One of the Best out there
I have read this book, and there are few out there that really hit on every area of life (abandonment, addictions, relationships, self: all in respect to the Bible). It has a strong Biblical backing. I have read chapters over and over again, as they keep hitting cords with me. The best part is that I am younger (21+) but I can break cycles and generational curses in my life because of Christ. This is just a supplement that has shined light in the inner me.

I strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants to break from the norm. I have cleared out my library recently, but this is one of the books that I am keeping around and am passing this on to others who been through LIFE. I don't care if I get them back, as long as someone else is helped.

If you want, what I am doing, I check out books through the Library, then buy them on Amazon if I will read them more than once. Do yourself a favor, and check it out.

Gettting in touch with your feelings is not always a good thing
I am a Seminary student and was required to do a study on Tim Clinton. He is a super nice guy with a strong theological base. But he is an integrationist - meaning he mixes psychology and theology. He believes that he and his AACC are able to throw out the unbiblical psychological data and use information from psychology that is helpful. This sounds like a good plan but his methods are all about what psychologists think works and not the prescriptions written by the Creator of man. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 says that all Scripture is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness so that every man will be equipped for every good work. Turn Your life around - is very empathetic to what a Christian may be going through but where is the Scripture? Most passages Clinton uses are more to prove his point than to show what the Word of God says about the particular issue. If you are looking for a book that helps you "feel better" then this is it though toward the end you can get a little nauseated with all the metaphors. But if you are looking for something that uses Scripture to help guide you back on the right track in your walk with the Lord - then I suggest something by Edward T. Welch, David Powlison, or Jerry Bridges.

Turn your life around
This is by far one of the most straight forward booksI have read on looking at your self to change your future. Tim Clinton has a way of making you look at yourself instead of blaming others, and when you can see yourself in almost every page of the book, you know someone has done their homework.I would and have recommended this book to a lot of people already. it is well worth the money.

A positively charged, spiritually strong guide to recovery through the power of faith.
President of the American Association of Christian Counselors Dr. Tim Clinton presents Turn Your Life Around: Break Free From Your Past to a New and Better You, a Christian self-help guide to surviving the loss of a loved one by turning to the grace of God in the hour of one's deepest need. Chapters tell of the negative emotions such as anger, fear, alienation, and arrogance that can cause a soul to lose its way, and how to strengthen one's heart with love through connection to God, and the transcendental leap of converting good intentions into Godly action. "How do you press on when your legs get knocked out from underneath you and life just isn't the way it's supposed to be? You return to the relationship with the One who created you in the first place." A positively charged, spiritually strong guide to recovery through the power of faith.

A very strong message
Clinton's book is for anyone who has experienced pain and loneliness--and lives with the ongoing consequences. It is also for people who keep themselves so busy that they don't have time to feel, because in a small still place within their minds, they fear the negative feelings that they would experience.

Several themes weave themselves throughout the book. One is what I would call the stages of alienation and addiction, combined with the cycle of restoration. It is both a downward and upward spiral that looks like this:

Losing heart: the Descent into Pain
Ambushed and assaulted, Anger, Anxiety, Alonenes, Alienation, Arrogance, Adulteries of the Heart and Addiction

Alive Again! Accountability, Action, Attachments, Awareness, Assessment , Affection of God

Recovery of the Heart: Coming Out of Pain

This is not your typical self-help book, nor even your typical Christian self-help book. For the reader who is willing to look in the mirror there is specific, meaningful help.

His food for thought:

"What are your biggest fears? Failure? Being seen as less than perfect? Losing a position? Losing a loved one? Abandonment? Fear of others hurting you?"

"When we live with unsatisfied souls, we will pour almost anything into them to appease our hunger."

"Spouses and parents, for instance, devote so much time and energy rushing from place to place that they don't devote time and effort to creating and preserving meaningful relationships..."

He echoes Robert McGee who said that the devil's definition of self worth is "My performance plus the opinion of others." And those who accept that lie are on the slippery slope toward alienation and addiction.

One final thought: He challenges you to: "Examine everything in your life that suddenly takes on huge meaning and begins to give you purpose, meaning, and value. If God isn't at the core and intimately involved with its pursuit, then you may be playing the lead in a tragedy. You are embracing the gods of distraction and your newfound "loves" will never satisfy you." And those distractions may be workaholism, drugs, alcohol, or any other false solution to a lack of relationship and connection--to God first, and then to each other.

This not a light read, but for those desiring a sense of connection and relationship, Clinton provides specific action steps to go from where you are to where you want to be.

Armchair Interviews says: This might just be a book your life needs.