Overcoming Emotions That Destroy: Practical Help for Those Angry Feelings That Ruin Relationships

Well-known teacher and speaker Chip Ingram teams up with psychologist and author Dr. Becca Johnson in this encouraging and practical book, showing how many emotions lead to anger, and many emotions follow from it. Their message is clear: as we deal with our anger, we deal with the primary cause for all emotions that destroy.

Ingram and Johnson help readers identify whether they are spewers, leakers, or stuffers. Readers also learn the difference between good and bad anger, how to gain control of their anger, and how to direct it toward constructive ends. The authors cover solid biblical principles as well as the psychological aspects of our emotions, showing readers how they can actually be constructive tools used by God to transform lives and relationships. Counselors, pastors, and individual Christians will find this book a no-nonsense tool for handling destructive emotions in a healthy way. Now available in trade paper.

Author: Chip Ingram, Becca Johnson
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 06/01/2010
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.74d
ISBN13: 9780801072390
ISBN10: 0801072395
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Living | Family & Relationships
- Family & Relationships | Anger (see also Self-Help | Self Management | Anger Manageme
- Religion | Christian Ministry | Counseling & Recovery

About the Author
Chip Ingram is the founder and CEO of Living on the Edge, an international teaching and discipleship ministry. A pastor for over thirty-five years, Chip is the author of many books, including Discover Your True Self, Marriage That Works, Culture Shock, The Real Heaven, The Real God, The Invisible War, and Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships. Chip and his wife, Theresa, have four grown children and twelve grandchildren and live in California.

Dr. Becca Johnson is a writer and speaker and has been a licensed psychologist for twenty years. She desires to help people overcome negative experiences and emotions in order to more fully enjoy God's amazing love. Johnson has also written books on guilt and child abuse. She conducts counselor training in ten different countries and is currently in private practice in Bellingham, Washington, where she lives with her husband, Lloyd, and their four children. The Johnsons have also served overseas as missionaries.