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| Please Help IHF's Scholarship Fund
Every year, the Institute for Healthy Families hosts several retreats for individuals and families seeking healing. In the summer, we hold our annual Break-Free Your Inner Child retreat for men at Lake Anna, Virginia. In the fall, mothers and fathers from all over the country attend our Key to Your Child's Heart retreat for parents in Maryland.
These healing opportunities are so beneficial to our clients, and for many families, represent a huge turning point in their healing! Here is what one father had to say about his experience at one of our retreats:
I didn't realize how much of my identity, beliefs, values, and behaviors as an adult were tied to my childhood experience. Having been able to understand the background of my childhood can be reviewed and reprocessed really helped me to break free of some bad habits, bad beliefs, and grow as a person. I also became aware of family patterns that were unhealthy and now I have broken those patterns and will not pass them onto my children.
Even though we keep the costs of our retreats very low, some families cannot afford the cost to attend. Would you consider making a generous, tax-deductible donation to our non-profit educational and therapeutic work to help a mother, father, or son attend one of our retreats? Your gift will provide a scholarship for someone in financial-need. Thank you for partnering with us in this important cause! |
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| | Visit IHF's New Website Healing the Family
Healing the Family is a new, innovative approach to family systems therapy, specifically designed for families that wish to connect deeper with each other in emotionally healthy relationships. Healing the Family focuses on restoring the bonds and connection between parents, children, and, siblings in a safe, non-judgmental atmosphere.
For over ten years, licensed psychotherapist Christopher Doyle has worked with hundreds of families in intensive family therapy, helping them understand how to love each other right, communicate in healthy ways, and develop greater intimacy with each other. Click here to visit our website.
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| | New Blog Post on IHF WebsiteBreaking Through to the Inner Child with Mary Poppins
Last summer for our family vacation, I took my children to Orlando, Florida. Over the years, I've been to Orlando many times with the kids, and I've always been fond of the fairy-tale magic atmosphere of these play grounds. There is something remarkable about the way Walt Disney constructed his theme parks that brings out the child in all of us.
Perhaps it’s the bright colors and cheerful music, or maybe it’s the memories of having grown up watching Mickey Mouse that creates this nostalgic joy for so many of us. In fact, I have often commented that there must be something in the water in Orlando that produces such delight for all those in attendance! How else could anyone be so happy to shell out $100 a ticket for cheap carnival food and miniature parades?
What Walt Disney was able to do in his parks is to unlock the inner child in all of us. No matter what age you are, when you step into a Disney park, every color, smell, song, and ride takes you back to the innocent years of childhood, when life was simple and the only job you had was to play. Interestingly, the weekend before we left for the trip, I just happened to watch a movie called Saving Mr. Banks. Click here to read more. |
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| | Christopher Doyle on the Sandy Rios Show
IHF Executive Director Christopher Doyle, LPC, CCTP was recently interviewed on American Family Radio's The Sandy Rios Show where he discussed why Pastor Andy Stanley is wrong and gives, practical, loving examples of how parents and the Christian church should respond when a child comes out as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT).
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| | Education Over Misinformation
IFTCC News – Licensed Psychotherapist, Christopher Doyle, Attends IFTCC Conference
Christopher Doyle is a licensed psychotherapist and author of The War on Psychotherapy: When Sexual Politics, Gender Ideology and Mental Health Collide. In this interview, Christopher Doyle talks about his observations of the clients he meets, especially in terms of the in-congruency between their faith and their feelings. He talks about how the Institute for Healthy Families helps its clients discover who they are as people in the eyes of God and in their self-view, whilst helping them understand both the fluidity of sexuality, and the factors which can influence the development of sexuality in a climate where major psychological bodies are seeing this as a taboo topic. Click here to watch the interview with the Christopher Doyle at IFTCC's 8th annual conference in Hungary. |
| | | | | Family of 'non-binary' ex-Biden official: Torture 'never happened'
Brinton's sister says family was 'slandered,' never sent him to get 'conversion therapy'
The family of Sam Brinton — former high-level Biden nuclear-waste appointee, alleged luggage-stealer and self-described "gender-fluid bisexual" — is finally speaking out publicly to debunk what they say are lies he told about them.
"Former Biden Department of Energy official Sam Brinton claims to have been beaten by their [his] father, who held a gun to their [his] head and forced them [him] into [ex-gay] conversion therapy — but their [his] family insist it is all lies," reported the New York Post Feb. 19, using Brinton's "preferred pronouns" of "they/them."
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| | Ex-gays respond to Andy Stanley’s claim that LGBT people have ‘more faith than a lot of you’
Christians who once identified as homosexual have mixed opinions about recent remarks made by Pastor Andy Stanley, in which the megachurch leader said that LGBT individuals who go to church have “more faith than a lot of you.”
Christopher Doyle, a professional counselor and executive director of the Institute for Healthy Families, told The Christian Post that, because the full sermon is not easily accessible online, Stanley’s “words leave me with more questions than answers.” “I appreciate Pastor Stanley's compassion for Christians struggling with sexual and gender identity. As a young man, I experienced unwanted same-sex attractions and having a safe place surrounded by loving, embracing Christians would have really helped me on my healing journey,” said Doyle. Click here to read more at The Christian Post. |
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Institute for Healthy Families (IHF) specializes in counseling solutions for individuals, couples, families, therapists, and ministry leaders. IHF is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit therapeutic organization located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. As a Judeo-Christian organization, IHF believes that the family is the foundation for healthy individuals, relationships, communities, and places of worship. While IHF is non-sectarian, we believe that God reveals His truth in both the Bible and Creation and that we can use this wisdom to help facilitate healing. IHF believes that through this synthesis of science and faith, we can help our clients form and maintain healthy families that will be able to help their children become the best versions of themselves and fulfill God’s will for their lives. For more information, visit our website at: www.InstituteforHealthyFamilies.org. |
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