Coming Autumn 2021:
Finding Your Wings
A Christian Guide to Healing from Romantic Rejection & Heartbreak
Author: Ruth Fanshaw
When the wings of your heart have been broken, how do you learn to soar again?
So many of us have to deal with the pain of romantic rejection and heartbreak in our lives - yet there is so little specific advice available about how a Christian should handle it. The general attitude seems to be: "Don't worry, you'll get over it!" The question is, how?
How do we find our way through the pain into a place of healing, with our integrity intact and our relationship with God growing stronger?
With a Biblical outlook and practical advice, the author draws on over 30 years of personal experience to help you walk with Jesus through every stage of your healing, from the first desperate pain, through the confusion and distress, into a time of 'convalescence' - and finally, to complete wholeness and restoration.
The book itself won't heal you.
Jesus will heal you.
This book is here to help you receive and experience
the fullness of the healing He brings.
Notice to Booksellers & Libraries
This book will be available for pre-order (date to be announced).
From that date, copies can be ordered direct from Ingram Spark at the standard industry discount. The books are returnable, and there is no minimum order.
Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-9996251-0-8
Large Print Edition ISBN: 978-1-9996251-1-5
Praise for Finding Your Wings
'It’s easy to respond to heartbreak and challenging experiences with half-baked pop psychology and nice comforting sayings. In Finding Your Wings, R.M. Fanshaw avoids both those traps and heads straight back to the Bible, offering godly, wise and sensitive insights into some of the deepest emotions any human can endure, which remain solidly focused on biblical truth—a great starting point and end goal for any healing process.'
~ Dr Andrew Davies
Reader in the Public Understanding of Religion,
University of Birmingham, UK
'I rarely read self-help books, Christian or not. I've just not found very many of them helpful… because so many of them focus on just rejoicing in the joy that is ours through Christ Jesus and skip over the part where it's important to acknowledge the pain first and give yourself time to grieve or heal and not just pretend that you're okay…
'This book was excellently written. It was clearly and concisely phrased, and I was delighted to see how strongly [the author urges] giving oneself TIME to recover. Time to be not okay while still not wallowing in it or allowing it to run your life. Also, as someone who has been an Eleanor all of her life, especially in regards to not one, but three Marianne sisters... I personally really appreciated the Sense and Sensibility comparison.
'And [the] poem at the end was beautiful.'
~ Arielle Bailey
Professional Editor
'The author presented her case very well. Right at the beginning I am cheering that she’s written this book! The conversational style put me immediately at ease. It was easy to follow… I look forward to reading the rest of it one day.'
~ LJR, Preliminary Judge’s Feedback, OCW Cascade Award 2018
'Clearly explains the purpose of her book, and how her own experience qualifies her to write on the subject. Has a very important target audience: people... recovering from the break-up of a romantic relationship.'
~ Gordon S Grose, Preliminary Judge’s Feedback,
OCW Cascade Award 2018
Ruth Fanshaw
Ruth Fanshaw writes poetry, and short, ‘user-friendly’ Christian self-help and theology books, intended to be accessible to readers with no academic or theological background. She loves helping people discover the person God created them to be.
She studied theology for three and a half years, and holds a Diploma in Christian Studies. She has preached in churches in Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire.
Ruth has navigated two breakdowns and many bouts of anxiety and depression. Her experience of living with these illnesses has challenged her in her walk with God, yet also helped her to experience His love on a deeper level.
Find out more at Ruth's site: ruthfanshaw.com.