Download or read book The Hidden Pain written by Thando Eland and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in the sweltering savannas of Zimbabwe, Thando leads a typical life for a middle-class African girl. She attends school and church. She loves American television shows and American music. Thando lives in a happy household with a wonderful family, and has never wanted for love. But Thando holds a dark secret in her heart. For most of her life, God has hidden away these memories, locked them inside her until the day she was strong enough to bear them again... A true story of loss and hardship, of hope and rebirth. After years of abuse at the hands of men she should have been able to trust, Thando uses her bleak history to bring hope and healing to others.

Download or read book The Hidden Psychology of Pain written by Dr. James Alexander and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronic pain has been correctly described as the invisible crisis at the heart of contemporary life. Despite stunning advances in other areas of medical science, no similar breakthrough in the treatment of chronic pain has resulted from an exclusive focus on the body. Dr James Alexander’s young life was redefined by a tragic car accident in his late teens, and the chronic physical and emotional trauma inspired him to become a psychologist. Now pain-free, Dr Alexander has dedicated the last three decades of his life to helping others overcome similar challenges, specializing in the treatment of chronic pain and psychological trauma. His success is proof that recovery from chronic pain is possible, and this guide offers a valuable resource for working toward that goal. The recovery from chronic pain requires that we revisit and challenge the outdated attitudes and practices that have been used with little result. With the proliferation of medical and psychological research, for the first time we are at a point in history where these notions of pain recovery can be validated by research-based evidence. For too long, Dr Alexander feels, we have been looking in all the wrong places. Specifically, the problem lies at the core of our culture, which still treats the physical and nonphysical aspects of the human as separate experiences. This innovative program involves a journey of self-discovery, a new way to approach medical and psychological care of chronic pain, and advice on the most effective types of help to pursue.

Download or read book Finding Purpose Beyond Our Pain written by Paul Meier and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary approach to dealing with life's challenges that guides readers in how to face them and to recognize them as gifts from God. At one time or another everyone finds themselves questioning, "Does God still love me? Is there a purpose for all this pain?" Drs. Meier and Henderson teach readers how to face painful struggles head-on in a way that allows them to grow and mature emotionally and spiritually. In this timely book they explore the seven most common life challenges: Injustice Rejection Loneliness Loss Discipline Failure Death In addition they offer the three reasons we often miss the gifts these challenges can be. This unique approach to an age-old problem will encourage and challenge readers to grow through their struggles instead of wasting energy trying to avoid them altogether.

Download or read book Hidden Pain written by Audrey Thames and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis This book reveals my personal experiences and how God's power can carry us through everyday problems, and bring us out, when we believe and trust in God almighty. Waiting on God for the right person to marry is extremely important and necessary in order to remain in his will for our lives. Abuses in relationships can cause deep scars for the rest of a person's life, and unless you come to know the master, bitterness and pain can take over our lives and cause many other difficulties and pains along the way. Family relationships can cause tremendous hurt and pain, even one's earthly father. A homeless person is standing alone in their mind until they turn to God. Being brought up poor is no excuse, even when pushed into a fire. God can change your life and open your eyes into His marvelous

Download or read book From Hidden Pain to Freedom written by Toni S. Dixon and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Hidden Pain To Freedom is an emotional depiction of the life of Tia. It is powerful story of survival against all odds. A little girl caught up in a world of physical, emotional and sexual abuse. Tia, full of life and optimism only to have that shattered by the rejection of her mother; the constant emotional and physical abuse of her grandmother and relentless sexual abuse of her uncle. The setting takes place in the inner-city projects of Ohio where she resides with her grandmother because her mom chose the company of men over her children. There, she quickly realizes how cold and cruel the world could really be. Gaining strength from within, she grows up to overcome her pain to new found freedom.

Download or read book Hidden Pain written by Audrey Thames and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis This book reveals my personal experiences and how God's power can carry us through everyday problems, and bring us out, when we believe and trust in God almighty. Waiting on God for the right person to marry is extremely important and necessary in order to remain in his will for our lives. Abuses in relationships can cause deep scars for the rest of a person's life, and unless you come to know the master, bitterness and pain can take over our lives and cause many other difficulties and pains along the way. Family relationships can cause tremendous hurt and pain, even one's earthly father. A homeless person is standing alone in their mind until they turn to God. Being brought up poor is no excuse, even when pushed into a fire. God can change your life and open your eyes into His marvelous light. To be a woman in the ministry can become very challenging. Standing in the promise of God will guard a man from overpowering individuals. When God calls you into a ministry you can expect to forgo many trials and tribulations in your life. Forgiveness is the key, even when a person has been raped and children's are produced as a result, causing hurt and pain that we are inclined to hide in an attempt to survive.

