Navigating Destructive Relationships: 9 Steps toward Healing

by Brad Hambrick

When you’re in a destructive relationship, it can be difficult to identify what is happening and how to respond. It is normal to be disoriented by the chaos of a destructive relationship, but you do not have to remain passive in response to your loved one’s destructive patterns.

All relationships disappoint us from time to time. But some relationships are destructive, especially those marked by addiction, abuse, and/or life-dominating problems. Navigating Destructive Relationships, a support group curriculum, provides you with a safe and stable place where you can name what’s going on and turn toward God. You are not alone. God sees and cares for your suffering.

Navigating Destructive Relationships is built on a 9-step model that helps you process intense relational suffering with the hope of the gospel. Learning alongside others facing similar challenges allows participants a unique opportunity to grow as they identify choices they can make in response to their loved one’s destructive patterns.

9-step model that helps participant process intense relational suffering with the hope of the gospel.An in-depth resource offers churches and individuals a unique opportunity to respond to destructive relationship patterns in a faith-filled and safe way.A resource in the Church-Based Counseling series, built on the G4 model of subject-specific, lay-led counseling groups, designed to help churches create sustainable lay counseling ministries.

292 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 29, 2024

Reviews

[Gunter Hollis · Rating 2 out of 5]

I do not mean to be overly critical, not knowing the author personally but this book, while bringing in some helpful categories and insights, creates a me-centered approach to relationships causing the reader to reflect inward for most of the book instead of upward. Would recommend for only a seasoned biblical counselor and only for those small nuggets of wisdom found in the pages.