This is an exceptionally lucid and practical resource from this skilled team of psychologist and pastoral theologian. They exhort readers to live life wide awake, and help them do just that.
Table of Contents:
Part 1. Transforming Our Passions -- 1. Emotions, Our Unlikely Allies -- 2. Befriending Our Emotions -- Part 2. Anger: An Emergency Emotion -- 3. Tracking the Tigers of Wrath -- 4. How We Deal with Our Anger -- 5. An Angry Spirituality -- Part 3. Guilt And Shame: The Price of Belonging -- 6. Boundaries of Belonging -- 7. Guises of Guilt -- 8. Healthy Shame -- 9. Transforming Social Shame -- Part 4. Hidden Gifts: Grief, Loneliness, Fear -- 10. The Gift of Grief -- 11. Learning from Loneliness -- 12. Finding Fear as a Friend -- 13. The Christian Script for Fear -- Conclusion: The Way Of The Painful Emotions -- 14. The Way of the Painful Emotions -- Bibliography -- Index.
