Healing doesn’t start when you’re ready.
It starts when you’re willing.
The Invitation to Heal Before You Feel Ready is a soul-centered, trauma-informed, and spiritually grounded companion for the sacred chaos that comes before true transformation. This is not a workbook or a plan. It’s a mirror, a reckoning, and a preparation for the deep work of healing your nervous system, rewriting inherited patterns, and coming back to the self you lost in survival.
Written by therapist and group facilitator Paul J. Lawler, CAC, ICADC, this book offers compassionate clarity for the moment when survival is no longer enough—but you don’t yet know how to live differently. It bridges neuroscience, psychology, spirituality, and emotional truth to guide readers through the emotional, physical, and spiritual disorientation that often marks the beginning of real change.
PLEASE READ FIRST:
This book is intentionally low-priced because it is the essential primer for every other healing journey. Whether you’re entering therapy, recovery, trauma work, or beginning to pick up any of Paul Lawler’s books—this is where to start. It’s designed for anyone facing healing from trauma, substance use, emotional pain, or mental health exhaustion. Before you try to “get better,” this book will help you understand what you’re truly stepping into.
Inside, you’ll explore:
- Why healing often feels worse before it feels better
- What it means to grieve identities, patterns, and relationships you’ve outgrown
- How your nervous system responds to emotional truth and spiritual awakening
- The real difference between being “ready” and being willing
- How faith, science, and somatic intelligence meet in the healing process
This is the permission you never received, the preparation you always needed, and the place to begin when you’re finally ready to stop surviving—and start returning.
The Invitation to Heal Before You Feel Ready: A Soul-Centered Guide Through the
Healing doesn’t start when you’re ready.
It starts when you’re willing.
The Invitation to Heal Before You Feel Ready is a soul-centered, trauma-informed, and spiritually grounded companion for the sacred chaos that comes before true transformation. This is not a workbook or a plan. It’s a mirror, a reckoning, and a preparation for the deep work of healing your nervous system, rewriting inherited patterns, and coming back to the self you lost in survival.
Written by therapist and group facilitator Paul J. Lawler, CAC, ICADC, this book offers compassionate clarity for the moment when survival is no longer enough—but you don’t yet know how to live differently. It bridges neuroscience, psychology, spirituality, and emotional truth to guide readers through the emotional, physical, and spiritual disorientation that often marks the beginning of real change.
PLEASE READ FIRST:
This book is intentionally low-priced because it is the essential primer for every other healing journey. Whether you’re entering therapy, recovery, trauma work, or beginning to pick up any of Paul Lawler’s books—this is where to start. It’s designed for anyone facing healing from trauma, substance use, emotional pain, or mental health exhaustion. Before you try to “get better,” this book will help you understand what you’re truly stepping into.
Inside, you’ll explore:
- Why healing often feels worse before it feels better
- What it means to grieve identities, patterns, and relationships you’ve outgrown
- How your nervous system responds to emotional truth and spiritual awakening
- The real difference between being “ready” and being willing
- How faith, science, and somatic intelligence meet in the healing process
This is the permission you never received, the preparation you always needed, and the place to begin when you’re finally ready to stop surviving—and start returning.