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When our loved ones are in the bondage of addiction, it seems impossible to find any peace in our lives. Instead of still waters, we feel as if we are in the middle of a roaring river. Beside Still Waters: Discovering Peace in the Midst of Your Child's Addiction deals with topics such as codependency, denial, worry, enabling, guilt feelings, and more. Although written from a mother's heart to other mothers, the book can also be helpful for anyone with a loved one in addiction.

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Although Cherri was raised in a family known for pioneering Christian recovery ministry, the snare of addiction became a very personal issue when it invaded the lives of her children. This book is psychologically informed, biblically based, and grace oriented. It will be a useful tool to help equip parents to model and promote freedom in Christ. - Dr. John Woodward, Director of Grace Fellowship International, Pigeon Forge, TN. For families that are being torn apart by addiction, there is hope in Jesus Christ. He desires to lead moms Beside Still Waters to whisper that message of hope to their aching hearts. Cherri Raws Freeman understands firsthand how addiction can destroy a family member. She has experienced hope and now wants to share that hope with you. - Dr. Bill Welte, President/CEO America's Keswick From one wounded mom's heart to another, Cherri uses biblical principles to help moms with addicted children of any age to find hope, freedom, peace, and the skills to deal with the devastation of that addiction. As moms of addicted children, we tend to love them to death ... literally. Here we learn a new way to love them to life! - MaryAnn Kiernan, MA BCCC, Intake Coordinator for the Colony of Mercy, Biblical Counselor Beside Still Waters is a resource that needs to find its way into the hands of every mother whose child struggles with addiction. It provides valuable information in bite-size portions, and guides personal reflection leading to practical application. More than helping mothers know what to do in response to a child's addiction, it helps mothers learn how to be in the midst of seemingly hopeless circumstances. Cherri wants you to know that you are not alone! There is One who is sufficient to carry you through the dark valley of your child's addiction. - Dr. David A. Ridder, Senior Pastor, Bayside Chapel Cherri brings some extremely difficult, and often unspoken, mother-heart issues into the light and strips them of their condemning power with honest open discussion. She brings a sense of order and hope into the confusion of parenting a child in addiction. Cherri understands a mother's heart is motivated by the desire to prove its love. Through wisdom borne of experience she shares how this God-given desire becomes a complex, confusing, and painful force in our lives. She brings clarity and hope through her discussion on loving your child to life rather than loving them as if they are our source of life. The difference is pivotal to experiencing rest, peace, and hope, and to being free to love our children with Father's eyes. - Leis Steve, Biblical Counselor Life Point Ministries. Cherri Freeman speaks straight into the heart of anyone walking through life with a child in addiction. This book compels the reader to draw closer to the Lord and to understand that living with shame and guilt is not where we are to stay; our strength lies in our true identity in Christ. This message of hope will equip the reader to assist their child to brokenness. Only then can we 'love them to life.' - Sharon Dickerson, Facilitator, Love Them to Life support group, Coastal Christian Church, Ocean City, NJ Cherri Freeman is an anamcara, which, for the non-Gaelic reader, is a soul friend. Anamcaras are present in others' lives in times of sorrow, loss, and dying. If you or someone you love is immersed in the plague of addiction, you need Cherri to help, explain, and guide you. My prayer is that Beside Still Waters becomes a source of grace and healing to your soul. - Rev. Charles Harrah, Director of CURE (Christians United for Recovery), Associate Pastor at The Lighthouse Church, Cape May Courthouse, NJ

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