Download or read book Hope for Hurting Parents Parent Notebook written by Dena Yohe and published by EABooks Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hope for Hurting Parents Parent Notebook is a product of the Hope for Hurting Parents ministry (HopeforHurtingParents.com). It was developed to be used by the parents who attend one of their support groups. These groups help moms and dads with broken hearts due to the choices and behaviors of their teen to adult children. The purpose is to help these parents process their pain with others who understand, instead of isolating in guilt and shame. Hope for Hurting Parents strives to come alongside these brokenhearted to give comfort, encouragement and hope so that they can move from surviving to thriving. These groups can include step-parents and grandparents, too. The Parent Notebook explains what to expect in the support group, introduces the authors, provides group guidelines, and tells what others are saying about these faith-based groups. The notebook also contains the content that is discussed in the meetings. The topics are: grief and loss, enabling, guilt, fear, detachment, worry and anxiety, anger, resentment, letting go, expectations, guarding your marriage, guarding your family, powerlessness and control, communication, waiting, surviving the holidays, courageous love, forgiveness, thankfulness, self-care, expectations, and hope. A page for journaling or note-taking is at the end of each session. The intention is for parents to bring their notebook with them each time they go to a meeting. The Appendix has extra material used in some of the sessions. A list of recommended books, websites, and other resources is a huge bonus. The sessions are beneficial to be read and referred to not just during the support group meetings, but also at home. Hope for Hurting Parents support groups are not high content-driven. The focus is on being safe, confidential, loving communities where parents can be real, share their feelings with others who understand, and won't think less of them or give pat answers. This is a place where they can find the comfort, encouragement, and hope they need for what may be a long, difficult journey.
Download or read book Hope for Hurting Parents Support Group Facilitator Guide written by Dena Yohe and published by EABooks Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hope for Hurting Parents Facilitator Guide is to be used to start a support group for parents with broken hearts due to the choices and behaviors of their teen to adult children. The Facilitator Guide includes everything that's needed to get started, plus twenty-two sessions; enough for a whole year if the group meets twice a month (once in November and December). How often you meet is up to you. This guide includes decisions to make before you start your group, practical tips, group guidelines, a sample timeline, ice breaker questions, prayer strategies, and testimonies. The topics of the sessions are: grief and loss, enabling, guilt, fear, detachment, worry and anxiety, anger, resentment, letting go, expectations, guarding your marriage, guarding your family, powerlessness and control, communication, waiting, surviving the holidays, courageous love, forgiveness, thankfulness, self-care, hope, and resilience. Each is a stand-alone session and can be used in any order. It also has a list of recommended books, websites, and other resources. A Parent Notebook is also available to order for group members. It contains the same notes that are in the Facilitator Guide without the instructions. Pages for journaling are at the end of each session. Recommended books are listed at the back. Hope for Hurting Parents support groups are not high content-driven. The focus is on being safe, confidential, loving communities where parents can be real, share their feelings with others who understand, won't think less of them or give pat answers. This is a group where they can find the comfort, encouragement, and hope they need. The emphasis is put on facilitating rather than leading. Your role is not as a teacher or instructor, but a fellow parent sharing content, asking open-ended questions, guiding discussion. You aren't expected to know everything or have your act together. We're all fellow strugglers on the same heartbreaking path. Authenticity and a willingness to be vulnerable with your trials, is your best asset. This material is written from a Christian worldview. Our ultimate source of help has been Jesus Christ. These groups are not Bible studies or prayer meetings, but the Scriptures are used and discussed, and a time of prayer is encouraged. Support groups are a powerful way to bring parents from surviving to thriving. They draw them out of isolation as they journey through some of the most difficult times of their lives. By giving yourself as a facilitator of a Hope for Hurting Parents group you will receive the same comfort, encouragement, and hope. Request a free sample at HopeForHurtingParents.com.
Download or read book You Are Not Alone written by Dena Yohe and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You would go to the ends of the earth for your child. So, if your teenager or young adult is in the midst of crisis due to self-injury, mental illness, depression, bullying, or destructive choices, you probably feel broken, powerless, and isolated. Dena Yohe wants you to know you are not alone. You are not a bad parent. And you are going to be okay. Dena has been where you are. In You Are Not Alone, she speaks from experience as she offers healthy ways to maintain your other relationships, suggestions for responding to friends who don’t understand, and ideas for keeping up your emotional and spiritual well-being when your world feels as if it’s crashing down. It is possible to find purpose in your pain, joy beyond your fear, and hope for every tomorrow. Includes prayers, exercises, websites, and other helpful resources.
