Tough Stuff: 12 Comprehensive Sessions on Growing Through Life's Deepest Pains

ISBN-10: 0310245508
ISBN-13: 9780310245506
Series: Tough Stuff
Category: Religion
Pages: 157
Language: English
Published: 2003
Publisher: Harper Collins
Author: Wendy Coy

Description

Such desperately cheery responses from your students don’t fool you—you’ve been in youth ministry long enough to sense when they’re up to their ears in life’s tough stuff. You know it better than most adults: There’s just a lot of brokenness out there—families splitting up and recombining, abuse of all kinds (physical, psychological, sexual, substance), rampant sexual pressures, violence, isolation . . . the list seems endless. So let Tough Stuff be your guide through these deep and painful issues. It’s a 12-session curriculum that not only familiarizes you with the complex roots and symptoms of these major hurts, but also informs and inspires your high schoolers on dealing with them from the inside out.Tough Stuff can start the healing process in the areas of— Denial (escaping denial and admitting our pain) Parents (God is the perfect parent—not Mom or Dad) Masks (removing the facades and living confidently as the real you) Abuse (healing the hurts of abuse from the inside out) Forgiveness (how forgiveness sets us free) Temptation (resisting temptation and breaking addictions) Boundaries (how boundaries affect . . . everything!) Orientation (making sense of gender identity) . . . and more. And don’t think you’ll be doing all the talking—Tough Stuff is full of engaging and provocative teaching tools: improv and drama, thematic worship, video and music clips, inductive discussions, as well as creative exercises.Tough Stuff is everything you need to navigate your kids through the heartrending realities that they (and their friends) are facing daily. Get into this curriculum, and let the healing begin.

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Other editions

Tough Stuff
- 2008-04
- 144 pages
- Paperback
- Trafford Publishing
Tough Stuff: Helicopter Rescue
- 2003-04-02
- 10 pages
- Paperback
- Hyperion
Tough Stuff
- 1998-09
- - pages
- Paperback
- Carole Marsh Books
Tough Stuff
- 1989-08
- 293 pages
- Paperback
- Macmillan

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