Finding Authentic Hope and Wholeness: 5 Questions That Will Change Your Life - Softcover

Koch PhD, Kathy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802402828 ISBN 13: 9780802402820

Publisher: Moody Publishers, 2005

Synopsis

Answering 5 Questions Can Change Your Life

Whom can I trust?
Who am I?
Who wants me?
Why am I alive?
What do I do well?

Dr. Kathy Koch draws on Scipture and decades of educational seminars and workshops to show us how intelligence and worth take different forms in each of us, but how they always find their roots in Jesus.

"Trying to meet our needs in anyone or anything other than Jesus Christ can result in a temporary or shallow sense of wholeness, but not a long-lasting or authentic, real, actual, legitimate, true genuine wholeness," writes Dr. Kathy. With humor and vulnerability she gives you the tools to develop an authentic sense of self and a positive outlook on the future.

Take the time to ask yourself these five questions, and discover the answers as you journey with Dr. Kathy toward hope and wholeness. You'll be glad you did—for the rest of your life.

About this title

About the Author

DR. KATHY KOCH is the Founder and President of Celebrate Kids, Inc., a Christian ministry based in Fort Worth, Texas. She is an internationally celebrated speaker who has influenced thousands of parents, teachers, and children in over 25 countries through keynote messages, workshops, seminars, assemblies, and other events. She also blogs regularly at www.DrKathyKoch.com.Dr. Kathy coauthored with Jill Savage, No More Perfect Kids: Love Your Kids For Who They Are, helps parents understand why they must get to know their children to parent them wisely. 8 Great Smarts: Discover and Nurture Your Child's Intelligences helps parents understand their children's learning strengths. Finding Authentic Hope and Wholeness: 5 Questions That Will Change Your Life provides a solution-focused, enriching approach to real problems. Screens and Teens: Connecting with Our Kids in a Wireless World, helps parents make sense and respond to screen time that is rapidly replacing family time, especially among teens.Dr. Kathy earned a Ph.D. in reading and educational psychology from Purdue University. She was a tenured associate professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, a teacher of second graders, a middle school coach, and a school board member prior to becoming a full-time conference and keynote speaker in 1991.

From the Back Cover

Your Unmet Needs Are an Invitation from God

All humans have five core needs that must be met in order to thrive as the person God created them to be. When these needs are left unattended, they can be the source of much longing, loneliness, and insecurity. In Five to Thrive Dr. Kathy articulates these needs and offers biblical solutions for how they should—and should not—be met. Each chapter includes interactive assessments so you can begin asking the right questions to evaluate which needs in your life need attention.

Five to Thrive invites you to reimagine unmet needs, frustrations, and lack of contentment as invitations to experience God’s transforming power in your life. These biblical and practical strategies will guide you to healthier self-awareness so you can engage—and thrive!—in the life God intends for you.

"Dr. Koch shows us how to identify and renew our behavior through the Word of God, transforming our hearts to become the best spouse, parent, and follower of Christ we can be. . . . You will be encouraged that your best days and best self are just ahead!"
- Kirk Cameron, Actor and Producer

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Vivid, early memories often capture the essence of how we look at lifeâ⿬⿿for better or for worse. Even at six years old, fitting in was important to me. It was so important that, one day after first grade, I sat down in the middle of my parents' bed and announced to my mom, "I don't want to be tall or clumsy anymore!" Both my clumsiness and my height made me stand out. I tripped over things that weren't there and ran into things that were. I couldn't hide in a crowd. I squirmed when I caught children and adults staring at me.

My mom heard my heart's cry. She didn't proclaim, "Well, get over it, you're going to be tall!" Instead, she talked with my dad about it, and they realized I had a perceived weakness that could be changed (my clumsiness) and one that couldn't (my height).

You know what they did? They problem solved. I praise God they were solution-focused parents! They enrolled me in dance class, and I thrived! Through tap and ballet, I quickly overcame my clumsiness. Because of my height, I was the center of the back rowâ⿬⿿which I decided was a position of high honor! (When a perceived weakness is an unchangeable characteristic, changing one's attitude toward it is the next best thing.)

Edition details

• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802402828
• ISBN 13: 9780802402820
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168