Download or read book Liberated by Love written by Candace Candy Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along with thousands of other women in the '60s, Candy was swept along by the women's movement, unprepared for the attack on everything she believed to be true as she entered a small teachers' college in the mountains of North Carolina in the fall of 1961. The feminist rhetoric sounded good yet pitted her against the very nature of men-their masculinity and the desire to provide for her and protect her. "I can take care of myself," she defiantly proclaimed. Reaping the lies of the sexual revolution and a failed marriage, wounded and broken, Candy found herself alone with two children to raise, carrying a dark secret of shame and regret. When Candy found the answer to her heart's cry to be truly liberated- and to be loved unconditionally and unreservedly-she also found healing and deliverance out of the lies she had believed for so many years. Finally, she was able to love, respect, and honor one special and imperfect man, the man who finally found her and pledged his love to her and her two children. This is a story of overcoming the past, of restoration and redemption, and of finding the truth that sets us all free.

Download or read book Liberated Love written by Mark Groves and published by St. Martin's Essentials. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all desire great love. Yet, there seems to be a lot in the way when it comes to cultivating a relationship we crave. Why is that? It’s time for a new template — one rooted in choice, truth, safety, and respect. To get us there, Mark Groves and Kylie McBeath, champions of positive philosophy, provide us a roadmap, one they walked themselves, to step out of protection mode and into connection mode. Groves and McBeath’s work—through their Create the Love seminars, workbooks, and consultation programs—have educated a new generation of relationship seekers on the best ways to practice and cultivate love. In Liberated Love, you’ll explore your original relationship blueprint and learn how it informs your current relationships (spoiler alert: it’s often a pretty direct line), and discover how limitation can be the key to finding freedom and experiencing full, fully-realized love with another person. Equipped with real-life situations and stories, exercises, rituals, and tools that lead to productive self-examination, Groves and McBeath illuminate how to be aware of our most instinctual defenses, survival strategies, and coping mechanisms, how to have conversations about relationships without turning them into “relationship conversations,” and how to date in a way that protects your heart as you open it up to new possibilities. In these pages, in a format you’ll want to turn to again and again, you’ll learn how to begin and maintain relationships that allow true self-expression—to feel safe and to feel real, involving, sustaining love.

Download or read book A Liberated Mind written by Steven C. Hayes, PhD and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In all my years studying personal growth, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is one of the most useful tools I've ever come across, and in this book, Dr. Hayes describes it with more depth and clarity than ever before."-Mark Manson, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Life is not a problem to be solved. ACT shows how we can live full and meaningful lives by embracing our vulnerability and turning toward what hurts. In this landmark book, the originator and pioneering researcher into Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) lays out the psychological flexibility skills that make it one of the most powerful approaches research has yet to offer. These skills have been shown to help even where other approaches have failed. Science shows that they are useful in virtually every area--mental health (anxiety, depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, PTSD); physical health (chronic pain, dealing with diabetes, facing cancer); social processes (relationship issues, prejudice, stigma, domestic violence); and performance (sports, business, diet, exercise). How does psychological flexibility help? We struggle because the problem-solving mind tells us to run from what causes us fear and hurt. But we hurt where we care. If we run from a sense of vulnerability, we must also run from what we care about. By learning how to liberate ourselves, we can live with meaning and purpose, along with our pain when there is pain. Although that is a simple idea, it resists our instincts and programming. The flexibility skills counter those ingrained tendencies. They include noticing our thoughts with curiosity, opening to our emotions, attending to what is in the present, learning the art of perspective taking, discovering our deepest values, and building habits based around what we deeply want. Beginning with the epiphany Steven Hayes had during a panic attack, this book is a powerful narrative of scientific discovery filled with moving stories as well as advice for how we can put flexibility skills to work immediately. Hayes shows how allowing ourselves to feel fully and think freely moves us toward commitment to what truly matters to us. Finally, we can live lives that reflect the qualities we choose.

Download or read book Liberating Love Daily Devotional written by Sandhya Rani Jha and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the world is scary and comfort is in short supply, Sandhya Rani Jha’s Liberating Love Daily Devotional provides a daily message of encouragement. In 365 “love notes from God,” dated for each day of the year, hear the voice of our loving God connecting your life with the Bible’s many stories of imperfect people facing real challenges. Drawing from all 66 books of the Bible, each devotion includes scripture, a brief meditation, and a word of hope, encouragement, and challenge that will help you foster a deeper relationship with God and with the great diversity of God’s beloved children. If you’ve never found a devotional for your inclusive values, Liberating Love is for you.

