Download or read book Crucified with Christ written by Rachel K. Frederick and published by Inspiring Voices. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel K. Frederick once went through life without knowing who she was because she didn't know who God was. By age forty-two, she'd become exhausted because the consequences of her sinful choices were just too heavy to carry. Just when she was ready to give up all hope, however, God's merciful arm reached down and lifted her into His grace. In that instant, she was transformed into a follower and fighter devoted to Christ. Since that day, her God-given faith compels her to testify about her experiences and to reveal her sinful past, which includes rebellion, fornication, adultery, murder, homosexuality, rage, vengeance, self-mutilation, suicidal tendencies, and with secrecy enabling them all. It's a journey that showcases the power of the Lord-one that can help you redefine your future just as it has redefined hers. Join Rachel as she walks with the Lord, putting her poor soul in His hands to witness the works of both God and Satan. She is awed by the many blessings that God intended for her in life, having discovered that it's never too late to turn back and receive them.

Download or read book Understanding Complex Trauma and Post Traumatic Growth in Survivors of Sex Trafficking written by Heather Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foregrounding the voices of women who have survived experiences of domestic sex trafficking in the US, this text implements qualitative research methodologies to illustrate how experiences of complex trauma have impact on women’s identities, sexuality, relationships, and re-integration into communities. Building on theoretical understandings of complex trauma and posttraumatic growth, this volume centers insights from in-depth interviews and photovoice methodology to document survivors’ experience of sex trafficking and recovery. Outlining the nature of support and services available, the text identifies recommendations for effective recovery and in doing so, emphasizes women’s capacity for post-traumatic growth. Relationship development, therapeutic and peer-support are highlighted as primary sources of healing. Ultimately, the text affirms the need for trauma-informed, ecological, and relational perspectives in the care of survivors. This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in trauma studies, clinical social work, and those working in mental health research more broadly. The text will also support further discussion and reflection around mental health services and support systems, adult trauma counselling, and mental health policy.

Download or read book I Wish I Woulda Knew Me Back Then written by Danielle Green and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all have a story that could help, teach, encourage, uplift, and motivate. Have you ever had a circumstance in your life where you wish you could turn back the hands of time? Perhaps you want to go back and tell your younger self what you know now. Each story in I Wish I Woulda Knew Me Back served as a therapeutic experience for each writer as we revealed some of our deepest, darkest secrets all in the name of making a difference in the lives of women everywhere.

Download or read book Together at Last written by Jatwan Walston and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisa Johnson is a well-established defense lawyer. In ninety days, she will be evaluated for junior partner. She is the middle daughter out of three and is always expected to do the responsible thing in her mothers eyes. She has a ten-year-old son, Dante, who is the center of her universe. Lisa hasnt dated seriously in seven years. The last guy she dated broke her heart by dropping out of her life without any explanation. To put the icing on the cake, her sons father, Anthony, is still secretly in love with her. LeShaun Jackson is a brilliant neurosurgeon and stuck in a messy divorce. His soon to be ex-wife, Kiesha, is money hungry and conniving and finds it impossible to be monogamous and take care of Brittani, their six-year-old daughter. LeShaun has been nothing but faithful to his wife and pays all her expenses. He feels he deserves custody of Brittani. Life seems hopeless until he made a very important phone call. Lisa accepts the call from LeShaun, and they catch up on each others lives. Her heart sinks when she finds out LeShaun is married, yet she agrees to meet up with him after all these years. Sparks fly even though the variables in their lives are so twisted. Can their hot attraction stand LeShauns crazy ex or Lisas jealous ex? Will they ever be able to be together at last?

Download or read book Beyond Individualism written by Gordon Wheeler and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking and provocative new treatment of some of the oldest dilemmas of psychology and relationship, Gordon Wheeler challenges the most basic tenet of the West cultural tradition: the individualist self. Characteristics of this self-model are our embedded yet pervasive ideas that the individual self precedes and transcends relationship and social field conditions and that interpersonal experience is somehow secondary and even opposed to the needs of the inner self. Assumptions like these, Wheeler argues, which are taken to be inherent to human nature and development, amount to a controlling cultural paradigm that does considerable violence to both our evolutionary self-nature and our intuitive self-experience. He asserts that we are actually far more relational and intersubjective than our cultural generally allows and that these relational capacities are deeply built into our inherent evolutionary nature. His argument progresses from the origins and lineage of the Western individualist self-model, into the basis for a new model of the self, relationship, and experience out of the insights and implications of Gestalt psychology and its philosophical derivatives, deconstructivism and social constructionism. From there, in a linked series of experiential chapters, each of them a groundbreaking essay in its own right, he takes up the essential dynamic themes of self-experience and relational life: interpersonal orientation, meaning-making and adaptation, support, shame, intimacy, and finally narrative and gender, culminating in considerations of health, ethics, politics, and spirit. The result is a picture and an experience of self that is grounded in the active dynamics of attention, problem solving, imagination, interpretation, evaluation, emotion, meaning-making, narration, and, above all, relationship. By the final section, the reader comes away with a new sense of what it means to be human and a new and more usable definition of health.

