living a free and courageous life with God

by Marieke Meijer, Joy Phillips (Translator), Buijten Schipperheijn (Editor)

Overview

Marieke Meijer, psychologist with twenty years of experience, writes about freedom in Christ. Subconscious thoughts and feelings impact our behavior. We can get stuck in stressful relations or working situations, lacking self-confidence, without knowing how to be relaxed and free again.
This book provides a biblical perspective on freedom in Christ in daily life. It also provides psychological techniques, using Karpman Drama Triangle, and examples how to detect thoughts and feelings that block this freedom. It gives tools how to make conscious choices and how to take responsibility for your own life. As a result it helps people to live in a more free and relaxed way.

The book was published in the Netherlands in 2015. Since then the author got questions if it would be possible to make this accessible to English readers too. She asked native speaker and professional translator Joyce Phillips to translate the book. The translation was motivated by lots of enthusiastic comments from readers who were Christian their whole life or just met Jesus. They enjoyed the fresh and freeing perspective this book gave them in a way they never had thought of, making grace a daily reality.

"I use this book as a workbook. When I get stuck, I pick it up again to remind myself of the freedom that Jesus gives."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160857121
Publisher:	Marieke Meijer
Publication date:	02/02/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Marieke Meijer-van Abbema (1974) is married and has two sons. She studied Applied Cognitive Psychology at Utrecht University and Clinical and Health Psychology at Leiden University. After working at KPN Research earlier in her career, she went on to work as a psychologist at the Riagg Rijnmond ambulatory mental health services. After her children were born, she started her own practice. She currently provides individual therapy to adults.

Marieke wrote three books on the border between psychology and Christian faith. She also writes articles for Christian magazines e.g. for church leaders and pastoral workers on communication patterns and religious thinking patterns. For the Christian broadcasting network she published a series of podcasts on Christian life. Furthermore she conducted research at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in conjunction with Ohio State University on how concepts of divinity and prayer influence emotions and perceptions (published in Religion, Brain and Behaviour, 2017: After God’s image). She regularly held Sunday morning Bible studies for children at church, and she and her husband have been leading Bible study groups in their home since 1999.

Marieke gives lectures to groups of Christians around the theme living a 'free in Christ' life. As a psychologist and writer she also is a guest/expert in podcasts of Christian media on e.g. anxiety and faith, forgiveness, known by God, freedom in Christ in daily life.