Download or read book Liberated Through the Love of Christ written by Ashley M. Blanco and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ashley Blanco's faith in Jesus Christ and her love for people fuels her activity in the church and the larger San Francisco community. When she is not working with families or mentoring children and youth, she enjoys hiking, Mitchell's Ice Cream, and laughing loudly with family and friends. Encounter Jesus Christ afresh through the short stories of Liberated through the Love of Christ. This collection of conversations, thoughts, and internal lives capture expressions of God in the lives of ordinary people. Humans who struggle with identity, rejection, racism, societal inequities, dysfunctional relationships, life questions, mental illness, addiction, loneliness, isolation, sexual identity confusion, and ego find themselves in the Presence of a holy, merciful, gracious and loving God. Liberated through the Love of Christ showcases the reality of what is possible when people with real challenges encounter a real God whose love and mercy for them is tangible."

Download or read book The Liberation of Alice Love written by Abby McDonald and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Delicious in so many ways, you'll find this one hard to put down." -Laura Dave, Author of The Divorce Party and London is the Best City in America Alice Love keeps her life (and job, and family) running in perfect order, so when her bank card is declined, she thinks it's just a mistake. Sadly, someone has emptied her bank account, spending her savings on glamorous trips, sexy lingerie, and a to-die-for wardrobe-and leaving Alice with lots of debt. As a dashing fraud investigator helps her unravel the intriguing paper trail, Alice discovers that the thief is closer to home than she ever imagined. What's more, it seems like her alter ego's reckless, extravagant lifestyle is the one Alice should have been leading all along. As the little white lies begin to stack up, how far will Alice go to find the truth? And whose life, exactly, is she fighting for? "refreshing, fun, and sexy...a perfect beach read." -Closer

Download or read book Hard to Love written by Briallen Hopper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sharp and entertaining essay collection about the importance of multiple forms of love and friendship in a world designed for couples, from a laser-precise new voice. Sometimes it seems like there are two American creeds, self-reliance and marriage, and neither of them is mine. I experience myself as someone formed and sustained by others' love and patience, by student loans and stipends, by the kindness of strangers. Briallen Hopper's Hard to Love honors the categories of loves and relationships beyond marriage, the ones that are often treated as invisible or seen as secondary--friendships, kinship with adult siblings, care teams that form in times of illness, or various alternative family formations. She also values difficult and amorphous loves like loving a challenging job or inanimate objects that can't love you back. She draws from personal experience, sharing stories about her loving but combative family, the fiercely independent Emerson scholar who pushed her away, and the friends who have become her invented or found family; pop culture touchstones like the Women's March, John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, and the timeless series Cheers; and the work of writers like Joan Didion, Gwendolyn Brooks, Flannery O'Connor, and Herman Melville (Moby-Dick like you've never seen it!). Hard to Love pays homage and attention to unlikely friends and lovers both real and fictional. It is a series of love letters to the meaningful, if underappreciated, forms of intimacy and community that are tricky, tangled, and tough, but ultimately sustaining.

Download or read book Consecrated a Woman s Guide to Virtuous Liberated Love written by Shellee A. Mitchell and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have come to notice one of the radiant accessories on a woman is the love of her man. With the love of a man, she appears enlightened to move freely and unencumbered knowing and relying upon his assured protection. She, in turn, is so pleased, she bestows honor on him. Complementing his character they portray a simultaneous reaction of Gods grace in cyclical motion. When one stops, plans lose momentum and tread less ground toward the purposes of God. This is where a prior season of cleansing and restoration prove beneficial. In this devotion to God, emotional healing, and spiritual fortitude is established. With the Lord, and through Holy Spirit, fears, insecurities, rejection, misguided decisions, and other negative emotions are discarded or diminished. Knowing self, through Him, she becomes self-less for him; this is an asset to keep the relationship moving and staying the course of God. ~Shellee A. Mitchell

Download or read book Radical Dharma written by Rev. angel Kyodo williams and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large and Buddhist communities in particular, this urgent call to action outlines a new dharma that takes into account the ways that racism and privilege prevent our collective awakening. The authors traveled around the country to spark an open conversation that brings together the Black prophetic tradition and the wisdom of the Dharma. Bridging the world of spirit and activism, they urge a compassionate response to the systemic, state-sanctioned violence and oppression that has persisted against black people since the slave era. With national attention focused on the recent killings of unarmed black citizens and the response of the Black-centered liberation groups such as Black Lives Matter, Radical Dharma demonstrates how social transformation and personal, spiritual liberation must be articulated and inextricably linked. Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens, and Jasmine Syedullah represent a new voice in American Buddhism. Offering their own histories and experiences as illustrations of the types of challenges facing dharma practitioners and teachers who are different from those of the past five decades, they ask how teachings that transcend color, class, and caste are hindered by discrimination and the dynamics of power, shame, and ignorance. Their illuminating argument goes beyond a demand for the equality and inclusion of diverse populations to advancing a new dharma that deconstructs rather than amplifies systems of suffering and prepares us to weigh the shortcomings not only of our own minds but also of our communities. They forge a path toward reconciliation and self-liberation that rests on radical honesty, a common ground where we can drop our need for perfection and propriety and speak as souls. In a society where profit rules, people's value is determined by the color of their skin, and many voices—including queer voices—are silenced, Radical Dharma recasts the concepts of engaged spirituality, social transformation, inclusiveness, and healing.