Download or read book Romancing the Rancher written by Stacy Connelly and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Kiss a Cowboy Former rodeo star Jarrett Deeks knows about saving horses, but city women like Theresa Pirelli have always been out of his league. Yet her kiss rocks him harder than any bull he's ever ridden. In her, he sees himself: a little bruised, a lot lonely. She's his for only a few weeks, except unlike his horses, he can't let her go once she's healed. But how can he convince her to stay? Theresa is used to taking care of patients…not being one! When an accident jeopardizes her career, she needs a break from worrying about her uncertain future and interfering family. A few weeks at Jarrett's rustic California horse ranch seem like just the ticket to get back on her feet. Until she's completely swept off them by one sexy cowboy.

Download or read book Broken Wings written by Tereza Ciccarini and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy and Jill . . . Two young women who briefly met as they slowly were heading toward the Emergency Room entrance at Griffin Hospital. Far along in their respective labors, they soon gave birth without any complications. A little girl, Samantha, was born to Amy, while a little boy, Drew, was born to Jill. In an amazing turn of events, both infants entered the world at the exact same time, down to the very same minute and second: 3:45:18 am. Coincidence? Perhaps . . . Fate? Who Knows? The truly unknown fact then was that these four lives would be irrevocably linked for the duration of their natural lives, as well as those of their loved ones. Many unexpected twists and turns soon begun to follow, each incident with umbelievable consequences and even more umbelievable outcomes. A terrible head-on collision, so violent that it caused both cars to fly in opposite directions. Three innocent victims in total, but there was only one survivor. Two happy spouses eagerly waiting to see their mates soon, completely unaware that for them the journey had just ended. * * * A nine-year old child, healthy one day and dying the next. A devastated mother, simply unable to accept what his pediatrician had just told her. Desperation soon followed the initial denial, and she vowed that she would fight tooth and nail, and for as long as there was still any breath left in her beaten body. Somehow, somewhere, she would find someone, anyone, who would be willing to help her little one. Stating that she did not care how, she went on to say that she would indeed find the help her little child so desperately needed, and would not give up until she found that one person who could make her child well again. She was willing to go to hell and back to achieve that! A ́casual ́ encounter with a handsome, charismatic stranger, who assured her that he could ́spare ́ the life of her child. This turn of events offered the distraught mother the help and hope she was determined to search for. What he asked from her in return, though, was so horrible that she had to fight hard not to recoil from him, as if he had just set her on fire. It was one sordid and sick proposition, and ́only up to her, take or leave it ́ but, unfortunately she was well aware that she could not simply turn around and run away, like she would like to. As vile as it sounded, it was the only option open to her and to her child, for his life depended on it. And she would be damned if she was going to let him die without a fight! Defeat was a bitter pill to swallow, especially if preceded and immediately followed by a silent barrage of self-loathing and self-pity. Complete and total inadequacy were never more blatant than at times like these. It was one hell of a choice, but that so-called choice was never hers to make, anyway. Not since she ́casually ́ bumped into her ́child ́s savior ́, the despicable creature with the cold eyes and an even colder soul, if it had one at all! * * * Connecticut, the weekend destination for New Yorkers who were ready to escape the hustle and bustle of their hectic Manhattan lives during the weekdays, suddenly became front page news from coast to coast. A string of unsolved rape-murders, discovered in a period of less than three years, soon spread terror among the residents of Fairfield and New Haven Counties, where the crimes occurred. The resulting shock-wave was unprecedented, for it was the state ́s first encounter with a serial killer. Six murders in total, and in spite of the massive manhunt that was set in motion right after the body of the second girl was discovered, the complete lack of leads had the authorities literally scratching their heads in disbelief. Six young and innocent victims and still nothing for the investigating task force to go by, other than the fact that all semen samples collected from each one of the dead girls was a perfect match. That led to extremely high levels of frustration among those assigned to find the person responsible for the brut

