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Real Struggles, Real Hope

Author : Kimberly Gibson Johnson

Publisher : WestBow Press

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 40,5 MB

Release : 2013-03-29

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1449789838

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In my minds eye, a little girl crouches in a dark and cluttered hallway closet. Mountains of stuff fill this tiny room, where she remains hidden from everyone and everything. Besides the stuff of anger and doubt in this small space, the walls have writing on them that names the fears, insecurities, and reasons for shielding herself from the unfamiliar and the unknown. Many times, the little girl tries to exit her safe place. With a mask of self-prescribed extroversion, she determinedly leaves the four walls of her secret domain to be good at things and peoplea good student, wife, even a mother. Hesitantly, she tells herself that hope and joy are within reach. But after a short stay away from the security of the hallway closet, the little girl goes back inside and continues hiding from life. I was that young girl. I did not want to live this way any longer, so I cried out to Godwho had been with me all along. He knew my pain, insecurities, anger, and fear. Bigger than any wall of self-protection I built, God would bring down these walls if I let him. My crying out was the first step.



The Struggle Is Real

Author : Nicole Unice

Publisher : NavPress

Page : 288 pages

File Size : 17,9 MB

Release : 2018-08-21

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1496427491

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“It just shouldn’t be this hard!” Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a day where everything that could go wrong does go wrong—you lock your keys in the car while it’s running, lose control with your kids, make a mistake at the office that results in hours more work. And just when you think not one more thing could possibly happen . . . well, fill in the blank. The struggle is real, friends. It may not be major stuff. Lives are not on the line here. But it makes us feel awful . . . and then we feel guilty for stressing when other people have “real” problems that are so much more serious. Yet the fact remains: We live in a world that often feels harder than we think it should be. And so it can be easy to believe the stories we tell ourselves—that we’re doing it wrong, that we’ll be stuck in this place forever, that God doesn’t love us. We struggle to practice gratitude, to make godly choices, and to live our daily lives with confidence and contentment. So what can we do? Join popular Bible teacher and counselor Nicole Unice to discover why the struggle is real . . . and what to do about it. Nicole offers practical tools to help you navigate the daily ups and downs, and ways to rewrite your struggle into a new, God-centered life story. The Struggle Is Real is an invitation to take the hard, hurtful, and confusing moments and turn them into opportunities to grow in wisdom, strength, and joy. Includes access to free online video streaming for 90 days!



Real Hope, True Freedom

Author : Milton S Magness

Publisher : Central Recovery Press

Page : 289 pages

File Size : 16,32 MB

Release : 2017-02-20

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 1942094310

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Real Hope, True Freedom covers a wide variety of topics on sex addiction and the process of recovery. It addresses the different manifestations of sex addiction, how sex addiction impacts the brain, sex addiction risk factors, when sex addiction co-occurs with other mental health disorders, barriers to getting help/treatment, information and resources specific to the needs of the partners of sex addicts, the process of treatment, the process of recovery for both individuals and couples, relationship rebuilding, re-establishing intimacy, healthy sexuality, and relapse prevention tools and strategies. Milton Magness, D. Min., MA, LPC, CSAT, is the founder and director of Hope & Freedom Counseling Services. A Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, he served five terms as the president of the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH), the international professional organization for sexual addiction therapists. Prior to becoming a therapist he was a pastor for twenty years. He has a Doctor of Ministry from Luther Rice Seminary, a Master of Arts in Psychology from Houston Baptist University, and Master of Arts in Religious Education from Southwestern Seminary. Dr. Magness is the author of Stop Sex Addiction: Real Hope, True Freedom for Sex Addicts and Partners, and Thirty Days to Hope & Freedom for Sexual Addicts: the Essential Guide for Daily Recovery and Relapse Prevention. Marsha Means, MA, a trained Marriage and Family Therapist, as well as the founder and director of A Circle of Joy Ministries, an organization designed to help women impacted by sexual addiction and address the needs created by this growing problem. In 2000, she gained international recognition through Prodigals International, an organization she and her husband founded in the Seattle area to train and equip therapists, churches, and lay people in providing help, hope, and healing to those touched by the pain and shame of sex addiction. Ms. Means is the author of Living With Your Husband’s Secret Wars, and the co-author of Your Sexually Addicted Spouse: How Partners Can Cope and Heal.



Hope Against Hope

Author : Sarah Carr

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 337 pages

File Size : 42,1 MB

Release : 2014-03-25

Category : Education

ISBN : 1608195139

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A moving portrait of school reform in New Orleans through the eyes of the students and educators living it.



