Gregory L. Jantz

Ann McMurray

Examines the prevalence and psychological damage associated with emotional abuse, counseling readers on how to overcome the past while rebuilding a self-image, and including in the new edition coverage of such areas as how to manage an abuser and achieve spiritual healing. Original.

Healing the Scars of Emotional Abuse

Use the Internet. Know its dangers. Internet use is catching on faster than any form of technology ever invented. Its potential for human benefit is beyond measure. But it is not without problems: • Marriages break up over emotional relationships forged in chat rooms. • College students risk grades and health to spend time online. • Child abusers lure kids by contact through the internet. • Adults spend fortunes to subscribe to internet pornography. These people have crossed the boundary between healthy use and obsessive preoccupation with this versatile electronic medium. An avid net-surfer himself, therapist Gregory Jantz has seen an increasing number of clients coming to his counseling centers for help with internet abuse. Jantz writes for two audiences: those who are worried about a loved one's use of the net, and internet users who may have a problem. He offers both groups concrete and biblical steps for working towards change.

Using it Without Abusing it

Hidden Dangers of the Internet

Gregory L. Ph.D. Jantz

Dr. Jantz shows women how to accept the truth of their anger examine where it comes from be honest about how they use it be open to change be willing to forgive, even themselves be willing to feel something else besides their anger With a compassionate tone and an honest look at reality, Dr. Jantz helps women face their anger issues, move beyond them, and live the life they were meant to live.

A Guide for Women

Controlling Your Anger before It Controls You

Compassionate, Practical Approach to Coping with and Eliminating Anxiety Fretting over seemingly inconsequential daily headaches? Constantly worrying about family members' health or safety? Weighed down by negativity from the 24-hour news cycle? It's a wonder anyone can escape anxiety. Unchecked, anxiety can swiftly rob us of our sense of safety, well-being, and peace. Overcoming Anxiety, Worry, and Fear offers a whole-person approach to coping with and eliminating anxiety. This compassionate combination of common sense, biblical wisdom, and therapeutic advice will help readers unchain themselves from constant worry so that they can "be anxious about nothing" (Phil. 4:6). Trusted author Dr. Gregory L. Jantz helps readers identify the causes for their anxiety, assess the severity of their symptoms, and start down avenues for positive change.

Overcoming Anxiety, Worry, and Fear

Gregory L. Jantz, PhD

Whether caused by words, actions, or even indifference, emotional abuse is common--yet often overlooked. This helpful guide reveals how those who have been abused by a spouse, parent, employer, or minister can overcome the past and rebuild their self-image. It includes •strategies for dealing with the verbal abuser •self-check quizzes with each chapter •keys to rebuilding relationships •letters from survivors of emotional abuse •help dealing with spiritual abuse •a biblical plan for healing

Hope and Healing from Emotional Abuse

Dr. Tim Clinton

Dr. Gregory L. Jantz

Drs. Jantz and Clinton help readers unravel why they're drawn back to the same types of unfulfilling relationships over and over again. Readers learn how to break the cycle of relationship dependency, focus on finding wholeness as unique individuals, and discover the key to finding a healthy relationship that lasts.

Key Questions to Ask about Your Relationships

Am I Codependent?

Heal your relationship with food. Eating disorders and disordered eating ravage and consume too many lives. In this powerful book for individuals suffering from eating disorders—as well as those wanting to help—Dr. Gregory Jantz comes alongside his readers with a well-tested and successful approach that addresses the emotional, relational, physical, and spiritual dimensions of healing from an eating disorder. Topics include: • Five often-overlooked nutritional keys to recovery • How to let go of anger, fear, and guilt • Tools for creating a binge-free life • How not to be a victim of others • The role of emotional and verbal abuse in eating disorders • Seven keys to creating healthy relationships This completely updated and revised edition contains new material on nutritional leading-edge interventions, spiritual abuse, and healing strategies for compulsive behaviors. If food has not found its proper place as nutrition in your life, discover the answers in Hope, Help and Healing for Eating Disorders. Because you can do more than just survive--you can really live. Contains thought provoking questions and activities to guide readers through progressive healing steps.

A Whole-Person Approach to Treatment of Anorexia, Bulimia, and Disordered Eating

Hope, Help, and Healing for Eating Disorders

"You complete me" may be a romantic line in a popular movie, but it's not a healthy basis for a real relationship. Unfortunately, many people are drawn into relationships that are unfulfilling precisely because they are looking to other people to fill in the places where they are lacking--they are looking for a person who will "complete" them. At the heart of relationship dependency is a person's belief that he or she alone is not enough. But using others to provide wholeness simply does not work, because while we are made to be relationship dependent, it is God we must turn to in order to find wholeness. In a warm, engaging style, Drs. Jantz and Clinton walk readers through patterns of relationship dependency, helping them unravel why they are drawn back to the same dry well of unfulfilled relationships over and over again. Readers will discover how to break the cycle, banish their fears, and find wholeness in the God who designed them to be in relationship first and foremost with him, thus freeing them to find healthy relationships with others. Includes a twelve-week personal recovery plan.

Breaking the Cycle of Relationship Dependency

Don't Call It Love

The wreckage of addiction lies scattered around too many people--from the one who is or was addicted to those in relationship with that person. Age-old culprits of drugs, alcohol, and gambling are joined by newer addictions, such as food, prescription medication, shopping, pornography, and technology. Left unaddressed, addiction devastates lives now and makes it difficult to see a positive way forward. For anyone struggling with an addiction, attempting to live in recovery, or seeking to understand the mind of an addict they love, Dr. Jantz's newest book is a lifeline. In it he helps readers answer tough questions, such as - Am I an addict? - Why is the first step so hard? - How can I put my life back together? - Where do I go from here? Addiction doesn't have to have the last word. Healing the Scars of Addiction offers a holistic approach to healing so that readers can reclaim their lives and move forward in hope.

Reclaiming Your Life and Moving into a Healthy Future

Healing the Scars of Addiction

The deep pain of childhood abuse--whether physical or emotional, whether a child was neglected or wished nothing more than to be left alone--doesn't just go away. There's simply no just getting over it. Even if no physical scars remain as evidence of the victim's suffering, the deep wounds on their minds, hearts, and souls are still there. But it is possible to become whole and happy. Author of the successful Healing the Scars of Emotional Abuse, Dr. Gregory Jantz now helps readers understand the effects of childhood abuse on their emotional, intellectual, physical, relational, and spiritual health. He then outlines the steps to lasting healing, including grieving what was lost, learning to balance emotions with intentionality, regaining a positive relationship with one's own body and mind, and coming to an understanding of God not as a frightening authority figure like the abuser or an accusing judge, but as a loving creator, redeemer, and friend.

Moving beyond the Past into a Healthy Future

Healing the Scars of Childhood Abuse

A bestselling author and counselor with over 25 years of experience offers practical steps for dealing with worry and anxiety.

Practical Ways to Find Peace

A balanced, practical approach to using technology without losing control that speaks frankly and enthusiastically about all of the gizmos and gadgets and their affects on lives. Real-life cautionary tales are presented along with biblical applications and study questions.

Ann McMurray

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