Acknowledgments
Preface
Part I: The Virtue of Self-Acceptance
1. Self-Hatred: The Traitor Within When Temptation Comes
2. First Great Barrier to Wholeness in Christ: Failure to Accept
Oneself
3. Struggling Through to Self-Acceptance
4. Affirmation: What It Is and How It Is Received
5. Listening Prayer: The Way of Grace and the Walk in the
Spirit
Part II: The Forgiveness of Sin
6. Healing of Memories: The Forgiveness of Sin
7. Second Great Barrier to Wholeness in Christ: Failure to Forgive
Others
8. Prolonged Healing of Memories: Abandonment Issues and the
Repression of Painful Emotions
9. Third Great Barrier to Wholeness in Christ: Failure to Receive
Forgiveness
10. Conclusion to Healing of Memories
Part III: Spiritual Warfare and the Gift of Battle
11. The Use of Holy Water and Other Powerful Christian Symbols and
Agencies
12. The Gift of Battle
13. Cosmic Dimensions of the Spiritual Warfare in Christian
Organizations
14. Wrong Ways to Do Battle
15. Restoring the Christian Hope of Heaven and the Grace to
Persevere
Notes
Index
Karen Doyle Buckwalter, MSW, LCSW, is director of program
strategy at Chaddock in Quincy, Illinois. She serves on the board
of directors' advisory board of the Theraplay® Institute in Chicago
and has trained and consulted at family behavioral health
organizations and youth foster care centers in the US, the UK,
Australia, Denmark, and beyond. In addition to her degrees, Karen
completed a two-year marriage and family therapy training program
and 500-plus hours in diverse modalities including Theraplay®,
Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI), and other attachment,
trauma, and developmental approaches.
Debbie Reed is president and CEO of Chaddock. Currently
engaged in doctoral studies, she has also played a leadership role
in child- and family-serving organizations at the state and
national levels, including the Illinois Department of Children and
Family Services' Child Welfare Advisory Committee, the CEO council
of the internationally recognized Alliance for Strong Families and
Communities, and the national board of the United Methodist
Association of Health and Welfare Ministries. In addition, she
trains and consults with organizations on topics related to
nonprofit leadership.
Wendy Lyons Sunshine is an award-winning writer and coauthor of
The Connected Child, with over a quarter million copies sold. She
is an editorial consultant for leading nonprofits and has written
for media outlets including Health, AARP magazine, Scientific
American, American Way, and the New York Times.
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