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in my book, I explore mental health issues, spirituality and some mindfulness, drawing on my experience and research. I'm offering a holistic approach to healing and growth that has worked for me and can work for anyone with the correct determination. I begin by examining the stigma and challenges of mental health with ways to cope and how spirituality can provide a supportive framework for self-care, self-acceptance and connection to something greater than yourself.

Who Connects Your Dots? builds on the foundation of the need to critically think about what is happening in the world around you and even to you! Your eyes will be opened to what the media is now permitted to propagate to you and for how long this has been occurring. Critical thinking is an extremely vital process of analyzing information from opposing sides. This method of thinking is based on asking questions from an unbiased perspective, equally weighing all data. This allows you to thoroughly analyze the entire scenario and become vastly informed.

In “Carry Your Cross” the author, Robert Lyon, shares his testimony on how his world was shaken and stirred and flipped upside down because of breaking one of God’s commandments, honor your mother and father at the age of 14. Because of the effects from the guilt and shame, Robert’s descent into darkness was initiated, beginning with his alcohol and drug addiction. Without a spiritual life there was no light, no future, no hope. Only to live in darkness. With no ambition or respect for himself, he can only identify himself of what he knows best, and that is his through his pain and suffering.

Marriage with a Mission: The Glory of God in Your Marriage is a treatise on Marriage as it was meant to be. Marriage was intended for the couple to experience God's glory lavished on each other by each other and, in turn, poured out on the world around them. God's glory in marriage is nothing but His absolute compassion and mercy, slowness to anger, unfailing love, impeccable faithfulness, kind forgiveness, and His refusal to excuse guilty actions.

Are you ready to change how you interact with your child's other parent? To do so, consider the words of apostle Paul who said, "Do not be conformed to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind." Unfortunately, many post-divorce adults remain angry, blaming, bitter and unforgiving. Some choose to remain stuck in this destructive pattern for years. In order to renew your mind, stop blaming and begin focusing on your own responsibilities and what you yourself can do differently.

I dedicated my life's long dream to becoming an author. I knew I had writing skills, but I was afraid I would get rejected by a publishing company. When I started developing these characters in A Lady in the Midmorning Sun two years ago, I realized that I had the opportunity to put it in writing, with pen to paper. This book was about a diverse group of family members who lived near the Grand Canyon National Park/Flagstaff, Arizona, area. The characters had strong family values, love, togetherness, and strengths with a purpose.

The Jhenna is not a person but a journey. My journey. From giving up on wanting to be alive to being strong enough to share this with you. Jhenna told me to be open and honest," and I was with everyone in the unit, strangers in the stores I frequented, others in waiting rooms at the VA that I never met, and my care providers. The funny thing is, she only meant my care providers. It was six or eight months later that I figured that out. Take the journey from mental health issues to being happy and finding peace. I used to think I was the only one with mental issues.

Are you the kind of person who notices the small and not-so-small events that occur around you as you make your way through life? Or do you put your blinders on and try to go through your day checking off the to-do list? What if, instead of just moving through your day, you found a moment to stop, notice, and ask yourself, "What can I learn from this?" So I've Been Thinking is a series of stories about everyday life experiences.

Wrought by a childhood replete with trying circumstances and telling experiences (conveyed in Frances Smith's earlier book), and in tandem with resultant beliefs and attitudes she held toward herself and the world she was about to enter, the commencement of legal adulthood also removed any buttressing protection minority provided. Too many confused and self-critical assessments would ill-serve this demoiselle. In time, those same assessments would transform into extremely harmful and life-threatening situations.

We all want to be loved, to be included, and to be safe. Often, life puts us in positions of deep pain, betrayal, and open vulnerability directly at the mercy of the cold, stiff, and unrelenting people with power. It is in these times that we have a choice—to lean into God or to grasp for worldly coping mechanisms to help us get through. Raped but Not Forgotten shows us how God meets us in the secret places and ministers to us in our deep need. Through the eloquent exploration of her own personal story and the biblical stories of sexual abuse, Jessie calls us to a closer trusting in God.

We serve a God who takes our brokenness and redeems and restores us if we allow Him. Healing through our past scars is vitally important to our health spiritually and physically. To be able to understand where these hurts are rooted is essential for our freedom.

The unique Soul to Soul Connection and Communication experience presents a positive, mindful, and compelling personal and intercultural communication global paradigm moving forward in the twenty-first century. Communication expert Ruth Lindeck Forman takes the listener through enlightening and light-hearted conversations. Her anecdotes enhance, inspire, and uplift to promote well-being, civility, and inclusion. This listener-friendly journey is supported by science, woven with connections to nature, and covers socio-political issues such as racism and diversity.

While writing Something Good, I was able to reflect on the days when I spent a lot of time praying to have God remove me from my trials. Now I am grateful for those challenges that have helped me better come to know God. I would love to share my experiences with you. Something Good is a collection of stories that address some of the hardships that I have faced and how I began to heal after I allowed myself to feel once again. I wrote this book as an alternative to using substances to fix what felt broken inside of me.

Living on his own at sixteen, homeless and loveless, Michael navigated his way through life to become a multi-millionaire in just over a decade later. Over the years, he has continued with this positive momentum to obtain great wealth. This book exemplifies an impossible journey against insurmountable odds that perfectly melds the perspective of one's journey, choices, and hardships, into blossoming potential and rewards. From the Streets to Million Dollar Peaks is a remarkable story that feeds truth on how to attract and control your destiny.

In a world fraught with uncertainty, readiness for emergencies becomes a vital skill. The Ultimate Survival Guide for Beginners serves as an essential handbook, offering practical advice for preparing against natural disasters and man-made crises alike.

Jessica Dudley is a child of the Vietnam War. Her parents came from two different worlds and were not able to make things work between them. With her father returning to the United States after his tour of service and her mother staying behind to have her baby, Jessica is born into a home without love.

Postpandemic America. A youth mental health crisis the likes of which we have never known. The dark night of suicide. School failure. Unable to move out and get a job. Young people isolated from their families and dependent on social media and video games for peer socialization. Parents unable to find support for their teens to twentysomethings as they face their own life challenges of aging parents, faltering health, unemployment, financial strain, and social disconnection.

Perversion of Love aims to explore the reasons why we as Christians may struggle to love ourselves and others through the lens of what Dr. Gary Chapman defined, and what has been accepted by popular culture, as the five love languages. Christians have been given a Great Commission which is to spread the Gospel and make disciples. The method by which we fulfill this commission is the greatest commandments-to love God and love our neighbors as ourselves.

With a carefree childhood, Maggie's adolescent to teenage years would have but one flaw: her mother. Her remedy to this problem would be found in one perfect man that she met her first year away at college. However, her "home remedy," coupled with her lack of understanding about her mother and her "perfect man," would lead her through the worst life she could have ever imagined for herself and her children.

This is about the problems and the coping mechanisms with a positive approach to disability. That approach is very important to the lives of those who are handicapped.