Getting Through What You Can't Get Over: Stories, Tips, and Inspiration to Help You Move Past Your Pain into Lasting Freedom is a Christian, Bible-based self-help book written by Anita Agers-Brooks. When the author was going through some devastating issues in her own life, she attended a lecture by Dr. Edith Eger, a Holocaust survivor. Agers-Brooks was drawn in by the motivational speaker's story and intensity, and was stunned when Dr. Eger picked her out at the meet and greet line and asked to meet with her the next morning. Dr. Eger spent the entire following day with her and the counseling helped the author begin her process of healing. In this book, she continues that tradition by sharing stories of grief and hardship and offering counseling and advice on how to heal. Each chapter includes a story and a section entitled Insider Insights which offers guided methods for emotional healing, practical help and spiritual comfort, and is concluded with a guided prayer.

Anita Agers-Brooks' inspirational Christian self-help book, Getting Through What You Can't Get Over: Stories, Tips, and Inspiration to Help You Move Past Your Pain into Lasting Freedom is a well-presented self-help guide filled with the author's insights on survival and healing. Her opening story of her meeting with Dr. Eger is fascinating, and I was touched by the author's fearless candor in discussing her emotional state as she interacted with Eger. I was also impressed by her inclusive and thorough coverage of the causes of PTSD and found many of her exercises and guided meditation concepts to be well-considered. They should be quite helpful for Christians, especially those who are conversant with the Bible and Biblical study. My only reservation about Getting Through What You Can't Get Over: Stories, Tips, and Inspiration to Help You Move Past Your Pain into Lasting Freedom is that its Christian-centric approach to healing may cause non-Christians to feel that the author's techniques and advice are not directed to, or would be useful for them, and that would be a shame indeed. I'd love to see a secular version of this work.

It took me a while to get through Getting Through What You Can't Get Over: Stories, Tips, and Inspiration to Help You Move Past Your Pain into Lasting Freedom by Anita Agers-Brooks. I needed to experience, not just read through this book because from its very first pages it addressed a question I had been grappling with for over a year: "How in the world do we survive when life won’t leave us in peace?"

Anita Agers-Brooks is a motivational speaker with Stonecroft Ministries. In Getting Through What You Can't Get Over, she offers a compilation of twelve true stories of women who have struggled with this same question and, through the grace of God and guidance of His spirit, were able to proclaim, “It’s never too late for a fresh start with fresh faith.”

Each story deals with a different type of trauma: trauma to the body, trauma to the mind, trauma to the wallet, trauma to the spirit. The chapter "Whose Your Daddy", for example, explores coping with the shock, stress and trauma of illegitimacy. "Homeless in Seattle" poignantly explores how each of us is only "one relationship, one war, one physical or mental illness, one breath, one drought, one famine, or one foreclosure away from losing what we’ve fought so hard to protect."

Reading Getting Through What You Can't Get Over helped me get over feelings of aloneness in the face of the challenges of my past year, and offered me concrete methods to deal with those challenges. Each chapter ends with Insider Insights: emotional healing, spiritual comfort, practical help, then a guided prayer directly related to the trauma discussed in that chapter. It took me a while to get through Getting Through What You Can't Get Over because I savored and reflected upon each one of those prayers. It was well worth the time.

Anita is my cousin. I have a little bit of different insight into this book as I am family. It is very well written and can be helpful for people going through various struggles.

I purchased this book in hopes of finding ways to help and support a friend going through a difficult time. Little did I know how much it would help me. I have found it to be well written and very insightful.