Rewriting Your Genesis

Volume 2: Your Identity

BOOK 2 OF 3
Rewriting Your Genesis Volume 2: Your Identity Book Cover

You know who you are in Christ. Now it's time to live like you believe it.

The foundation is laid (Volume 1). But healing is harder than understanding.

Volume 2: Your Identity is the messy middle—where the real transformation happens. Over 11 chapters, you'll face the shame that keeps you in bondage, practice forgiveness when everything in you resists, engage in spiritual warfare, heal from trauma, and break destructive cycles.

This is the hard work most people avoid—but that changes everything.

This volume covers: Overcoming shame, the freedom of forgiveness, intimacy through prayer, navigating spiritual conflict, healing from trauma, breaking unhealthy patterns, setting boundaries, and walking through grief with hope.
ISBN (Print): 978-1-0672156-1-3
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-0672156-7-5
Format: 6x9 paperback • Also available as eBook
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Recommended: Read Volume 1 first to lay the foundation, then work through this healing process

The 11 Chapters of Volume 2

Part II: The Rewriting Process

  1. The Only Path to Redemption - Why Jesus is the way
  2. From Shame to Grace - Breaking free from performance
  3. The Freedom of Forgiveness - Forgiving others and yourself
  4. The Dialogue: Intimacy through Prayer - Beyond formulas
  5. Navigating the Conflict - Understanding temptation
  6. Winning the Battle for Peace - Spiritual warfare
  7. Reframing the Past - Healing from trauma
  8. Breaking the Cycle - Destructive patterns
  9. Love with Limits: Healthy Boundaries - Protecting your heart
  10. Beauty from the Ashes - When grief won't go away
  11. Walking through the Valley - God's presence in suffering

Each chapter includes: Biblical teaching, personal stories, reflection questions, weekly exercises, prayers, and Scripture focus.

Why This Volume Matters

💔 Addresses Real Pain

Doesn't offer quick fixes or shallow answers. This is trauma-informed, biblically grounded healing work.

🙏 Grace Over Performance

Learn to live in grace rather than striving for acceptance. Shame loses its power when God's truth replaces its lies.

⚔️ Spiritual Warfare

Practical tools for recognising and resisting the enemy's tactics. The armour of God applied to real life.

🩹 Trauma-Informed

Understands how trauma affects us spiritually, emotionally, and physically. Offers healing, not just information.

🛡️ Healthy Boundaries

Biblical boundaries aren't selfish—they're wise. Learn to protect your heart without closing it off.

🌱 Real Transformation

This isn't theory—it's the hard work that actually produces lasting change. The messy middle where growth happens.

Companion Materials Available

📝 Participant Workbook

Extended journalling space for processing difficult emotions, trauma work, and breakthrough moments.

ISBN (Print): 978-1-0672157-3-6

👥 Group Facilitator Guide

Special guidance for handling disclosures of abuse, trauma, and deep pain in group settings.

ISBN (Print): 978-1-0672156-4-4
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-0672157-0-5

🎓 Facilitator Training Manual

Essential for this volume. Learn trauma-informed facilitation before leading groups through this material.

Available separately (covers all three volumes)

The Complete Rewriting Your Genesis Journey

31 chapters across three volumes • One complete transformation

📘 Volume 1

YOUR PAST

The Foundation

View Volume 1 →

📗 Volume 2

YOUR IDENTITY

The Healing

← YOU ARE HERE

📙 Volume 3

YOUR PURPOSE

The Mission

View Volume 3 →

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About the Author

Neil (MJC) Herbst has walked with hundreds of people through their valleys over 20+ years of ministry in South Africa. He writes not from theory but from the trenches of real transformation—offering biblical truth applied to real pain.

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