Download or read book Hidden Pain written by Nicole Colville and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To a sadist there are no rules, no restrictions. There is just the pain. Eighteen year old Alexander Burton has just begun his first Formula One racing season. His carefree life comes to an abrupt halt when he literally runs into the sexiest domineering man he has ever laid his eyes on. Gray Victore, the twenty six year old billionaire businessman, who has control over the sponsorship money to most of the F1 teams, is feared for a reason. The moment Alex looked into Gray's black eyes, he saw something in them that made his entire being submit to his dominance and power. Not understanding the pull this arrogant homophobic bully has over him confuses Alexander and makes him open his mind to the possibility of entering into a very different relationship with the sexy blond. They are bound to each other in a way no one else could ever understand, and enjoy a sexual partnership that most would believe to be torture, but together they work.

Download or read book Empire of Pain written by Patrick Radden Keefe and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of Say Nothing. "A real-life version of the HBO series Succession with a lethal sting in its tail…a masterful work of narrative reportage.” – Laura Miller, Slate The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, but the source of the family fortune was vague—until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis. Empire of Pain is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. It follows the family’s early success with Valium to the much more potent OxyContin, marketed with a ruthless technique of co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug’s addictiveness. Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Empire of Pain is a ferociously compelling portrait of America’s second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super-elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed that built one of the world’s great fortunes.

Download or read book The Pain of Dishonor written by JNT Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How to Stop the Pain written by James B. Richards and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stop the pain of the past and be protected from the pain of the future. This paradigm-shattering book will free you from the forces that would turn you into a victim.

Download or read book The Hidden Pain written by Amanda Manney and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a type of pain that surpasses most other types of pain in life. It's a kind of pain you can't really talk about. You can't share it with friends and family because it's too hard, and honestly, they don't usually understand it. This pain is the fear that maybe God is no longer blessing your life. What do you do when you feel that God is no longer blessing you? How do you reconcile faith in a God who can meet your needs but doesn't? The answer isn't as simple as we try to make it. In The Hidden Pain, Amanda Manney forces us to move past Christian clichés and shallow faith to embrace an unwavering confidence in a God who rarely does what we expect Him to.

Download or read book If You Only Knew written by O Sonny Acho and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Christians are quite adept at masking their pain behind smiles and handshakes, we experience pain and suffering in proportions equal to the non-Christian world. Dr. O. Sonny Acho has written If You Only Knew to awaken church leaders and the church in general to the pain of those in the pews. He challenges preachers to go beyond preaching, and parishioners to be more involved in the day-to-day struggles of those within the body. By informing leaders, Dr. Acho believes they will better train their flock to get into each other's lives, relieve pain, and help each other live more like Christ.

Download or read book Sacred Pain written by Ariel Glucklich and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why would anyone seek out the very experience the rest of us most wish to avoid? Why would religious worshipers flog or crucify themselves, sleep on spikes, hang suspended by their flesh, or walk for miles through scorching deserts with bare and bloodied feet? In this insightful new book, Ariel Glucklich argues that the experience of ritual pain, far from being a form of a madness or superstition, contains a hidden rationality and can bring about a profound transformation of the consciousness and identity of the spiritual seeker. Steering a course between purely cultural and purely biological explanations, Glucklich approaches sacred pain from the perspective of the practitioner to fully examine the psychological and spiritual effects of self-hurting. He discusses the scientific understanding of pain, drawing on research in fields such as neuropsychology and neurology. He also ranges over a broad spectrum of historical and cultural contexts, showing the many ways mystics, saints, pilgrims, mourners, shamans, Taoists, Muslims, Hindus, Native Americans, and indeed members of virtually every religion have used pain to achieve a greater identification with God. He examines how pain has served as a punishment for sin, a cure for disease, a weapon against the body and its desires, or a means by which the ego may be transcended and spiritual sickness healed. "When pain transgresses the limits," the Muslim mystic Mizra Asadullah Ghalib is quoted as saying, "it becomes medicine." Based on extensive research and written with both empathy and critical insight, Sacred Pain explores the uncharted inner terrain of self-hurting and reveals how meaningful suffering has been used to heal the human spirit.

