At top of t.p.: "The Life model."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [134]).

Wholeness -- Why we need counselors -- Therapy is not enough -- Family and community can fail -- People need people to recover -- God's part and our part -- Heart, soul, and mind work together -- Wholeness is not achieved quickly -- Getting past what is in the past -- Achieving wholeness in a fractured world -- The power of joy -- Building joy -- Recovery and life -- A brief summary -- The love bonds versus fear bonds chart -- Maturity -- Fear bonds and love bonds -- Changing fear bonds into love bonds -- A village and a family -- Maturity stages -- Making the transition between stages -- Growth, brokeness and transformation cycle -- How people mature -- The maturity indicators chart -- Have the courage to pursue maturity -- The maturity indicators chart -- Maturity, recovery & belonging work together -- Getting unstuck in your maturity process -- Recovery -- How brains helps us with traumas -- Constructing the joy foundation -- Types of traumas -- Absence of necessary good things: type A -- Type A traumas -- Bad things that happen: type B traumas -- Type B traumas -- Healing for woundedness -- Different kinds of fractures -- Assessing your dividedness -- Spiritual interventions -- Breaking the power of lies -- Guidelines for getting unstuck in recovery --

(cont.) Belonging -- Spiritual adoption -- The life changing revelation -- Levels of adoption -- Anticipating problems in spiritual adoption -- What spiritual adoption looks like -- How this applies to ministry -- Guidelines to improve your belonging -- Your heart -- True knowing and false knowing -- A healthy heart -- Getting to know the characteristics of your heart -- The human birth defect -- The heart and the sark -- Winning battles with your sark -- Your will know your heart -- Living from your heart -- Take a look at where you are -- Living the Life model -- What a church look like under the Life model -- Living in the family of God -- Biblical underpinnings for the Life model.

"The Life model is not just a theory--it is a model. The Life model does not just talk about growing--it gives you practical steps on how to mature. The Life model does not just promote recovery--it identifies specific ways to heal traumas. And lastly, The Life model does not just offer casual reading--it challenges you to change and grow and be the person that God designed you to be."--from introductory section called, "What is the Life mode?"