Daniel Emina - The Suicide Solution: Finding Your Way Out of the Darkness

The Suicide Solution

Finding Your Way Out of the Darkness

Daniel Emina & Rick Lawrence

Were in the middle of a second pandemic of depression. And as a pastor, I know from firsthand experience the damage left in the wake of suicide. What this book offers is a pathway out of the darkness and into the lightits a peremptory strike against the dire threats of our broken biology and our broken narratives. And, even more important, the message and solutions offered in The Suicide Solution are embedded in, and drawn from, the Great Healer, who is Jesus. If youre struggling, or know someone who is, this book can be a lifesaver.

Dr. Derwin L. Gray, founder and lead pastor of Transformation Church and author of Building a Multiethnic Church, The Good Life, and Limitless Life

There has never been a more important time in history for The Suicide Solution. It is written with practical solutions that provide a new way forward for this epidemic problem. I highly recommend it.

Daniel Amen, M.D., founder and CEO of Amen Clinics and New York Times bestselling author of The End of Mental Illness and Change Your Brain, Change Your Life

My heartbreak continues. Just as I was finishing The Suicide Solution, I learned of yet another teen suicide. Its hard to bear again. Gratefully, in this important and hopeful work, Rick Lawrence and Dr. Daniel Emina provide a distinctly unique approach to this widespread and devastating societal problem. These authors shine a new lighta healing light, a much-needed Jesus lightinto this epidemic. Lawrence and Emina gift us with medical tools, practical helps, and strong biblical undergirding as they teach us all how to be midwives of grace to those in desperate places. We all need to read and reread this book.

Andrea Syverson, founder of IER Partners, branding strategist, and author of Alter Girl: Walking Away from Religion into the Heart of Faith

The balance of solid medical and psychological research with good theology and practical instruction makes this a unique and invaluable resource. Though the principles apply broadly to everyone interested in a whole and healthy life, the need for this type of help for those dealing with suicidal ideation and those trying to help them is immense. Thank you for speaking to this urgent need.

Pastor Todd Rodarmel, lead pastor of Mountain View Church in San Juan Capistrano, California

For those like me who care for those in despair, I cant think of a better gift. For those drowning while others seem to breathe easy, Daniel and Rick offer more than a lifelinethey offer shot after shot of hope.

Phil Callaway, radio host and author of Laugh Like a Kid Again

Dimensionally different from other integration efforts, this book does far more than offer Jesuss helpful perspective inside professionally defined challenges; readers travel through the wormhole of Christs heart into the painful anguish of depression and suicide. When Jesus himself resets the parameters for discovery, whats most true casts light on what else is true. Marvelous assets from Amen Clinics and brain science breakthroughs become fish and loaves stretched to feed those hungry to hear from the Lord, making The Suicide Solution a feast of wonder, hope, and healing!

Dr. Dave Rahn, senior research advisor and former vice president of Youth for Christ USA and author of Disrupting Teens with Joy

Rick Lawrence and Dr. Daniel Emina masterfully tackle a difficult and traumatic subject that continues to leave millions of people in unimaginable pain and suffering. This book offers hope through the lens of Jesusa hope that is so desperately sought by people in the midst of the oft-times unspoken battle for their lives. Lawrence and Emina will get you thinking deeper as they explore the freedom promised to humanity in the gospels and delivered through Christs sacrifice. The Suicide Solution is an absolute must-read.

Billy Hallowell, director of communications and content for PureFlix.com, former senior editor at Faithwire.com, and author of Playing with Fire

This is such a needed book in our cultural moment. If we only knew how many people struggled with this topic, not only would we be more empathic with others, but we would be more empathic with ourselves. I believe this book will bring healing and freedom to a lot of people. May it be, may it be!

David Lomas, pastor of Reality San Francisco and author of The Truest Thing about You

The chasm separating the powerfully transformative gifts of a Christian spiritual life and the tools of therapeutic interventions has been too wide for too long, in effect leaving people to struggle with significant mental health issues alone. Rick Lawrence and Dr. Daniel Emina stand in that gap with this practical and carefully researched book. Its never just one thingthat was one of the best things I learned from my own counseling degree program. And in a manner that is both groundbreaking and winsome, Lawrence and Emina tackle the cataclysm that is the meeting of nature, nurture, AND theological issues that causes disordered thinking and leads people to the drastic solution of taking their own lives. The ongoing epidemic of suicide has profound implications for Christians and Christian communities. This is a book that will help you love your friends and family more productively, and it will help ministry leaders come alongside the people that God has given to their care in deeper and more effective ways.

Dr. Nancy S. Going, director of research and resource development for Vibrant Faith

Copyright 2021 by Daniel Emina and Rick Lawrence

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