Living Through and Beyond Childhood Sexual Abuse

Though this book is intended to speak primarily to adults who have suffered childhood sexual abuse, anyone who seeks to find meaning in suffering, or who grapples with the concepts of evil and holiness, will appreciate the truth and wisdom contained ...

One Father's Journey Through the Death of a Child

Floyd reveals his heart-breaking journey through the sorrow of losing his youngest son. He deals not only with his own broken heart, but also with the struggle to reconstruct his role as husband, father, and protector. A Grief Unveiled offers encoura...

Despite chronic illness, you can live an emotionally well and fulfilling life. This is the message Louise Giroux passes on in A Mind and Heart for Wellness, a collection of daily meditations to help you use cognitive processes of thinking, visualizin...

A Guide to Writing Your Healing and Growth

This self-directed, journal-based guide recognizes that grief is a process. Through well-written, practical information, it provides tools for nurturing the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of the self. Intended for individual use, it is al...

This constructive guide offers much-needed information and clinically-tested advice for those struggling to cope in the aftermath of a suicide. Written in clear language, this book presents the facts and demonstrates how to deal with feelings of guil...

Older People Finding Themselves

Following retirement, older people today are starting new businesses, returning to universities, becoming world travelers, entering the arts, taking full-time volunteer jobs, and setting new patterns of divorce and remarriage. In this "why to" book, ...

Discovering Your Spiritual Ally

Is it okay to get angry? Andrew Lester thinks it is, and in this accessibly written book he shows the reader how to understand anger so that it will be helpful, not hurtful, to Christian life. Lester, a popular professor and author, challenges miscon...

Wisdom for Cooling the Flames

The author of Living Buddha, Living Christ provides real help in transforming the negative force of anger into a positive and useful energy, bringing harmony and healing to all aspects of life. Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Thich Nhat Hanh has...

Death and Dying Reconsidered

Lucy Bregman guides the reader through the wealth of recent literature on death and dying, giving special attention to the autobiographical narratives of terminally ill people and to books offering counsel to the dying, their caregivers, and the bere...

Spiritual Help When Someone You Love Is Mentally Ill

This compassionate book is the third that well-known author Cecil Murphey has written to provide spiritual guidance to those who face some of the special problems prevalent in today's society. Here the problem is mental illness--previously he has wri...

A Daughter's Long Goodbye

In Caring for Mother, Virginia Stem Owens gives a clear and realistic account of caring for an elderly loved one. Along the way, Owens notes the spiritual challenges she encountered, not the least of which included fear of her own suffering and death...

A Christian Guide

Written in a popular style, here is a book that challenges misconceptions about anger that have followed Christians down through the centuries. From the findings of psychologists and sociologists, as well as the teachings of Christianity, Andrew Lest...

Few moments are as devastating as when one hears a diagnosis of cancer, and one out of three Americans will hear this diagnosis in their lifetimes. In this book, Jann Aldredge-Clanton brings a perspective from a theology of hope for people struggling...

Confronting the Reality

A compelling handbook for pastors, counselors, and adult discussion groups, this book deals honestly and openly with the cultural and human issues surrounding death. This comprehensive resource covers definitions of life and death, life expectancy an...

A Guide to Human Development

In groundbreaking fashion Donald Capps builds on Erik Erikson's work on the eight stages of life by focusing on the decades of life. This important modification allows developmental theory to be applied to the way people discuss life stages--in ten-y...