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Trade Review"Creative repair deserves to be in the vocabulary of every person in a helping profession. Anne Holmes skilfully distills insights from theology, therapy, and lived experience in offering creative repair to many others. This is a vitally important text in such challenging times." -- Alistair Ross
“Creative Repair will be a lifeline and a source of strength and healing to clergy and their families and to all who support them. The pandemic and the lockdowns have deepened the needs in Church and Society for ways to mend and heal and overcome distress. This book provides deep wisdom for that task” -- Steven Croft
"Particularly with regard to clergy, but relevant to all people, [this is] a book which advocates ways to healing and wholeness of life through creativity, and balance in giving and taking...With a reference to the ‘ordered life’ of monasticism with its balance of work, prayer and recreation, which frees us all to be more whole." -- Sister Paula
"This beautifully and clearly written book will be a rich resource for all those engaged in spiritual and pastoral care. Its wisdom comes out of many years' experience of and reflection on human and theological realities, always with practical outworking in mind. The concept of 'creative repair' offers new avenues for practitioners that go beyond talking therapy to a holistic and embodied approach to the human person." -- Joanna Collicutt
Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 2 The Concept of Creative Repair 3 Why Self-care? 4 Individual Creative Repair 5 Group Creative Repair 6 The Creative Repair of Things 7 Regular Habits or a Rule of Life 8 Resilience and Creative Repair 9 Towards a Theology of Creative Repair 10 Creative Repair in Pastoral Practice Appendix A: Questions to Think About Appendix B: Informal Audit and Questions for Creative Repair Bibliography Index