Download or read book A Long Way Off Hope and Healing for Hurting Parents written by Kitti Murray and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2004 I published a book with B&H Publishing Group called A Long Way Off: Hope and Healing for Parents of Prodigals. The book was not about our prodigal, Matt. It was about us, well, mostly about me. About what I did with my broken mom's heart. I wrote the book because... * I couldn't help it. It just kind of oozed out, out of the stack of journals that documented day after day of sorrow and soothing as I poured it all out to God and listened to his Word. * I started meeting parents who felt like I felt. They peeped out from under rocks of shame and defeat to timidly admit things weren't right in their Christian homes. They needed a book, not a book with one-two-three answers or someday-you'll-see optimism, but a book that was down and dirty, that told a story like theirs. . . a story that feels hopeless, but isn't. * I knew there was hope, but I wanted to show people where that hope was: smack in the middle of God Himself. Not in the miracles he might or might not do. Not in vague sentiments about kids or family. Not even in our prayer efforts. Hope for we who hurt over our kids is in Him Alone. Now, eight years later, the book is out of print. You can buy one at a time from individual sellers on Amazon for, like, a buck fifty. A writer's worst nightmare. I'm not asked to speak on Parenting Prodigals at women's retreats anymore. I don't get quite as many calls from distraught moms. And I'm fine with that. Besides, the prodigal days are over at our house. We can sleep at night, we don't dread the ringing of the phone, and we don't have awkward conversations with our own flesh and blood anymore. But not long ago it struck me how callous I'd become on the other (joyful) side of our pain. There are thousands of parents out there inducted into the Hurting Parents Club every day. What about them? And so, I've self-published the book. If you find yourself googling "prodigal" late at night, I hope this book tells you at least some of what you need to hear.
Download or read book Relief for Hurting Parents written by Buddy Scott and published by Nelsonword Publishing Group. This book was released on 1991-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parents, you need to know that what you are feeling is likely very normal for what you're going through, that you are not losing your mind, and that you are not alone, that someone understands and can put it into words for you, that God has not forsaken you, that you are not a failure, that it's right for you to expect your children to live decent lives, and that there is still hope. Relief for Hurting Parents is just that. Relief for Hurting Parents can also teach parents how to keep problems from getting out of hand before they ever get started. - Back cover.
Download or read book Moments of Clarity written by Tom Yohe and published by . This book was released on 2022-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A parent's heart breaks whenever their children head down destructive paths in their life. Yet, wondrous things can happen when God's redemptive hand moves in the parent and the child.Join author Tom Yohe as he shares his moments of clarity or rather wisdom from God as he and his family endured the tumultuous journey through mental illness, addiction, and the self-harming actions from their rebellious teenage daughter.Each chapter contains hard-fought moments of clarity that are like refreshing therapy sessions, providing the much-needed deluge of grace.This is a page-turner and must-have for every struggling parent of a prodigal.
Download or read book When Your Child Breaks Your Heart written by Barbara Johnson and published by Revell. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a son or daughter chooses a different path from mom and dad, or when tragedy strikes a family, it is hard to reconcile the present with all our hopes for the future. Our children's decisions may conflict with the way we raised them. We may lose contact as members of the family shut each other out. Barbara Johnson tells her family's searing story honestly and compassionately. She offers hope to families facing similar circumstances, sharing how God brought her through the deep waters without letting her drown--and how he will do the same for them.
Download or read book Hope for Hurting Parents written by Tom Allen and published by Christian Publications. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers hope to wounded parents facing the prodigal behavior of grown children.
Download or read book A Flea S Notebook written by August Franza and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerry Floh ('flea' in German) is invited to a Southampton mansion by influential Buzzy Powers, a guy he knew growing up when his name was Buzzy Pulsky. Jerry has a bad memory of Buzzy and now, twenty-five years later, they have met by chance. Buzzy has risen to success in Hollywood while Jerry grinds out his life as a suburban teacher with a wife, Flo, and three kids. His stay at the mansion, which lasts much longer than the agreed-upon weekend, turns Jerry's world upsidedown from which he barely escapes.