Download or read book Praise God First written by Kimberlee Hutcherson and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When do you praise God? When He has done something grand? How about when He's done something you don't understand or agree with? Are you praising God for being a Giver and a Taker? It is important to recognize God's attributes that please us, as well as the ones that don't, then offer up praise to Him for all things and in all circumstances. Often, praise is completely left out of our prayers to God. If we follow the example Jesus gave in Matthew 6:9-13, then praise should come first, yet finding the words to do this can be challenging. This book contains over five hundred praise words to help facilitate a more intimate knowledge of God, broadening our ability to praise Him specifically for His attributes. This book is a powerful transforming tool to be used in a daily walk with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Choose a word, then offer up a first fruit sacrifice of praise to God. If it is heartfelt and sincere, God will be pleased. You will be blessed because of the intimacy this creates. When we are praising, we are not controlling, we are releasing. Praise prayer is different because it removes the tendency to give orders to God that sounds something like, "please fix this," "change that," "don't do this," "give me that." Sometimes a defeated tone is present in our prayers, sounding like, "God, this is what I want, but your will be done, which is probably not my will, so I'm not sure how to pray." Praising God first can take away the need to control and the feeling of defeat by releasing it to God, focusing entirely on Him and His sovereignty in all circumstances. Praise God first. That's what we can do. God has got the rest. Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name. (Heb. 13:15)

Download or read book I Hate My Mother written by Amethyst Jones and published by Amethyst Jones. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I Hate My Mother" is an emotionally charged autobiography of trauma.

Download or read book Harlequin Heartwarming December 2022 Box Set written by Melinda Curtis and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 949 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships that focus on home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: WYOMING CHRISTMAS REUNION The Blackwells of Eagle Springs by USA TODAY bestselling author Melinda Curtis Horse trainer Nash Blackwell’s life-altering accident was…well, just that. He wants to rebuild. The first step is winning back his ex-wife, Helen Blackwell. Can trust once broken be regained? THE CHRISTMAS WEDDING CRASHERS Stop the Wedding! by USA TODAY bestselling author Amy Vastine Jonah Drake’s grandmother will marry Holly Hayward’s great-uncle—unless Holly and Jonah can stop them! The family feud is too unyielding for peace now, even at Christmas. Working together is their only option…but love brings new possibilities. THE DOC’S HOLIDAY HOMECOMING Back to Adelaide Creek by Virginia McCullough Jeff Stanhope’s focus is family. He’s the new guardian to a teenager—and trying to mend things with his estranged sister. The last thing he needs is to start falling for her best friend, single mom Olivia Donoghue. A COWBOY’S CHRISTMAS JOY Flaming Sky Ranch by Mary Anne Wilson Caleb Donovan needs Harmony Gabriel. The event planner can throw his parents a wedding anniversary like no other, though she shows up for the job with her baby girl. Caleb has all the family he needs…but soon he wants more. Look for 4 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Heartwarming!

Download or read book The Horror of AIDS written by Kitty Caley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Redeeming Productivity written by Reagan Rose and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeling overwhelmed and unproductive? The answer isn’t to do more. What image forms in your mind when you think of productivity? An assembly line? Spreadsheets? Business suits or workplace uniforms? In the ancient world, productivity didn't conjure images like these. Instead, it referred to crop yield and fruit bearing. This agrarian imagery helps us understand productivity through a biblical lens. Jesus taught, By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit (John 15:8). Who doesn’t want to have a truly productive life—to bear much fruit? But how does this happen in the places we hold dear—the home, workplace, and in our communities? We often feel overworked and overrun, defeated and discouraged. The world says be productive so that you can get all you can out of this life. The Bible says be productive so you can gain more of the next life. In Redeeming Productivity, author Reagan Rose explores how God’s glory is the purpose for which He planted us. And he shows how productivity must be firmly rooted in the gospel. Only through our connection to Christ—the True Vine—are we empowered to produce good fruit. This book shows how we can maintain the vitality of that connection through simple, life-giving disciplines. Readers will discover manageable applications like giving God the first fruits of our days. Additionally, Reagan discusses how our perspective on suffering is transformed as we see trials as God’s pruning for greater productivity.

Download or read book The Lie That I Am written by Mary Beth Smith and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lie That I Am: A Journey Back to Spirit By: Mary Beth Smith What if ... what we were told as children about ourselves was a lie? What if ... we then looked around for proof to support these lies? What if … we took those lies on as our belief of who we are still today? No matter what lies you may have believed because of the family dynamics you were born into, all those lies that have so deeply impacted your life can be unraveled until you can move beyond them to live instead from a place of peace. The Lie That I Am takes you on the journey of Mary Beth Smith’s life. A life filled with doubt, pain, depression, suicide, sexual abuse, obesity, illness, and almost dying. As she learned to connect to Spirit more and more, Spirit connected with her. Together they transcended the lies she believed into the truths of who she has become. It’s time to stop believing our lies, and start living our truths.

