From Basement to Sanctuary: Finding Healing and Transformation Through Surrender

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After spending her teen and young adult life mired in alcoholism and drug addiction that led to a downward spiral of trauma, shame, and homelessness, the author experienced an encounter with God in a public bathroom in 2001, and her life was forever changed.

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Author Holly Christine Hayes spent her teen and young adult life mired in alcoholism and drug addiction, in the grips of a downward spiral that led to a life of trauma, shame, and eventual homelessness. After an encounter with God in a public bathroom in 2001, her life was forever changed. God miraculously healed her and delivered her from her addiction. But it took years for her to find out who the God was that saved her. Through the telling of her story, the author takes readers on a journey through the surrender of the recovery meetings that gather in church basements to the wholeness and healing she found in the sanctuary of the church. All the while, she shares lessons she learned in the basement about who God really is and the miraculous ways He wants to heal our hurts, habits, sins, and setbacks.

Author Biography

Holly Christine Hayes is an award-winning author, world-renowned recovery ministry expert, and founder/CEO of Sanctuary Project, a community of advocates bringing hope and healing to survivors of trafficking, violence, and addiction. After working in worship and recovery ministry for Menlo Church in California and the American Church in Paris, Holly married her husband Jeff in 2016, and they now reside in Austin, Texas. Holly is a speaker and worship leader in safe houses, churches, conferences and recovery communities all over the world and was recently chosen as a new voice for Women of Faith. For more information, please

Long Description

Author Holly Christine Hayes spent her teen and young adult life mired in alcoholism and drug addiction, in the grips of a downward spiral that led to a life of trauma, shame, and eventual homelessness. After an encounter with God in a public bathroom in 2001, her life was forever changed. God miraculously healed her and delivered her from her addiction. But it took years for her to find out who the God was that saved her. Through the telling of her story, the author takes readers on a journey through the surrender of the recovery meetings that gather in church basements to the wholeness and healing she found in the sanctuary of the church. All the while, she shares lessons she learned in the basement about who God really is and the miraculous ways He wants to heal our hurts, habits, sins, and setbacks.

Excerpt from Book

Chapter 1 The Basement When I think of the bottom, I think of the base of something...but this was so much lower. "God... Help me." These were the only words I could muster as I balled myself up in a rusty stall of a public restroom. Sobbing as quietly as I could, I watched my tears hit the muddled shades of ugly beige on the subway-tile floor. Who else could I cry out to? Who else would listen? Where else could I run to attempt to untangle the mess my life had become? My circumstances were beyond imagination. Within a few short years of drinking and drug use, I had suffered unthinkable traumas leading up to this moment. Piles of failures added endlessly to the list of reasons I used to justify blotting out my consciousness as best I could--constant arrests, incarcerations, car accidents, rapes, abortions, abuse. I was homeless, suicidal, lost, and desperately afraid. How did I ever end up there? How did a young girl, who was once full of hope, land in the abyss of despair I now found myself in? We often hear about hitting a "bottom" in reference to addiction and broken lives. Its connotation implies it's the lowest one can go. Of course everyone's bottom is different, but the word "bottom" doesn't begin to describe how this felt. When I think of a bottom, I think of the floor, the ground, or the base of something. This was not like that. This was not the base of anything. This was so much lower. This was the basement. I never found the words to describe this place, until I saw it described as "the pit" in the book that changed my life. That is where I found myself--the pit. You might think I could easily point to the moment when I fell in, or slipped off the edge, or perhaps climbed down into this pit. My situation had so gradually thrown up muddy walls around me that I didn't even notice I was sinking deep into the earth. I didn't notice that I was slowly burying myself so deeply that any egress would feel completely impossible. In fact, for much of the time that led to that eye-opening moment, I believed I was having fun. I thought I was just a wild young soul enjoying all life had to offer. That insidious lie landed me at that moment, unable to change, unable to live, and unable to cry out or call out to anyone for help--to anyone, but "God." That might sound like this is where my story ends. Sadly, this is where many stories like mine do end. But this was the beginning for me. I begin my story here. I begin in the basement.

Details ISBN151279886X ISBN-10 151279886X ISBN-13 9781512798869 Format Paperback Pages 154 Language English Media Book Illustrations Illustrations, black and white Author Holly Christine Hayes Subtitle Finding Healing and Transformation Through Surrender Short Title From Basement to Sanctuary DEWEY 248.8629092 Audience General/Trade Publisher Thomas Nelson Publishers Imprint Westbow Press Place of Publication Nashville Country of Publication United States Year 2019 AU Release Date 2019-03-21 NZ Release Date 2019-03-21 US Release Date 2019-03-21 Publication Date 2019-03-21 UK Release Date 2019-03-21 We've got this

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