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.

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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.

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