Download or read book The Wounded Parent written by Guy Greenfield and published by Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brokenhearted Parents written by Sharon L. Grinder and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brokenhearted Parents is for Christian parents who want to heal, deal with, and find spiritual help with the serious pain and hurt they are feeling because of their adult child's choices. Their child's choices can lead to a breakage in the relationship between them and/or God and cause great feelings of grief, frustration, and pain. Some of these choices have caused the child to pull away or leave. Christians know that God intends for them to grow through their hard experiences. But how do they do that? This book is to help parents analyze their feelings by studying the views of God, themselves, and their child. Through this they can process these feelings, come to a deeper level in their walk with God, and find more ways to express the love they have for their child. This book leads them by reading the twelve short devotionals, answering questions, and journaling both in writing and drawing. Parents will also find song references, extra scripture references, and a daily devotional idea they can format for their own use.
Download or read book Praying Our Loved One Home written by Pamela Lanhart and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking in faithful love day after day can be hard and loving a prodigal can be the most difficult calling of all. When you don't know how to pray, when you don't know what to pray, ther eis nothing more powerful than praying right from scripture. John author Pam Lanhart, as she reflects on the very raw and life-changing journey of transformation she took as she prayed God's promises over her prodigal. Our love, our prayers, His love and His truth...these are the things that will "lead our loved one home."
Download or read book To Light Their Way written by Kayla Craig and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prayers to guide your journey of raising kids in a complicated world. In an age of distraction and overwhelm, finding the words to meaningfully pray for our children--and for our journey as parents--can feel impossible. Written with warmth and welcome, To Light Their Way gives voice to your prayers when words won't come. Filled with more than 100 modern liturgies, this book guides you into an intentional conversation with God for your children and the world they live in. From everyday struggles like helping your child find friends or thrive in school to larger issues like praying for a brighter world rooted in peace and truth, these pleas and petitions act as a gentle guide, reminding us that while our words may fail, God never does. At the core of To Light Their Way is the deepest of prayers: that our children will experience the love of God so deeply that their lives will be an outpouring of love that lights up the world.
Download or read book The Christian Therapist s Notebook written by Philip J. Henry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians are faced with the same range of problems as everyone else. However, Christian therapists understand deeply the unique issues involved with their therapy. The Christian Therapist's Notebook is a single source for innovative, user-friendly techniques for connecting the everyday world of the client with Christian principles and Scripture. This creative, timesaving guide assists therapists in helping clients achieve therapy goals through professionally sound and principled exercises while always maintaining a positive, supportive connection with Christian beliefs. Helpful features include Scripture references relevant to common problems, case studies, vignettes, professional resource lists, client resource lists, in-session exercises, homework exercises, and handouts.
Download or read book Me My Mother and Alzheimer S Disease written by Janet O’Connell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are a great deal of information in the story of me, my mother and Alzheimers disease. Because of the intensity of the story, do not even try to take it all at once. Some of you might found that your life journey is totally different of mine, while some facts will jump at you. Focus on this first .If you found that you disagree with some of the facts, just overlook it- but if you get one exceptional thought out of this story which you can use to improve the relationship between you and your mother, and you have a deeper understanding of how a diagnosis of Alzheimers disease affects the individual, the children, family and friends and how to choose the best care for your loved one then I feel satisfied.
Download or read book The One Year Book of Hope written by Nancy Guthrie and published by Christian Large Print. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CBA Bestselling Author -- Draws readers closer to God during times of troubleThis book is for anyone who has been hurt in life and would benefit from a hope-filled daily companion. Critically acclaimed author Nancy Guthrie offers insightful daily reflections based on the Word of God to comfort, encourage, and uplift those who are feeling the aches of life -- whether it's because of everyday disappointments or deep losses. Through a year's worth of thoughtful entries, the reader will learn how much God longs to lift us up, carry us through in times of difficulty and uncertainty, and give us true, lasting joy. Each daily step draws you closer to a God who truly cares and the hopeful life he wants you to enjoy.
Download or read book 936 Pennies written by Eryn Lynum and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make the Most of Your Time with Your Children On the day of their baby dedication, Eryn and her husband were given a jar of 936 pennies. The jar contained a penny for every week they would raise their child until graduation, and they were instructed to remove one penny each Sunday as a reminder, placing it into another jar as an investment. At some point every parent realizes time is moving swiftly, and they ask themselves, How am I investing in my child? Through personal stories and biblical examples, 936 Pennies will help you discover how to capture time and use it to its fullest potential, replacing guilt and regrets with freedom. Meanwhile, your kids will see how simple choices, like putting the cell phone down and going on a family hike, will make all the difference. Together you will stretch time and make it richer. Craft a family legacy in tune with God's heartbeat as you capture a new vision for your children and learn the best ways to spend your pennies.
