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Tens of thousands of moms who struggle with anger have found hope, laughter, understanding, and biblical counsel in She's Gonna Blow! With over 100,000 in print, this bestseller now has a fresh cover and a new practical helps section with more resources and step-by-step advice.Gary Chapman, author of The Five Love Languages of Children, tells readers that Julie Ann Barnhill "has learned from her journey, and so will you...You'll identify with Julie's open, honest approach."Straightforward and easy-to-read, She's Gonna Blow! is for every mom seeking here-and-now hope and help to...find healthier ways of expressing angerlet go of "control" issues and be more positivedraw closer to the God who created moms and mothering

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	01 mars 2005
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736949224
Langue	English

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To every mother who s ever blown it, yelled when she should have sent herself to time-out, and wants to believe she can change-this is the book for you.
-Becky Freeman
National speaker and author of Worms in My Tea and Help! I m Turning into My Mother
Gives hope and help to women struggling with anger. What an excellent resource!
-Jill Savage
founder and director, Hearts at Home and author of Professionalizing Motherhood and coauthor of Got Teens?
Harried moms of all ages and stages will appreciate having someone who can empathize with their situation.
- Christian Retailing magazine
With liberal doses of humor, Julie Barnhill points you to God s grace as the means to help prepare, repair, and tame angry hearts and behaviors.
-Charlene Ann Baumbich
author of Mama Said There d Be Days Like This
This book gives each parent hope With God s help, we can calm the volcano within.
- Woman s Touch magazine
As a mom who has struggled with anger toward my own children I recommend Julie s book to other moms who are dealing with this distressing problem.
-Robyn Mulder
founder of The Robyn s Nest Web site: Help for angry moms and happy moms, too!
Entertaining, challenging, and life-changing destined to be a parenting classic!
-Carol Kent
author of When I Lay My Isaac Down
Julie has learned from her journey, and so will you. I predict you ll laugh, you ll cry, and you ll identify with Julie s open, honest approach to mothers and anger.
-Gary Chapman, PhD
author of The Five Love Languages of Children
Breathe a sigh of relief instead of blowing your top! You re about to get the help and encouragement you need.
-Kathy Collard Miller
speaker and author of Why Do I Put So Much Pressure on Myself and Others?
Explores the sometimes explosive attitudes mothers experience while raising their children This is an especially helpful book to those mothers who didn t have good role models and for new moms as well.
- The Godly Business Woman magazine
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Cover by Terry Dugan Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota
SHE S GONNA BLOW!
Copyright 2001/2005 by Julie Ann Barnhill
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Barnhill, Julie Ann, 1965-
She s gonna blow / Julie Ann Barnhill.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13: 978-0-7369-1552-6
ISBN-10: 0-7369-1552-4
1. Parenting. 2. Mothers-Psychology. 3. Anger. 4. Parenting-Religious aspects-Christianity. I. Title.
HQ755.8.B377 2005
649 .1-dc22
2004030049
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, digital, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.
For Rick
You love me with a single-mindedness that still catches me off guard.
I could not have done this without your love, devotion, and unswerving commitment to me, our children, and the hurting moms who needed to hear this message.
I love you.
This is my beloved and this is my friend.
-Song of Solomon 5:16
Acknowledgments
Ultimate thanks and recognition must be awarded to those women (and men) who have purchased, read, identified with, and then recommended the contents of She s Gonna Blow! since its publication in 2001. Your willingness to trust me with your own feelings and experiences via e-mails, phone calls, and letters encouraged both my writing heart and mothering soul.
My children, Kristen, Ricky Neal, and Patrick: For allowing me to tell your stories and loving me when I am quite unlovable.
Ms. Oprah Winfrey, production staff, and featured moms on the program titled Moms Who Lose Control : It isn t every day you get the opportunity to appear as a guest author on America s number-one-rated daytime talk show. Over a three-day period of moderating a discussion group, sitting in a green room, and taping on that famous and familiar stage, the message of hope for angry moms was made available to more than 40 million viewers. Whew! It doesn t get much better than that trust me.
