ROAD TO WHOLENESS – Healing from Trauma
The Road to Wholeness is a very helpful journey for anyone who is dealing with trauma and that means all of us! Sarah and Isabell have taken an indepth look at Jesus’ parable on the Good Samaritan, provided helpful spiritual insights and modern applications. Each reader can take many steps described in this book to walk their Road to Wholeness!
Sarah Bowling
SARAH BOWLING is on a mission to connect every one with the heart of God while living genuine love. Her unshakable conviction that unconditional love transforms everything, permeates every message, and connects individuals to the heart of God. Sarah aspires to facilitate this connection by equipping people with resources and tools that empower them to walk in an intimate and vibrant relationship with God.
Sarah is a powerful scholar and Spirit-led teacher with a gift to articulate and connect God’s life-giving revelation to our modern moment. Her passion takes her many places around the world to bring lasting change to each of us with the transforming love of God. Sarah also co-hosts a daily television program, Today with Marilyn & Sarah.
Isabell Bowling
Growing up under the teachings of her grandmother and mom, Isabell developed a passion for the Word and for loving people well. She gave her heart to the Lord at the tender age of six but faced mental health issues and church hurt, which caused her to doubt her faith. Through this time, God never gave up on her; and in His infinite mercy and grace, He brought her back into His loving embrace.
During her college years, Isabell led mission trips and was a student ministry leader. In 2023, she
graduated with a degree in Historical and Philosophical Theology and Modern Hebrew from Oral Roberts University. Upon graduation, she earned the honor of Outstanding Theology Student of the Year.
Since her graduation, Isabell has become an integral member of the Marilyn & Sarah Ministry team. She is multi-talented in writing, teaching, and ministry operations. In 2024, Sarah and Isabell released their first book together entitled Road to Wholeness.
Isabell’s heart is that every person would have a personal experience with the Lord that would forever change them. She knows that hearing the voice of God and catching ahold of His plan awakens and emboldens Christians to wage war for souls. She wants to be an obedient vessel of His presence, and to empower others to do the same.
During her free time, Isabell enjoys leading a C.S. Lewis book club at her church, spending time with her friends, reading, dancing, crocheting, traveling, cooking, and watching movies. She is also an avid fan of tea, coffee, and Formula 1 racing.
ENDORSEMENTS
Patricia King
Sarah Bowling’s book, Road to Wholeness is written to help and encourage people as they recover from trauma. Based on a study of the Good Samaritan parable,Sarah discloses profound revelatory insights such as, when the Good Samaritan “binds the wounds” of the victim on the Jericho Road, the word for wound in Greek is literally the word, “trauma.” In Road to Wholeness, Sarah offers understanding and wisdom to help the reader identify roots of trauma and to walk a journey into recovery. Sarah cowrites this book with her daughter Isabell Bowling. While Sarah wrote the non-fiction part, Isabell wrote a modern allegory that helps the reader see what this timeless parable looks like in their current existence. With trauma being a major threat on the health, well-being, and safety of individuals today, this book is important and very timely.
Patricia King
Author, Minister, Media Host and Producer
Alex Seeley
“In ‘The Road to Wholeness,’ Sarah and Isabell use biblical principles with modern insights to provide understanding for recovering from trauma. Beginning with the foundational question explored in Chapter One – ‘What’s the Big Deal About Trauma?’ The following chapters discuss the roles of individuals within the Good Samaritan parable, encouraging readers to reflect on their own identities and positions in the narratives of trauma. This thought-provoking and compassionate guide shows us how Jesus helps and leads us through our healing and his desire to make us whole.”
Alex Seeley
Co-Founder of The Belonging Co
Dr. Mike Hutchings
“This amazing book, Road to Wholeness is a much-needed message for our world when the experience of personal trauma seems to be accelerating. Sarah and Isabell Bowling bring years of ministry and personal experience into this manifesto of hope that will show you the way to encounter the God of hope and healing, and assist you in receiving the wholeness that brings restoration of the human soul, that Jesus brought in proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom. There is healing and restoration from a life of trauma to the abundant life that Jesus promised! You will find that in Road to Wholeness!”
Dr. Mike Hutchings
Director of Education at Global Awakening Ministries
President, God Heals PTSD Foundation
Joni Lamb
Trauma – a topic that is now being addressed more than ever before and Sarah Bowling, along with her daughter Isabell Bowling, brings out refreshing revelation in “Road to Wholeness?” You can experience freedom and transformation as Sarah examines the purpose of each character in the parable of the Good Samaritan. I believe this book can be the tool for overcoming whatever is holding you back from all God has for you!
Joni Lamb
Daystar Television Network
Mark Moore
Trauma is a lodestone of the human experience. It just seems to draw us in even when we try to avoid it and especially when we try to ignore it. If you are ready to work through it, Road to Wholeness will shed light on it, not only through Sarah’s sophisticated exegesis of Scripture but through her daughter’s artistic rendition through fiction. Join the healing journey.
Mark Moore
Teaching Pastor & Author Core 52
Cece Winans
The Road to Wholeness is a very helpful journey for anyone who is dealing with trauma, and that means all of us. Sarah and Isabell have taken an in-depth look at Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan, provided helpful spiritual insights and modern applications. This book is important because I believe Jesus is the ultimate healer and road to wholeness in our lives!
Cece Winans
American Gospel Singer
Jeff Voth
“The Bowlings have provided a most engaging picture of the Good Samaritan—one that I hadn’t considered before. I heartily recommend it to you, especially if you want to be challenged, poked and prodded out of your complacent, stale, religious perspective.”
Jeff Voth
Founder and author of Cavetime, Defending the Feminine Heart, A Thousand More Amens, Why Lewis?, Jesus is the Thesis and Serpent Crusher
Kim Meeder
Road to Wholeness is a must-have book for every Believer.
Before we give genuine help to others . . . we must first invite the healing power of Jesus into our own broken places. When we yield our trauma to Him—He picks us up—He binds our wounds—He restores us completely with His redeeming love.
By allowing our heart to be healed, we rise from the grip of our trauma. Instead of needing a hero—for the hurting, we become a hero—because we trusted Jesus to be a Hero for us.
This is the road to healing . . . and we can all reflect Jesus . . . every step of the way.
Thank you Sarah and Isabell for the beautiful reminder of this POWERFUL TRUTH.
Kim Meeder
Founder and CCO of Crystal Peaks Youth Ranch Ministries
Joan Hunter
I am pleased to be able to recommend to you Sarah and Isabell Bowling’s book Road To Wholeness. It is extremely unfortunate that so many Christians have been told to seek healing for their traumatic experiences from secular doctors and non-Christian counseling services, instead of showing them a path to wholeness through Jesus Christ. Jesus came and suffered, taking both our sin and our painful traumas on himself that we might be both healed and whole. He is the door to wholeness and a pain free, joyful life. I am excited to think about the many people who will find the deliverance they seek from depression, anxiety and wounds of the soul as a result of reading this book. Blessings!
Joan Hunter
Evangelist/TV Host of Miracles Happen!
