Product Description: "Anchoring Your Well Being" offers suggestions for leading a more healthy life in seven dimensions: spirituality, physique, mental health, relationships, work and play, environmental, and crises and loss. Biblical text provides guidance and a basis for holistic health .

Product Description: "Anchoring Your Well Being" offers suggestions for leading a more healthy life in seven dimensions: spirituality, physique, mental health, relationships, work and play, environmental, and crises and loss. Biblical text provides guidance and a basis for holistic health.

Product Description: This trailblazing book sheds light on humankind's most serious health challenge ever--how to save our precious planet--describes the strategic opportunities available to help the endangered human species cope constructively, and demonstrates the importance of hope, humor, and love in the process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Counseling for Spiritually Empowered Wholeness is an introduction to Wholeness Counseling (also called Growth Counseling), a whole-person approach to pastoral counseling, psychotherapy, and education as developed by Howard Clinebell. He begins the book by emphasizing how the role of healthy spirituality and reality-based hope is crucial to facilitate healing and growth in all dimensions of life. He encourages readers to apply the principles and methods in the book to their own growth and to develop their own growth-centered approaches--approaches that reflect their particular styles and personalities--to counseling, therapy, and education.This newly revised edition of Growth Counseling makes readily available an understanding of the Wholeness Counseling approach and its methods for both pastoral and secular counselors and professional and nonprofessional readers. Dr. Clinebell has a psychological understanding of the universal human need for healthy spirituality and, as he writes from this perspective, he opens doors for readers to distinguish healthy from unhealthy religion and provides them with methods to enhance their own spiritual health. Readers who desire to explore the Wholeness Counseling approach will find that Counseling for Spiritually Empowered Wholeness guides them through: insights and methods they can use to accelerate their personal and professional growth in each of the seven dimensions of life the roots in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures of this approach which helps readers grow and be healed the importance of playfulness to balance work in a healthy lifestyleThe primary target audience is theological seminary teachers and students, clergy in all denominations, members of congregations who work in the healing and helping professions, and laypersons interested in learning ways to enhance their own wholeness or being trained to serve on lay pastoral care teams. Others who will benefit from Counseling for Spiritually Empowered Wholeness include those in the counseling, healing, and teaching professions who wish to know more about a growth-oriented approach which includes a robust emphasis on the role of healthy spirituality for total well being.

Discusses the mission and foundations of pastoral counseling, gives advice on handling spiritual, ethical, marital, educative, and bereavement counseling, and looks at holistic and psychological approaches

Surveys traditional, behavioral, transactional, gestalt, holistic, family systems, and feminist approaches to therapy designed to promote human fulfillment

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Product Description: .The nature of intimacy, the barriers to its achievement, and the ways in which intimacy can be enhanced are set forth by Howard and Charlotte Clinebell, a married couple both of which are professionals in the field of marriage counseling...read more