Partners of people in transition go through their own transitions and may or may not be conflicted as to whether they will remain in their relationship. This unique self-help workbook was created for and focuses on the partner's perspective and own journey. By providing the support and structure needed for partners to reflect, this resource helps navigate the unexpected transition that affects both of their lives.Providing an essential tool that is currently missing, this book give...

When a child goes through transition, the dynamics of the family unit can start to shift. It is not uncommon for one family member to feel one way about the transition, while another may feel quite differently.This innovative workbook discusses the unique needs of parents and families as they navigate their child's gender exploration. Providing a safe space for them to work through their own uncertainties and necessities, it gives specifically tailored guidance and support, with se...

God is returning for a church without spot or wrinkle. The world, its activities, and its ideologies have crept into the church and remained. Matthew 6:24 declares, "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon." The Biblical truth taught by our church patriarchs and matriarchs has been viewed as antiquated. However, the truth of God concerning holiness and righteous livi...

Families left grieving; small businesses shuttered; communities in lockdown; precarious workers set adrift; health care workers stressed beyond endurance. The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world to its core. But the cracks already ran deep.Featuring essays on poverty, health care, incarceration, basic income, policing, Indigenous communities, and more, this anthology delivers a stinging rebuke of the pre-pandemic status quo and a stark exposé of the buried weaknesses in our soci...

A specialist book for mental health professionals, sex therapists and educators to develop and improve their clinical work with trans clients with regards to their sexual relationships and sexuality. It provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the subject, and relates to both clinical practice and theory.Topics explored include the shifting of sexual orientation during or following gender transition; gender dysphoria and co-occurring autism spectrum disorder; negotiating issues...

Though colleges and universities are arguably paying more attention to diversity and inclusion than ever before, to what extent do their efforts result in more socially just campuses? Intersectionality and Higher Education examines how race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality, and other identities connect to produce intersected campus experiences. Contributors look at both the individual and institutional perspectives on issues li...

The Science of Discipline is a proven and transformative roadmap to tackling some of the biggest behavioral problems faced in school systems today. Nathan Maynard, a global leader in discipline and restorative practices, offers insightful theories and practical strategies to take a more proactive approach to improve student behavior in the classroom with immediate and long-lasting effects. Many behavior modification models are outdated and fear-based, creating more challenges than...

Luna Cross can hear the end of the world coming. It's broadcasting on a frequency only she can feel.Behind the alias Midnight Architecture, Luna is the most sought-after mix engineer in Los Angeles — and nobody knows her name. That's how she likes it. Her synesthesia has been called a disorder her whole life. She calls it armor. Then a signal starts bleeding through the city's airwaves, driving ordinary people to violence, and Luna is the only person in LA who can ...

"The prison is failing. The seal will not hold."The warning hits all four cities in the same hour. A cherub wrecking havoc in Chicago. A sphinx speaking in riddles on a New Orleans dock. A song under Los Angeles that predates music. In Boston, a scar that never healed tears itself open again.Under Mount Shasta, something older than history is coming apart: a prison holding two hundred angels — and a grief four thousand years deep that has learned how to sin...

Fifteen years. Zero witnesses. One secret. Then the blood magic started.Detective Jake Morrison closes impossible murders because he can feel when the killer isn't human. His colleagues call it instinct. Jake calls it survival. But the bodies turning up in the French Quarter — drained to dust, arranged around symbols older than the city — are something even he has no name for.Seraphina Ciel does. Former Angel of Judgment. Current keeper of New Orleans' thre...

Somebody is raising Boston's dead. Emma Walsh just took the pulse of the one man in the city who can stop it — and her whole world went quiet.Emma has spent twelve years as a paramedic running toward death — and feeling it coming before her monitors do. She's hidden the death-sense her entire career. It's cost her everything soft in her life, and she's made her peace with that.Then a stranger steps in front of a speeding car to save a child, shatters half h...

The world's oldest prison is held shut by a newborn's heartbeat. Heaven has given them 24 hours to find a better answer.The battle for Mount Shasta is over. The Fallen Response Unit won — and is still learning what the winning cost.The seal is holding. Barely. The two hundred inside are awake now, and grieving, and some of them are done waiting.Mathias has spent eight hundred years as the only one of his kind — half angel, half human, all doorman to other people's l...