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Turn your darkest moments into opportunities for lasting joy and well-being.

Discover how to make resurrection a daily practice and transform your worst failures into opportunities for true healing, strength, and a life fully lived.

Embark on a transformative journey with Shadow Self, where pastor and philosopher Mark Chironna guides you through the depths of the human soul. Here, shadows and the potential for resurrection coexist.

Chironna invites you to face your darkest corners head-on, not merely to heal but to truly live. Drawing on powerful biblical and cultural stories—from Moses to Michael Corleone, from Elijah to Spiderman—he shows how our fears and dreams awaken our desire to confront adversities with courage. 

The key to every story? The shadows. Our heroes, like ourselves, are not immune to pain and failure.

Anxiety and fear. Grief and loss. Financial stress. Old trauma and wounds. Social strife. These shadowy parts of ourselves—those things we try to hide—are not residues to bury. They are the means of our flourishing, the tools to find and live our fullest self. Our darkest moments are essential. Our greatest mistakes become the very means by which we summon strength and find our truest selves. 

According to Chironna, this means of grace is resurrection. Resurrection is not just a historical event but a daily practice, a habit of rising above life's trials. Practicing resurrection leads us out of the shadows.

Through this practice, we move from languishing to flourishing. We rediscover joy and move beyond trauma and fear toward a life well-lived.

Shadow Self offers a roadmap from grief and isolation to healing and wholeness, showing how to flourish even when hope seems lost. This book challenges you to embrace failure as a necessary part of your journey to grace, inviting you to step into the shadows, confront your pain, and emerge resurrected, whole, and fully alive.


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Mark Chironna

Mark Chironna serves as a Bishop in the International Communion of Charismatic Churches, and the presiding Bishop of a network of related pastors and churches, as well as the founder and Bishop Protector of the Order of St. Maximus, a religious order in the tradition of the many orders that have existed in Church history. He has pioneered local churches in Raleigh, NC, as well as Longwood, Florida, where he currently serves as Overseer of Church on The Living Edge. 

He has been involved in the proclamation of the Gospel for almost five decades now, internationally. His academic training includes an undergraduate degree in Music Education and Performance, while minoring in Religion from Wagner University; a Master of Arts in Psychology from Saybrook University; a Doctor of Ministry in Applied Semiotics and Futures Studies from George Fox University; and a Doctor of Philosophy in Pentecostal Theology from University of Birmingham, UK. In addition, he is a Board-Certified Coach with over 20,000 hours of coaching and coach-mentoring experience, spanning almost three decades.

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Discover the transformative power of Shadow Self and begin your journey toward true healing and strength today.

Embrace your shadows, practice resurrection, and live a life fully realized.

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