By Carol Orsborn In her breakthrough generational memoir, Boomer expert Carol Orsborn relates the ups and downs of a tumultuous year spent facing, busting, and ultimately triumphing over the stereotypes of growing old. Along the way, she nurtures a love-starved friend through a doomed affair with a younger man, wrestles with the meaning of an exploding fish, and regains her passion for life at the side of her squirrel-crazed dog,...
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By Virginia Morris “The bible of eldercare”–ABC World News. “An indispensable book”–AARP. “A compassionate guide of encyclopedic proportion”–The Washington Post. And, winner of a Books for a Better Life Award. How to Care for Aging Parents is the best and bestselling book of its kind, and its author, Virginia Morris, is the go-to person on eldercare for the media, appearing on Oprah, TODAY, and Good...
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By Frits de Lange Encourages loving care of self and others during the last season of life Is loving later life possible? In our youth-obsessed culture, nobody enjoys growing old. We normally fear our own aging and generally do not love old people — they remind us that death is inescapable, the body frail, and social status transitory. In Loving Later Life Frits de Lange shows how an ethics of love can acknowledge and overcome this...
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By Missy Buchanan Nationally recognized older adult advocate Missy Buchanan offers a compassionate look at the concerns of two generations—adult children and their parents—as they struggle with the fears and frustrations of aging. Buchanan invites readers of both generations to stand in each other’s shoes through a series of 20 scenarios, presented as paired conversations with God. First she introduces the adult child’s perspective on...
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By Missy Buchanan Aging often brings concerns about health, worries about finances, and frustrations about change. The so-called golden years can seem filled with loneliness and pain. How is a person of faith to cope with the challenges and find purpose for the rest of his or her life? Missy Buchanan encourages older adults to maintain open dialogue with God. Through a series of personal poems and reflections, each coupled with a...
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By Donald Capps The later-adult years are commonly viewed as a period in which one struggles to maintain a vestige of the physical, mental, and emotional vitality of one’s earlier years. In Still Growing, however, Donald Capps contends that older adulthood is actually a period of growth and development, and that a central feature of this growth and development is the remarkable creativity of older adults. This creativity is...
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By Janet Maccaro, Ph.D., CNC Midlife can be a springboard to a new and exciting era in your life. It is a time to answer the wake-up call of this timely book and start experiencing improved health, spiritual fulfillment, and long-lasting realtionships that will enrich and lengthen your days. Midlife Meltdown explains what a body needs through pertinent topics, including: · Proper nutrition for aging bodies – a necessity, not a...
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By Leigh-Ann Brisbin Faith in Jesus Christ is the one true source of long-term recovery from the pervasive effects of eating disorders that bring confusion and great harm to girls as young as seven, women as old as seventy, and millions in the years between. Even one percent of the male population is dealing with this problem. Leigh-Ann Brisbin struggled with eating disorders for nineteen years, and through this book she shares openly...
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By Nigel W. D. Mumford This book will provide very personal insight into the sufferings of the mind, body, and soul in the days, months, and years following the trauma of combat. These combat zones may include wars fought in the home – childhood terror memories; wars abroad – the horrors of military battle; and wars of survival – trauma from life-threatening illness. All trauma can lead to suffering from what is diagnosed as...
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By Richard Rohr Find helpful ways to incorporate Twelve Step spirituality into your life – whatever your addiction or affliction. Only people who have suffered in some way can save one another. Deep communion and deep compassion is formed much more by shared pain than by shared pleasure. This, says Richard Rohr, is one of the great discoveries of the Twelve Step Program, America’s most significant and authentic contribution to...
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By Gerald G. May, M.D. In this inspiring book, Gerald May describes the processes of attachment that lead to addiction and examines the relationship between addiction and spiritual awareness. May details the various addictions from which we suffer – not only to alcohol and drugs, but also to work, sex, performance, responsibility, and intimacy. Drawing on his experience as a psychiatrist working with the chemically dependent,...
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By Mike D. The Healing Rosary: Meditations for Those in Recovery from Alcoholism and Addictions invites the reader to open their mind and heart to God’s mercy. Using the simple, repetitive prayer of the Rosary can help people to get out of the way and let God get in. Mike D. correctly links the experience of Bill W. with the ancient devotion to the Mother of God. He writes with the authoritative experience of a recovering addict...
