2026

Healing is often portrayed as a linear journey – a path from brokenness to wholeness, from pain to peace. But anyone who has truly walked that road knows it’s far more complex. Healing isn’t just about moving forward; it’s about transforming, unearthing, and integrating. It’s about what lies on the other side of the experience – the side where life doesn’t look or feel the same, where we are fundamentally changed by what we’ve been through.

This book is about that side of healing.

For many of us, the hardest part of the journey isn’t the initial wound; it’s the aftermath. What happens when the dust settles? When the pain subsides but leaves its fingerprints on your life? When you’ve survived the storm but now face the work of rebuilding, reimagining, and rediscovering who you are?

The other side of healing isn’t a tidy resolution. It’s messy, surprising, and deeply human. It’s where we learn to live with scars – not as marks of defeat but as symbols of resilience. It’s where we find meaning in the struggles we’d never choose and a sense of purpose in the pieces we never thought we’d fit together again.

In these pages, we will explore what it means to truly heal – not just physically or emotionally, but holistically. We’ll uncover the myths and misconceptions about healing, the unexpected lessons it teaches, and the ways it can challenge and enrich every facet of our lives. Through stories, insights, and practical reflections, this book will invite you to step into a new understanding of what healing is and what it can become.

This is not a guide to “getting over” anything. It’s an invitation to step into a deeper, fuller relationship with yourself and your experiences. Whether you are in the midst of pain or reflecting on a journey you’ve already traveled, TheOther Side of Healing will meet you where you are – and help you move toward where you want to be.

2026

Write Human: A Field Guide for Creators in the Age of AI helps writers, thinkers, creators, and communicators who want to use AI wisely without losing the wonder, courage, and deep humanity that true communication requires.

Why this book? Why now? We are living in the time when human creativity is joined by a partner that never tires, never forgets, and never stops responding. Artificial intelligence can now sit at the desk beside every person seeking to communicate and be a proofreader, collaborator and muse. But it is important to remember AI cannot thirst for water, hunger for a meal, or gaze in awe at a sky full of stars. It can mimic an experience, but cannot live one.

This book explores the evolving space between what an algorithm can generate and what only a human can create and provides a new roadmap for what it means to write human in the age of AI.

InterGenerate: Transforming Churches through Intergenerational Ministry,Holly Catterson Allen, Editor. Abilene Christian University Press, July 2018.   https://www.amazon.com//dp/1684261503