(Winter 2025)

Healing is often portrayed as a linear journey – a path from brokenness to wholeness, from pain to peace. But anyone who has truly walked that road knows it’s far more complex. Healing isn’t just about moving forward; it’s about transforming, unearthing, and integrating. It’s about what lies on the other side of the experience – the side where life doesn’t look or feel the same, where we are fundamentally changed by what we’ve been through.

This book is about that side of healing.

For many of us, the hardest part of the journey isn’t the initial wound; it’s the aftermath. What happens when the dust settles? When the pain subsides but leaves its fingerprints on your life? When you’ve survived the storm but now face the work of rebuilding, reimagining, and rediscovering who you are?

The other side of healing isn’t a tidy resolution. It’s messy, surprising, and deeply human. It’s where we learn to live with scars – not as marks of defeat but as symbols of resilience. It’s where we find meaning in the struggles we’d never choose and a sense of purpose in the pieces we never thought we’d fit together again.

In these pages, we will explore what it means to truly heal – not just physically or emotionally, but holistically. We’ll uncover the myths and misconceptions about healing, the unexpected lessons it teaches, and the ways it can challenge and enrich every facet of our lives. Through stories, insights, and practical reflections, this book will invite you to step into a new understanding of what healing is and what it can become.

This is not a guide to “getting over” anything. It’s an invitation to step into a deeper, fuller relationship with yourself and your experiences. Whether you are in the midst of pain or reflecting on a journey you’ve already traveled, TheOther Side of Healing will meet you where you are – and help you move toward where you want to be.

Download: A Miracle Mindset Book.

One day I had the idea to start a daily blog.

The goal would be to awaken every morning and to notice and write about one miracle, or as author Joan Dideon put it, a “shimmer.” Didion added as encouragement, “Look hard enough, and you can’t miss the shimmer. It’s there.” 

What was I looking for exactly? What is the definition of a miracle? 

The Latin miraculum, from which the word comes, means “a wondrous occurrence.” Miracles have been also defined as an “intervention,” divine or otherwise. Another source is a 5,000 year old word, smeiros, which means “smile.”

Over 500 posts later it’s been gratifying to watch that simple idea grow to having these posts read thousands of times and for the idea to forever change how I walk through a day, namely, l’ve learned to trust the shimmer appears. 

This small book is a collection of 125 posts of these 500 posts where I wrote about an experience, a book or article I encountered, or a sudden insight. Posts that reminded me, for example, anything is always possible, to opt for awe, and life loves on. 

Easter: 21 Stations

Download : Easter – 21 Stations

“While appropriate for the penitential season of Lent, this collection by Mark Barger Elliott is a feast of words and images to nourish reflection throughout the year. Reminiscent of the work of Mary Oliver, Alan Lightman, and Wendell Berry, Elliott’s poetry and photographs teach, surprise, delight, and turn the reader of this book into a pilgrim who is changed, challenged, and enriched by embarking on this sacred journey.” – Amy Richter, Antimony: a Novel