Defeating Depression

Author : Leslie Vernick

Publisher : Harvest House Publishers

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 27,77 MB

Release : 2009-01-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0736923446

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"Leslie Vernick is a wise counselor... She is an experienced and thorough trainer who shares clearly and practically the necessary steps for getting into shape spiritually, emotionally, and physically in order to contend with depression. This is a wonderful, comprehensive guide..." --Cynthia Heald, international speaker and author One in five women will experience clinical depression in her lifetime. Christian counselor and author Leslie Vernick offers words of hope and encouragement as she helps women understand the symptoms of depression, what causes depression, and what steps they can take to get better and grow stronger. Employing godly wisdom and surprising insights, Leslie shares on vital topics, such as these: Depression is revealing something about you. Listen to it. Growth takes time and practice. Things are not hopeless; you are not helpless; and you are not worthless. Defeating Depression is a timely resource for women battling depression or for family and friends who love them and want to understand what they are going through. Formerly titled Getting Over the Blues



Enticing Love

Author : Sabrina Walters

Publisher :

Page : 74 pages

File Size : 13,79 MB

Release : 2014-07-01

Category :

ISBN : 9780990511809

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When we say that hope can heal, we say it from hard experience. We started our lives together with a terminal illness staring us in the face; a trusted advisor even counseled us to plan a funeral before we ever planned our wedding. Years later, an affair rocked our marriage. We survived it and, over time, emerged out of the darkness to become whole again. These experiences give us an uncommon perspective that has helped many others to find their own wholeness. We have seen how hope can heal, even in the most hopeless of situations.This book is an introduction to our relationship and our work with couples. In sharing these stories, we?d like to show you how hope builds resiliency to help you envision the best future; it teaches you a new dance, which leads to a hope-filled relationship. Sabrina is a Marriage and Family Therapist and Eric is an educator and Life Coach. Together we passionately usher couples into a new kind of hope-filled relationship, one that creates deeper understanding and intimacy.



When Your Teen Is Struggling

Author : Mark Gregston

Publisher : Heartlight Ministries Foundation

Page : pages

File Size : 29,4 MB

Release : 2016-10

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 9780997834734

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You've tried everything you know to do. Mark Gregston offers this encouragement: Don't lose hope. This groundbreaking book offers a system for helping kids work through their pain and offers hope and direction to parents looking for help. It will help you uncover and deal with the real issues causing your teens' troublesome behavior and offers tools for rebuilding healthy relationships.



Flamer

Author : Mike Curato

Publisher : Henry Holt and Company BYR Paperbacks

Page : 370 pages

File Size : 17,47 MB

Release : 2020-09-01

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 1250803942

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Award-winning author and artist Mike Curato draws on his own experiences in Flamer, his debut graphic novel, telling a difficult story with humor, compassion, and love. "This book will save lives." —Jarrett J. Krosoczka, author of National Book Award Finalist Hey, Kiddo I know I’m not gay. Gay boys like other boys. I hate boys. They’re mean, and scary, and they’re always destroying something or saying something dumb or both. I hate that word. Gay. It makes me feel . . . unsafe. It's the summer between middle school and high school, and Aiden Navarro is away at camp. Everyone's going through changes—but for Aiden, the stakes feel higher. As he navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and spends time with Elias (a boy he can't stop thinking about), he finds himself on a path of self-discovery and acceptance. Godwin Books



Real Hope in Chicago

Author : Wayne L. Gordon

Publisher : Zondervan

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 18,89 MB

Release : 2010-08-10

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0310877261

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When Wayne Gordon and his wife started a Bible study for high school kids in North Lawndale, Chicago, people warned them that a white couple moving into a black neighborhood as a recipe for disaster. That was twenty-five years ago. Today, what began as the Gordons' seedling Bible study has become the Lawndale Community Church. It has a staff of 150, has renovated more than 100 local apartments, has helped more than 50 young people graduate from college, runs a medical clinic that treated 50,000 patients in 1994, and has become a vital part of rebuilding an inner-city neighborhood into a community of faith and hope. Real Hope in Chicago is Wayne Gordon's inspiring account of how people, white and black, rich and poor, old and young, worked together to transform a decaying neighborhood into a place where love is lived out in practical and miraculous ways. It offers an exciting model for interracial cooperation, urban-suburban church partnering--and real hope for the inner cities of our nation.



The Elements of Choice

Author : Eric J. Johnson

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 401 pages

File Size : 50,60 MB

Release : 2021-10-12

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0593084438

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A leader in decision-making research reveals how choices are designed—and why it’s so important to understand their inner workings Every time we make a choice, our minds go through an elaborate process most of us never even notice. We’re influenced by subtle aspects of the way the choice is presented that often make the difference between a good decision and a bad one. How do we overcome the common faults in our decision-making and enable better choices in any situation? The answer lies in more conscious and intentional decision design. Going well beyond the familiar concepts of nudges and defaults, The Elements of Choice offers a comprehensive, systematic guide to creating effective choice architectures, the environments in which we make decisions. The designers of decisions need to consider all the elements involved in presenting a choice: how many options to offer, how to present those options, how to account for our natural cognitive shortcuts, and much more. These levers are unappreciated and we’re often unaware of just how much they influence our reasoning every day. Eric J. Johnson is the lead researcher behind some of the most well-known and cited research on decision-making. He draws on his original studies and extensive work in business and public policy and synthesizes the latest research in the field to reveal how the structure of choices affects outcomes. We are all choice architects, for ourselves and for others. Whether you’re helping students choose the right school, helping patients pick the best health insurance plan, or deciding how to invest for your own retirement, this book provides the tools you need to guide anyone to the decision that’s right for them.