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Journey to Healing and Joy

Author : Marsha Means

Publisher : CreateSpace

Page : 166 pages

File Size : 10,4 MB

Release : 2014-04-08

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 9781497584914

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Using a trauma-model approach, Journey to Healing & Joy: A Workbook for Partners of Sexual Addicts, provides a healing pathway women can follow, either individually or in a support group. Beginning with the raw pain partners of sex addicts experience, this well-researched, soul-searching guide sensitively uses a forward-moving process, enabling women to grieve, grow, and heal. With a balance of educational content and penetrating questions, women review what has happened in their relationship and process it as they journal their answers to the workbooks self-reflective questions. They also learn important new skills and gain new strengths that equip them for the challenges they face, whether their relationship heals, or comes to an end. Chapter by chapter, women learn what it takes to share one's life with a man striving to break free from sex addiction. And as they grow and evaluate their options, they gain new insight and clarity, enabling them to choose the next best step for their own lives.



Healing my Life: From Incest to Joy

Author : Donna Jensen

Publisher : Off the Common Books

Page : 393 pages

File Size : 49,29 MB

Release : 2019-06-17

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN :

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In chronicling the physical and spiritual steps she took to reclaim her life and peel away the layers of damage done by incest, Jenson has written a powerful narrative of one person’s healing journey. And though the subject matter is deeply serious, Jenson writes with her sense of humor firmly intact, reminding us that joy is possible in the face of great pain. Poignant, brave, and helpful, Healing My Life offers a much-needed testimony for anyone affected by or concerned about childhood sexual abuse. “Healing My Life is a story that is unique and personal in its detail, yet also universal and human in its impact. If we could raise even one generation without violence or shaming, we have no idea what might be possible.” —Gloria Steinem “What an accomplishment! Taking the raw pain of incest, Donna Jenson has offered the world a generous dose of hope and delivered a clear message to survivors: healing is possible. Everyone who has survived childhood sexual abuse is stronger knowing each other’s journey. By eloquently sharing hers, Donna reminds us of a simple truth: we can heal.” —Marilyn Vanderbur, Miss America 1958 who survived incest



From Betrayal Trauma to Healing and Joy

Author : Marsha Means

Publisher :

Page : 165 pages

File Size : 22,49 MB

Release : 2020-01-05

Category :

ISBN : 9781654271039

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Using a trauma-model approach, From Betrayal Trauma to Healing & Joy: A Workbook for Partners of Sex Addicts, provides a healing pathway women can follow, either individually or in a support group. Beginning with the raw pain betrayal trauma victims experience, this well-researched, soul-searching guide sensitively uses a forward-moving process, enabling women to come to understand their losses, grieve them, grow through them, and go on to heal. With a balance of educational content and penetrating, therapeutic questions, women review what has happened in their relationship and process it as they journal their answers to the workbook's self-reflective questions. As they do, they learn to use important new tools and skills and gain new strengths that equip them for the challenges they face, whether their relationship heals, or comes to an end. Chapter by chapter, women learn what it takes to share one's life with a man working to stay free from sex addiction. And as they grow and evaluate their options, they gain new insight and clarity, enabling them to choose the next best steps for their own lives. This workbook is compatible with Your Sexually Addicted Spouse: How Partners Can Cope and Heal, which the author wrote with Dr. Barb Steffens. And it is the 4th edition of the workbook formerly titled, Journey to Healing & Joy: A Workbook for Partners of Sex Addicts.



Living a Life of Gratitude

Author : Sara Wiseman

Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide

Page : 386 pages

File Size : 14,18 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Health & Fitness

ISBN : 0738737534

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Sharing uplifting stories that travel from the beginnings of life to the end, Living a Life of Gratitude shows you how to open your heart to a journey of reflection that will help you slow down and appreciate life for what it is. Whether you use it as a source for discovering inspiration or for strength in times of struggle, this book is a guide to finding light and love, even when you least expect it. --Publisher's description.



