Depression, anxiety, sadness, grief, hurt, pain, and despair converge at a place of helplessness that is nearly unbearable. This is the place of your darkest hour. This is a place of unparalleled stress which can no longer be denied. The darkest hour demands a response. It demands an alternative to tears, grief, fear, anger, bitterness, and unforgiveness which only immobilize. The darkest hour cries out for an answer, a solution, a preferable choice to the powerless vulnerability and defenselessness of a soul in pain. Author Michele D. Aluoch provides a fresh, timely response to this issue. With over fifteen years of experience as an independently licensed clinical counselor in Ohio and international Christian teaching minister she offers practical suggestions to the dilemmas of the heart in the darkest hour. Michele empathizes with real gut-wrenching pain which leads someone to a place of feeling like giving up. In addition, she promotes sincere reflection on the part of the reader with regard to thought and behavior issues which contribute to stress. Michele offers skills and applications for genuine freedom from pain and subsequnt healing and wholeness. Through the journey of this book, readers will learn to move out from under the cloud of darkness to reclaim lost hope, healing, and optimism for the future. Author Michele Aluoch partners with the reader to engage in a makeover of the soul. New practical ways of thinking, believing, and behaving cultivate seeds of hope. New life-giving choices mobilize resources and connections toward full and abundant life. By applying these practical life-giving perspectives the darkest hour can become the first step in the transition to meaning and purpose one never thought was possible.