Beverly Hubble Tauke - Healing Your Family Tree: A Destiny-Changing Journey Toward Freedom, Forgiveness, and Healthier Relationships

Healing Your Family Tree is a delightful, easy-to-read book that analyzes the causes of crippling family habits and proposes models for improvement. Not only will it help members of dysfunctional families, the book will equip counselors, psychologists, and others dealing with family issues to identify harmful behavior patterns and develop possible remedies.

Bernadine Curoe, SVM

Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa

The richness of this book comes from Beverly Hubble Taukes experiences with a diverse cross-section of people and cultures, including the men and women at Gospel Rescue Mission. The blending of storytelling and practical applications makes Healing Your Family Tree a user-friendly book for caregivers as well as those in search of personal growth.

Judy Ashburn, MEd, LPC, CAC

Director of Womens Ministry, Gospel Rescue Ministries, Washington, D.C.

The novelist William Faulkner once wrote: The past is not dead; it is not even past. With insight, clarity, and sensitivity, Bev Tauke chronicles the truth of that statement. Using personal, contemporary, historic, and biblical examples, she shows how conscious and courageous decisions and actions can alter the predictable consequences born out of dysfunctional family life.

Mark Petersburg

Senior Pastor, Knollwood Community Church, Burke, Virginia

Beverly Hubble Tauke is a gifted and skilled therapist who brings to her work a passion for helping people understand themselves in the context of their families. Healing Your Family Tree is filled with the wisdom and insight Bev has gleaned from her life and her work with people who are hurting.

Christine S. Conway, PHD; Jeffrey S. Berryhill, PHD

Cofounders, Cornerstone Family Counseling, Fairfax, Virginia

I have greatly benefited from Bev Taukes extraordinary insight and loving counsel as it relates to Gods mercy and the redemption of families. She has made a tremendous difference in my life and I am sure that lives will be changed forever by Healing Your Family Tree.

Cindi Williams

Former chief of staff to Elizabeth Dole, Current womens rights advocate, Washington, D.C.

If read with openness, trust, and faith, Healing Your Family Tree provides a near guarantee that life will be better. Within these pages are reflections and real-life stories that will give those whose past makes it difficult to move forward the power to change.

Rev. Richard b. martin

Pastor, Church of the Nativity, Burke, Virginia

This author wisely understands that a family is an interconnected system with each member playing some role, either contributing toward family healing or furthering the brokenness. Here is practical insight on how to be an agent of healing, first for ones self and then others who are a part of the family tree. This book explains how by Gods grace one can stop the cycle of dysfunction and move toward the wholeness God intended. I found the book to be very helpful in counseling families that are in emotional and spiritual disarray.

Dr. Erwin Lutzer

The Moody Church, Chicago

For anyone who wants to work on their family issues, this is a must-read book. Bev is a masterful communicator, poignantly weaving biblical truth with behavioral truth in a spirit of mercy and grace. And the best part is she lives what she teaches. This approach could save some people years of therapy.

Dawn Zimmerman, LPC, Director

The Counseling Center at McLean Bible Church, Virginia

Beverly Tauke has penned a remarkably helpful book, which has become a true lifesaver for many people. Not only is it a helpful personal resource, I have used this book as a gift to those who now show evidence of healing, and who report that destructive family patterns have been shattered.

Joanne Kemp, Board Member

Prison Fellowship International

Full of helpful information about meeting the pain of the past and transforming it into abundant living for the future for both clinicians or individuals working on their own families.... Tauke wants more for her readers than liberation from negative, life-destroying traits; she wants them to experience healing through a vibrant, authentic, God-driven, metabolized faith.

The Family and Marriage Counseling Directory Web site

Full of inspiring wit and inspiring insight.... Tauke dramatically illustrates two principles that flow throughout her book:

It is possible to identify and correct dysfunctional family habits and break the cycle of pain and unhealthy behavior for future generations.

Psychological, emotional, spiritual and physical functions are intertwined and interdependent.

The Witness

Dubuque, Iowa

Although we are each responsible for our own choices, the truth is that the addictions, fears and dysfunctions in our lives often stretch back to our fathers and mothers and their parents and ancestors. That legacy of brokenness can be ended and replaced with healing and joy, according to Tauke. Her purpose: to show the way to remarkable healing.

Catholic University of America Magazine

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Healing Your Family Tree: A Destiny-Changing Journey toward Freedom, Forgiveness, and Healthier Relationships

Copyright 2004 by Beverly Hubble Tauke. All rights reserved.

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Previously published in 2004 as Sins of the Family by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., under ISBN 0-8423-8697-1.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tauke, Beverly Hubble.

[Sins of the family]

Healing your family tree : a destiny-changing journey toward freedom, forgiveness, and healthier relationships / Beverly Hubble Tauke.

p. cm.

Originally published: Sins of the family. Wheaton, Ill. : SaltRiver, c2004.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-4143-1175-3 (sc)

1. FamilyReligious life. I. Title.

BV4526.3.T38 2004

248.4dc22 2006036464

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