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Summary: Great help in looking at our past to ensure happier futures
Review: A-plus! This is a GREAT book that helped me understand how my past affected every area of my life (work, relationships, and my underlying attitudes). Although I had experienced great success in the business world, my personal relationships were suffering terribly and I was miserable on the inside. This book helped me understand why and how to change.It clearly explained the important things I needed but didn't get out of each developmental stage while growing up from an infant to an adult. While reading the book, it became clear how I developed coping mechanisms to get through life--trying to get my needs met--with mixed results. On the outside, I was a picture of success, but on the inside I was tired, empty, unhappy and frustrated. With this understanding, and a continued commitment to find new ways to think, act and live, I am now learning to live a life that promises to be happier and healthier. Thanks Dr. Cloud for your part in bringing about these changes in me! I highly recommend other books written by Henry Cloud's (Safe People, Boundaries) as they are also well written and very good resources for healing the innermost areas of the heart and minds to help enjoy the journey to wholeness and joy! 'Changes That Heal' is a book that is informative and life changing. Change and Healing IS possible! Definitely worth reading! A-plus!
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Summary: Awesome
Review: Dr. Cloud has taken the psychodynamic perspective on development and made it clear in light of Scripture and life expereince. I would higly recommend this book to anyone who is working with clients in the process of growth into adulthood. Andre Davis - Kingston Jamaica
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Summary: Exvcellent resource for therapists!
Review: Enables clients to undertand who they are; how they became this way; and most importantly, the way out of pain toward healing. This is an excellent resource for those who truly hunger and thirst after righteourness and are willing to do the hard work to change.
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Summary: Life-changing Book
Review: I have read many Christian books-this is my favorite. It opens on Truth and Grace and Time. Key elements of understanding our role in God's kingdom. It focuses on taking responsibility and quite honestly when not to. Dr. Cloud references scriptures at every turn so you can feel confident these teachings and wisdom, are biblical. My friends have noticed changes in my areas of acceptance and placing boundaries and it has helped our relationships tremendously. I have learned to love God more because of this book.
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Summary: accessible and pithy
Review: I think many readers will find this books useful, and that the principles are based on good judgement. Whether you find it useful may depend on your past exposure to self-development or spiritual growth. I you already have a background in those areas, and consider yourself a highly read person or deep thinker, you may find the approach of the book simple or pithy or too conversational. If you have not had much chance to explore those areas, and want an approach that makes references to scripture, then this book may be useful.
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Summary: great balance of practical and theoretical
Review: I was surprised at some reviews here, e.g. those that said book was unstructured (read the chapter titles: the structure could not be clearer) or that the authors did not provide any solutions (easily half the book is practical, concrete strategies and suggestions). What I like best about Changes That Heal and other books by Henry Cloud and his frequent co-author John Townsend is the great balance of practical and theoretical. They go into considerable detail about the reasons for certain problems; they provide lots of case studies; and they give numerous practical devices such as checklists (e.g. to test whether I have certain feelings, attitudes etc.) and direct suggestions. Of course, these suggestions are not simple--no "take 2 aspirin" approaches here. Changing and healing require--surprise--lots of work!!
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Summary: superb basics
Review: Its examination of broken relationships is Biblical and cuts like a knife. Healing really comes thru right relationships.
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Review: Many people struggle for years with depression, anxiety, panic, addictions, and guilt. Psychologist Henry Cloud maintains that often the source of this pain lies buried in patterns of behavior learned as a child; patterns practiced into adulthood. The effects of poor parenting or childhood trauma slows or stops growth toward maturity.
Now available in softcover, Changes That Heal, by Dr. Cloud, seeks to show that biblical solutions to these struggles lie within a person's understanding and undertaking of certain developmental tasks, which were neglected or not completed while growing up. It is these tasks that bring changes that heal.
Changes That Heal suggests that to acheive growth, maturity, and wholeness one must be willing to: Bond to others--satisfying the hunger for relationships with God and others. Set boundaries--taking charge of one's own body, emotions, choices, and behavior, and refusing to take responsibility for the bodies, emotions, choices, and behavior of others. Accept both good and bad in the world, in oneself, and in others--confessing weaknesses, forgiving others, and dealing with negative emotions. Become an adult--separating from parents and developing peer relationships with other adults.
"Without the ability to perform these basic God-like functions, we can literally remain stuck for years, and growth and change can elude our grasp," explains Cloud. In Changes That Heal he explains these four developmental tasks, the barriers that get in the way of achieving them, the problems that result, and the skills needed for completing these goals. The reader is taken step-by-step through the process and each chapter gives an example of a case study from beginning to end. A companion workbook will lead you in depth through the book's principles.
Although making the transformation is not easy, Cloud encourages his readers that "God has promised that the 'good work' he began in us, he will 'carry on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus' (Phil. 1:6)."
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Summary: simple and strait forward
Review: The difference between Dr. Cloud and some other Christians writers in this field is that he is so positive. He doesn't condemn people for suffering and struggling. He just prods us on to godliness and to dealing with the root issues of our symptoms. He will help you see what has caused your issues, what your issues truly are, and how those issues relate to the "symptoms" that you experience (depression, anxiety, etc). He gives constructive steps toward becoming a more whole and healthy person. I plan to listen to these tapes again and again.
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Summary: Insightful, considerate, and full of hope....
Review: The difference between Dr. Cloud and some other Christians writers in this field is that he is so positive. He doesn't condemn people for suffering and struggling. He just prods us on to godliness and to dealing with the root issues of our symptoms. He will help you see what has caused your issues, what your issues truly are, and how those issues relate to the "symptoms" that you experience (depression, anxiety, etc). He gives constructive steps toward becoming a more whole and healthy person. I plan to listen to these tapes again and again.
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