Bücher von Joan Weathersbee Ellason

This book is written by a licensed professional counselor who has worked with trauma survivors for decades and shown positive treatment outcome in several established scientific journals. The author provides a wealth of specific, applicable, and sound techniques on how to forgive yourself and others, in a three-tier approach. It goes beyond the mere cerebral, dutiful task of reciting forgiveness concepts and shows the reader how to actually apply those concepts. It is designed to accommodate the reader at any level that they find themselves in their forgiveness process. All walks of faith are welcome to read this book. It provides cognitive, clinical, experiential, and spiritual methods to help the reader learn how to completely forgive at all three levels. This faith-based approach includes many time-honored clinical theories and tools, allowing the reader to move beyond their former state of struggle and into a new level of freedom. The exercises presented in this book have been successfully applied by the author in many workshops and in her counseling practice for more than two decades. There are also several exercises in one of the chapters to help the reader achieve a deeper level of forgiveness, healing, and growth that they may have not known before. This work is also comprised of many useful Tables with tangible tools that can be applied and practiced in daily life at all three levels of forgiveness. With a strong Christian perspective, this book is anchored in scripture and grounded in years of experience.Do You Want to:· Move from Pain to Power?· Turn Your Trauma into Triumph?· Transform Drama into Destiny?· Become Free Once and For All? This book intends to take you beyond the many great teachings already in existence on the topic of forgiveness and show you the how of forgiveness. Joan Weathersbee Ellason Ph.D., LPC brings together a unique blend of clinical and faith-based concepts with an innovative and practical approach to the long-needed challenge of forgiveness. As a Licensed Professional Counselor, Dr. Weathersbee has been in private practice since the 90s and provides workshops on topics such as "The How-To of Forgiveness," "Developing Your Potential," and "Connecting with God." She has worked with the area of trauma recovery since the 1980s when she first began her training. She has been a research contributor for psychological, psychiatric, and pastoral journals providing insight into trauma and positive treatment outcome. Raised in the Christian faith, she brings her unique perspective to bear, using scriptural application to the clinical work of healing.