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Emotional Impacts of Life Beyond Convent Walls: Embracing New Horizons by Adaku Helen Ogbuji, CCVI, Ph.D.
Emotional Impacts of Life Beyond Convent Walls: Embracing New Horizons
by Sr. Adaku Helen Ogbuji, CCVI, PhD
This book offers a profound exploration of the emotional and spiritual aftermath faced by women who leave or are dismissed from religious life. Drawing on extensive interviews and research, the book unveils the trauma, identity disruption, and search for healing that follow life beyond the convent. With pastoral sensitivity and psychological insight, it calls the Church toward greater compassion, justice, and accompaniment.
Paperback: $14.95 | Kindle: $9.99
TESTIMONIALS
“Emotional Impacts of Life Beyond Convent Walls is a deeply human and theologically attentive work, illuminating hidden wounds with clarity and compassion, while inviting the Church toward a more faithful, healing accompaniment of those who have journeyed beyond.” — Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, co-author with Ronda Chervin of Catholic Realism
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sister Adaku Helen (Helena) Ogbuji, CCVI, PhD, belongs to the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, Houston, Texas. She is an author of several books. She holds a master’s in Theology, Divinity and Psychology and a PhD in Counseling Psychology. Presently, she is the Formation Director and the Novice Director in their formation house in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Fiorella De Maria read her first Sherlock Holmes mystery at the age of seven and has been a fan of classic crime fiction ever since. A winner of the National Book Prize of Malta, in addition to the Father Gabriel series, she has published multiple novels with Ignatius Press for both adults and younger readers, including Poor Banished Children, Do No Harm, A Most Dangerous Innocence, and My Family and Other Skaters. She lives in Surrey, England, with her husband, four children, and a dog called Monty