The Healing Power of Pleasure

Author : Julia Paulette Hollenbery

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 274 pages

File Size : 31,53 MB

Release : 2021-09-07

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 1644113279

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• Shares seven easily accessible spiritual “medicines”--slowing down, embodying, deepening, relating, pleasure, power, and potency--so you can discover more sensual pleasure and delight in your body, relationships, and way of being as well as inner confidence, instinctual power, and aliveness • Presents reflections, practical somatic and breathing exercises, prompting questions, meditations, and energetic transmissions for each medicine • Explores body awareness, managing emotions stored in the body, the five realms of relationship, the different kinds of love, sexuality, passionate intimacy, and pleasure as a source of nourishment and healing Hidden just below the surface of ordinary day-to-day reality lies an abundance of pleasure and delight. By learning to look beyond your daily challenges, you can ease your stressed mind and body and rediscover the magic, mystery, sensuality, and joy that is possible in everyday life. Taking you step by step through a sensual journey of healing and transformation, Julia Hollenbery explores seven easily accessible spiritual “medicines” or pathways to discover more sensual pleasure and delight in your body, relationships, and way of being. Journeying through slowing, embodying, deepening, relating, pleasure, power, and potency, each medicine invites you to engage through reflections, practical somatic and breathing exercises, prompting questions, and meditations. Energetic transmissions help you reconnect body, mind, and soul in an integrated way and reclaim your innate source of pleasure. A visionary call to action to inhabit your universe of deliciousness, The Healing Power of Pleasure combines scientific fact with ancient spirituality, insight, humor, and poetry. This book presents an invitation to reawaken your body, realize the depth and web of relationships within which we live, and embrace the pleasure, power, and potency that arise when we look inward as well as confidently relate outward with the world around us.



Journey to Joy

Author : Sue Urda

Publisher : Powerful You!

Page : 208 pages

File Size : 40,61 MB

Release : 2013-06

Category : Body, Mind & Spirit

ISBN : 9781467570275

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Can You Imagine More Joy in Your Life? Read About How Other Women Created Joy & How You Can Too! A Journey to Joy is sometimes ordinary to the naked eye, but to the critical observer and the woman who lived it, her journey is one of magnificent courage and perhaps a leap of faith into uncharted waters. Within the pages of this uplifting anthology book we share an array of intimate and heartfelt stories by real and inspiring women who have found true joy and freedom through the living of everyday life, as well as those who are still finding their way on this path. Each journey is unique - and not always pretty - but you will surely see the beauty through their words. A Journey to Joy is sometimes accompanied by stepping out of one's comfort zone and always accompanied by life lessons. The newly acquired wisdom is sometimes hard-won and yet it often becomes the sweetest to savor. These stories reveal the depth of the lives of these incredible women - the bitter and sweet, the fruitful and lost, the hard-fought battles and the ease of allowing. There are as many paths to joy as there are women. Enjoy, celebrate and discover your own joy through these touching, true stories. Discover these Joyful Lessons and Savor the Gifts: * Dedicating yourself to your life's purpose is a gift to the world * Healing from unspeakable tragedy comes with many gifts * You attract who you are, not what you want * Financial abundance doesn't bring joy; emotional abundance does * Angels are all around you; all you need do is call on them * How to live life and even thrive after the loss of a loved one * When the student is ready the teacher will appear * Rays of sunshine are ever-present - even behind the clouds * Creativity lives in each of us and we can consciously awaken it * Forgiveness forges its' own path to love and joy * You were born worthy and deserving of great good



Shadowlands and Songs of Light

Author : Kevin Ott

Publisher : BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC

Page : 247 pages

File Size : 45,79 MB

Release : 2016-10-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1424552923

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The Bible tells Christians not to grieve as the world grieves and to rejoice in their sufferings. Yet when author Kevin Ott lost his mother unexpectedly in 2010, he sank into a wintry depression. When life seemed the darkest, something surprising happened. While exploring eighteen C. S. Lewis books and thirteen U2 albums, he experienced tremendous “stabs of joy”—the unusual heaven-birthed joy that Lewis wrote about—in the midst of grief. This revelation not only pulled Kevin out of depression, it forever changed the way he experienced the love and joy of Christ. In Shadowlands and Songs of Light, you will:Learn fascinating details about C. S. Lewis, discover his unique definition of joy, understand how to apply his revelations about joy to suffering, and learn to recognize and cooperate with God’s strategic use of joy.Enjoy a grand tour of U2’s discography, with a special emphasis on their exploration of joy and suffering.Clearly understand, from the perspective of music theory explained in common terms, why the music of U2 is so emotionally powerful and how it serves as a perfect analogy for Lewis’s concepts of joy and the Christian ability to rejoice in suffering.Find inspiration from the personal stories of U2, especially the tragedies that engulfed their youth in Dublin, and see how they worked through that grief and discovered a joy that has kept the band together for over thirty-five years.When the out-of-control nature of the world and your weaknesses throw you off-balance, you can experience God’s grandeur and joy— discovering heaven’s perspective until it becomes your instinctive, default vantage point every day.



