Encouragement
The Unexpected Power of Building Others Up

This book is the greatest chasm between cover design and content depth in my reading experience. This book made me wonder why we emphasize things like careers when we ask and answer questions about what we want to do with our lives, what we're good at, and who we are. Why don't we seek to excel and s......more

This book would be more accurately titled: “How to be others focused.” The best kind of book: short and packed with deep understanding of human nature (yet easy to understand). Our primary barrier to being others focused: our feeling of emptiness, wondering “if I’m always pouring into others who will......more

Very practical interpersonal communication skills. It isnt going to wow you or change your life drastically, but rather challenge the simple call to be encouragers while also giving good insight in the difference between attempting to fix the problem and showing you are standing by those around you.......more

Reading for a paper I’m writing on encouragement as a key ingredient to creating gospel culture in your church/organization. Really helpful. Larry Crabb is always great.......more

I thought this might be a "how to" on encouragement and therapeutic communication. Only 2 chapters meet that description. The rest hit deep at subjects like layers/masks, fear, oversharing, and responding to subtle opportunities to encourage. This is not about shallow encouragement (e.g. "good job w......more