Self-Care In a Crazy World: How to Thrive When Things Get Tough

This book came together in 2020. The year of a pandemic, social unrest, political confusion and, in my area of Chattanooga, Tennessee, a tornado. This has been a tough year for all of us. It has been hard to find stability emotionally, physically, relationally. The constant onslaught of uncertainty, stress, and conflict has brought a fatigue. I think God has designed all of us to deal with transitory stress or stress that comes and goes, but not stress that lingers for months on end. This year has produced a fatigue that is affecting everyone’s life. It is perfectly normal to feel exhausted and overwhelmed when dealing with the emotions that come from prolonged stress and uncertainty. For some people this fatigue looks just like a low-grade depression in which people struggle with focus and concentration and seem to want to step back further away from life. For others it seems to create an agitation, anger, or reactivity to the world around them. Many feel weary, anxious, powerless, sad, frustrated, and irritable.

Self-Care In a Crazy World: How to Thrive When Things Get Tough

What is self-care? Self-care is everything you do deliberately for your physical, emotional and mental well being to help you deal with life when it gets tough. As simple as it sounds, many of us pay little attention to self-care. This is why ‘deliberately’ is one of the most important words in the definition. For most of us we are running so hard we don’t realize the fatigue and irritability of an exhausted life. You need to be conscious of your well-being before you can achieve true self-care. “Self-Care in a Crazy World” will guide you with simple practical steps to help you create resilience and strength to deal with life when it gets tough.

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“We often try to hid our stories because sharing them can be risky. In this book, Sheneka and Mark have chosen to take the risk.”—Mike Chapman

Interweaving their life stories with Bible truths and sound mental-health principles, the writers offer a potent resource to help individuals overcome rejection, shame, and anger and to embrace a new identity.

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For many families, the holiday season is filled with hope, joy, love, and laughter with our loved ones. Unfortunately, the holiday season is also one of the worst times of year for many of our clients who struggle with stress, loneliness, hopelessness, and abuse. Every year as we enter into the holiday season it becomes all too apparent to us just how many  individuals, couples, and families there are in this community, as well as in the greater Chattanooga area, that suffer from these afflictions. We at the Transformation and Lighthouse Counseling Center try make it our mission to help our community work through these issues and many more in a safe, caring, and faith-based environment.

We at the Transformation and Lighthouse Counseling Center provide non-profit counseling services to anyone in need in the community. We have a passion to restore broken lives and teach individuals and families the skills necessary to break bad behavior patterns for a lifetime. We want our clients to live healthy and functional lives long after the holiday season is over. Unfortunately, many hurting people do not have the resources to get the help they so desperately need. To combat this real problem, we have to discount our services and/or create other options to make help for these families possible.  Our amazing staff and dedicated counselors will provide over $250,000 of discounted services in the 2014 alone. We have over 400 people every week that come into our building for some type of counseling service.  We complete over 8000 counseling appointments each year.  Those appointments include court ordered classes for perpetrators of domestic violence because we take our role in ending violence in our community seriously. We want to stop domestic abuse at its source. In order to do all of this, we need your help.  Please help us by giving a tax deductible gift. All proceeds will go directly to affect our clients. Your gift will help us to reach out to more hopeless individuals and families this season so that they may receive Hope for the Holidays.

We have a goal of raising $15,000 this holiday season. It is an honor to partner with you to reach the hurting in our community. Thank you and may God bless you and your loved ones during this holiday season.

One day changed the world.  The day that Jesus was born changed the world.  Stop for a moment and think of all things in the world that would be different if that day had not happened.  As you begin to move closer to Christmas and the end of this year.  Allow the wonder and the gift of the day that Christ came to the world to give you the courage to create days that can change your marriage and your children this next year.