Synopses & Reviews
This classic book for teenage girls is being reissued in a dynamic new format with accessible Sidebars and intriguing illustrations. Susie Shellenberge--veteran editor of Focus on the Family's Brio magazine and respected speaker and radio-host-addresses the most vital, personal, and life-challenging issues in young women's lives. This is a valuable handbook for concerned friends who desif to respond in love and in substance to their friends coping with crises. The book is a Bible-based, relevant, contemporary-focused handbook that will empower girls, and, potentially, salvage and even save lives of their troubled friends. For Shellenberger, no issue is too raw (like cutting and sexual abuse) and no advice is ever vague (on page one, Susie calls to her readers that Jesus Christ is the one who does the empowering!).
Synopsis
No issue is taboo for How to Help Your Hurting Friend, a frank and valuable handbook of practical advice for today's teenage girls.
Previously published as Help My Friend Is Hurting Susie Shellenberger--author and teen advocate--addresses the most vital, personal, and life-challenging issues in young women's lives. Presented in handbook form, this biblically-based, relevant, and contemporary-focused book empowers girls to salvage and maybe even save the lives of friends. She addresses such things as self-cutting and sexual abuse in a no-nonsense way and no advice is ever vague. This classic book for teenage girls distills the wisdom of the Bible and combines it with the wisdom of many experienced and anointed counselors.
How to Help Your Hurting Friend:
- This is a reissued edition of Help My Friend Is Hurting.
- Has a new format including sidebars and intriguing illustrations.
- Is a great resource for teens, young adults, and parents alike
- Includes commentary on today's challenges, advice, and a section of letters to the author with helpful, relevant responses.
Synopsis
In this classic, a veteran editor of "Focus on the Family's Brio" magazine, Shellenberger addresses the most vital, personal, and life-challenging issues in young women's lives. Now reissued in a dynamic new format with accessible sidebars and intriguing illustrations.
Synopsis
A valuable handbook of practical advice for teenage girls to share with their friends
Susie Shellenberger--veteran editor of Focus on the Family's Brio magazine--addresses the most vital, personal, and life-challenging issues in young women's
lives so that concerned friends can respond in love and wisdom to their friends who are coping with crises. Presented in handbook form, this biblically-based,
relevant, and contemporary-focused book empowers girls to salvage and even save the lives of their troubled peers.
No issue is taboo (for example, she addresses self-cutting and sexual abuse) and no advice is ever vague (on the first page, Susie tells her readers that "Jesus
Christ is the one who does the empowering!"). This classic book for teenage girls distills the wisdom of the Bible and combines it with the wisdom of many experienced and anointed counselors. Previously published as Help! My Friend Is Hurting, this reissued edition has a dynamic new format complete with sidebars and intriguing illustrations.