Back to Joy: An Intimate Journey with Jesus Into Emotional Health and Maturity

Ever found yourself without the mental health you need in order to thrive? Is it sometimes hard to manage your emotions well, even though you pray, read your Bible, and serve others? Does God seem to be some illusive presence that you just can't seem to sense or hear?This practical and yet, intensely personal book will give readers a different model for moving towards emotional maturity. Learning to sense God enjoying her by using the Immanuel Approach, no matter what, turns out to be the beginning of an intimacy with the Creator that the author never dreamed possible. Wholehearted living begins with joy, that feeling you get when someone is glad to be with you. Joy has the power to manage all that goes on inside of us... when there is enough of it. Unfortunately, however, for many of us there is very little joy inside compared to the shame, fear, sadness, anger, and hopeless despair that swirl about. The result of this imbalance is emotional shutdown or meltdown, which leave us unable