Your Pain Has a Name

A Therapist’s Invitation to Understanding Your Story and Sorting Out Who You Are from What Hurts

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By Monica DiCristina

On Sale
May 13, 2025
Page Count
240 pages
Publisher
Worthy Books
ISBN-13
9781546006428

Monica DiCristina suffered for years without words to describe the pain she was experiencing inside. Without knowing what was behind her anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and fears, she created other names for them: “not good enough,” “unworthy,” “messed up,” “wrong.” Through the slow process of coming to understand her own story and searching for accurate names for her pain, she discovered a glorious path to healing, and also a calling to become a therapist to help others in the same way.
      Now, with over fifteen years of experience counseling others, Monica has created a guide to help you identify the patterns and barriers that are keeping you from returning to your authentic self. While not every wound may fully heal, each one can be understood, and that understanding starts when you confront the pain—not just recognizing the hurt, but naming and honoring it.
    In Your Pain Has a Name, Monica offers a compassionate, open space for you to give voice to your pain. With the nurturing curiosity often found in a therapist’s office, she will help you:
  • Uncover your hurts: Pinpoint and define the hidden pain that’s been holding you back.
  • Name your pain:  Accurately describe and validate what you feel.
  • Reclaim your identity: Distinguish yourself from the false stories that pain has created.
  • Embrace your healing: Release the pain that no longer serves you and step into the truth.
Pain, Monica teaches, is an invitation to heal, and she wants to help you on that journey. In finding the language to describe your hurts, you gain the space and courage to become your fullest self–mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. With validation and deep insight, Monica shares therapeutic, practical strategies to help you understand, define, name, and then release the pain that isn’t yours to carry. Join her on this journey to discover how to release what doesn’t fit and to pick up what is true about you.

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$19.99

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Monica DiCristina

About the Author

Monica DiCristina is a practicing therapist with more than fifteen years of experience in individuals and couples therapy, with a master’s degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. She runs a thriving private practice in Atlanta, Georgia, and is a sought-after speaker, guest, and writer on topics of emotional healing and mental health. She walks with people as they process difficult experiences, helping to bring healing to their relationship with themselves and others. Drawing on the stories and experiences from her own growth journey, as well as her extensive work with clients, Monica is passionate about coming alongside people of all stages and circumstances as they do the brave and sacred work of transformation.

Monica knows very well the audible sigh of relief that comes from someone finally understanding and untangling their pain from their identity. Through her writing, speaking, and podcasting work, she combines not only her therapeutic knowledge but also her deeply-rooted faith and the power of empathy and storytelling to walk alongside her audience to a life of deep meaning and authentic connection to themselves and others. The intersection of her years of therapy experience, artful style, personal mental health journey, faith, and bi-cultural upbringing give her a unique perspective. It’s Monica’s heartfelt mission to guide, collaborate, and make space for others on their journey of becoming who they were created to be.

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