How Your Teenager is Wired: Discovering who GOD made YOUR TEENAGER to be

by Katie Brazelton

Having conversations with teenagers is a challenge. Having meaningful conversations with teenagers can feel impossible at times!

Drawing on her experience as a mom, ministry founder, and Life Purpose Coach®, Dr. Katie Brazelton offers insights and wisdom in How Your Teenager is Wired on understanding how teenagers are wonderfully and uniquely created-and how to transform that understanding into dynamic conversations about who they are, how God wired them, and where their lives are headed.

Other than the topic of choosing to follow Christ, the most important conversation parents can have with their teenagers is the one about their personal surrender to God's will for their lives. You have the privilege and opportunity to talk with your children about the awesome and bold purpose God has in mind for them.

In How Your Teenager is Wired , you'll discover the three calls on the life of each Christian and how you can explore these calls with your the primary call of being transformed into Christ-likeness; the secondary call of thriving in seasonal roles; and the "This I Must Do" call to be part of something that is larger than yourself, unfeasible to do on your own, and impossible to ignore.

You'll learn how to have the best possible parent-teenager relationship, why teenagers genuinely do want to understand their life purpose, how to amaze your teenagers with your conversational skills, and how to launch them into answering God's call on their life.

Katie also provides engaging scripts and exercises to equip you to talk with your teenager about such important topics

You'll find this book a particularly effective companion to The Way I'm Wired , a devotional that explores over 200 Scriptures to help teenagers discover who God created them to be.

164 pages, Paperback

First published April 28, 2011

About the author

Katie Brazelton, PhD, MDiv, MA, bestselling author, is the founder of Life Purpose Coaching Centers International® (LPCCI). She is following her passionate dream of opening 200 Life Purpose Coaching Centers (with coaching toward God’s plan, recovery, marriage and family, finances, career, health, etc.) in churches, parachurch ministries, and private coaching practices. LPCCI holds extensive, professional credentials in the coaching world to ensure the highest possible training standards and that its graduates can earn Continuing Education Units, which many colleges accept as transfer credits:

 Board-Certified Coach (BCC) training provider for the Center for Cr edentialing and Education (CCE)
 Authorized training provider for the International Association of Continuing Education Training (IACET)
 Approved training provider for the International Coach Federation (ICF).
To learn more about LPCCI and Katie’s dream, visit the website: www.LifePurposeCoachingCenters.com

Ambassador Speakers Bureau in Tennessee manages Katie’s keynote and retreat speaking schedule (only). Her audiences have included such groups as Salvation Army, American Association of Christian Counselors, The Navigators, Swaziland’s Bulembu Orphanage, and denominations and churches around the world. To book an event, call Ambassador at 615-370-4700.

Katie is a featured guest on television (e.g., 100 Huntley Street and TBN Africa) and radio (e.g., HomeWord and Midday Connection.) Her articles have appeared in numerous publications (e.g., Christian Coaching Today and Extraordinary Women Magazine). Dr. Brazelton is a Board Member for the International Christian Coaching Association and also for the fully accredited Rockbridge Seminary. She has interviewed Mother Teresa in Calcutta, countless influential leaders, addicts, and prisoners to seek advice for the readers of her eight books and two DVD trainings. Katie is a church consultant; previously, she was a Saddleback Church licensed minister.
To book a television, radio, or print interview (or to request an article), use the email address.

Katie resides in Southern California and has two adult children, a daughter-in-love, and two precious grandsons. She enjoys walking and swimming at Laguna Beach—and making jigsaw puzzles.
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 Private, two-day, intensive Life Plan
 Consultation to start a Coaching Ministry in your church,
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Reviews

[Stephanie Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of good ideas on how to context with your teen and help them find their path