As a physician, I’m an expert on the bodies I encounter in the exam room. But I’m often struck by how ill-equipped I am to remedy life’s complex wounds, such as the distressing emotional ones in many of my patients.

Just like the human body, the corporate bodies I inhabit-my church, my family, and my workplace-are sometimes injured. Often those wounds appear too complicated to heal. So how should I respond in times of stress, crisis, and deep hurt? When should I let go of a conflict and when should I push for a better resolution? Am I hurting or helping?

The healing properties of our physical bodies are integrated into every system, responsive down to the most basic microcellular level. Our injuries don’t have to have the last word. Repair, restoration, and even regeneration are built into our very cells.

What if our corporate bodies were oriented to healing the same way our physical bodies are? What if healing were possible?

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Kimberly Jones, lovingly known as Real Talk Kim, travels the world fulfilling her passion and purpose of “loving people back to life.” She is a mother, pastor, best‐selling author, entertainer, and most importantly a worshipper after God’s own heart. Real Talk Kim is the senior pastor at Church of the Harvest in Fayetteville, Georgia. She is a human rights advocate with a passion for giving back. She finds fulfilling purpose in charity work and believes in the compassion of the Holy Spirit, delivering it to those who need it most. She has been featured on The Doctor Oz Show, Preachers of Atlanta, CNN, Nightline, Praise in the Park Atlanta, and numerous radio shows. She is the author of When Your Bad Meets His Good and is truly a living and walking testimony of God's redemption plan in action.
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This lay-ministry counseling guide is a good leader resource for womens ministries or personal use. Learn how to address your own needs so you can effectively help others, take people to Jesus without taking on responsibility for their burdens, and balance a counseling ministry with your other priorities. With Kitchen Table Counseling, you can offer true biblical hope to other women in the face of heartaches. Saber más

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The American Association of Christian Counselors and Tyndale House Publishers are committed to ministering to the spiritual needs of people. This book is part of the professional series that offers counselors the latest techniques, theory, and general information that is vital to their work. While many books have tried to integrate theology and psychology, this book takes another step and explores the importance of the spiritual disciplines in psychotherapy, helping counselors to integrate the biblical principles of forgiveness, redemption, restitution, prayer, and worship into their counseling techniques. Since its first publication in 1996, this book has quickly become a contemporary classic-a go-to handbook for integrating what we know is true from the disciplines of theology and psychology and how that impacts your daily walk with God. This book will help you integrate spiritual disciplines-such as prayer, Scripture reading, confession-into your own life and into counseling others.

Mark R. McMinn, Ph.D., is professor of psychology at Wheaton College Graduate School in Wheaton, Illinois, where he directs and teaches in the Doctor of Psychology program. A diplomate in Clinical Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology, McMinn has thirteen years of postdoctoral experience in counseling, psychotherapy, and psychological testing. McMinn is the author of Making the Best of Stress: How Lifes Hassles Can Form the Fruit of the Spirit; The Jekyll/Hyde Syndrome: Controlling Inner Conflict through Authentic Living; Cognitive Therapy Techniques in Christian Counseling; and Christians in the Crossfire (written with James D. Foster). He and his wife, Lisa, have three daughters. Saber más

This lay-ministry counseling guide is a good leader resource for women’s ministries or personal use. Learn how to address your own needs so you can effectively help others, take people to Jesus without taking on responsibility for their burdens, and balance a counseling ministry with your other priorities. With Kitchen Table Counseling, you can offer true biblical hope to other women in the face of heartaches. Saber más

For those who have experienced childhood sexual abuse and those who love and care for them, The Wounded Heart offers a tender, compassionate window into the psychological effects of abuse and the theological foundations for healing.

Thirty years ago, with great courage and vision, Dan Allender brought Christians to the table to acknowledge, understand, and help victims heal from their experience of the evil of sexual abuse. His work continues to help victims and those who love them to honestly acknowledge their abuse, understand the unique challenge of repentance for victims of abuse, and learn to love boldly in defiance of their trauma. Ultimately Dan offers the bold assurance to sexual abuse victims that even they can find their way to joy and hope in the comforting embrace of a good God.

The Wounded Heart has sold over 400,000 copies and has been the first book family, friends, counselors, pastors, and victims have turned to in search of Christian answers to the calamity of sexual abuse. With a new introduction reflecting on the ongoing importance of the book, and a companion workbook for personal and group recovery, The Wounded Heart continues to offer an urgently needed word of grace in a world ravaged by sexual abuse. Saber más

Find help and hope for your journey toward healing.
Thousands of men and women have experienced life-reviving healing from Dr. Dan Allender’s The Wounded Heart. This companion workbook will help you work through the complex issues of sexual abuse in a concrete way.

Designed to be used on your own or in a group, the workbook will lead you step by step through the process of change: facing the truth about past and present experiences and feelings; wrestling with God, other people, and yourself; and understanding the goals and fears that have determined how you relate to others. It also includes specific sections for men, ideas for discussion-group facilitators, and reflective quotations from other victims of sexual abuse. Saber más