Navigating the Re-Entry Journey
Shonna Ingram
Today's global workers are on the move, often experiencing multiple seasons of leaving and returning. That makes re-entry more than simply coming back from another culture-it's facing the many emotional, spiritual, and practical challenges that follow. And sometimes, it means tending what's been broken.
Navigating the Re-entry Journey is a compassionate and practical guide for global workers and those who care for them. Through a trauma-informed approach, Shonna Ingram outlines four key phases of re-entry and the emotional landscape of each. She then offers tools for churches, organizations, and friends to provide meaningful support.
Whether you're stepping off the field or walking alongside someone who is, you'll find insight, hope, and resilience for the road ahead.
Reviews
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Valuable Resource
Shonna has taken her personal experience and journey and created a valuable, pratical resource for people walking with global workers through transition. Wether you're a global worker yourself, know a global worker, a church supporting global workers, or a sending organization, this book provides valuable insights and practical tools that can help you walk with those going through transition.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Clear, Concise, and Usable
I am delighted to recommend Shonna Ingram's work to everyone looking for a clear, concise and usable tool for the global worker and the support individuals who come alongside the re-entry process. I am grateful for the insight and encouragement found in her personal discoveries and expect my spiritual direction and supervision practice will benefit from her discussion of trauma and trauma-informed guidance. I look forward to reflecting on my own transitions as a child raised in a military family using this book to enhance my self-understanding and discover new ways God may want to use my experience.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Crucial Read for the Re-Entry Conversation
Shonna does an amazing job in this book of inviting the reader into the re-entry journey- either for themselves or to better understand ones they love. What makes this book different from others that speak to the often misunderstood transition of returning to your "passport" country? It approaches it from a lens that is compassionate and hopeful at the same time- a both/and perspective that allows a safe space to process grief and loss, and a biblical framework of hope that doesn't "leave the reader" without next steps of hope and growth. It encourages one's curiousity. I highly recommend to every person who knows, wants to understand, has experienced a time of unknown and challenge in transition- basically to everyone. :)