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Open Hearts: Renewing Relationships with Recovery, Romance & Reality
: :Open Hearts: Renewing Relationships With Recovery, Romance and Reality by Patrick Carnes, Ph.D., Debra Laaser and Mark Laaser, Ph.D. (Gentle Path Press, 1999) When a couple first comes together, the knee-weakening, heart-stopping, pants-dropping passion exhilarates. But turning that hunka hunka burnin love into an intimate bond comes no more naturally than learning to ride a bicycle or use chopsticks. What we are socialized to assume should be spontaneous and effortless requires patience and learned skills. Worse, should any problems erupt (you know, little things like kids, money or sex), we fear the ...
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Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction
: :A former sex addict himself, Dr. Mark Laaser offers help and hope for regaining and maintaining sexual integrity, self-control, and wholesome, biblical sexuality.
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The Seven Desires of Every Heart
: :In this instructive and inspirational book, Mark and Debra Laaser teach us how to have richer relationships with God and others. Using stories and straightforward observations, they examine seven desires we all share, and illustrate how understanding those desires can enhance our relationships and enrich our lives.
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Talking to Your Kids About Sex: How to Have a Lifetime of Age-Appropriate Conversations with Your Children About Healthy Sexuality
: :“The greatest enemy of sexual wholeness today,” asserts Mark Laaser, Ph.D., “is silence.” A therapist specializing in the field of sexual health, Dr. Laaser has worked with hundreds of adults who suffer the consequences of sexual sin and dysfunction. All of them long to have had meaningful conversations with their parents about sex when they were growing up. Most parents would agree that healthy sexuality should be taught at home rather than left to their children’s teachers, peers, or culture. However, even parents with the best intentions can feel at a loss ...
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The Pornography Trap: Setting Pastors and Laypersons Free from Sexual Addiction
: :Maybe he’s a board member or a deacon. Maybe he’s the choir director. Maybe he’s teaching Sunday school or passing the offering plate. Pastor...maybe it’s you. How are you dealing with the sexual sin epidemic that is sweeping across churches today via the Internet and other venues? According to a Leadership Journal survey, almost two-thirds of all pastors struggle with Internet pornography. Men everywhere are living in bondage and fear of exposure. If you are flirting with this devastating addiction, or if you’re counseling others who have already crossed the line, Ralph ...
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Faithful & True: Sexual integrity in a fallen world
: :Maybe he’s a board member or a deacon. Maybe he’s the choir director. Maybe he’s teaching Sunday school or passing the offering plate. Pastor...maybe it’s you. How are you dealing with the sexual sin epidemic that is sweeping across churches today via the Internet and other venues? According to a Leadership Journal survey, almost two-thirds of all pastors struggle with Internet pornography. Men everywhere are living in bondage and fear of exposure. If you are flirting with this devastating addiction, or if you’re counseling others who have already crossed the line, Ralph ...
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Before the Fall: Preventing Pastoral Sexual Abuse (From the Interfaith Sexual Trauma Institute)
: :Church and theological seminary leaders have long desired a guidebook to help them orient candidates for ministry to the issue of sexuality and ministry. This is that book. Nils Friberg and Mark Laaser lay out the major problems and guidelines for solutions.
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Restoring the Soul of a Church
: :The Interfaith Sexual Trauma Institute has commissioned this pastoral work which focuses on the healing of congregations following clergy sexual misconduct. The book discusses the original problem of sexual misconduct and exploitation and then focuses on those neglected 'secondary' victims of abuse: the congregation, the wider community, other clergy, the wider church, the offender's family, and the pastor who takes over.
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Restoring the Soul of a Church: Congregations Wounded by Clergy Sexual Misconduct
from: Alban Institute
: :The Interfaith Sexual Trauma Institute has commissioned this pastoral work which focuses on the healing of congregations following clergy sexual misconduct. The book discusses the original problem of sexual misconduct and exploitation and then focuses on those neglected 'secondary' victims of abuse: the congregation, the wider community, other clergy, the wider church, the offender's family, and the pastor who takes over.
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L.I.F.E. Guide for Men
: :The Interfaith Sexual Trauma Institute has commissioned this pastoral work which focuses on the healing of congregations following clergy sexual misconduct. The book discusses the original problem of sexual misconduct and exploitation and then focuses on those neglected 'secondary' victims of abuse: the congregation, the wider community, other clergy, the wider church, the offender's family, and the pastor who takes over.
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