This book read as a memoir as well as a nonfiction, what to do to heal book. It kept me interested from the first page. This was a new to me author but I loved her style and i loved her personal stories that drew me in and kept me reading more. This is a book that will be a wonderful resource for first responders as well as ordinary readers dealing with trauma in their lives.

BROKEN IN A GOOD WAY!

This book approached so many things that I have struggled with personally and also professionally. In medicine, daily primary and secondary trauma effects and molds so many. During the last almost three years of the COVID 19 pandemic, this has become more and more obvious and problematic. Our relationship with God, through gratitude AND lament, is the only way! Dr. Ellie Stevens' book approaches this through her personal experience of TBI and PTSD, as well as through her professional experience as a psychiatrist, working with veterans and others dealing with personal and secondary trauma. If you want to read a book that approaches this Biblically, this is that book. This book is SO vulnerable and authentic.

I was so blessed to find this book through NetGalley! I have bought several copies of this book to reread and to share.

Thank you to Ellie Stevens for sharing her story and the stories of those around her!

Unshackeled is an excellent self help book laced with sound theology and practical tips to walk in freedom. Steven's has a fine balance of spiritual health and mental health that many have lost. Unshackled is an excelled tool for those desiring deeper inner healing and searching where God is in the midst of trauma, abuse, and suffering.