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Trying to lead the Christian life without the Holy Spirit’s power is like trying to function without air. It’s simply not possible. However, many Christians are attempting to follow Jesus without a close relationship with the Holy Spirit. As a result, we face a widespread spiritual crisis that is disrupting our connection to God and preventing us from becoming the people he is calling us to be.

Alison Wright covered human conflict with her camera until her own life was nearly cut short during a horrific bus accident with a logging truck on a remote jungle road in Laos. Suffering from excruciating life-threatening injuries, she drew upon her years of meditation practice, concentrating upon each breath, believing it to be her last.

Award-winning author Aaron C. Rhodes presents his inspirational message through this self-help approach to surviving abandonment, trauma, or illness and death. The author has personally experienced these issues during his lifetime and wants to help others use his approach to overcome similar situations. Utilizing the three tenets he proposes in this book, a listener can have the tools to survive difficult times. When life takes your breath away, we must find a way to cope, continue life, and learn to breathe again.

Love isn't always pretty - especially not when you fall for a Beast. I ran like hell from the tragedy in my past. I didn't slow down, and I didn't look back. But I couldn't outrun the memories...or escape the nightmares. I came to North Carolina to be alone. Hayden Graham attracts problems like a magnet. She's a complication I don't need. This time, the mess she's in has put her life in danger. What she needs is a hero to rescue her. But I'm no knight in shining armor. I'm a wounded animal - a Beast. She tastes like Heaven. She only adds to my Hell.

Lark experienced the devastating loss of her 19-year-old son to suicide. Having already lost her father to suicide five years earlier, this second death hit hard. All expectations for the future were erased. Everything became difficult. Even breathing felt like a conscious decision.

Breathe is for anyone experiencing any level of grief, anxiety, bereavement, regret, sorrow, disappointment, and depression. Through true stories and biblical principles, and clinical pastoral techniques, the listener will identify with the normalcy of spiritual pain - mental, emotional, and psychological pain such as regret, guilt, and heartache. As the steps in this volume are practiced repeatedly, and as needed, the listener will learn to demonstrate self-care and how to manage spiritual pain, developing safe grieving practices.

Did you get stumped on the word "learning"? Because, after all, who needs to learn how to breathe, right? We do it naturally, automatically. If we didn't, we'd be dead. That's true. But there are, in fact, breathing techniques - that, when applied appropriately - can help you live a more peaceful, productive, life. Knowing the difference between good and bad breathing techniques is crucial.