num_pages: 342
description: 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 depressioneating disorders and habitual struggles and sinsverbal abuse and pornographysingleness, marriage, and parentinggrief 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.-------------------------------------------------------Introduction: Women who teach what is good / Elyse Fitzpatrick --Part 1. A woman and the word. --Biblical counseling : real help for real women / Elyse Fitzpatrick --Do God's promises apply to you? / Janet Rickett --Interpreting God's word accurately / Barbara Enter --Spiritual discernment : how can I know what is true? / Karen Avinelis --Establishing a biblical ministry to women / Maureen Bonner --Part 2. A woman and her emotions. --Dealing with your emotions God's way / Mary Wilkin --Christ, God's answer to your fear / Janie Street --Help for overcoming anger / Martha Peace --The difficult road through depression / Mary Sommerville --About medicines : finding a balance / Laura Hendrickson --Part 3. A woman and her relationships. --Single women and the test of loneliness / Joan Kulper --Way beyond the man of your dreams : help for single moms / Lynn Denby --Does anyone hear me? : facing loneliness in marriage / Vanessa Ellen --Healing for the hidden wounds from verbal abuse / Debra Gentry --The gospel for the beginning of life / Vonna Struck --Faithful parenting : reaching your child's heart / Barbara Scroggins --The perfect-mom syndrome / Connie Larson --Raising children who are challenged / Laura Hendrickson --Training teens in the true faith / Jan Steenback --Hope for caregivers of the elderly / Holly Drew --Part 4. A woman and specific problems. --Help for habitual overeaters / Shannon McCoy --Breaking the chain of generational sin / Nanci McMannis --The taboo topic : pornography and women / Rachel Coyle --Women struggling with same-sex attraction / Karrie Hahn.
language: English
title: Women Counseling Women: Biblical Answers to Life's Difficult Problems
publisher: Harvest House Publishers