Turn Your Life Around: Break Free from Your Past to a New and Better You

by Tim Clinton and Tim LaHaye

Book Overview

Noted counselor and author Dr. Tim Clinton writes about overcoming the troublesome things of your past in order to face a brighter future.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446579106
• ISBN13: 9780446579100
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Faithwords
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Turn your life around

This is by far one of the most straight forward booksI have read on looking at your self to change your future. Tim Clinton has a way of making you look at yourself instead of blaming others, and when you can see yourself in almost every page of the book, you know someone has done their homework.I would and have recommended this book to a lot of people already. it is well worth the money.

A positively charged, spiritually strong guide to recovery through the power of faith.

President of the American Association of Christian Counselors Dr. Tim Clinton presents Turn Your Life Around: Break Free From Your Past to a New and Better You, a Christian self-help guide to surviving the loss of a loved one by turning to the grace of God in the hour of one's deepest need. Chapters tell of the negative emotions such as anger, fear, alienation, and arrogance that can cause a soul to lose its way, and how to strengthen one's heart with love through connection to God, and the transcendental leap of converting good intentions into Godly action. "How do you press on when your legs get knocked out from underneath you and life just isn't the way it's supposed to be? You return to the relationship with the One who created you in the first place." A positively charged, spiritually strong guide to recovery through the power of faith.

A very strong message

Clinton's book is for anyone who has experienced pain and loneliness--and lives with the ongoing consequences. It is also for people who keep themselves so busy that they don't have time to feel, because in a small still place within their minds, they fear the negative feelings that they would experience. Several themes weave themselves throughout the book. One is what I would call the stages of alienation and addiction, combined with the cycle of restoration. It is both a downward and upward spiral that looks like this: Losing heart: the Descent into Pain Ambushed and assaulted, Anger, Anxiety, Alonenes, Alienation, Arrogance, Adulteries of the Heart and Addiction Alive Again! Accountability, Action, Attachments, Awareness, Assessment , Affection of God Recovery of the Heart: Coming Out of Pain This is not your typical self-help book, nor even your typical Christian self-help book. For the reader who is willing to look in the mirror there is specific, meaningful help. His food for thought: "What are your biggest fears? Failure? Being seen as less than perfect? Losing a position? Losing a loved one? Abandonment? Fear of others hurting you?" "When we live with unsatisfied souls, we will pour almost anything into them to appease our hunger." "Spouses and parents, for instance, devote so much time and energy rushing from place to place that they don't devote time and effort to creating and preserving meaningful relationships..." He echoes Robert McGee who said that the devil's definition of self worth is "My performance plus the opinion of others." And those who accept that lie are on the slippery slope toward alienation and addiction. One final thought: He challenges you to: "Examine everything in your life that suddenly takes on huge meaning and begins to give you purpose, meaning, and value. If God isn't at the core and intimately involved with its pursuit, then you may be playing the lead in a tragedy. You are embracing the gods of distraction and your newfound "loves" will never satisfy you." And those distractions may be workaholism, drugs, alcohol, or any other false solution to a lack of relationship and connection--to God first, and then to each other. This not a light read, but for those desiring a sense of connection and relationship, Clinton provides specific action steps to go from where you are to where you want to be. Armchair Interviews says: This might just be a book your life needs.