- Paperback: 89 pages
- Publisher: Winepress Publishing (Aug 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1579218970
- ISBN-13: 978-1579218973
- Product Dimensions: 22.7 x 16.1 x 0.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 433,077 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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As someone, who doesn't know much about this condition, this book was very informative, and real. A great insight into the decease.
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This Book Saved My Life!
18 Jan 2008
My name is John and I wanted to share a little of my story with you. I have been a cutter for over 30 years. I have been to counselors and doctors and you name it. I have done horrible unspeakable (until now) things to my body and was resigned to a life of self-torture. Never in a million years did I see a way out. I've always had faith but I was never walking in God. After I had a heart attack my cutting and beating became an almost daily event leaving my body in terrible shape and causing me incredible pain, physical and mental. I was in fact trying to slowly kill myself and suicide became an option I pondered daily. In my despair, I cried out to my siblings and THANK GOD! One did hear my cries. We've all heard that God works in mysterious ways and I am a testament to that fact. Through a set of very unusual circumstances my sister came to learn of my cutting and despair. Through her kindness and God's will, Nancy Alcorn's book entitled "Cut: Mercy for Self-Harm" came to be in my hands. Within minutes of reading this book I had accepted Jesus into my life and knew immediately I would never cut myself again. The temptation may return, but I now have Jesus on my side and I know how to fight it with his help. To me this is astounding and miraculous. I find it difficult to come up with words that are superlative enough to describe what this book did for me that doctors and over 30 years of trying failed to accomplish. I mean in a heartbeat, I knew I was released from this terribly horrible burden that has ruled my life. This book has become my second Bible and I will always have it and read its lessons and prayers over and over again. I know I still have a rough road ahead of me but I find enormous comfort in this book and its message. This book has taught me so much about myself that others never could have. This book has brought Jesus back into my life, what can I possibly say to Nancy Alcorn and Mercy Ministries to show my gratitude and thanks? I find it very ironic and wondrous that an organization that caters to young women has helped so greatly to save this old mans life.
16 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Look Elsewhere to Find Mercy
30 Dec 2007
This book reveals a drawback of buying online: you can't always flip through the pages to see what the book will actually be like! Perhaps this review will be a bit unfair, because I couldn't even bring myself to finish reading this book. As a former cutter and an author (Cutting: Self-Injury and Emotional Pain), I was disappointed by the simplistic approach that the author took toward helping people find healing from self-harm. Praying and reading your Bible, along with cognitive behavioral techniques that use Scripture, aren't the way to find true, lasting healing--while they do help, they alone are not the only answer. If you simplify complex physiological, emotional, behavioral and spiritual problems into solely spiritual problems (which is what the author seems to do), you're likely missing the whole picture, and if you don't treat the whole problem, the components that caused the problem in the first place will rear their heads in another way (e.g., I went from recovering from an eating disorder, solely by focusing on the spiritual aspect of the disorder, to developing a problem with cutting, because I hadn't dealt with the underlying emotional/psychological, biological/physiological issues).
For better Christian books, see Jerusha Clark's "Inside a Cutter's Mind," Jan Kern's "Scars That Wound, Scars that Heal," or Marv Penner's upcoming book "Hope and Healing for Kids Who Cut." For other good books see "A Bright Red Scream" by Marilee Strong or "Bodily Harm" by Karen Conterio and Wendy Lader.
For better Christian books, see Jerusha Clark's "Inside a Cutter's Mind," Jan Kern's "Scars That Wound, Scars that Heal," or Marv Penner's upcoming book "Hope and Healing for Kids Who Cut." For other good books see "A Bright Red Scream" by Marilee Strong or "Bodily Harm" by Karen Conterio and Wendy Lader.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
I found this book powerful and insightful.
14 Dec 2007
After years of feeling helpless, I now have hope that healing can take place in my life and that God does desire to bring wholeness to my deep emotional pain. The testimonies brought hope that there is a light out of my darkness.
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