Book Resources for Growth and Healing

This is a book everyone can benefit from reading. It discusses the importance of identifying and implementing boundaries in various areas of our lives. The authors also offer the following books: Boundaries In Marriage, Boundaries In Dating, & Boundaries With Kids.

The focus of this book is to help us understand how our early life experiences created an “intimacy imprint” an underlying blueprint that shapes our behaviors, beliefs, and expectations of all relationships, especially our marriages. 

Great for individuals or to read through as a family. You will learn a lot about yourself and other family members. The premise of the book is that what we don’t know about ourselves can hurt us and our relationships including our relationship with God. The Enneagram is an ancient personality typing system with an uncanny accuracy in describing how human beings are wired both positively and negatively. The book gives a practical, comprehensive way of accessing Enneagram wisdom and exploring its connections with Christian spirituality for a deeper knowledge of ourselves, compassion for others, and how we love God. The authors give us a peek inside each of the nine Enneagram types to help us see the world through other people’s eyes and help us understand how and why people think, feel, and act the way they do.  Great read!!!

The author takes us through “ten guideposts” that are benchmarks of living authentically. Her honest storytelling helps us explore the psychology of releasing our definitions of an “imperfect” life. Additionally, she offers ways to cultivate feelings of self-worth and acceptance and love for ourselves. 

The authors describe all growth as spiritual growth and they help us unlock age-old keys to growth from Scripture to help people resolve issues of relationships, maturity, emotional problems, and overall spiritual growth. Most importantly, they shatter popular misconceptions about how God operates and show that growth is not about self-actualization, but about God’s sanctification. 

Here is a resource packed full of information to address anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other “black holes” of depression. Burns outlines techniques that help us : recognize what causes our mood swings, nip negative feelings in the bud, deal with guilt, handle hostility and criticism, overcome addiction to love and approval, build self-esteem, and feel good everyday. 

This books confronts the issue that it is impossible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. Scazzero guides us through seven biblical reality-tested ways to break through to the revolutionary life Christ desires for us. 

The author addresses the debilitating effects of shame and how it affects every aspect of our personal lives and vocational endeavors. He further asserts that shame seeks to destroy our identity in Christ, replacing it with a damaged version of ourselves that results in unhealed pain and brokenness. He unpacks the soul of shame, revealing its ubiquitous nature and neurobiological roots. Thompson helps us identify our own pains and struggles and rewrite the story of our lives while embracing healing and wholeness to defeat shame’s insidious agenda. 

The authors explore the impact of being with an unsafe person and how it can damage our confidence, our trust in others, and even our health. They discuss why we choose the wrong people, how to change, and guide us in making wise choices about safe people in our family, friendships, romance, and work. The book outlines twenty traits of relationally untrustworthy people and helps us discover what makes some people relationally safe, as well as how to avoid unhealthy entanglements. 

Excellent book that helps us understand the importance of bonding with others to form intimate relationships, separating from others and developing a sense of self, understanding the good and bad in ourselves and others, and how to grow emotionally and spiritually.