Overcoming Emotions That Destroy

by Ingram, Chip

• ISBN13: 9780801072390
• ISBN10: 0801072395
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: Baker Pub Group

Summary

Well-known teacher and speaker Chip Ingram teams up with psychologist and author Dr. Becca Johnson in this encouraging and practical book, showing how many emotions lead to anger, and many emotions follow from it. Their message is clear: as we deal with our anger, we deal with the primary cause for all emotions that destory. Ingram and Johnson help readers identify whether they are spewers, leakers, or stuffers. Readers also learn the difference between good and bad anger, how to gain control of their anger, and how to direct it toward constructive ends. The authors cover solid biblical principles as well as the psychological aspects of our emotions, showing readers how they can actually be constructive tools used by God to transform lives and relationships. Counselors, pastors, and individual Christians will find this took a no-nonsense tool for handling destructive emotions in a healthy way. Now available in trade paper.

Author Biography

Chip Ingram is the president and teaching pastor for Living on the Edge, an international teaching and discipleship ministry. He is the author of ten books, including God: As He Longs for you to See Him; The Invisible War, and Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships.
Becca Johnson, PhD, is a writer and speaker and has been a licensed psychologisr for twenty years. The author of books on guilt and child abuse, Dr. Johnson has conducted counselor training in ten different countries and is currently in private practice in Washington State.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 9
Introduction
Hope for Our Anger	p. 13
Understanding Our Anger	p. 25
The Many Faces of Anger
Why We Respond the Way We Do	p. 41
Spewers	p. 49
Stuffers	p. 57
Leakers	p. 66
Why We All Struggle with Anger
Anger Is a Secondary Emotion	p. 77
The Tip of the Iceberg	p. 87
Hurt from Unmet Needs	p. 94
Frustration from Unmet Expectations	p. 102
Insecurity from Threatened Esteem	p. 114
Turning Anger from a Foe to a Friend
The Anger ABCDs	p. 125
Anger Is a Choice	p. 143
God's Anger Management Plan
Step 1: Be Quick to Hear	p. 157
Step 2: Be Slow to Speak	p. 168
Step 3: Be Slow to Anger	p. 178
Learning to Stop Anger before It Starts
Minimize Stress	p. 187
Maximize God	p. 204
How to Be Good and Mad
Express Anger	p. 219
Express Anger Appropriately	p. 227
Resolve Anger	p. 236
Resolving Deep Anger	p. 248
Anger's Higher Purpose	p. 266
Appendix: Dealing with Gods Anger at Us	p. 271
Notes	p. 273
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