Description: Almost anyone with a desire to help others can be a people helper, but often those Christians who feel most called to counsel are unsure of how to use the Bible to ease another person’s problems.

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A broken relationship doesn’t equal a broken life. Find hope for a new beginning in this book.

YOUR LIFE IS NOT OVER WHEN A RELATIONSHIP ENDS
If you’ve recently gone through a divorce or relational breakup, you know how difficult it is to recover your sense of identity, balance, and hope. The flood of emotions and impulses surrounding a divorce can leave you feeling constantly angry, bitter, fearful, or lonely. The most natural thing in the world is to want relief, but be careful.

Finding a new and satisfying relationship is ultimately a healthy goal, but if you haven’t taken steps to heal emotionally and reflect on your role in past relationships, moving on is more likely to extend your pain than to relieve it. Resolving the complicated feelings associated with a breakup takes concentration, effort, and a good plan. It takes a fresh start.

In Starting Over, authors Whiteman and Petersen present the insights, guidance, and encouragement they’ve gleaned from years of counseling and thousands of interviews. Drawn from the “hindsight wisdom” of those who have rebuilt their lives and moved on to healthier relationships, the eight principles revealed in this guidebook will help you:
•Recognize which friends will speed your recovery (and which ones will sabotage it!)
•Discover the power of forgiveness for overcoming old wounds
•Regain a healthy view of yourself and your experience
•Avoid the emotional and relational pitfalls common to those who go through loss
•Learn how to help others through similar experiences

As important as it is to acknowledge the parts of your soul that feel damaged or destroyed by an ended relationship, it’s even more important to recognize your potential for the future. The best time to start is right now.

Friendship Counseling will help you sensitively offer hope to people in pain, pointing them toward building character and drawing closer to God.

DO WORDS SOMETIMES FAIL YOU?
When friends hurt, you want to help, but it’s hard to know what to say, especially when you’ve never trudged in their shoes. When trying to help others, do you ever respond in these ways?

Quoting Bible verses about suffering
Explaining the reasons for their struggle
Trying to discover what they did to cause the pain
Talking about your troubles instead of listening
Fixing the problem so they won’t suffer anymore

According to Kevin Huggins, a seasoned counselor, these responses may stem from good intentions, but they don’t help the hurting find the resources to grow and serve God through their struggles. Instead, people in pain need life words that sensitively point strugglers toward building character and drawing closer to God, despite the agony. They offer the safety and compassion that lead to true change rather than to the masking of feelings.

If you want to inspire positive change, offer words that heal instead of hurt. Give people the gift of friendship counseling.

A practical, biblical guide teaching basic counseling techniques to women to prepare them for lay counseling in ministry settings.

Your mission field just might start at your kitchen table. Perhaps you’re a woman who responds naturally to others’ problems but aren’t sure how to reach out or what to say.

Kitchen Table Counseling is the resource you’ve been searching for. You’ll not only learn what questions to ask and what Scriptures to use, but also be shown how to:

• Address your own needs so you can effectively help others
• Take people to Jesus without taking on responsibility for their burdens
• Discern whether others really want to change and grow, or just complain
• Balance a counseling ministry with your other life priorities
• Offer true biblical hope to others in the face of inexplicable heartache

From the time Muriel Cook was a little girl, people have come to her to talk about their problems. Now, after fifty years of experience as a lay counselor, she shares with you what she has learned about addressing the needs of hurting women from a spiritual perspective. Kitchen Table Counseling will prepare you for the fulfilling, vital ministry of encouraging other women to know Christ and trust Him through the difficult experiences of their lives.