Turn Your Life Around [Hardcover]

Dr. Tim Clinton (Author), Tim LaHaye (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2006

Noted counselor and author Dr. Tim Clinton writes about overcoming the troublesome things of your past in order to face a brighter future.

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About the Author

Dr. Tim Clinton is president of the 50,000-member American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC), the largest and most diverse Christian counseling association in the world. In addition, he is a publisher, professor, and executive director. Tim and his wife Julie have been married for twenty-four years; they have two children--Megan and Zachary--and live in Forest, Virginia.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 251 pages
• Publisher: FaithWords; 1st edition (November 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446579106
• ISBN-13: 978-0446579100
• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #582,159 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dr. Tim Clinton is president of the 50,000-member American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC), the largest and most diverse Christian counseling association in the world. In addition, he is a publisher, professor, and executive director. Tim and his wife Julie have been married for twenty-four years; they have two children, Megan and Zachary, and live in Forest, Virginia.

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very strong message, March 25, 2007

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Armchair Interviews (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Turn Your Life Around (Hardcover)

Clinton's book is for anyone who has experienced pain and loneliness--and lives with the ongoing consequences. It is also for people who keep themselves so busy that they don't have time to feel, because in a small still place within their minds, they fear the negative feelings that they would experience.

Several themes weave themselves throughout the book. One is what I would call the stages of alienation and addiction, combined with the cycle of restoration. It is both a downward and upward spiral that looks like this:

Losing heart: the Descent into Pain

Ambushed and assaulted, Anger, Anxiety, Alonenes, Alienation, Arrogance, Adulteries of the Heart and Addiction

Alive Again! Accountability, Action, Attachments, Awareness, Assessment , Affection of God

Recovery of the Heart: Coming Out of Pain

This is not your typical self-help book, nor even your typical Christian self-help book. For the reader who is willing to look in the mirror there is specific, meaningful help.

His food for thought:

"What are your biggest fears? Failure? Being seen as less than perfect? Losing a position? Losing a loved one? Abandonment? Fear of others hurting you?"

"When we live with unsatisfied souls, we will pour almost anything into them to appease our hunger."

"Spouses and parents, for instance, devote so much time and energy rushing from place to place that they don't devote time and effort to creating and preserving meaningful relationships..."

He echoes Robert McGee who said that the devil's definition of self worth is "My performance plus the opinion of others." And those who accept that lie are on the slippery slope toward alienation and addiction.

One final thought: He challenges you to: "Examine everything in your life that suddenly takes on huge meaning and begins to give you purpose, meaning, and value. If God isn't at the core and intimately involved with its pursuit, then you may be playing the lead in a tragedy. You are embracing the gods of distraction and your newfound "loves" will never satisfy you." And those distractions may be workaholism, drugs, alcohol, or any other false solution to a lack of relationship and connection--to God first, and then to each other.

This not a light read, but for those desiring a sense of connection and relationship, Clinton provides specific action steps to go from where you are to where you want to be.

Armchair Interviews says: This might just be a book your life needs.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best out there, July 4, 2008

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Nicholas A. Bickford "bick" (NW WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Turn Your Life Around (Hardcover)

I have read this book, and there are few out there that really hit on every area of life (abandonment, addictions, relationships, self: all in respect to the Bible). It has a strong Biblical backing. I have read chapters over and over again, as they keep hitting cords with me. The best part is that I am younger (21+) but I can break cycles and generational curses in my life because of Christ. This is just a supplement that has shined light in the inner me.

I strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants to break from the norm. I have cleared out my library recently, but this is one of the books that I am keeping around and am passing this on to others who been through LIFE. I don't care if I get them back, as long as someone else is helped.

If you want, what I am doing, I check out books through the Library, then buy them on Amazon if I will read them more than once. Do yourself a favor, and check it out.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Turn your life around, October 17, 2007

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Cathalyn A. Welker (Hutchinson, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Turn Your Life Around (Hardcover)

This is by far one of the most straight forward booksI have read on looking at your self to change your future. Tim Clinton has a way of making you look at yourself instead of blaming others, and when you can see yourself in almost every page of the book, you know someone has done their homework.I would and have recommended this book to a lot of people already. it is well worth the money.