Dr. James Dobson and broadcast staff of Focus on the Family: While working on the original manuscript of She s Gonna Blow! I often repeated the following to myself: This book has got to be discussed on Focus on the Family. I knew my target audience, and Focus on the Family radio reached them like no one else. Approximately two years after the book s release, I found myself speaking comfortably with Dr. Dobson and John Fuller. I ll never be able to say thank you enough for the opportunity to reach untold thousands (more likely, millions) with the glorious message of lasting change for angry mothering.
Teresa Evenson, Manager of Media Relations at Harvest House Publishers: Marketing maven par excellence! Start booking those flights; I m ready to hit it again.
-Julie Ann Barnhill
December 2004
Contents
Acknowledgments
You Have Never Been Alone
Part One: Exploring Mount Momma
1. How Did I Get Here?
Some Unwelcome Discoveries About Motherhood, Anger, and Really Blowing It
2. Volcanoes 101
Understanding How She Blows
3. Warning Signs
How to Know When You re Gonna Blow
4. Underground Issues
Understanding Why She Blows
5. Volcanic Damage
Recognizing When You ve Gone Too Far
Part Two: Climbing to Sanity
6. The Bedrock of Truth
Exploring the Biblical Foundations for Change
7. Keeping Things Cool
Some Practical Strategies for a More Peaceful Life
The Way We Are, Snapshot 1
Part Three: More Help and Proof You re Not Alone
8. When You Need Someone to Hear You
9. When God Becomes Part of the Solution
10. When You Need Raw Honesty
11. When You Feel Guilty
12. When You Feel Alone
13. When It Sounds Ridiculously Simple
14. When You Feel Overwhelmed
15. When You Have Regrets
16. They Blew It Too!
The Way We Are, Snapshot 2
Appendixes: Help, Resources, and Information
Appendix A:
Short and Sweet Strategy Thoughts and Tamers
Appendix B:
Could You Be Depressed? Symptoms and Resources
Appendix C:
Resources and Recommended Reading
Appendix D:
What Can You Expect? A Summary of Child Developmental Stages
Notes
Contact the Author
Hearts at Home
You Have Never Been Alone
The room was filled with three or four hundred women. Noisy chatter and punctuating laughter filled the lecture hall as I waited nervously to begin the first-ever presentation of She s Gonna Blow! The place was Bloomington, Illinois, and it was the annual spring conference of Hearts at Home, an organization that supports mothers and mothering.
Trusting the recommendation of popular keynote speaker Charlene Ann Baumbich, Hearts at Home extended an invitation to me, a relative no-name (my mom knew me!), and gave me the opportunity of a lifetime. I told Dee Kirwan, the workshop coordinator, that I would be content speaking in a broom closet! What a tremendous opportunity this was going to be!
Over the next few months, I prayed that God would draw the very women that needed to hear the message and the heart of my presentation. I prayed that my outline would be clear and would provide the things these mothers longed to hear.
I prayed that at least 12 ladies would sign up.
About three weeks before the conference date, I received a phone call from the director of Hearts at Home, * Jill Savage. As soon as she identified herself, my heart sank.
Oh no, I thought. She s going to cancel the workshop because of lack of interest. There are probably not enough moms to fill the broom closet.
Of course, Jill knew nothing of the conversation I was having with myself as she began to speak.
Julie, I wanted to call you personally and let you know something about your workshop
Yep, here it comes . I waited for the broom to drop.
One out of five mothers chose She s Gonna Blow! as the workshop they most wanted to attend!
Okay, there it is-wait a minute-what did she just say?
Julie, we ve never had this type of response to a workshop before. I think there are a lot of angry moms out there!
Then she asked the question that put me over the top!
Julie, would you mind presenting this workshop two times on Friday and Saturday?
Would I mind? Would I mind! I quickly replied, I d love to, and thanked her for giving me the opportunity to speak a message I knew had an audience that was longing for hope. After our phone conversation ended, I was literally brought to my knees in thanksgiving. I knew that one out of five women had chosen She s Gonna Blow! not as a result of the speaker, but rather because they were drawn by a loving heavenly Father who knew their hearts intimately.
He knew that the tears, the frustrations, and the triumphs I had experienced were going to be used for eternal purposes, purposes beyond anything I had imagined or dreamed. And I now knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I was not alone!
On that cool March weekend in 1998, I found myself holding, praying with, crying with, lau