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Finding Authentic Hope and Wholeness: 5 Questions That Will Change Your Life
Answering 5 Questions Can Change Your Life Whom can I trust?
Who am I?
Who wants me?
Why am I alive?
What do I do well? Dr. Kathy Koch draws on Scipture and decades of educational seminars and workshops to show us how intelligence and worth take different forms in each of us, but how they always find their roots in Jesus. "Trying to meet our needs in anyone or anything other than Jesus Christ can result in a temporary or shallow sense of wholeness, but not a long-lasting or authentic, real, actual, legitimate, true genuine wholeness," writes Dr. Kathy. With humor and vulnerability she gives you the tools to develop an authentic sense of self and a positive outlook on the future. Take the time to ask yourself these five questions, and discover the answers as you journey with Dr. Kathy toward hope and wholeness. You'll be glad you did—for the rest of your life.
Who am I?
Who wants me?
Why am I alive?
What do I do well? Dr. Kathy Koch draws on Scipture and decades of educational seminars and workshops to show us how intelligence and worth take different forms in each of us, but how they always find their roots in Jesus. "Trying to meet our needs in anyone or anything other than Jesus Christ can result in a temporary or shallow sense of wholeness, but not a long-lasting or authentic, real, actual, legitimate, true genuine wholeness," writes Dr. Kathy. With humor and vulnerability she gives you the tools to develop an authentic sense of self and a positive outlook on the future. Take the time to ask yourself these five questions, and discover the answers as you journey with Dr. Kathy toward hope and wholeness. You'll be glad you did—for the rest of your life.
- GenresNonfiction
168 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
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About the author
Kathy Koch
36 books94 followersDR. KATHY KOCH is the Founder and President of Celebrate Kids, Inc., a Christian ministry based in Fort Worth, Texas. She is an internationally celebrated speaker who has influenced thousands of parents, teachers, and children in over 25 countries through keynote messages, workshops, seminars, assemblies, and other events. She also blogs regularly at www.DrKathyKoch.com.
Dr. Kathy's newest book, coauthored with Jill Savage, No More Perfect Kids: Love Your Kids For Who They Are, helps parents understand why they must get to know their children to parent them wisely. How Am I Smart? A Parent's Guide to Multiple Intelligences helps parents understand their children's learning strengths. Finding Authentic Hope and Wholeness: 5 Questions That Will Change Your Life provides a solution-focused, enriching approach to real problems. Her book, Screens and Teens: Connecting with Our Kids in a Wireless World, will be published in March, 2015.Dr. Kathy earned a Ph.D. in reading and educational psychology from Purdue University. She was a tenured associate professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, a teacher of second graders, a middle school coach, and a school board member prior to becoming a full-time conference and keynote speaker in 1991.
Dr. Kathy's newest book, coauthored with Jill Savage, No More Perfect Kids: Love Your Kids For Who They Are, helps parents understand why they must get to know their children to parent them wisely. How Am I Smart? A Parent's Guide to Multiple Intelligences helps parents understand their children's learning strengths. Finding Authentic Hope and Wholeness: 5 Questions That Will Change Your Life provides a solution-focused, enriching approach to real problems. Her book, Screens and Teens: Connecting with Our Kids in a Wireless World, will be published in March, 2015.Dr. Kathy earned a Ph.D. in reading and educational psychology from Purdue University. She was a tenured associate professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, a teacher of second graders, a middle school coach, and a school board member prior to becoming a full-time conference and keynote speaker in 1991.
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January 2, 2021
Hmm. Not my favorite book. Way too serious and not enough humor for my personality. I like Kathy as a speaker but this book just didn't work for me.
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