Study Guides by
Lysa TerKeurst
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Unglued
Most of us know the feeling: someone bumps into our happy and suddenly we're saying things we regret, slamming doors we wish we hadn't, or retreating into a stony silence that slowly poisons a relationship. In Unglued, Lysa TerKeurst names that experience with refreshing honesty and then offers something better than a self-help strategy — she offers a biblical path toward emotional integrity. Her central thesis is simple but liberating: God gave us emotions to experience life, not destroy it. The goal is not to become a person who never feels anger, hurt, or frustration, but to become a person who processes those feelings in ways that don't leave wreckage behind. Drawing on her own candid stories of coming unglued — with her kids, her husband, strangers in parking lots — Lysa walks readers through the patterns that keep us stuck and the grace that sets us free.
View Discussion GuideForgiving What You Can't Forget
In Forgiving What You Can't Forget, Lysa TerKeurst writes from inside one of the most painful seasons of her life — the near-collapse and eventual dissolution of her marriage — to answer a question most of us have quietly carried for years: How do you forgive someone who never says they're sorry, and who may never change? Drawing on over 1,000 hours of theological study, honest conversations with her therapist, and the raw material of her own suffering, Lysa argues that forgiveness is not a feeling we wait for or a verdict we render on someone else — it is a decision we make, step by step, for our own healing and for the sake of our relationship with God. The book moves readers from stuck and resentful to genuinely free, not by minimizing what was done to them, but by showing them what the Bible actually teaches about forgiveness and why living it out is possible even when it feels impossibly hard.
View Discussion GuideGood Boundaries and Goodbyes
Good Boundaries and Goodbyes by Lysa TerKeurst is a compassionate, theologically grounded guide for anyone who has ever felt trapped, exhausted, or confused by a difficult relationship. Drawing on thousands of hours of her own counseling intensives and extensive biblical research, Lysa dismantles the false idea that loving people well means accepting any treatment they dish out. Her central thesis is both simple and liberating: boundaries aren't just a good idea — they're a God idea. Through Scripture, honest personal storytelling, and the clinical wisdom of her counselor Jim Cress, Lysa helps readers move from paralyzing guilt to grounded, grace-filled action — whether that means setting a healthier limit with someone they love or, when necessary, saying a painful goodbye.
View Discussion GuideI Want to Trust You, but I Don't
Trust is the oxygen of every relationship — and when it's been stolen from you, breathing feels impossible. In I Want to Trust You, but I Don't, New York Times bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst walks alongside readers who have been burned by a friend's repeated letdowns, a leader's hidden hypocrisy, a spouse's betrayal, or a family member's cruelty. Rather than offering a quick fix or urging you to simply "trust more," Lysa argues that lasting resilience comes from building stability within yourself and with God — so that you stop carrying a broken belief system into every new relationship. The book equips readers to identify eleven relational red flags, ask honest "what if" questions about their fears, recognize when a fractured relationship can genuinely be repaired, and understand the physical, emotional, and neurological toll that betrayal takes on the whole person.
View Discussion GuideMade to Crave
Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food by Lysa TerKeurst is built around one provocative, liberating idea: you were made to crave. Craving is not the enemy — misplaced craving is. God wired us for deep, persistent longing precisely so that we would pursue more of Him. But in a culture of abundant food and instant comfort, many of us have quietly trained our appetites to turn toward the pantry rather than toward prayer. This participant's guide, designed to accompany the Made to Crave book and video series, walks readers through the biblical and practical foundations of reclaiming their God-given cravings and redirecting them toward the One who can actually satisfy them. The result is not just a healthier body, but a more vibrant, honest, and surrendered spiritual life.
View Discussion GuideUninvited
Uninvited by Lysa TerKeurst is a deeply personal and biblically grounded exploration of one of the most universal human experiences: rejection. From the sting of being left out of a social gathering to the soul-level wound of abandonment by someone who should have loved us, rejection has a way of writing stories over our hearts — stories that tell us we are unwanted, not enough, and destined to be on the outside looking in. Lysa TerKeurst dismantles those stories with gut-honest vulnerability, pointing us instead toward a love that is handpicked, intentional, and completely unshakeable. Her central thesis is this: we are not defined by the rejections we experience, but by the One who chose us before the foundation of the world. When we learn to live from that truth rather than react from our wounds, everything changes.
View Discussion GuideThe Best Yes
The Best Yes by Lysa TerKeurst is a book about one of the most quietly exhausting struggles in the Christian life: the inability to say no. Lysa argues that when we say yes to everything — out of people-pleasing, fear of disappointment, or the sheer rush of being needed — we rob ourselves of the ability to say a wholehearted, God-directed "Best Yes" to the things we were actually made for. Drawing on Scripture, personal stories, and practical wisdom, she walks readers through what it looks like to make decisions with a wisdom-based process rather than an emotion-driven reaction. The central conviction of the book is that our decisions shape our days, our days shape our lives, and a life with God at the center requires us to steward our yeses carefully.
View Discussion GuideIt's Not Supposed to Be This Way
Lysa TerKeurst wrote It's Not Supposed to Be This Way out of one of the most painful seasons of her life — a season marked by a devastating marriage crisis, a cancer diagnosis, and the kind of slow, grinding disappointment that makes you quietly wonder whether God is really as good as you've been told. Her core thesis is both honest and hopeful: the gaps between what we expected and what we've experienced are not evidence that God has abandoned us, but are instead the very places where He most wants to meet us. Our disappointments, she argues, can become divine appointments — if we learn to wrestle well between our faith and our feelings rather than running from the tension.
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