggled with depression, resolved to end her life—until a friend’s text reminded her of God’s love. She uses that experience as a jumping off point to outline ways to break similar trauma-based cycles. The author defines trauma in its acute (arising from a “single distressing event”) and chronic (prolonged emotional or physical harm) forms, and notes how coping mechanisms can harden into harmful behavioral patterns over time. As a remedy, she recommends confronting one’s trauma head-on by dismantling negative self-beliefs, discussing painful memories with a trusted friend, or drawing on faith, because “when we open our hearts to grieve with Jesus, we get to experience... divine comfort.” Though Campbell’s client stories prove persuasive, her mentions of faith sometimes take the discussion off-track with hazy, unhelpful musings (“Will we walk, shakily if we must, toward a Jesus whose eyes are filled with tears when we have none left?”). In an overcrowded field, this doesn’t stand out. (Apr.)

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