Mid-Morning Full Archive

What's going on in the minds of the Digging Deeper Panel? If they're like the rest of us, their thoughts are traveling at the rampant speed of 1300 words-per-minute! And many of those thoughts are what Shelly Beach labels, self talk: messages we're sending to ourselves which can be good and bad. Find out what the Digging Deeper Panel learned about themselves and how you, too, can incorporate healthy self-talk into your own life as they discuss "The Silent Seduction of Self-Talk" by Shelly Beach during Wednesday's "Mid-Morning".

Christian psychologist and counselor Kim Eckert found herself addressing and readdressing the same core issues with her female clients: relational wounds, body image, negative self-talk, and forming healthy relationships, to name just a few. She longed for a practical Christian book that would supplement the instruction and insights offered during counseling. The problem was she couldn't find one, so she wrote it herself: "Stronger than You Think" (InterVarsity, ISBN # 0-8308-3373-3). On today's encore Mid-Morning experience the wise counsel that's helped numerous women find wholeness without having to be perfect!

Jackie Kendall, author of "Free Yourself to Love" (FaithWords, ISBN# 978-0-446-58089-2) says, "We are most like Jesus not through our attempts to be perfect, but through our choices to forgive as we have been freely forgiven." Join the Digging Deeper panel's discussion during Thursday's Mid-Morning as they examine the six most common excuses people use for not forgiving others. The ladies will share their own struggles and victories while learning the art of forgiveness.

Being a parent is usually all about giving of yourself to foster your child's growth and development. But what happens when this isn't the case and the parents dismiss the needs of their children while instead asserting their own needs and demanding attention and reassurance? Dr. Nina Brown, author of "Children of the Self-Absorbed" (New Harbinger Publications, ISBN# 1572245611), provides a rare guide for adults who need to overcome the effects of being raised by a narcissistic parent.

If your life today were a movie, what song lyrics would be in the soundtrack? Would it be "On the road again", "It is Well with my Soul", "Whatever will be, will be", "I need thee every hour ", or something entirely different? Join Char and Lynne during Wednesday's Mid-Morning as they open phone lines and invite you to share where you've been on you're spiritual journey and where you're going. We want to hear about a day in your life, your belief shapers, your creed, the good times and the bad times, and much more. Call in for a chance to win a unique question and answer book entitled "Me Myself & I Am". It's a great tool to take Wednesday's Mid-Morning to the next level by recording the story of you & God.

Bookstores are jam-packed with self-help books that promise a new and better you. So what makes Dr. Tim Clinton's "Turn Your Life Around" (FaithWords, ISBN# 0-4465-7910-6) different? How about no quick fixes? Just a biblical worldview combined with solid counseling principles that can help place you on a path to lasting healing. Join Lynne and Dr. Tim Clinton during Tuesday's encore Mid-Morning.

A Secret Keeper Girl is a Girl-Gone-Mild, not wild. On today's Mid-Morning, Secret Keeper Girl founder Dannah Gresh guides parents in instilling and growing modesty and self-confidence in their daughters. Dannah also offers insights for exchanging an exhausting life for an exhilarating one, taken from her new book "Five Little Questions" (Nelson, ISBN # 0-7852-1244-2).

Why would someone deliberately cut themselves? On today's encore Mid-Morning, licensed mental health counselor Mary Adams explains the motivation behind the confusing phenomenon, offers advice to parents and friends who suspect someone they love is cutting, and explores avenues for effective treatment.

Part of being a human being is recognizing that we see most things through our own selfish perspective. It takes humility to pull back and admit we've been wrong in our perception. Envy, inferiority, rejection, and discouragement are four of the twelve perspectives that Kent Crockett describes in I Once Was Blind But Now I Squint (AMG Publishers, ISBN # 0-89957-139-5).