Dr. Monte Miller has spent thirty years sitting with people in the middle of their worst moments - first in nursing homes, holding umbrellas for clients who had lost everything, and later in his own therapy practice. But before any of that, he was a sixteen-year-old boy watching his mother die of a stroke, three years after his parents' divorce split his family in two. A painful marriage and a financial collapse would come later. He knows storms from both sides of the room - as the therapist, and as the one who needed help.
Held in the Storm is his honest account of the storms that have hit his own life, paired with the clinical techniques and hard-won faith that carried him through them. He walks through the practical, often uncomfortable work of getting through hard seasons: learning that feelings aren't facts, finding the control you actually have when everything feels out of your hands, choosing happiness as a discipline rather than waiting for it to arrive, and giving yourself permission to actually grieve instead of pushing through. He tackles the harder questions too - why disappointment cuts as deep as it does, why bad things happen to people who don't deserve them, and where real hope lives when this life clearly isn't fair.
Drawing on decades spent with clients who had far less reason to hope than most of us, Miller makes the case that peace was never about avoiding the storm. It's about learning to stand in it. Blending Christian faith with real clinical insight - "stroke with one hand, punch with the other," as one of his own professors once told him - this is not a book of easy comfort. It's honest about how bad life can get, and just as honest about the deep peace that's still possible in the middle of it.
And the peace of God which transcends all understanding will guide your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. - Philippians 4:7
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