What does it mean to live in an urban poor slum or inner city for twenty years? What does it take to raise a family there, and to find God's love and peace in the most challenging neighborhoods?In Thriving in the City: A Guide for Sustaining Incarnational Ministry among the Urban Poor, T. Aaron Smith helps new leaders to answer that question for themselves. Smith integrates the voices of 100 incarnational leaders who have made the choice to live, to work, and to raise fami...

Have you been traumatized by infidelity?The phrase "broken heart" belies the real trauma behind the all-too-common occurrence of infidelity. Psychologist Dennis Ortman likens the psychological aftermath of sexual betrayal to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in its origin and symptoms, including anxiety, irritability, rage, emotional numbing, and flashbacks. Using PTSD treatment as a model, Dr. Ortman will show you, step by step, how to:• work through c...

One of the seven factors of enlightenment, mindfulness is becoming of interest to many people nowadays. The trend has taken effect and people are seeking various ways to gain inner peace and to be more at one with their environment."Mindfulness: Understanding Mindfulness Meditation For Beginners" provides everything that someone interested in learning about the process of mindfulness will ever need to get started. The information presented is clear and easily understood by any indi...

Learn how to thrive in**—or escape from****—a toxic work environment**.Toxic organizations are rife with conflict, fear, and anger. The environment causes people to have physiological responses as if they’re in a fight-or-flight situation. Healthy people become ill. Colds, flu and stress-related illnesses such as heart attacks are more common. By contrast, in resonant organizations, people take fewer sick days and turnover is low. People smile, make jokes, talk...

Life in the 21st century is tough - new technology, constant change, more choice and extra pressure all add to our stress levels. And when you're stressed or tired your insecurities increase - so breaking that cycle feels impossible. But help is at hand: this book will show you how to beat stress and become more positive, relaxed and productive.Dr Jessamy Hibberd and Jo Usmar draw on the latest cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) research to show you how to develop coping strategie...

Adding honor as a factor in raising kids …and parent-child relationships.Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller offer a thorough program for establishing honor as a basis of family life — not just children honoring parents, but parents respecting children and children honoring each other. Even if honor seems a long way off in your household, you will find practical suggestions here to bring that goal a little closer — suggestions for kids of all ages. Honor is the bi...

Are you one of the 12 million people in the UK regularly affected by stress? In this reassuring and easy-to-follow book, find out 50 things you can do today to help you manage stress, such as identifying your stress triggers and learning how to manage them, choosing beneficial foods and supplements, and reducing stress through aromatherapy and therapeutic massage. This title is presented with a foreword by Jenny Edwards, Vice Chair of the International Stress Management Association UK and ...

Duane Elmer asked people around the world how they felt about Western missionaries. The response? "Missionaries could be more effective if they did not think they were better than us."The last thing we want to do in cross-cultural ministry is to offend people in other cultures. Unfortunately, all too often and even though we don't mean it, our actions communicate superiority, paternalism, imperialism and arrogance. Our best intentions become unintentional insults. How can we minister in wa...

The third book in Naomi Reed's award-winning trilogy, following on from My Seventh Monsoon and No Ordinary View.'In Nepal, whenever the water ran out, or the electricity cuts were worse than normal, or the monsoon seemed interminably long, or the motorbike stopped, or the Maoists forced another strike, or my home-school patience ran out, I would think about Australia. I would think about our real home with hot water and electricity and cheese and lettuce and choco...

The very immediate benefits of stopping overeating is the decrease of weight that stops many of health issues that obesity causes such as heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. The secondary benefit is the reduction of the person's stomach size which is constantly stretching and often breaks through the abdominal wall causing the larger than normal stomach. The last benefit is the increase of metabolism and the increases of proper nutrients and vitamins which increases a persons health and w...

'I love this book!' - Mandy Lehto, Psychologies MagazineWhat if it were possible to help ourselves thrive, rather than simply survive?***The Self-Care Revolution***is designed to help and restore your day-to-day energy reserves so that, rather than running on empty, you will have the strength and spirit to excel with whatever life brings.Discover the Vitality Wheel - a complete body and mind

Stress kills more than all chronic diseases put together. How to kill stress before stress kills you?Stress has been named mankind's worst enemy. The disabling power that stress has on us needs no explanation.Here is evidence."Blood tests showed that a chemical called Interleukin-6 sharply increased in the blood of the stressed caregivers compared with blood of the others in the test. Previous studies have associated IL-6 with several diseases, including heart disease, arthritis, osteoporo...