I cannot say enough about the quality and depth of experience this small paperback book has between its covers. I find myself thanking God that Muriel's daughter moved forward on putting their experience into this format. The book has two sections. The first will answer all your questions about how the counseling or discipleship experience should work from a lay person's perspective. She tells you more than you realized you need to know, and it's broken down into practical steps and elements that make learning from the author's vast experience simple. The second part will give you valuable tools, guidelines, and projects to help you experience healing for yourself and/or to guide others through their own healing process.The book is profoundly Christian with lots of scripture references. The instructions and explanations are direct and plainly written. The suggestions are practical and you will benefit from this book every time you pick it up and read from it. The discussion questions in the back of the book are relevant, meaningful, and not the typical weakly-designed questions in many group discussion books. The questions are clearly thought out to bring you through the process of learning this methodology and to help you grow your own experience and resources of scriptural references.This book is truly amazing and these sentiments are repeated weekly by the women in my discussion group. Put simply, when I am done with the book, you can't have it! Actually, I can't imagine a time when I would be done with the book until I have years of experience. Well worth the paperback cost. I've owned it 3 weeks and already have the first half of the book marked up with highlights and underlines. Yep, it's THAT good.