Not Alone in the Night: Spiritual Pain & Grief After Brain Injury
with Dr. Alicia Britt Chole
Thursday April 17 @ 2:00-3:45pm ET
Join us for a workshop designed specifically for brain injury survivors and their families, featuring guest speaker Dr. Alicia Britt Chole (Dr. ABC), author of The Night is Normal: A Guide Through Spiritual Pain. This workshop offers an opportunity to explore the often-overlooked spiritual and emotional challenges through grief that accompany brain injuries. You are not alone in this.
Workshop Details
Teaching Session: Dr. Alicia Britt Chole will lead a comprehensive teaching session focused on navigating spiritual pain and grief after brain injury. She will share insights from her expertise in spiritual formation, providing tools and encouragement for coping with disillusionment and finding hope in the midst of suffering.
Q&A with Dr. ABC: Following the teaching session, participants will have the opportunity to engage in a Q&A session with Dr. ABC. This will allow for personal questions and concerns to be addressed, offering a deeper understanding of the spiritual challenges faced by brain injury survivors and their families.
Discussion Time: After a short break, the workshop will conclude with a facilitated discussion session. This will provide a safe space for participants to share their experiences, connect with others who are facing similar challenges, and explore strategies for rebuilding faith amidst grief after a brain injury.
Scholarships are available to ensure everyone has the opportunity to participate. The deadline to apply is April 15, 2025.
Space is limited—reserve your spot today!
meet our guest speaker
Dr. Alicia Britt Chole
It’s unnerving, isn’t it? When our faith feels ungrounded, untethered . . . unreal. When our certainty is adrift, as though an undercurrent has pulled us away from shore into the deep, into the darkness.
This is disillusionment.
This is spiritual pain.
This is losing hope.
And if this is you―if you’re in a dark night of the soul―please know that you are not alone. (And you are not as far away from safety as you may feel or fear.) Though faith shines best in full sun, it grows depth in the dark.
In The Night Is Normal, revered author, speaker, and mentor Dr. Alicia Britt Chole offers a groundbreaking perspective that reveals spiritual disillusionment as an unexpected friend.
Our reality is broken, but God has not changed. Whether you’re disillusioned with God, yourself, or others, Alicia offers practical and soul-full tools to help you navigate the night and find your way to a livable and love-saturated hope.
Your night will not last forever.
Within it, there is priceless treasure that’s simply too weighty to be sourced in sunshine.
Dr. Alicia Britt Chole is an award-winning author and international speaker. Alicia focuses on less than trendy topics like spiritual pain, the leader’s soul, the potential of anonymous years, decrease as a discipline, and the abuse of authority. Business leaders, pastors, college students, and churches agree: Alicia is an unusually disarming combination of realism and hope, intellect and grace, humor and art.
Her messages have been featured on DayStar, TBN, Propel, Christianity Today, Guideposts, Faith Gateway, and Chicken Soup for the Soul. A skillful mentor and speaker and an award-winning writer, Dr. ABC holds a doctorate in leadership and spiritual formation from George Fox Seminary and serves as the founding director of Leadership Investment Intensives, a nonprofit devoted to providing customized soul care for leaders in business and ministry. Along with her husband, Dr. Barry Jay Chole, and their three children (all Choles through the miracle of adoption), Alicia lives in the Ozark countryside and enjoys thunderstorms, jalapenos, pickleball, honest questions, and pianos in empty rooms.
Alicia’s books include Anonymous: Jesus’ Hidden Years and Yours, 40 Days of Decrease: A Different Kind of Hunger, A Different Kind of Fast, The Sacred Slow: A Holy Departure from Fast Faith, and The Night is Normal: A Guide Through Spiritual Pain.
Options to Attend - Space is Limited
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Our programs are made accessible to everyone through scholarships, ensuring no one is excluded due to financial limitations. For those who are able, we invite you to contribute by supporting the mission of Hope Survives through a suggested registration donation which helps us continue offering vital programs for survivors and families.
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We believe cost should never be a barrier to healing. Scholarships are available for survivors and families in need. Apply for a scholarship to reserve your seat at no cost. The deadline to apply is April 15, 2025.
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Extend hope and healing by sponsoring a seat for another attendee. For $35, you can give a survivor or family member the opportunity to join this life-changing event.