Book Review: Boundaries For Your Soul by Alison Cook and Kimberly Miller
Book Review: Boundaries For Your Soul by Alison Cook and Kimberly Miller
14 May 2020
Salvo authors Alison Cook and Kimberley Miller guide readers into emotional health with a godly perspective.
When it comes to relationships with people, we may understand and practise healthy boundaries that are necessary for relational wellness and godliness.
However, we may not practise the boundaries and steps that are necessary for emotional and mental healthiness in our inner lives. Boundaries For Your Soul takes the reader down a circumspective walk through emotions that may be scary to navigate.
Rather than letting these emotions overwhelm or rule us, or compartmentalising and denying their place, these UK-based Salvo authors and professionals guide us in understanding the role of these emotions. In doing so, they help us to take a step back and hear the heart’s concerns, applying biblical counsel to oneself.
I would recommend this book as an entry-level guide into redeeming the benefits of the practice of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and applying biblical counselling tools. On top of this, it is easy to read, not cluttered by theological or counselling jargon, and allows readers to readily apply the authors’ practice on first reading.
One particular highlight is how the authors help readers to explore the positives of seemingly negative emotions and delving deeper into the needs and fears of the heart that cause these issues. The outcome is not to give in to nor deny emotions, but to set healthy boundaries for godly living; for we are all emotional beings made in the image of the God of emotions.
Boundaries For Your Soul is available at major bookstores and Koorong.
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