Filling Your Emptiness  --  Your New Life

 

Dedications

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To Claudia

Most important of all, this effort is dedicated to my Christ-loving, caring, patient, continually forgiving wife, Claudia. Claudia was the person who I saw when I finally hit the lowest moment of my life’s despair and looked up. She, for whatever reason, was attracted to this wayward, desolate, suicidal, beyond-hope, vagabond party animal. She was the beginning glimmer of hope that grew in spite of my reluctance and resistance. She persevered through the many bumpy roads, detours, and dead-ends. She is the influence that resulted in the salvation of all three of our sons—the most fitting example of Jesus’s loving perseverance and grace.

 

To Kate Ivey, Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, PMH-C

Counseling is a place to safely and gently lean into any struggles, pain points, fears, hopes, and goals alongside a trained professional who bears witness with nonjudgmental acceptance and full confidentiality. It is a place where dignity is affirmed and shame is broken down, so that healing and freedom can be experienced. Counseling can involve feedback from the therapist that may look like offering observations, considering various perspectives, education, strategy and skill building, and encouragement.

 

Kate is the inspiration behind this written effort.

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