Download or read book It Gets Better written by Dan Savage and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2010, Dan Savage and his partner, Terry Miller, uttered three words that would give rise to a global movement focused on empowerment of LGBTQ+ youth — it gets better Growing up isn't easy. Many young people face daily tormenting and bullying, and this is especially true for LGBTQ kids and teens. In response to a number of tragic suicides by LGBTQ students, syndicated columnist and author Dan Savage uploaded a video to YouTube with his partner, Terry Miller. Speaking openly about the bullying they suffered, and how they both went on to lead rewarding adult lives, their video launched the It Gets Better Project YouTube channel and initiated a worldwide phenomenon. It Gets Better is a collection of original essays and expanded testimonials written to teens from celebrities, political leaders, and everyday people, because while many LGBTQ teens can't see a positive future for themselves, we can.

Download or read book Jude and Diana written by Sharon Robart-Johnson and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-15T00:00:00Z with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only mention of Jude in Nova Scotia’s official history relates to her death: a slave-owning family was brought to trial for her murder in 1801. They were acquitted despite overwhelming evidence that they were guilty. Sharon Robart-Johnson pays tribute to such archival glimpses of enslaved people by re-creating the fullness of sisters Jude and Diana’s survival, emphasizing their joys alongside their hardship. She stories their movements through the U.S. to Nova Scotia, Canada, with the arrival of the United Empire Loyalists in 1783. As a child, Jude is sold away and then, by a lucky turn of fate, reunited with her fiercely loving family. Jude’s experiences harden her into a rebel who resists injustice without heeding consequences, and after her death, Diana is left alone to deal with racist and sexual violence. Through Robart-Johnson’s research, we experience nineteenth-century Nova Scotia, when political debates about abolishing slavery were just beginning to emerge. Through Robart-Johnson’s creativity, we enter the historical fiction of Jude and Diana and their strong familial bonds, each character developed with nuance and care. While chronicling the cruelty they endured, Robart-Johnson’s storytelling powerfully honours their humour, strength, and shining dignity.

Download or read book The New Year s Quilt written by Jennifer Chiaverini and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As each holiday season approaches, some revel in welcoming the New Year ahead; others quietly mourn the passing of time gone by. "We can't hold on to the past," says Master Quilter Sylvia Compson, "but we can keep the best part of 'Auld Lang Syne' in our hearts and in our memories, and we can look forward to the future with hope and resolve." As Sylvia, a late-in-life newlywed, has discovered, love can enter our lives at any age. Yet before she can truly delight in her present happiness, she must face the sorrow hidden in her past -- her own role in the tragic circumstances that left her estranged from her sister, Claudia, until it was too late to make amends. Vowing not to repeat the mistake with her new daughter-in-law, Amy, who opposed Sylvia's marriage to her father, Andrew, Sylvia must convince Amy that family is more precious than pride. As Sylvia takes up a quilt for the season, begun and abandoned over six years, she recalls the New Year's Eve festivities of her youth at Elm Creek Manor as a member of the Bergstrom family. She titles the quilt "New Year's Reflections," after her belief that year-end reflections precede resolutions. The quilt blocks she chooses commemorate the wisdom that no one can ever be truly alone if she keeps the memory of those she loved and those who loved her alive in her heart. The New Year's Quilt is a novel to enjoy today and to treasure anew each holiday season.

Download or read book Deceived No More written by Doreen Virtue and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Miraculous Story of a Hugely Successful New Age Teacher’s Conversion to Christianity In this brilliant, utterly captivating memoir, Doreen Virtue chronicles her journey in discovering everything she believed in was a lie. She poignantly shares the price she’s paid for following Jesus. New Age teachings are based on concepts that sound almost irresistible. But as Doreen discovered, they come with a hidden price: your eternal destiny. Here is a riveting, personal confessional of how a former false prophet learned to trust God after nearly wasting a lifetime being independent and willful—trying to predict and control the future—and how Jesus saved her soul from deception and opened her eyes to His truth. Deceived No More can help you learn how to discern dangerous teachings so you can detect and avoid deception. Topics include: How to spot New Age teachings, and why they’re dangerous Biblical ways to deal with persecution, spiritual warfare, and other post-conversion issues How to witness to a New Ager