The Broken House

<p>How does a psychiatrist cope with trauma when a failed marriage results in severe depression and anxiety?<br>It's not often that the emotional experience of mental health professionals who-like their patients-are fighting to find answers for their own healing and wholeness can be explored. It can be hard to accept that sometimes even therapists need therapy.<br>This book explores what it's like to have the tools to build a stable structure but all that still develops is a broken house. After counseling college students and treating thousands of patients in psychiatry the authors (a husband-and-wife team) found that their marital counseling ministry was more successful when empathetic transparency about their own mistakes and failures was given.<br>Instead of using hammers drills screws and nails this couple had to learn to use techniques that tear down walls and expose the true condition of a damaged relationship.<br>Embark on a journey with the Chip and Joanna of marital counseling as they reveal how a dilapidated house in foreclosure helped them start the renovation process on a marriage that was broken and in disrepair.<br>If you're in a relationship that feels hopeless and are wondering if a seemingly bad investment has any real value you'll discover valuable lessons in this amazing story.</p>