Download or read book Do What You Love written by Miya Tokumitsu and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American claim that we should love and be passionate about our job may sound uplifting, or at least, harmless, but Do What You Love exposes the tangible damages such rhetoric has leveled upon contemporary society. Virtue and capital have always been twins in the capitalist, industrialized West. Our ideas of what the “virtues” of pursuing success in capitalism have changed dramatically over time. In the past, we believed that work undertaken with an ethos of industriousness promised financial stability and basic comfort and security for our families. Now, our working life is conflated with the pursuit of pleasure. Fantastically successful—and popular—entrepreneurs such as Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey command us. “You’ve got to love what you do,” Jobs tells an audience of college grads about to enter the workforce, while Winfrey exhorts her audience to “live your best life.” The promises made to today’s workers seem so much larger and nobler than those of previous generations. Why settle for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage and a perfectly functional eight-year-old car when you can get rich becoming your “best” self and have a blast along the way? But workers today are doing more and more for less and less. This reality is frighteningly palpable in eroding paychecks and benefits, the rapid concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny few, and workers’ loss of control over their labor conditions. But where is the protest and anger from workers against a system that tells them to love their work and asks them to do it for less? While winner-take-all capitalism grows ever more ruthless, the rhetoric of passion for labor proliferates. In Do What You Love, Tokumitsu articulates and examines the sacrifices people make for a chance at loveable, self-actualizing, and, of course, wealth-generating work and the conditions facilitated by this pursuit. This book continues the conversation sparked by the author’s earlier Slate article and provides a devastating look at the state of modern America’s labor and workforce.

Download or read book Getting the Love You Want written by Harville Hendrix and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I know of no better guide for couples who genuinely desire a maturing relationship.M. Scott Peck, author of The Road Less Traveled A remarkable bookthe most incisive and persuasive I have ever read on the knotty problems of marriage relationships. Ann Roberts, former president, Rockefeller Family Fund

Download or read book The Love Manifesto written by Vilicia Cade and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-19 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Love Manifesto grew out of my most earnest desire to spread my belief that love is the answer to all of life's disappointments. A manifesto is a declaration of an individual's intentions, motives, or views which usually continues to reinforce a position established in a previous published work. This manifesto is a combination of expressions that captures elements of artistic expression peppered with a political undertone. My first book-If Not for Love was birthed from the pain of surviving the trauma of growing up a ward of the state then pushing through the unspeakable death of my first-born son to realize the love I had for my mother to becoming paralyzing by my mom's death. I personally learned that the despair caused by death and rejection can stall the potential of living. My journey has given me the foundation to use my pain to develop a blueprint for motivating others and using my experiences to be a blessing to someone. It is God's will that I strive to emulate the love he has bestowed upon me. Each day I am striving to "let love liberate me" from the disappointments that life brings. I am consistently working to "perfect my love walk". I will admit some days it is harder than others yet still I strive without ceasing or losing momentum. The Love Manifesto is for those who desire to bask in the delight of God's love despite the circumstances and situations that are designed to make you digress or throw your hands up in surrender to angry, hate, jealousy or defeat. I hope this book encourages your spirit and gives you the energy to get back up no matter how many times life knocks you down. The Love Manifesto is a public declaration that gives meaning to my conviction that love is the force that gives human beings the power needed to reach the pinnacle of living. Love gives us conspicuous bravery to "no longer accept the things we cannot accept" but without malice in our hearts. Love is a life force that can connect us to the spiritual forces of our creator. Empowered by the Holy Spirit, I have been able to forgive those who have plotted to hurt me and derail my destiny. Jesus Christ has given me a spirit of hope and confidence not fear nor degradation; so, I can mirror this in my actions but most of all in my heart! The gift of love has sustained me through all of the ups and downs and kept me immersed in the humanity of living without hate in my heart. Humility has given me the tenacity to preserve and hold steadfast to the fruits of God's divine love. It's given me the strength to forgive those who mean me no good in their intentions and actions. Because of God's Love, I have the wisdom inside of me to forgive others. My God sister told me that God's love is the truth and it is a real gift that God has given to each of us. In my journey of living I have come to the realization that in God's love I stand liberated from every valley experience that has stalled, hurt or broken my heart. I dedicate this book to all those who yearn to love and be loved but; especially to my sisters. In loving sometimes our hearts will lead us to the mountain top and then there are the valley moments. I want everyone to know that there is liberation in love if in God's love you stand. Let your heart be encouraged and let your power resound. Let the echoes of agape love release you abound. I want the universe to know that there is no other force more powerful than a person who can receive and give love. To this I declare, The Love Manifesto can be a source for life's journey as we surrender our doubts while standing in the beauty of each encounter of the heart to arrive back at love.

