Women Counseling Women

by Fitzpatrick, Elyse

• ISBN13: 9780736929981
• ISBN10: 0736929983
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-15
• Publisher: Harvest House Pub

Summary

Multitudes of women struggle daily with negative habits and addictions, emotions such as anger and depression, various kinds of loneliness, and other difficulties experienced by mothers, wives, or singles.Here is a rich counseling resource that looks to the Bible alone as being sufficient to address our every need. Author Elyse Fitzpatrick and several contributors are all qualified biblical counselors skilled at interweaving the perfect wisdom of God’s Word with heartfelt compassion and concern for those who need help. Among the topics are… emotions, worry, and depression eating disorders and habitual struggles and sins verbal abuse and pornography singleness, marriage, and parenting grief and caregivingDesigned for both self-use and as a guide for counseling others, Women Counseling Women offers answers that will encourage and endure because God’s Word is timeless and full of wisdom for the problems women face.

Author Biography

Elyse Fitzpatrick is the head of Women Helping Women Ministries and holds an MA in biblical counseling from Trinity Theological Seminary. She has authored more than a dozen books, including Love to Eat, Hate to Eat. She and her husband, Phil, have three grown children and six grandchildren.

Table of Contents

Women Who Teach What Is Good	p. 7
A Woman and the Word
Biblical Counseling: Real Help for Real Women	p. 15
Do God's Promises Apply to You?	p. 27
Interpreting God's Word Accurately	p. 39
Spiritual Discernment: How Can I Know What Is True?	p. 51
Establishing a Biblical Ministry to Women	p. 63
A Woman and Her Emotions
Dealing with Your Emotions God's Way	p. 77
Christ, Gods Answer to Your Fear	p. 89
Help for Overcoming Anger	p. 101
The Difficult Road Through Depression	p. 113
About Medicines: Finding a Balance	p. 125
A Woman and Her Relationships
Single Women and the Test of Loneliness	p. 135
Way Beyond the Man of Your Dreams: Help for Single Moms	p. 147
Does Anyone Hear Me?: Facing Loneliness in Marriage	p. 161
Healing for Hidden Wounds from Verbal Abuse	p. 171
Faithful Parenting: Reaching Your Child's Heart	p. 185
The Perfect Mom Syndrome	p. 199
Raising Children Who Are Challenged	p. 213
Training Teens in the True Faith	p. 225
Hope for Caregivers of the Elderly	p. 239
A Woman and Specific Problems
Help for Habitual Overeaters	p. 257
Breaking the Chain of Generational Sin	p. 267
The Taboo Topic: Pornography and Women	p. 279
Women Struggling with Same-sex Attraction	p. 291
Appendices
Resources for More Help	p. 307
How to Become a Christian: The Best News Ever	p. 321
About the Contributors	p. 329
Notes	p. 335
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