After several years of counseling, Barbara Stephens (Mama Hug) realized that there was no healing taking place in her counseling office. As she cried out to the Lord, His answer was Luke 4:18. As she began to incorporate that one Scripture into her counseling practice, she began to see real and lasting change take place in the lives of those she was working with.

The Lord completely changed Mama Hug's counseling style. He then impressed her that in the same hour that she was counseling one person, she could teach twenty or more. The principles that He had given her were that simple. They were tools that people could use for the rest of their lives. Thus came the courses Solutions and Healing the Wounded.

Mama Hug had a God-given gift for caring for those who were hurting. As a child, she struggled with a learning disability and had many emotional problems. The result was that she understood the pain in other people's lives.
Indeed the Lord redeemed her life from destruction.

Mama Hug has sought the Lord for answers to many problems that seemed to have no answer. The Lord has been faithful to teach her His simple method of healing prayer. The theme for all that she does is,"There is no healing outside of the cross!"

Mama Hug has not only written the curriculum for Solutions and Healing the Wounded, but several other books also. She was a co/author of Zondervan's Recovery Bible. She wrote Psalms for Recovery, Proverbs for Recovery, both originally published by Harper and Row, that are now availale on this web-site.

Mama Hug, Oct 20, 2010