From Fear to Love: Overcoming the Barriers to Healthy Relationships
Overview
Join Ray and Nancy Kane as they take you on a journey they have traveled personally from fear to love. With more than forty years of combined experience, the authors describe what real loving relationships look like as well as how the disabling emotion of fear can express itself in various forms in our behavior and attitudes, hampering our ability to love and be loved. We can all make new and different choices to move away from our fears and learn to love others—and ourselves—in more healthy and productive ways.
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Top Highlights
“People who struggle with anxiety often complain that they are easily distracted, cannot concentrate, and have trouble with their memories. Our thinking automatically becomes fuzzy when we are anxious. When we respond out of raw instinct, we can easily draw irrational conclusions about what we see. Fear distorts our perspective, which directly influences our behavior and feelings, immobilizing us against harmless situations.” (Page 70)
“The collective hurts that people carry can turn into a ball and chain. The length of that chain always corresponds to the number of hurts that they have chosen to hang on to. For some, the chain has become so heavy and long that they have become emotionally crippled. In a real sense, they have chosen to nurse their hurts rather than reach out for help and take responsibility for their pain.” (Page 171)
“When we are truly loved, we are liberated to become all of who our Creator desires us to be; we find security as well as freedom.” (Pages 76–77)
“Yet somewhere between our desires and the divine ideal we all have experienced deep wounds of disappointment and betrayal.” (Page 78)
“Reflect on what you are primarily afraid will happen. Are you afraid of rejection? Failure? Being abandoned?” (Page 147)
This book will take your heart by the hand and lead you to love in ways that break the bondage of fear.
—Dr. Joseph Stowell, president, Moody Bible Institute
In From Fear to Love Ray and Nancy speak with a gripping story. . . The story is warm and exciting and points with great wisdom how to move from fear to love in the bonds of Christ.
—Dr. Frank Minirth, diplomat, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Clear, honest, sensitive, practical, filled with interesting stories, often captivating. This is a wonderful book about relationships, but it is more. The Kanes have dipped into their experiences as counselors, as Christians, and as a married couple, to write a helpful guide for anybody who ever gets angry or controlling, who knows people are hard to love, or who wants more loving relationships.
—Dr. Gary Collins, psychologist, author, professor, and former president of the American Association of Christian Counselors
- Title: From Fear to Love: Overcoming the Barriers to Healthy Relationships
- Authors: Ray Kane and Nancy Kane
- Publisher: Moody
- Publication Date: 2002
- Pages: 198
Ray and Nancy Kane are licensed clinical professional counselors in private practice in Northbrook, Illinois, where they provide family, individual, marital, adolescent, and child therapy. Ray has his Master’s in social work and Nancy has her Master’s in counselor education. Nancy is an associate professor at the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Ray has been an executive in the retirement industry and currently leads workshops on communication skills and issues for men. Ray and Nancy together conduct marriage enrichment and premarital workshops and speak on a variety of topics related to relationships.