Mid-Morning Full Archive

What controls you? Is it anger, fear, shame, or stress? Author and speaker Michelle Borquez offers freedom actions for "Overcoming the Seven Deadly Emotions" (Harvest House, ISBN# 0736921397) during Friday's encore "Mid-Morning". You can experience God's peace, joy, and freedom by breaking free of whatever emotion is fighting for ownership in your life. Learn how to recognize deadly patterns, embrace God's positive emotional living, and release control of your emotions to God. Originally aired April 2, 2009.

Marriage is a lonely place to be When Your Mate Has Emotionally Checked Out (Tate, ISBN# 1598862804). Not only is it devastating to a relationship when one spouse has difficultly showing and receiving emotion, love, and affection, but it's also devastating to the children involved. Christian therapist, Craig Miller, joins Char during Thursday's Mid-Morning to provide tools for healthier relationships and next steps toward the journey of emotional healing.

Linda Rooks, author of "Broken Heart on Hold: Surviving Separation" (Cook, ISBN# 978-0-7814-4439-2) has lived through the reoccurring moments of despair and suffocating fear as a result of separation from her husband. Having walked the lonely road of separation, she now offers practical steps for women experiencing this same suffering. Join Linda, Friday on Mid-Morning, to hear her story and to learn how you can sort through the emotional and mental chaos of separation. Gain biblical support for retaining hope and holding fast to God.

Perhaps everything looks great on the surface, but deep down you know there's something terribly wrong in your current relationship. Leslie Vernick, a licensed clinical social worker and author of "The Emotionally Destructive Relationship" (Harvest House, ISBN# 978-0-7369-1897-8), invites you to recognize inappropriate behaviors, to confront and speak truth in the right timing, to get safe and stay safe, and to be transformed by God as you build an identity in Christ. If you're in an emotionally toxic relationship, there's hope for you and Leslie offers some first steps toward your own healing journey during Friday's Mid-Morning.

Do you need freedom and relief from years of emotional baggage you've been carrying around? Are you living with shame, fear, and distrust? Becky Harling, author of "Rewriting Your Emotional Script" (NavPress, ISBN# 978-1-60006-188-2), can relate. Determined to overcome her own pain, Becky set out to rewrite the emotional script she had followed for years. Her search for healing led her to Christ's Sermon on the Mount, and what she discovered changed her life. Join Becky during Friday's encore Mid-Morning as she gives hope and practical steps to erase the old messages you've believed and embrace new attitudes.

Are you living out the legacy of father wounds inflicted during your childhood? The behavior of our parents - particularly our fathers - leaves a lasting imprint on our lives. Kathy Rodriquez, clinical psychologist and author of "Healing the Father Wound", makes the connection between parental examples and their effect on the formulation of our concept of God. She joins Char Binkley and Clinton Faupel during Thursday's Mid-Morning to help you move toward emotional and spiritual healing. Learn how to recognize a good dad and identify four types of inadequate fathering and the legacy each produces. Understand how your father wound impacts significant intimate relationships, and learn how to re-parent and forgive.

The Christian faith is supposed to produce deep, positive change. So why doesn't it seem to work in "real life"? During Friday's encore Mid-Morning Peter Scazzero unveils what's wrong with our conventional means of "spiritual growth" and offers not only a model of spirituality that actually works, but seven steps to transformation that will help you experience a faith changed with authenticity, contemplation and a hunger for God. ("Emotionally Healthy Spirituality", Integrity, ISBN# 1591454522)

Dr. David Hawkins makes his bi-monthly visit on Mid-Morning with The Relationship Doctor's advice for using your God-given emotions for positive change in his book "The Power of Emotional Decision Making" (Harvest House, ISBN # 0-7369-2142-7). Your emotions may seem to change with the wind, but they are important and are not to be ignored or suppressed. The popular Christian counselor lays out a plan to help you discover how to combine your thoughts, your faith, and your feelings to make better decisions and positive changes in your life.

It is devastating to a relationship when one spouse has difficulty showing and receiving emotions, love, and affection. Even the children suffer. During Friday's encore Mid-Morning, Christian therapist, Craig Miller, takes us a on a journey toward emotional healing with tools for healthier relationships in his book, "When Your Mate Has Emotionally Checked Out" (Tate Publishing, ISBN# 1-5988628-0-4).

Why do we cry when we're angry? What can tears tell us about fatigue? How can we deal with our own tears and the tears of those we care for? During Monday's encore Mid-Morning, Dr. Daniel Bagby, author of "Seeing Through Our Tears" (Augsburg, ISBN# 0-8066-3731-5), explains how, when we come to understand and welcome our tears, they can become cleansing agents that rid us of physical and psychic toxins, clear our inner vision, and point us to healing and wholeness.

There is a critical link between emotional health and spiritual health. Peter Scazzero shares the seven steps that lead him from anger and fatigue while serving Christ to a transformed life of spiritual health. ("Emotionally Healthy Spirituality",ISBN # 1591454522)

Most families are not prepared to cope with learning that their loved one has a mental illness. A panel of professionals joins Char on Thursday's Mid-Morning to bring emotional and spiritual help and hope to families who are struggling with the difficult issues of mental illness.