From Refuge to Resilience: Stella Nunas's Journey into Healing Minds: Faith, Culture, and Compassion in the Mental Health Journeys of African Women in (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798369462041)

From Refuge to Resilience: Stella Nunas's Journey into Healing Minds is a transformative narrative that blends personal story, cultural reflection, and scholarly insight. Born in a Ugandan refugee camp and raised between worlds, Stella Nunas shares her journey from displacement to purpose as a mental-health nurse and advocate in Australia. Guided and mentored by Professor Idi (Ras) Banamungu, this book integrates evidence-based research with lived experience and spiritual wisdom. It highlights how trauma, migration, and cultural perceptions shape access to mental-health services, while also celebrating resilience and the healing power of faith, laughter, and community. Professor Banamungu's mentorship helped Stella develop a holistic framework that unites African traditional healing, Western psychology, and the arts-particularly rhythm, music, and laughter-as pathways to emotional and social recovery. The book's philosophy is simple yet profound: Healing is not merely the absence of illness, but the restoration of dignity, identity, and connection. Through storytelling and scholarship, From Refuge to Resilience becomes both testimony and tool-a model for culturally responsive care and a call to treat compassion as the highest form of intelligence in healthcare and humanity alike.

Author: Stella Nunas
ISBN-13: 9798369462041
Publisher: Xlibris Au
Language: English
Published: 04/08/2026
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d