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Most books about family life don’t appreciate how family background influences adult functioning. This one does!

The book describes how a healthy family functions and how such is based on a positive identity. From there, it develops a positive picture of family roles. It also teaches gender differences and how to appreciate them.

The latter half of the book is on how to manage emotions in family relationships. It addresses common pitfalls in one’s emotional life and how to use those emotions in an effective way. Finally, it discusses the basis of personal worth in relationships. That topic is developed to free individuals from codependency and a sense of worthlessness. When a person is done with the book, they will understand the effects of an unhealthy family background and how to go on a pilgrimage toward health.

Chapter Outline

CHAPTER 1 A Healthy Family

Discover that healthy families have positive identities, deep affection, and happiness skills. Dysfunctional families are dedicated to minimizing pain and keeping people at a distance.

CHAPTER 2 A Healthy Identity

Explore the idea of how our self image (how we instinctively view ourselves) is a controlling reality in our lives. In our culture we are preoccupied with what we know and do, but we overlook the picture of ourselves we carry in our hearts. Examines the importance of how we view ourselves and how we view our God.

CHAPTER 3 Trust: The First Skill

Explore how trust plays a central role in the spiritual life. God functions by trust, and trust brings us into His circle of love. Trust, or faith, has some false forms but only one true form.

CHAPTER 4 Not Becoming Our Emotions

Many people do not stand apart from their emotions. Instead, they become what they feel. Maturity means that we observe how we feel, change those emotions if we need to, and manage the ones we choose to keep.

CHAPTER 5 Dealing With Confusing Emotions

Often the emotional life of people in unhealthy homes is confused. Clear definitions of how emotions work and consistent, healthy practice can revolutionize the emotional life. We are to live off the primary emotions of love, joy, and peace, and manage the reactive emotions of anger, hurt, anxiety, and shame.

CHAPTER 6 Worth

Our culture does not provide an adequate basis for human worth. Unfortunately in our world, you are worth only what you can do or the amount of money you have. In Christianity we are worth a Son to God. Therefore, we have a solid reason for a deep sense of value.

Be sure to get the Creating a Healthy Family: Leader’s Guide. This guide is available free for group leaders if you purchase the workbooks for your group. Add to your cart with the workbooks.

Also check out the Creating a Healthy Family: DVD Series. Discussing the content of the workbook, the DVDs are broken into four sections on two DVDs to facilitate use with small groups.

The introduction includes clear and detailed descriptions, as well as help to start and lead a small group. In addition to the chapter previews to introduce the chapter material, the reading summaries come in handout format for photocopying as group handouts.

The extensive chapter reviews will be extremely useful for tying together all the material using exercises, thought questions, and mental images to think and talk through. These images are a powerful method for bringing the material alive to the image-centric modern person. Extensive facilitator tips and information on leading a small group are included, plus a group covenant page to photocopy for each group member.

This Facilitator’s Guide also comes as a Hardcopy.

Be sure to get the Becoming What God Intended: A Study for Spiritual Transformation Workbook. The current item is the leader’s guide, available to aid group leaders to lead your group through the workbook. Don’t forget to add to your cart with the workbooks.

Also check out the Becoming What God Intended: Audio CD Series, a 6-CD series of lectures that forms the background for the Becoming What God Intended workbook.

We strongly recommend the What God Intended Courses, our interactive, multimedia-rich, online education course series.

Be sure to get the workbook, Creating a Healthy Relationships. The current item is the leader’s guide, available free for group leaders if you purchase the workbooks for your group. Add to your cart with the workbooks.

This guide is available free for group leaders if you purchase the workbooks for your group. Add to your cart with the workbooks.

Be sure to get the Creating a Healthy Family Workbook. The current item is the leader’s guide, available free for group leaders if you purchase the workbooks for your group. Add to your cart with the workbooks.

Also check out the Creating a Healthy Family: DVD Series. Discussing the content of the workbook, the DVDs are broken into four sections on two DVDs to facilitate use with small groups.

This ageless, vintage seminar gives a strategy for both short-term and long-term change. The video will address the emotional scars underlying compulsive behavior, confusion, and diminished self-worth, offering solutions that are immediately applicable.

The DVDs are broken into four sections on two DVDs to facilitate use with small groups. Use the Creating a Healthy Family workbook in conjunction with this video series for best impact.

Be sure to get the Creating a Healthy Family Workbook. The current item is the DVD meant to be used with the workbook for group or in-depth study.

Also be sure to get the Creating a Healthy Family: Leader’s Guide. This guide is available free for group leaders if you purchase the workbooks for your group.