Short motivational phrases and words hidden in 30 eye-catching illustrations to color add a level of interest to traditional activity book pages. As the cheerful floral designs are filled in with color, the hidden passages are revealed. Heavyweight artist paper with perforated pages stands up to any coloring medium, even gel markers, and can be matted or framed. Artist Shona Murphy’s designs provide consistent line weights and styles and include both large and small spaces to fill in.
During a vacation in the Caribbean, fifteen-year old Kate Huntley’s father, a prominent U.S. scientist, is murdered before her eyes. For the next ten years Kate grows up alone in Haiti, one of the most dangerous and poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Not a day goes by that she doesn’t think of her father. Kate pushes herself to become stronger, mentally and physically. Every day is a struggle for survival. And yet she lives for only one reason…revenge. While looking for a drug lord via satellite in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, Jack Coffey, rookie FBI agent, spots Kate Huntley. Jack is sent by the agency to find Ms. Huntley and bring her back to the States. They have many unanswered questions about her father’s death. A professional and responsible man, Jack is confused by Kate’s lack of cooperation. He wants to help her return to the States where he believes she’ll be safe, but she treats him like the enemy and refuses to go. Everything about her is a contradiction. She looks fragile and innocent, but every time he turns around she’s putting another thug in his place. In the beginning Jack wonders if Kate’s distrust of his superiors is warranted or just simple paranoia. In the end, Jack realizes nothing is as it seems.
Every woman has a Goddess within, and this journal will help you find her. Interactive exercises will lead you to connect with your inner Goddess and draw on her qualities to help you pursue your highest ideals. Journal pages are for logging your journey.
Praise For: Empowerment Through Mastering Anxiety & Finding Your Assertive Voice Read it, breathe it, imagine it, do it. This book will guide you on a new trajectory, one where you are the agent of change in spite of the past and no matter the fear. In a clear concise format, Dr. Welburn has created a masterful approach, based on extensive and integrated experience with the anxious and suffering mind. I have witnessed firsthand the value of this work as patients gain knowledge and power to embrace and grow from that which frightens. I highly recommend this book to both colleagues and patients alike. Dr. Joie Zegliniski, MD, FRCP Clinical Psychiatrist Reading this book has been life-changing for me. It’s a reference book on my shelf because I use it all the time in my own life and in my work as a pastoral care minister. Dr. Welburn uses straightforward, accessible language to describe the nature of anxiety and offers practical techniques for gaining a sense of empowerment in our lives. When he makes the connection between anxiety and the way we deal with people, a light bulb goes on. His description of passive and aggressive voices helps us to understand why some conversations can be so disheartening and problematic. I found it helpful to get practical tools on how to be assertive and respectful in everyday situations so that I am truthful to myself and others. I can attest to the sense of wholeness and confidence that comes when you tune into your own needs and wants and find a respectful way to express them to others. I won’t lend out my own copy so I have another just in case I want to share it with others. Rev. Dr. Christine Johnson This book is like The Human Beings Owners Manual. It is a good reminder for me to live from the inside out, with intention. The writing is clear, precise and has a natural flow to it; prose that reduces writing to its essential elements. Hemingway would have approved. Dr. Welburn’s book is science based, well laid out, informative and practical. It answers the questions ‘why’ and ‘how’ of trauma and recovery, a rare literary feat. John MacPhee, Teacher, ECL and Special Education Teacher
How do you tell a man there is something wrong with his child?
He wasn’t looking to love again. But what he got was a woman who shook his lonely bitter world upside down, and touched him in a way no other woman could.
Emily Nelson, a courageous young mother, ends a loveless, bitter marriage and strikes out on her own. She answers an ad for a cook and live-in caregiver to a three-year-old boy on a local ranch. Ranch owner Brad Friessen hires and moves in Emily and her daughter. But Emily soon discovers something’s seriously wrong with the boy, and the reclusive, difficult man who hired her can’t see the behavior and how delayed his son is. So Emily researches until she stumbles across what she suspects are the soft signs of autism. Now she must tell him, give him hope, and help him come to terms with this neurological disorder – to take the necessary steps to get his child the help he needs.
As their lives become intertwined, their attraction is unavoidable – a connection sparks between them. But just as they’re getting close, Brad’s estranged wife, Crystal, returns after abandoning the family two years earlier. Among the shock and confusion is one disturbing question Brad can’t shake: How does Crystal know so much of his personal business, the inner working of the ranch, and Emily’s relationship with his son?