Download or read book Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water fore I Diiie written by Maya Angelou and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another remarkable collection of poetry from one of America's masters of the medium. The first part gathers together poems of love and nostalgic memory, while Part II portrays confrontations inherent in a racist society.

Download or read book The Liberated Eater Revised and Updated written by Cindy Landham and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now revised and updated! Step into freedom from weight gain, emotional eating, diet rules, body anxiety, and food preoccupation. Embrace the liberty to eat foods you enjoy and live in a body you love. You can indeed have a food-life that's sane, balanced and healthy. The Liberated Eater will help you: Discover why diets haven't worked long term (it's not about willpower). Find proven core behaviors and beliefs that will work-for a lifetime. Confidently live out a consistent, balanced, flexible food-life. Master powerful tools for handling any food encounter - including emotional eating."

Download or read book Cinderella Liberator written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What would the world look like if girls grew up reading fairytales made from the magic they carry inside themselves? Breathtakingly beautiful, is what.” —Lidia Yuknavich, national bestselling author In her debut children’s book, Rebecca Solnit reimagines a classic fairytale with a fresh, feminist Cinderella and new plot twists that will inspire young readers to change the world, featuring gorgeous silhouettes from Arthur Rackham on each page. In this modern twist on the classic story, Cinderella, who would rather just be Ella, meets her fairy godmother, goes to a ball, and makes friends with a prince. But that is where the familiar story ends. Instead of waiting to be rescued, Cinderella learns that she can save herself and those around her by being true to herself and standing up for what she believes. “Being a princess is absolutely fine if that’s what you choose. It’s having those choices taken away from you that make for big problems. Cinderella in Solnit’s book is given that choice. She’s allowed to say what her dreams are, and then she goes out and attains them. And they’re not huge ridiculous dreams but small, happy, manageable ones. Ultimately, that’s the gift Ms. Solnit is giving kids with this book.” —School Library Journal “This is a reminder of hope and possibility, of kindness and compassion, and—perhaps most salient—imagination and liberty. Through the imaginations of our childhoods, can we find our true selves liberated in adulthood?” —Chelsea Handler “This is, hands down, a wonderful book—one that even the jaded reader will clasp upon completion with a contented sigh.” —The New York Times

Download or read book On Love written by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these homilies, most of which are previously unpublished, Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, addresses the theme he has celebrated, pondered, and witnessed by his life more than any other: love. For him, love is the vital nucleus of the Church and to serve Christ is above all a question of love: "Peter, do you love me? Feed my sheep" (Jn 21:15–17). Love is also the quest of every human being on the journey toward eternity. He beautifully states, "Christianity is a movement, a journey; it is not a theory, a sum total of doctrine; Christianity is life, it is a vital impetus that carries us toward true life. . . . Someone who has found love can say: I have found life." Arranged by the liturgical seasons of the Church year, the homilies predate the author's pontificate. The earliest dates from 1970 while he was still a professor of theology. Thus, this collection traces the way Joseph Ratzinger has been enamored of the love of God throughout his years of serving the Church.

Download or read book Sew Liberated written by Meg McElwee and published by Interweave. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resurrecting the art of applique--a technique in which pieces of fabric are sewn onto clothing, bags, quilts, and other creations--this enlightening resource provides today's generation of "sewists" with a technique that can be combined with embroidery, beadwork, buttons, ribbons, and more to imbue works with a creative and personal style. Ideal for those with some sewing experience looking to break away from the restrictions of traditional patterns, this guide offers the details for both hand and machine applique techniques, as well as a history of applique and how it was rediscovered in the fiber arts. Featured are 20 modern, stylish sewing projects ranging from aprons, skirts, pillows, and totes to a duvet cover, wall clock, blouse, baby quilt, and scarf. With step-by-step instructions, color photographs, and comprehensive how-to embroidery instructions, this is an all-in-one resource and guide.