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New Growth and Flourishing Through Forgiveness and Hope and Healing for Anxiety Workbooks Available!

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AACC Publishing is proud to announce the release of two brand-new workbooks designed to support healing, growth, and emotional well-being in today’s challeng ing cultural climate: Growth and Flourishing Through Forgiveness: Finding Freedom and Grace, and Hope and Healing for Anxiety: A Guide to Manage Stress and Overcome Anxiety. Together, these resources address two of the most common struggles that counselors and coaches encounter, offering practical, faith-centered tools that meet clients where they are. Growth and Flourishing Through Forgiveness is authored by Dr. Everett Worthington, Jr., whose decades of research and clinical work have shaped the field of for giveness studies. In a world filled with relational tension, conflict, and lingering hurt, forgiveness can feel confus

ing, unrealistic, or even unsafe. This workbook moves beyond surface-level encouragement to explore forgive ness in a thoughtful, research-informed, and biblically grounded way. Drawing on both Scripture and evidence-based best practices, the workbook introduces readers to forgive ness heroes from biblical and contemporary contexts, while also examining what research reveals about the emotional and physical impact of forgiveness. Self assessments help individuals understand their current level of forgiveness, while practical exercises explore alternatives for moments when forgiveness feels out of reach. Readers are also guided through strategies to reduce the internal “injustice gap” and walk through a proven method for self-forgiveness. Rather than rushing

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