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Same Dress, Different Day

A spiritual memoir of addiction and redemption

by Juliet Van Heerden

One Woman’s Journey Through the Valley of the Shadow of Addiction

People affected by a loved one’s addiction suffer silently in church pews. I was one of them. I’m Juliet. Sometimes I wish I could be someone else, with another name altogether, someone whose life is more comedy than tragedy.

During the twelve years I was married to a cocaine-addicted Christian, I was overwhelmed with isolation and shame as I sat next to my ex-husband in church week after week. No one fathomed our family skeletons. How could I tell anyone? God stirred my spirit to seek personal healing and give voice to my reality. Through Him, I found freedom from silence and redemption for the life dreams I thought were forever lost.

Same Dress, Different Day: A Spiritual Memoir of Addiction and Redemption chronicles my journey from victim to victor as I struggled to break free from codependency’s suffocating cycle. I learned to see my Savior as the soul mate and provider my chemically dependent spouse could never be. God’s healing grace is not only for the addicted, but also for the broken ones who love them. 

$34.95

Publisher: Pacific Press

ISBN: 9781942923060

Format: Paperback

STATUS: AVAILABLE TO ORDER (item is either in stock or quickly/soon obtainable from supplier)

Pages: 296

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A beautiful but deprived and hurting young woman, Juliet Van Heerden writes Same Dress, Different Day with her heart wide open and takes the reader through excruciating stories of living with a mostly unrepentant addict. She describes what it’s like to be a committed Adventist wife, trying to understand and follow God’s purpose for her marriage. At the same time, she lives through years of self-examination, of guilt, of rehabilitation with constant repetitions of destructive behaviour with a man she loved and with whom she shared an unhealthy codependent relationship.
Same Dress, Different Day gave me new insights into the issues surrounding addiction. Sometimes her long descriptions of the horrific, happy and hopeful times became a little tedious. But through it all she maintained the momentum and I wanted to turn the page to see what happened next. It was satisfying to come to a good end of a passionate story.
Van Heerden wants others who go through extreme difficulties and pain caused by addiction to know that it is possible to come out alive and then to thrive with God.
She writes, speaks and shares her story that it might bless and inspire others to hold on through what seems insurmountable and even tempts one to suicide.
Same Dress, Different Day is a love story interspersed with excerpts from her prayer diary in which Van Heerden walks and talks in constant dialogue with the God she can trust. It shows that God cares and offers hope and redemption. Her story ends triumphantly, although not how one might expect. Same Dress, Different Day exudes joy—far more than Juliet ever believed possible—and I’m glad I read it.
—Joy Butler, World Fourth Vice President, Women’s Christian Temperance Union

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