Haunted by fears and supernatural signs, young Lucas Mofit must face his demons or risk losing his mind. Having found a way to escape the pressures of the day, sixteen-year-old Lucas looks forward to a night of self-indulgence. What he gets is more than he wants. In the woods, a dog is chasing its tail in a ring of smoke. "The Devil?" It's the first sign. Day after day and night after night, they continue—visions and voices, omens and nightmares. His friends seek to console him, but to no ...

From Pain to PurposeThe Journey of Eric and Kathyann GreeneDiscover an extraordinary story of resilience, healing, and faith as Eric and Kathyann Greene share their journey from personal heartbreak to triumph. Through the trials of divorce, blending families, and rediscovering love, they built a life of purpose and fulfillment together.This inspiring memoir is a testament to the power of faith and persever...

Christianity Today Book Award—Biblical StudiesForeword INDIES Book of the Year Award Honorable MentionSOLA Network's Asian American Book Awards Honorable MentionIn a first-of-its-kind volume, The New Testament in Color offers biblical commentary that is:MultiethnicDiverseContextual

What is Buddhist meditation? What is going on—and what should be going on—behind the closed or lowered eyelids of the Buddha or Buddhist adept seated in meditation? And in what ways and to what ends have the answers to these questions mattered for Buddhists themselves? Focusing on early medieval China, this book takes up these questions through a cultural history of the earliest traditions of Buddhist meditation (chan), before the rise of the Chan (Zen) School in the eighth centur...

Demystifying Jungian play therapy for non-Jungian therapists interested in enhancing their clinical repertoire.Child and family psychotherapist Eric J. Green draws on years of clinical experience to explain his original model of Jungian play therapy. The empathic techniques he illuminates in The Handbook of Jungian Play Therapy with Children and Adolescents can effectively treat children who are traumatized by abuse, natural disasters, and other losses, as...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. You've seen the gurus with their luxury cars and AdSense screenshots, but their advice is hopelessly incomplete. They tell you to "post consistently" and "make engaging content," but they never explain the math. Without understanding the math, you could be doing everything right and still earning just $27 a month, left wondering why the system isn't working for you. This book changes that.This is not a book about getting famous or going vi...

Counseling Families: Play-Based Treatment offers an engaging and practical integration of expressive arts and play therapy within family counseling. Building upon the most current research in family counseling, this volume presents new and humanistic approaches of family play therapy, including family-based cognitive behavioral therapy, family theraplay, and filial therapy. Application of these methods is explored with children and families affected by autism, divorce, and trauma. Essentia...

When a middle-school science rivalry leads a boy to tamper with his mentor’s experimental microwave projector, an accidental discovery launches an adventure far beyond anything he imagined. The device produces a seemingly indestructible force field bubble—and soon, that invention is the only thing standing between a small group of young scientists and the molten heart of an active Costa Rican volcano.Invited to join a volcanologist’s research expedition, the three friends find them...

Interventions and approaches from the expressive arts and play therapy disciplinesIntegrating Expressive Arts and Play Therapy With Children and Adolescents presents techniques and approaches from the expressive and play therapy disciplines that enable child and adolescent clinicians to augment their therapeutic toolkit within a competent, research-based practice.With contributions representing a "who's who" in the play therapy and expressive arts ...

In the early 400s, numerous Indian and Central Asian Buddhist “meditation masters” (chanshi) traveled to China, where they established the first enduring traditions of Buddhist meditation practice in East Asia. The forms of contemplative practice that these missionaries brought with them, and which their Chinese students further developed, remained for several centuries the basic understanding of “meditation” (chan) in China. Although modern scholars and readers have long...

In recent years, a great deal of attention has been focussed on the undertaking of managing innovation. Without the right focus, resourcing and capabilities, firms struggle to create value through innovation. However, the task of managing innovation is one of continuous paradoxes where an overly structured mind-set can impede entrepreneurship, creativity, culture and the right conditions for disruption. The question remains of how we can have the right lens to properly understand and appre...

It is increasingly challenging for teachers to educate without a deeper understanding of the experience of their students. This is particularly the case in marginalised groups of young people who are subject to loss, grief, trauma and shame. Through a snapshot of the diverse student populous, this book explores the impact of these experiences on a student's learning and success. Topics covered include poverty, obesity, incarceration, immigration, death, sexual exploitation, LGBT issues, ps...