Cover title. At top of cover: "The Life model."

Wholeness -- 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 -- Maturity -- Fear bonds and love bonds -- Love bonds versus fear bonds chart -- Changing fear bonds into love bonds -- Maturity stages -- Making the transition between stages -- The growth, brokeness and transformation cycle -- How people mature -- The maturity indicators chart -- Have the courage to pursue maturity -- The maturity indicators chart -- Maturity, recovery and belonging work together -- Getting unstuck in your maturity process -- Recovery -- How brains help us with traumas -- Constructing the joy foundation -- Types of traumas -- The absence of necessary good things: type A traumas -- 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 -- Living the Life model -- What a church look like under the Life model -- Living in the family of God -- Take a look at where you are -- Biblical underpinnings for the Life model.