Saturday, October 6, 2012

No More Christian Nice Girl


NO MORE
Christian
Nice Girl
I took the time to attend a retreat today.
We call them retreats… another term might be… group therapy.
Jennifer Degler, PhD is a clinical psychologist and life coach was today’s speaker. She counsels adults, youth, and couples at Interfaith Counseling in central Kentucky. In addition, she and Paul Coughlin are authors of the book, No More Christian Nice Girl: When just being nice - instead of good - hurts you, your family, and your friends.  This book is available for purchase online at Amazon. 

What did this retreat look like?   As a group, we did an exercise discovering Biblical examples of bad girls, good girls, and girls who were bad for a season or a reason. We prayed, sang, and took a Nice Girl Self Test.  Our speaker also created CWIVES, a Web site devoted to helping Christian wives understand and enhance their sexuality. (www.cwives.com)

One of the lessons for me, developing skills to resolve conflict.  I like the goal of becoming a strong, confident, and caring woman...becoming God's good woman. 

“Failure to confront an issue is permission to continue.” J. Degler, PhD



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