Beyond The Struggle

Some wounds do not disappear because life kept moving.  You can work, provide, worship, raise children, build a career, and still carry old instructions from childhood, rejection, poverty, incarceration, family secrecy, betrayal, or loss.  Survival can make your strong, but strength and healing are not the same thing.  In Beyond the Struggle:  Finding Power in Your Story, Lucius Alston speaks directly to Black readers and families who are ready to tell the truth without making trauma their permanent identity.  Across twenty chapters, the book examines the father wound, the mother wound, unsafe homes, emotional suppression in Black boys and men, the burden placed on black girls and women to carry everybody, the ripple effects of incarceration, church hurt, betrayal, anger, shame, forgiveness, grief, identity, and the process of turning wounds into wisdom.  Every chapter combines reflection with action through a Beyond the Struggle Principle, Wound check, Tell the Truth questions, Healing Assignment, Family table Questions, and Power Move.  The final section includes a practical Healing Blueprint, a 12 month plan, and a Family Covenant for building forward.