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By Don Williams It is possible to find freedom from fear and release from addictive thoughts and behaviors. When you allow Jesus to fill the emptiness in your life, you can leave addiction in the dust! Too many churches perpetuate compulsive sin by overemphasizing the control that we have in our lives – but the Bible tells us that churches must lead a person with an addictive behavior to dependence on Jesus. When we learn to...
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By Angelyn Miller, M.A. Are those closest to you unable to stand on their own two feet? Co-dependency – of which enabling is a major element – can and does exist in families where there is no chemical dependency. Angelyn Miller’s own experience is a dramatic example: neither she nor her husband drank, yet her family was floundering in that same dynamic. In spite of her best efforts to fix everything (and everyone),...
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By Neil T. Anderson and Mike & Julia Quarles Here is a unique, Christ-centered model for recovery that has already helped hundreds of thousands break free from alcoholism, drug addiction and other addictive behaviors. In Freedom from Addiction, you’ll discover how you can apply the powerful Steps to Freedom in Christ directly to the problem of addiction. Freedom from Addiction is a life-changing message for individuals, and...
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By Jack & Trisha Frost Jack and Trisha experienced many things through the 35 years of their relationship; some joyful and exciting others disappointing and wounding. They lived, loved, and fought their way into finally finding their destiny. From their life journey to find the love they had so desperately been seeking came a revelation of unconditional agape love that brought healing to their family, and also to the lives of many...
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By Shelley Hundley The daughter of American missionaries, Shelley Hundley was born in Colombia and grew up on the campus of a seminary that trained leaders to serve in what was one of the most violent nations in the world. After suffering abuse at the hands of a minister in the community, she turns from God – angry and confused that He could allow this to happen. In A Cry for Justice, Hundley uses her story as a backdrop to show how...
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By Don Colbert, M.D. Destructive emotions have toxic effects on the body and result in a wide range of serious illnesses – hypertension, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, irritable bowel syndrome, and even some types of cancer. The truth is you may be shaving years off your life expectancy and robbing yourself of the physical health you’ve worked hard for. In Deadly Emotions, Dr. Don Colbert exposes those potentially devastating...
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By John Bradshaw John Bradshaw is one of the 100 most influential writers on emotional health in the twentieth century, as selected by his fellow mental health professionals. Healing the Shame that Binds You is John Bradshaw’s most enduring work. In it, he shows how unhealthy toxic shame, often learned young and maintained into adulthood, is the core component in our compulsions, co-dependencies, addictions, and drive to...
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By David Seamands Whether through our own fallen temperament, willful disobedience, or as victims of the hurtful actions of others, many of us struggle with crippling emotions, among them perfectionism, depression, and low self-worth. The pain of such emotions is often present with us even though the incidents and relationships that caused the hurt may be long past. Healing for Damaged Emotions, first published in 1981 and since...
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By Richard McAlear Illness comes in many forms and too often we’re told to ignore it, hide it, or simply run away from it. With decades of service in the healing ministry as both a teacher and one called upon to pray for healing, Father Richard McAlear has a different approach that recognizes – even embraces – the complex nature of illness. A cluster of emotions anger, anxiety, fear, hate, negative self-image, resentment, and...
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By Lorene Hanley Duquin “Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.” (C.S. Lewis) Lorene Duquin, an experienced grief counselor was no stranger to understanding and explaining grief, and had helped many people work through it. But when she lost her mother she found herself living in an entirely new space. Grieving the Loss of a Loved One contains 52 powerful, one-page...
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By Derek Prince Satan, the fallen archangel, desires nothing more than to win the loyalty, hearts, and minds of the entire human race – and he won’t quit in his attempt to win you over! Prince exposes Satan’s greatest weapon in enslaving the average human into bondage. Satan attempts to seduce Christians from rising to their full potential and to distract every human being from following God. Lucifer...
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By Sylvia Gunter A 360-page intercessory prayer manual with sections on praise, repentance, warfare, personal devotional life, and intercession. Practical resources to use in leading groups as well as challenge and encouragement in developing a well-rounded prayer life with your Father in heaven who delights to answer the prayer of his children. (Product description) Available at Christian Healing...
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By Dr. Henry Malone This book is for the tired, the defeated, the frustrated, and the ashamed. For the hurt and broken, those walking in powerlessness and fear. For all who have found truth but are failing miserably at living it. For those walking in bondage and limitations imposed by forces over which they seem to have no control. For those secretly wondering why their lives don’t portray the overcoming reality God has...
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