Emotionally Healthy Relationships Expanded Edition
This powerful 8-week course will equip you with practical tools to really love people in difficult situations and mature into an adult follower of Jesus. The Emotionally Healthy (EH) Relationships Course has been developed over a 21-year period to directly address core biblical principles to guide you into an experience of discipleship that will deeply change your life. In the EH Relationships Course, you will learn 8 practical relationship skills to develop mature, loving relationships with others:
1. Take your community temperature reading
2. Stop mind reading and clarify expectations
3. Genogram your family
4. Explore the iceberg
5. Listen incarnationally
6. Climb the ladder of integrity
7. Fight cleanly
8. Develop a “rule of life” to implement emotionally healthy skills
Since loving others and loving God cannot be separated, you will also grow in your personal, first-hand relationship with Jesus by incorporating stillness, silence, and Scripture as daily life rhythms. This is Part 2 of the Emotionally Healthy Discipleship Course that consists of this course and Emotionally Healthy Spirituality (Part 1).
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S1: Take Your Community Temperature Reading (Emotionally Healthy Relationships)
Community Temperature Reading is the building block for the rest of the relationship skills that follow. Use it to discover and express your God-given voice and to build healthy relationships with others. It's about brief sharing in five categories: 1) Express appreciations 2) Use puzzles to avo...
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S2: Stop Mind Reading & Clarify Expectations (Emotionally Healthy Relationships)
We routinely play God when we make assumptions about another person or interpret a certain behavior without verifying the facts. We need to Stop Mind Reading because making assumptions without checking them out damages relationships. Clarifying Expectations is about eliminating disappointment ove...
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S3: Genogram Your Family (Emotionally Healthy Relationships)
Family patterns from the past are played out in our present relationships without us necessarily being aware of it. Track your family patterns with the Genogram to discover the family history that lives inside all of us and is affecting us today. The great news of Christianity is that your family...
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S4: Explore the Iceberg (Emotionally Healthy Relationships)
Humans are like icebergs: 10 percent is above the surface and visible; 90 percent is below the surface and invisible. When we Explore the Iceberg, we learn 1) unprocessed emotions don't die 2) healthy community requires that people know themselves and 3) feelings help us discern God's voice.
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S5: Incarnational Listening (Emotionally Healthy Relationships)
To Listen Incarnationally is to listen at a heart level, with empathy attuned to the nonverbal communication of another person, so that person feels felt by you. In healthy togetherness, we respect each other's separateness, allowing the other to have their own thoughts, feelings, fears and values.
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S6: Climb the Ladder of Integrity (Emotionally Healthy Relationships)
The pressure on us to live a life that is not our own is great. Powerful generational forces and spiritual warfare work against us. By Climbing the Ladder of Integrity, we clarify our values by processing our thoughts and feelings, and, if appropriate, asserting ourselves respectfully.
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S7: Clean Fighting (Emotionally Healthy Relationships)
Unresolved conflicts are one of the greatest tensions in our lives. Instead of risking a broken relationship, we prefer to ignore the difficult issues and settle for a false peace, hoping it will somehow go away. It doesn't. With Clean Fighting you resolve conflict maturely by eliminating dirty f...
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S8: Develop a Rule of Life (Emotionally Healthy Relationships)
A Rule of Life is an intentional, conscious plan to keep God at the center of everything we do. It provides guidelines to help us continually remember God as the Source of our lives. It includes our unique combination of spiritual practices that provide structure and direction for us to intention...