Crystal must’ve had a plan, as she somehow gains the upper hand, driving a wedge in the emotional bond forged between Brad, Emily, and the children. The primary focus for care and therapy of three-year-old Trevor is diverted. The lengths to which Crystal will go, the lies, the greed, just to keep what’s hers, are nothing short of cold and calculating. Emily’s forced out of the house. Brad fights to save his boy, to protect what’s his, and struggles over his greatest sacrifice – Emily – and the haunting question: Has he lost her forever?
In Loving What Is, bestselling author Byron Katie introduced thousands of people to her simple and profound method of finding happiness through questioning the mind. Now, I Need Your Love—Is That True? examines a universal, age-old source of anxiety: our relationships with others. In this groundbreaking book, Katie helps you question everything you have been taught to do to gain love and approval. In doing this, you discover how to find genuine love and connection.
The usual advice offered in self-help books and reinforced by our culture advocates a stressful, all-consuming quest for love and approval. We are advised to learn self-marketing and manipulative skills—how to attract, impress, seduce, and often pretend to be something we aren’t. This approach doesn’t work. It leaves millions of walking wounded—those who, having failed to find love or appreciation, blame themselves and conclude that they are unworthy of love.
I Need Your Love—Is That True? helps you illuminate every area in your life where you seem to lack what you long for most—the love of your spouse, the respect of your child, a lover’s tenderness, or the esteem of your boss. Through its penetrating inquiry, you will quickly discover the falseness of the accepted ways of seeking love and approval, and also of the mythology that equates love with need. Using the method in this book, you will inquire into painful beliefs that you’ve based your whole life on—and be delighted to see them evaporate. Katie shows you how unraveling the knots in the search for love, approval, and appreciation brings real love and puts you in charge of your own happiness.
“Everyone agrees that love is wonderful, except when it’s terrible. People spend their whole lives tantalized by love—seeking it, trying to hold on to it, or trying to get over it. Not far behind love, as major preoccupations, come approval and appreciation. From childhood on, most people spend much of their energy in a relentless pursuit of these things, trying out different methods to be noticed, to please, to impress, and to win other people’s love, thinking that’s just the way life is. This effort can become so constant and unquestioned that we barely notice it anymore.
This book takes a close look at what works and what doesn’t in the quest for love and approval. It will help you find a way to be happier in love and more effective in all your relationships. What you learn here will bring fulfillment to all kinds of relationships, including romantic love, dating, marriage, work, and friendship.” —Byron Katie
From the Hardcover edition.
Melanie Rigney uses stories of the saints, our sisters in faith, to help readers grow in their spiritual lives. Some of these saints are familiar—Teresa of Avila, Catherine of Siena, Bernadette of Lourdes, Elizabeth Ann Seton—while others are not so well known—Maria Karlowska, Claudine Thevenet, Josephine Bakhita, Elizabeth of Portugal. They come from different places and different times, creating an intimate portrait of the universal Church. Yet the lives of each of these women illustrate the qualities of the Beatitudes—what the Catechism of the Catholic Church calls “the heart of Jesus’s preaching” (1716)—in a down-to-earth and human way. Through the lives of these exemplary women saints and the qualities they espouse—meekness, mourning, poverty of spirit, justice, mercy, purity of heart, peace, righteousness—women will find ways to live more fully the Gospel values of Christian life.
If we want emotional peace and well-being we have to work at it. We have to set boundaries and standards. We have to learn to put our emotional health first. And that begins with understanding whats pushing our buttons and how to control those triggers so that we don’t allow people or circumstances to control and destroy our peace. Negative self-talk factors greatly into your emotional health. For many of us what we say to ourselves when we are stressed either tends to be negative or working against us. Its important that we learn to think positively so that we negate the negative self talk and stop building barriers to our own success.
For Heather Jones, inspiration can be anywhere. For her debut book, Quilt Local, she designed a collection of 20 quilts, each inspired by objects and places close to home—country roads, cityscapes, street signs—the landscape of her existence. Then, in a fascinating exercise in color theory and design play, she reworked each one in a second palette to show what a striking difference just a few basic changes can make.
Pattern by pattern, Jones takes readers behind the scenes of her process, sharing photographs of her sources of inspiration, sketchbook pages, and the finished quilts. In addition, she offers an accessible lesson in color theory as it applies to quiltmaking.
