Alison Cook shares her story of emotional healing as well as practical tools from her book Boundaries for Your Soul.
Alison Cook, M.A., Ph.D. is a counselor, speaker, and the co-author of Boundaries for Your Soul. For over 20 years, Alison has helped ministry leaders, students, couples, and families learn how to stand firm, develop confidence from the inside out, forge healthy relationships, and fully live out their God-given potential.
Alison maintains a counseling practice in the greater Boston area that specializes in the integration of faith and psychology. She and her husband, Joe, have two teenage children and are active in the Salvation Army where they worship and lead ministry. They enjoy spending time with extended family in New England and Wyoming where they ski, hike, and fly-fish as often as they can.
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Where do psychology and faith overlap?
All of the elements that comprise who we are are valuable.
We want to be able to have healthy and comfortable distance from all the elements of our soul.
In partnership with God’s Spirit, we have the ability to lead our emotions in wise, clear, capable ways.
What we perceive as vulnerabilities are actually beautiful aspects of who we are.
Some little pain got lodged in my soul about my worth—that I wasn’t good enough.
God’s truth isn’t destructive. It is just clear.
We all have fears. They are normal and healthy, and they are part of what lead us to depend on Christ.
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