Codependency: Balancing an Unbalanced Relationship (Hope for the Heart) - Softcover

Hunt, June

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596366516 ISBN 13: 9781596366510

Publisher: Rose Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

How to set healthy boundaries and have healthy relationships

You've heard plenty about getting hooked on drugs or alcohol or sitting at slot machines from sunup to sundown, but can you really become addicted to a person? The answer is yes− codependency is a relationship addiction. A codependent is anyone who is dependent on another person to the point of being controlled or manipulated by that person. Learn how to set healthy boundaries, and how to be released from relationship addiction by renewing your commitment to Christ first.

June Hunt starts this minibook with stories of biblical people who ultimately compromised their relationship with God by being overly dependent on others, getting trapped in a codependent relationship.

Codependency will shed light on the spiritual implications of relationships that take precedence over your relationship with the Lord. Helpful checklists like "the codependent relationship profile" will help you determine whether or not you are in a codependent relationship. Also learn what the five stages of childhood development are, and how you can keep your children from having an unhealthy dependence on you.

The last section titled "Steps to Solution " gives Biblical advice on how to keep away from idolatrous, or codependent relationships, such as:

• Recovery steps to confronting codependency
• 7 steps to independent relationships
• Help from an unhealthy relationship
• 7 principles for finding the road to relationship freedom
• And much more.

Look for all 46 titles in the Hope For The Heart Biblical Counseling Library. These mini-books are for people who seek freedom from codependency, anger, conflict, verbal and emotional abuse, depression, or other problems.

The Hope for the Heart Bible Quick-Guides are perfect for—

• Small group & Bible studies
• Sunday school
• Young adult and youth ministry
• Chaplaincy
• Christian counseling
• Addiction & recovery programs
• Church giveaways
• and much more

About this title

About the Author:

June Hunt, M.A. Criswell College, is a biblical counselor whose award-winning radio program "Hope for the Heart" is heard on 900 radio outlets around the world. For more than 25 years, she has counseled people, offering them hope for today's problems. June has helped many people with emotional, relational, and spiritual problems experience God's love through biblical hope and practical advice. Early family pain was the catalyst that shaped June's compassionate heart. Later, as a youth director, she became aware of the need for sound biblical counsel. After years of teaching and research, she developed a scripturally based counseling course covering topics such as marriage and parenting, depression and anger, stress and suicide. These topics are now available as the Aspire Press "Hope for the Heart" booklets. "Hope from the Heart" is a half-hour teaching broadcast on these important topics in more than 60 countries on 6 continents. "Hope in the Night" is June's live two-hour call-in counseling program that helps people untie their tangled problems on air. Through her warmth, wisdom, and gentle candor, June prompts penetrating dialogue with listeners, often with life-changing results. "Hope for the Heart" booklets have been published in 27 languages in several formats and are being translated into more. June is a popular guest professor at colleges and seminaries, and a sought-after speaker at conferences and religious broadcasting events. She teaches and speaks around the world on topics such as crisis counseling, child abuse, wife abuse, forgiveness, singleness, and self-worth.

Review:

After decades of counseling men and women from all walks of life, June knows how to lead readers to truth truth that liberates because it is truth from God. --Kay Arthur, Co-founder of Precept Ministries International, and author of When the Hurt Runs Deep-Healing and Hope for Life's Desperate Moments

Those of us who have had to forgive the unforgiveable will find June's materials to be tremendous filled with hope and healing. She speaks from the heart with truth, directly to your broken soul. --Stephen Arterburn, Founder of New Life Ministries and author of Healing Is a Choice

June Hunt has been addressing the root issue for hurting hearts as long as I have known her. God has given her insightful sensitivity not only to identify human problems, but also to uncover biblical solutions. She has done it for me more than once! All who have hurting hearts or who minister to wounded spirits need to read her resources. --Dr. Dorothy Kelley Patterson, Professor of Theology in Women's Studies, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Those of us who have had to forgive the unforgiveable will find June's materials to be tremendous filled with hope and healing. She speaks from the heart with truth, directly to your broken soul. --Stephen Arterburn, Founder of New Life Ministries and author of Healing Is a Choice

June Hunt has been addressing the root issue for hurting hearts as long as I have known her. God has given her insightful sensitivity not only to identify human problems, but also to uncover biblical solutions. She has done it for me more than once! All who have hurting hearts or who minister to wounded spirits need to read her resources. --Dr. Dorothy Kelley Patterson, Professor of Theology in Women's Studies, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

About this edition

• Publisher: Rose Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1596366516
• ISBN 13: 9781596366510
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96