Hollywood to the Himalayas

Author : Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati

Publisher : Jaico Publishing House

Page : 439 pages

File Size : 29,28 MB

Release : 2022-10-07

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9393559295

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A Journey of Healing and Transformation An enlightening memoir of a reluctant spiritual seeker who finds much more than she bargained for when she travels to India. Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, from Hollywood, California, had a privileged upbringing that hid some dark secrets. She grappled with an eating disorder and trauma from her early childhood for years. But, as a Stanford grad getting her PhD in Psychology, she felt she was successfully navigating adulthood. After getting married, when she agreed to travel to India to appease her husband, little did Sadhviji know a journey of healing and awakening awaited her. She had everything the material world could offer. Soon, she would give it all up to follow the divine path. Hollywood to the Himalayas describes Sadhviji’s odyssey towards divine enlightenment and inspiration through her extraordinary connection with her guru and renewed confidence in the pleasure and joy that life can bring. Now one of the preeminent female spiritual teachers in the world, Sadhviji recounts her journey with wit, honesty, and clarity. Along the way, she offers teachings to help us all step onto our own path of awakening and discover the truth of who we really are—embodiments of the Divine. Americanborn Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, PhD, moved to India in 1996. A graduate of Stanford University, she was ordained by Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati, president of one of the largest interfaith institutions in India, into the tradition of sanyas and lives at the Parmarth Niketan ashram in Rishikesh, where she leads a variety of humanitarian projects, teaches meditation, gives spiritual discourses, and counsels individuals and families. Americanborn Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, PhD, moved to India in 1996. A graduate of Stanford University, she was ordained by Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati, president of one of the largest interfaith institutions in India, into the tradition of sanyas and lives at the Parmarth Niketan ashram in Rishikesh, where she leads a variety of humanitarian projects, teaches meditation, gives spiritual discourses, and counsels individuals and families.



Journey to Heal

Author : Sutherland, Crystal

Publisher : Kregel Publications

Page : 176 pages

File Size : 25,77 MB

Release : 2016-04-27

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 0825444012

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A path of hope and healing for survivors of childhood sexual abuse A woman who was sexually abused as a child is confronted with many internal questions: Am I worthless? Will I get past the pain? Do I matter to God? These and similar questions can carve a deep hole in an already wounded soul. Too often, the lies of worthlessness are believed, the pain becomes too much to handle, and survivors find themselves making choices that lead to more heartbreak. With over 42 million survivors (both male and female) in the United States alone, the need for a clear path to healing is great. Crystal Sutherland—herself a survivor of CSA—knows that while the recovery process is complex, healing is possible with God’s help. For women who want to progress from simply coping to living abundantly, Journey to Heal guides readers through seven essential steps to recovery found in Scripture. Candid and open about her personal journey of healing, Crystal comes alongside her reader as a friend who understands. Infused with biblical truths, stories of hope from other survivors, and practical wisdom, this book leads women to discover the life of wholeness God has for them.



Return to Joy

Author : Bev DeSalvo

Publisher : NavPress

Page : 239 pages

File Size : 38,1 MB

Release : 2016-07-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1631465414

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In Return to Joy, Bev DeSalvo shares her own story of healing from past pain to draw other women along a journey toward intimacy with their Savior. The road to healing is arduous and long. But when we bow our pain in worship, this broken road leads to the heart of God, where all masks are removed and divine comfort can be experienced. On this journey, understanding the true nature of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit brings healing and restoration to all father, relational, and mother wounds. Learning to aggressively fight against Satan, who is devious but not creative, replaces his evil lies with the truth of God so that they no longer define the person. Recognizing that God is always “with me” leads to a place of rest where there is no fear of being rejected or abandoned. As a result of these new insights, the reader can finally return to joy and experience emotional and spiritual balance. Out of the overflow of intimate worship, God becomes their refuge, provider, and protector, enabling them to move toward others in forgiveness and true community. Includes a ten-week Bible study.