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We live in an age of rapid change and instant communication. We also live in a Culture of Blame and Disrespect. Managing your responses to high-conflict emails, texts, letters, and social media meltdowns is imperative. A BIFF response can be applied in any communication anywhere - on the Internet, in a letter or in person. It can be used at work, earning you respect and success. It can help you get along with difficult family members, friends, neighbors...
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Every relationship goes through a few ups and downs. However, if you feel that yours has been in the "down" stage for a little too long then it is time to do something about it. Every partnership has the capability of being absolutely wonderful and amazing – if you know the secrets that all of the top experts know and use (both with their own clients and in their own personal lives too). Take a few minutes and read this e-book to discover these...
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Collaboration between clergy and musicians is vital to the ministry of the Christian church. This book explores the importance of teamwork, identifying ways in which musicians and clergy can exercise their separate roles effectively, and suggesting strategies for building supportive relationships. Including heart-felt testimonies from musicians and clergy, Guenther takes a clear-eyed look at conflict, reasons musicians leave a church, and approaches...
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William Bates begins his autobiography with a compilation of childhood memories best described by following the analogy set in the title. He describes memories as though marked by tombstones commemorating a childhood marred by abuse. He revisits his past through the benefit of self-analysis, endurance, and self-motivation. The early years in the "historical Paradise" of Niagara-on-the-Lake included boyhood escapades which he describes with fondness...
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Together, we can stop the silence.
Stop the Silence® is a division of the Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma (IVAT) which has a mission to prevent, expose and stop child sexual abuse (CSA) and help survivors worldwide. Thanks to the efforts of experts, healers, and survivors and their supporters around the globe, we're preventing CSA and promoting healing of victims and survivors, celebrating the lives of those healed, and underscoring CSA...
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For all you coffee and tea lovers, this book is a heartwarming love story of a family, once divided by anger, brokenness, and shame from a history of unhealthy addictions, who recovers with God's healing. These family and friends meet regularly trying to resolve their troubles over "Coffee Talk," learn later, that although coffee provides them with temporary comfort, God becomes their ultimate comfort, for every walk of their lives.
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This book tells the story of: how one's life, simultaneously guided and sustained by God, could still enter, an in-depth journey, with excruciating hardship & trials to face, throughout an unknown period of time.
Mark 1:12, 13
It is the moral climax of depletion; "yet" a story of unyielding faith, that God will have the final say about their life.
In a developing story of one "who proclaims to love Christ, to one who truly walks with Christ,' you...
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Let's Major in The Minors?
Teddy Jones offers us a trenchant analysis from God's word spoken to the prophet Obadiah and through the New Testament books of Philemon, II John, III John and Jude. The fact that these books contain a mere single chapter has caused them to be easily dismissed, ignored or assumed to be minor. These one-chapter books are among some of the most neglected parts of the Bible.
Pastor, Lecturer, Mentor and Theologian, Teddy A....
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Going through a family breakup with children is a tremendous event in itself. “Sons and Cadillacs” is a heartwarming story about a father who had no idea how to manage through such a change let alone be a successful single parent. Prioritizing being a great dad and relying on a wonderful family, the best of friends, and two beautiful children, he was not only able to progress but endure. Finding joy with the people around him and a feeling of...
50) Dulce y feroz
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Pasa en todas las familias: algunos días son especialmente complicados y la vida en casa se altera. Afortunadamente mamá sabe que la situación es pasajera y que el amor familiar supera fácilmente estos pequeños obstáculos. Haciendo gala de un humor sutil y con una casa-hormiguero como escenario, una hormiga reina debe lidiar con sus hijos para que cumplan tareas cotidianas como bañarse, comer o cepillarse los dientes.
El problema es que hoy...
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When you are in a relationship with a critical partner-someone who constantly blames you and holds you to unrealistic standards-you may feel picked apart, unworthy, and unhappy. You may start to wonder if you'll ever be good enough for your partner. This guide can help you repair your relationship by getting to the root of why your partner criticizes you so that you both can build a more loving and supportive partnership. Based in schema therapy,...
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Valerie Rose is an ordinary, middle-aged, middle-class, working woman whose willingness to share her own oppositional view on faith, religion, the world's filth, and building a relationship with God in the midst of it all is real, raw, inspiring, and encourages others to do the same. She is a daughter, sister, cousin, aunt, wife, mother, stepmother, nana, and friend whose passion is to inspire others to turn their frowns upside down and embrace God's...
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Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control covers in detail the effects of trauma on the body-mind and how trauma alters children's behavioral responses. The first four chapters help parents and professionals clearly understand the neurological research behind the basic model given in this book, deemed, 'The Stress Model.' While scientifically based in research, it is written in an easy to understand and easy to grasp format for anyone working with or...
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Ever wondered what it's like to be adopted? This anthology begins with personal accounts and then shifts to a bird's eye view on adoption from domestic, intercountry and transracial adoptees who are now adoptee rights activists. Along with adopted people, this collection also includes the voices of mothers and a father from the Baby Scoop Era, a modern-day mother who almost lost her child to adoption, and ends with the experience of an adoption investigator...
55) Dare To Love: The Art of Merging Science and Love Into Parenting Children with Difficult Behaviors
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Emerging science has helped us to understand children better from a neurological and behavioral standpoint. Yet, all the academic research coupled with the best diagnoses for children can still leave parents feeling completely powerless. In her book, Dare to Love, Heather Forbes, LCSW, describes in detail, through a series of questions and answers, how to merge science into everyday parenting. This book gives practical, effective, and loving solutions...
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During the last several generations, developments in the field of education and child guidance have begun to corroborate a set of ideas and observations presented here, which were first presented in Europe during the first third of the last century and refined during the last third. Many of these concepts, which were controversial when first suggested, are now being further developed and are becoming generally accepted by modern psychologists and...
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The children's book, written and illustrated by Ilana Graf, an Israeli artist & illustrator, tells the story of a different color lamb, who proves that even a big flock can be changed by a single individual. The beautiful illustrations of Ilana Graf make the reading in the book to a pleasant experience.
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This presents effective techniques for resolving disputes. This excellent source can serve as a basic training manual for you who are involved in mediating disputes. The extensive array of real-life examples of typical scripts that may play out in situations that will help you clarify these ideas. These are powerful tools for anyone caught in the middle of other people's disputes. It shows how effective mediators can pull people together to produce...
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Oliver the rabbit lives with the McGregors...little does he know his life is about to change drastically. When Oliver discovers the advantages of being human, he undergoes a shocking transformation. He learns a lot about himself. As he realizes that being a rabbit also has its benefits, Oliver learns the true importance of family values and the boundaries that love crosses.
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Ellen McCallister, like many of us, found God may not provide a solution to a problem before another one may pop up. But with faith, acceptance and hard work we can live full and happy lives. In Ellen's case, life took her as a married woman with three adult children from an architecturally designed home in Indiana to a three generation beach cottage in the Pacific North West as a single woman. With soul searching and prayer she struggled to learn...
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