Countless books are designed to help leaders to become better leaders. But most resources neglect the underlying emotional struggles of both emerging and established leaders, who are often isolated and suffering in silence. Leadership professor Nicholas Rowe and counselor Sheila Wise Rowe offer their expertise in helping leaders process painful and traumatic experiences. Trauma contributes to how we lead others in either empowering or dysfunctional ways. Understanding how these experiences formed us is the beginning of the path to healing.
Woven throughout each chapter are five themes—invitation, attachment, remembrance, healing, and reconnection. Healing Leadership Trauma lays out the emotional challenges of leadership and offers encouragement, prayer, and therapeutic tools to help leaders face their pain and begin to heal.
Table of Content
Introduction
1. The Heart of the Matter
2. Our Relational God
3. The Roots of Detachment
4. The Pull of Temptation
5. The Myth of Self-Sufficiency
6. Healing the Harmed Heart
7. Gender Trauma
8. Racial and Ethnic Trauma
9. The Path of Forgiveness
10. The Heart of Restored Relationships
11. The Necessity of Rest
12. Finding Purpose Again
Acknowledgments
Appendix 1: Prayer of Surrender and Salvation
Appendix 2: My Family Tree
Appendix 3: My Transformation Plan
Group Discussion Guide
Glossary
Notes
About the author
Sheila Wise Rowe (MEd, Cambridge College) has over thirty years of experience offering counseling and spiritual direction to abuse and trauma survivors and to emerging and established leaders in the United States. Sheila ministered to unhoused and abused women and children in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she taught Christian counseling and trauma-related courses and was also a lay pastor for a decade. Sheila is the author of the award-winning Healing Racial Trauma and Young, Gifted, and Black.
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