The Heart Handbook...your guide to getting back to the basics of love - Paperback

by Ma Lpc Laura Mangin McDonald (Author)

Our most basic need in life is to be in relationship. We are designed to connect deeply with God and with one another, but any connection we make outside of God's blueprint for love will cause harm to us. Why is it that so many of us struggle to develop and sustain healthy emotional connections? God designed our emotional growth to progress in an orderly manner: - internalizing love - identifying boundaries - integrating hearts - implementing truth When our development is injured, an emotional deficit is created and we are unable to form or sustain healthy relationships, which underpin our personal, professional and spiritual lives, and the symptoms usually point back to the same place...the heart, where unmet emotional needs are found. The Heart Handbook will encourage and empower you with a concise and straightforward situation, symptom, solution format for identifying and working through negative behavior patterns that hold us hostage to fear, shame and hurt, and that keep us from getting back to the basics of love!

Author Biography

With compassion, humor, Spirit-led insight, a well-used Bible and a whiteboard, Laura offers a straightforward and accessible application of the Word of God to understanding past hurts, setting healthy personal boundaries, overcoming fear, and healing emotional heart wounds. Over the years, Laura heard from her clients a common theme of pain and isolation experienced in relationships, which gave Laura insight into developing an engaging and relatable approach to uncovering and healing the deep-rooted and unexplored emotional trauma we hold in our hearts that keeps us in bondage, preventing us from forming and enjoying intimate personal relationships with God and His people, as God intended. Laura is a Licensed Professional Counselor with over 30 years experience in individual, marital, family and group counseling, including inpatient hospital settings. Laura also speaks, writes, and facilitates training seminars for organizations on team dynamics, crisis intervention and conflict resolution. Laura and her husband, Rod, are the founders of Christian Insight for Life, a Garland, Texas-based teaching and discipleship ministry. Laura is the author of several books, including the popular devotionals Christian Insight for Life...for every day and How You Think...Determines the Course of Your Life.