Living Well with Chronic Illness
The God Of All Comfort: Devotions Of Hope For Those Who Chronically Suffer
by Judy Gann
God’s Word is the focal point of each devotional. Both the Bible verses and the anecdotes relate to issues those with serious illness deal with daily. These issues include pain, weakness, identity, loss of independence, loneliness, and facing death. Each devotional illustrates how God uses scripture to encourage us in the midst of pain.
The Chronic Illness Workbook: Strategies and Solutions for Taking Back Your Life
by Patricia Fennell, MSW, LCSW-R
The Chronic Illness Workbook brings clarity and order to what feels like an unmanageable and isolating experience. It shows both those who are ill and those who care for them how to live a full and meaningful life despite undeniable difficulties. Using her extensive experience with chronic illness patients, Patricia Fennell has created an original, comprehensive, research-validated approach that considers not only the physical aspects of chronic illness, but the psychological, social, and economic aspects as well.
Being Sick Well: Joyful Living Despite Chronic Illness
by Jeffrey H. Boyd
Nearly half the U.S. population suffers from a chronic illness. Still, many have failed to recognize this epidemic, focusing too much on the problem rather than the solution. Here author Jeffrey H. Boyd sets out to change all that. Writing with a lively, engaging style, Boyd offers encouragement for those who suffer with a chronic illness and those who care for them. He draws on personal experiences of illness within his own family as well as the experiences of hundreds of other Christians he has interviewed, showing sufferers and their loved ones how to live fully in spite of their condition. Boyd tackles a variety of areas-defining the nature of illness, suffering with dignity, finding God in illness, and helping individuals and families facing chronic illness. Bottom line: Whether it be back pain or something more serious, chronic illness doesn’t have to rule people’s lives.
Healing from Emotional Abuse
The Emotionally Destructive Relationship
Seeing It, Stopping It, Surviving It
by Leslie Vernick
Vernick offers an empathetic approach to recognizing an emotionally destructive relationship, stopping the cycle of abuse, and using biblical tools to heal from the damage. She identifies behavior that is meant to control, punish, and hurt, and shows others how to confront this behavior and speak God’s truth when the time is right.
The Emotionally Abused Woman : Overcoming Destructive Patterns and Reclaiming Yourself
by Beverly Engel
If you feel unfairly criticized, controlled by others, or are afraid of being lonely, you could be suffering from emotional abuse. Now there is help in this compassionate sourcebook. Bevery Engel, a marriage, family, and child therapist, guides you through a step-by-step recovery process to help you heal the damage done in the past.
Angry Men and the Women Who Love Them: Breaking the Cycle of Physical and Emotional Abuse
by Paul Hegstrom
From the earliest years of his marriage, Paul Hegstrom handled his problems and frustrations the only way he knew how: with fists and fury… With professional help and an intense struggle with spiritual issues, he began the lengthy process of healing and recovery. Through a fascinating, yet thorough examination of the psychological components of various types of abuse, along with true examples from his own life and others, Hegstrom points the way back to wholeness and freedom.
Art, Creativity, and Faith
Breath for the Bones
Art, Imagination and Spirit: A Reflection of Creativity and Faith
by Luci Shaw
In the tradition of Madeleine L’Engle’s Walking on Water and Dorothy Sayer’s The Mind of the Maker, here is a rich and thought-provoking exploration of art, creativity, and faith. In this rich collection, Luci Shaw explores the intersection of the life of faith with the life of art.
The Creative Call: An Artist’s Response to the Way of the Spirit
by Janice Elsheimer
Perhaps you’re a “closet writer” who’s been scribbling in journals for years. Maybe you once had a passion for playing the piano or violin–a passion that is still flickering somewhere deep inside you. You may have a knack for photography, drawing, gardening, cooking, or some other creative gift. Or you may long to express yourself creatively, but have yet to discover your unique talents. Your creativity was meant be used. Whether you are an artist who has already identified your gifts or you believe that you have artistic talent that has never been developed, working through this book will help you grow closer to becoming the person God has designed you to be.