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It is a pleasure to welcome Always and Forever, a book that I believe will prove to be of value to many people. The author, a deeply religious person herself, has provided Christian Ministry for many years. In addition, over the past fourteen years, she has developed her own methods of counselling and trained people in providing counselling. I have had many discussions with her about her work and my own as a psychiatrist and academic interested in the diversity of ways in which people round the world, in various cultural settings and from diverse backgrounds, deal with problems of the ‘mind’ — what we often call mental health problems. In hearing about her work, I have come to recognize the value of counselling that is religion-based, as well as its potential in helping people who are not particularly religious to help themselves, drawing on their own belief systems — and in my view we all have beliefs and values that inform our lives as human beings. In this book, Koock Hyang Kim describes a system of self-counselling that she has developed, which a person requiring psychological help can use without the need for interacting with a specialist counsellor or therapist. Clearly, the person seeking help must apply the system by herself or himself, with the background here being a Christian belief system, but I reckon the basic approach can be adapted to other belief systems, and so this book could be a starting point for self-development for anyone sufficiently motivated to apply always and forever viii themselves to the task. The author herself has found that the method of self-counselling presented in this book has already helped many hundreds of individuals from a variety of backgrounds. And, most importantly, this is a book well suited to the multicultural societies of modern Britain.