Download or read book The Hidden Psychology of Pain written by Dr. James Alexander and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronic pain has been correctly described as the invisible crisis at the heart of contemporary life. Despite stunning advances in other areas of medical science, no similar breakthrough in the treatment of chronic pain has resulted from an exclusive focus on the body. Dr James Alexander's young life was redefined by a tragic car accident in his late teens, and the chronic physical and emotional trauma inspired him to become a psychologist. Now pain-free, Dr Alexander has dedicated the last three decades of his life to helping others overcome similar challenges, specializing in the treatment of chronic pain and psychological trauma. His success is proof that recovery from chronic pain is possible, and this guide offers a valuable resource for working toward that goal. The recovery from chronic pain requires that we revisit and challenge the outdated attitudes and practices that have been used with little result. With the proliferation of medical and psychological research, for the first time we are at a point in history where these notions of pain recovery can be validated by research-based evidence. For too long, Dr Alexander feels, we have been looking in all the wrong places. Specifically, the problem lies at the core of our culture, which still treats the physical and nonphysical aspects of the human as separate experiences. This innovative program involves a journey of self-discovery, a new way to approach medical and psychological care of chronic pain, and advice on the most effective types of help to pursue.

Download or read book A Child s Hidden Pain written by John William Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A child's hidden pain is a bunch of poems that I have made from my heart and through all the pain and sorrows I have endured growing up. I dedicate these poems to all the people who have been abused in many ways than one as I have.

Download or read book The Pain Hidden behind My Smile written by KJ Harden and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karla was a misguided youth who witnessed everything that she was supposed to be protected from. Growing up without a father in her life and a mother who didn't know how to show her love forced her to go out into the world unprepared for the realities of it. She became a mother at the age of eighteen by a man who was six years older with children. Although she never felt love at home, she still opened herself up to the possibilities of being loved and loving someone in return. That search led her to a young man whom she eventually spent eight years of her life with and shared two more children together. During their time together she suffered from mental, physical, and emotional abuse, causing her to finally get up enough courage to leave him. Single again, Karla started doing things that she never had the opportunity to do while with such a controlling man. She started to drink and go out more, which eventually caused her to make decisions that affected and disrupted her household. She met a few men and settled down with one that caught her eye. While trying to pick up the pieces of her life, she started doing a little better and was looking forward to her future without the hurt and pain that she suffered through for years. Trying to better her relationship with her siblings, she invited them to her apartment so that they could spend time together, but nothing would prepare herself for what lay ahead. One night with her family had turned her whole world upside down and left her fighting for her freedom. With everything that she had already gone through, nobody would have ever expected for her to end up in jail, not even her. Leaving behind her children, Karla had to adjust to her new life behind bars. There was no turning back now, she had to fight harder than she had ever fought before. During that fight, she was sexually assaulted by a male deputy that worked at the courthouse. Leaving her with distrust for the same people put in place to protect her, she started to give up and accept things as they were, but God didn't want that for her, so He gave her the vision and sign that she had been waiting for. After being away for almost two years, Karla was released back out into the same cold, cruel world that she was abruptly taken from and had to start rebuilding what was torn down. She also needed to repair the broken relationship with her children, but none of that would come easy for her. Battling depression, being homeless, and running into people that had taken advantage of her instead of helping only made her stronger, and after two years of parole Karla packed the few things she had along with her children and headed for a new life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, leaving behind everything that was meant to break her and starting a new life for herself and children.

Download or read book Black Suffering written by James Henry Harris and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Black Suffering, James Henry Harris explores the nexus of injustices, privations, and pains that contribute to the daily suffering seen and felt in the lives of Black folks. This suffering is so normalized in American life that it often goes unnoticed, unseen, and even--more often--purposely ignored. The reality of Black suffering is both omnipresent and complicated--both a reaction to and a result of the reality of white supremacy, its psychological and historical legacy, and its many insidious and fractured expressions within contemporary culture. Because Black suffering is so wholly disregarded, it must be named, discussed, and analyzed. Black Suffering articulates suffering as an everyday reality of Black life. Harris names suffering's many manifestations, both in history and in the present moment, and provides a unique portrait of the ways Black suffering has been understood by others. Drawing on decades of personal experience as a pastor, theologian, and educator, Harris gives voice to suffering's practical impact on church leaders as they seek to forge a path forward to address this huge and troubling issue. Black Suffering is both a mixtape and a call to consciousness, a work that identifies Black suffering, shines a light on the insidious normalization of the phenomenon, and begins a larger conversation about correcting the historical weight of suffering carried by Black people. The book combines elements of memoir, philosophy, historical analysis, literary criticism, sermonic discourse, and even creative nonfiction to present a "remix" of the suffering experienced daily by Black people.