Seeking Psychology in Scripture

About the Book

While languishing in the desert of depression, devout Christian Shannon Martindale assumed her complete healing would be the result of her faith. Exercising the principles offered by scripture which previously sustained her through the challenges of divorce, single-parenting, family deaths, remarriage, and infertility, she entered the valley of sorrow, searching for spiritual replenishment, yet still remaining unhealed. Guidance finally came by discovering the origin of her disorder physiologically residing in an over-sensitive nervous system. Through a psychiatrist who combined Christian therapy with an international self-help organization emphasizing the essential necessity of balance, today she maintains her mental, emotional and spiritual health by avoiding extremes. She now leads a normal life, integrating Christianity and psychology in this personal account of her successful recovery, offered for all who have walked the path of uncertainty, frequently experienced by depressed Christians.

About the Author

Shannon Martindale is a graduate of Brigham Young University with a dual major in Human Development and Family Relations/Elementary Education. She taught school for twenty years, but claims her greatest education is in the ‘University without Walls’ the college of daily life, where the homework of ‘experience’ never ceases. The Martindale’s appeared on the national talk show ‘Hour Magazine’ in 1986 with celebrity Gary Collins, speaking on the subject of marriage and depression, and have lectured in California and Utah on Mood Management Training, having taught adult education on the same topic. She has also been a guest on the former cable talk show, ‘Alive and Well.’ Her home is in Southern Utah.