Helping Ministry Leaders Navigate the Emotional and Relational Realities of Ministry
Ministry asks more of leaders than most people realize.
At the heart of my ministry is a framework that integrates Christian formation, neuroscience, and psychotherapy. It equips ministry leaders with practical ways to navigate the emotional and relational realities of ministry.
Where you begin depends on your context, your season, and what will serve you best. There are multiple ways to engage this framework.
Helping Ministry Leaders Navigate the Emotional and Relational Realities of Ministry
Ministry asks more of leaders than most people realize.
At the heart of my ministry is a framework that integrates Christian formation, neuroscience, and psychotherapy. It equips ministry leaders with practical ways to navigate the emotional and relational realities of ministry.
Where you begin depends on your context, your season, and what will serve you best. There are multiple ways to engage this framework.
My books reflect the same integrative approach that shapes all of my work, extending these ideas into everyday relationships with oneself, others, and God.
Journey to Shalom
Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Freedom In Sacred Stories
Engage with your story in a fresh way through ancient stories and modern psychology. Connecting more deeply with the parts who make you the unique and wonderful person God created helps you learn to love yourself—all of who you are—unconditionally, as God loves you. Experience transformative practices that lead to God’s hope for you—shalom.
praise for
Journey to Shalom
“In a world that often pits theology and psychology against each other, Molly LaCroix offers a brilliant blending with Journey to Shalom. This hopeful and grounding work has the potential to change the way we talk about our stories, our faith, and what it means to be whole. Read slowly and take good notes.”
– Emily P. Freeman, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of “The Next Right Thing”
“So often Biblical stories have been used to justify beliefs and activities that are contrary to the IFS model, that I haven’t studied them or considered them useful. Molly LaCroix’s wonderfully written IFS-based interpretations of those stories brings new, uplifting meaning to them and the exercises she offers can expedite our journeys to inner and outer shalom (peace). I’m honored by the depth to which she knows IFS and by the skillful way she uses elements of the Bible to illustrate it. I can strongly recommend this book to observant Christians, to those skeptical of Christianity, as well as those simply wanting more IFS experiences.”
– Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, Founder of the Internal Family Systems model and author of several books, including “Internal Family Systems Therapy” and “No Bad Parts”
“Journey to Shalom is an immensely imaginative, psychologically rich, and biblically engaging invitation to embrace our beautiful complexity. Molly’s re-telling of several sacred stories of Scripture humanizes sometimes distant texts and opens them to conversation with our own stories. And the helpful practices and exercises invite us to do our own work. This will be a go-to resource in my clinical work and for my clinical counseling students.”
– Chuck DeGroat, author, therapist, and Professor of Pastoral Care and Executive Director of the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program at Western Theological Seminary (Holland, Michigan)
I wrote my first book to address this very issue.
Restoring Relationship explores the roots of vulnerability and applies a new spiritual practice to common causes of distress—loss, betrayal, addiction, and physical/mental illness.
“Jesus told us to love one another regardless of differences and flaws. This book takes that directive seriously and provides clear steps for bringing his love not only to external others but also to the unsavory or “sinful” parts of us.”
– Richard C. Schwartz, PhD – Founder of the Internal Family Systems Model