Loneliness and isolation are serious problems with real and often devastating consequences-including increased suicide risk. Their ramifications deeply affect everyone in our society. In The Power of Connection, explore why connection matters so much, what the absence of connection means for the world, and how to create more of it in our lives.

Dr. Gregory Jantz believes the payoff for pursuing human connection is well worth the investment, with the rewards being greater health, well-being, resilience, purpose, spirituality, and enjoyment of life. He inspires us to be genuinely better together, and more available to each other.

Accept this invitation to nurture relationships in which ideal qualities can truly shine: compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience, forgiveness, and love. Find strategies for genuine connection to heal wounds, find comfort in each other, and build a healthier future for our society. In this book, you will learn:

• Steps toward more authentic relationships
• Conditions for connection
• Strategies for deeper connections
• Ways to be a great friend

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Packed with practical advice, diagrams, statistics, photos, quizzes, and scannable outlines, this compact guide to caregiving is easy to read and gives you key information at a glance. Get expert knowledge distilled into easy-to-follow steps and apply them immediately to refresh and recharge your caregiving journey.

Enjoy having:

• Trustworthy advice for both seasoned and new caregivers (and everyone in between)
• A Scale of Burden quiz to assess your current level of self-care
• 12 Signs of Stress & specific steps to manage them (PLUS: 3 happiness boosters for caregivers)
• How to Build Your Team: step-by-step instructions to get help (and exactly what to say)
• And much more

Caregiving is draining-emotionally and physically. From changing bandages and diapers, to managing medical appointments and picking up prescriptions, caregiving can feel like an endless journey. But here’s the great news: the caregiving experience doesn’t have to be like that. When caregiving tasks are shared and caregivers understand how to take good care of themselves too, the whole experience can be much brighter for everyone.

Trusted Help for Caregiving from Those Who’ve Been There

In Caregiving: Taking Care of Yourself While Taking Care of Someone Else, award-winning author and speaker, Debbie Barr, writes with compassion and understanding, taking an honest look at the ups and downs of caregiving. She shares the real-life experiences of caregivers and the things they’ve learned along their journeys. This book will help caregivers like you know how to gather a team to help shoulder the caregiving load. You will be able to:

• Identify when you’re nearing burnout
• Discover the help available to you (and what to say)
• Take specific action steps to cope wisely and learn to thrive
• Know when the caregiving needs to change (and why it DOESN’T mean failure)

Key Features of Caregiving: Taking Care of Yourself While Taking Care of Someone Else

Caregiving will provide everything you need-from the basics to step-by-step details-to not only get you started on your journey, but to make the most out of your time and talents. Key features include:

• Reliable-Award-winning author and speaker Debbie Barr unpacks real-life experiences and seasoned advice into trustworthy nuggets of caregiving gold you can carry with you throughout your day. Get refreshed and revitalized with compassion and truths from those who have experienced the emotions and journeys you are going through.
• Quick and Easy-to-Use-Caregivers rarely feel like they have time for themselves, so this guide has been designed with a busy schedule in mind: packed with concise summaries, scannable outlines and visuals, and distilled step-by-step instructions, you can absorb everything you need with as little or as much time as you have.
• Practical-Whether you need to apply a self-care routine, build a care team to support your loved one in need, or make a big change in your care plan, get concise step-by-step instructions (including exactly what to say) and start immediately!
• Flexible-A little or lots of time. Brand new or seasoned caregiver. Short- or long-term care. Regardless of your situation, this handy minibook has practical applications for everyone.

Caregiving is never just about the person needing the care; it’s about the caregiver too. You will come away from this book encouraged and equipped to face the caregiving journey with hopefulness and peace of mind.

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Forgiveness is one of the most difficult things you may ever have to face. But it’s also one of the most important and rewarding things you can do. Packed with practical advice, helpful visuals, scannable outlines, and encouraging scriptures, Forgiveness is an all-in-one resource to get you started on your forgiveness journey today! This book will help you:

• Understand what forgiveness really is (and what it’s not)
• How to know when you’ve truly forgiven someone
• Find hope and empathy for a hardened heart
• And much more

Making the brave choice to forgive can benefit us in amazing ways-in fact, it sets us free! Even more amazing is the mysterious fact that God can bring something good out of even your most painful wounds.

All-In-One Scripture- and Science-Driven Forgiveness Advice
Award-winning author and speaker, Debbie Barr, explains the high price we pay to our mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing when we cling to resentment, bitterness, and thoughts of revenge. Backed by science, psychology, and scripture, this all-in-one book will help you equip your empathy, faith, and resilience to rise to the challenges forgiveness may bring.

Writing with compassion and understanding, Barr shares her own experience with forgiveness and stories from others who have made the choice to forgive. She also shows how forgiveness can bring peace of mind, self-respect, and the kind of wellbeing that God wants us to have.

Forgiving others is what God requires of us-and the more atrocious the offense, the more we need his help to do the hard work of forgiveness.

Key Features of Forgiveness: The Choice That Sets You Free

• Biblical – Enjoy getting biblical examples, scriptures, and word studies to help you grasp a deeper understanding of forgiveness.
• Practical – With step-by-step instructions and research-driven advice, Forgiveness will equip you with everything you need to let go and live. Whether you’re dealing with a recent betrayal or a generational wound, get the keys you need to turn to God for freedom and peace.
• Real & Compassionate – Using true stories and compassionate advice, Forgiveness will at once make you feel seen and hopeful in whatever circumstance you face. Get the encouragement and motivation you need to keep moving forward.
• Easy-to-Understand and Read – It’s never been easier to get help on your forgiveness journey! With definitions, clear outlines, visuals, and scannable lists, you’ll be able to grasp key information at a glance, no matter how busy your schedule is.

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Not all abuse is physical. The wounds of emotional abuse may not be visible, but they still leave scars. Whether a stabbing comment or constant putdowns, most people face emotional abuse at some point in their lives, so how can you learn to detect it and stop the cycle of abuse? How can you heal after enduring it? This practical and handy guidebook examines the different descriptions of emotional abuse, and includes stories from people who have found healing in Christ.

Unmasking Emotional Abuse, by notable author and mental health professional Dr. Gregory Jantz, helps readers who have been victims of emotional abuse heal and move forward in Gods truth. It also includes 10 concrete steps to healing. Emotional abuse limits your choices, your value, and your worth. Healing from emotional abuse opens you up to regaining that full life. This book will help get you there, and offers 10 biblically-based steps for healing.

10 Bible-Based Steps to Healing

1. Stepping Out of Blame
2. Granting Forgiveness
3. Reclaiming Personal Power
4. Avoiding Conflicts
5. Addressing Hurts
6. Maintaining Healthy Relationships
7. Healthy Communication
8. Discovering Gifts and Talents
9. Solving Problems
10. Recognizing Progress

As a child of God, you were created to have emotional freedom, a strong sense of self, and a peace that surpasses understanding. Emotional abuse and its false messages keep you from finding and understanding the truth of who you are. The good news is that what others may have sabotaged, God is able to rebuild. Jesus said knowing truth has the power to set you free, and Dr. Gregory Jantz helps you recognize emotional abuse and its effects.

Paperback, 4.5 x 6.5 inches, 112 pages, ISBN 9781628628203.

4 Key Features: Quickly Find the Information You Need for Overcoming Emotional Abuse

Using real-life stories, biblically based suggestions, proven tips, and practical steps that you can take today, Dr. Gregory Jantz will help you detect and heal from emotional abuse. Enjoy having these key features:

• Simple summaries and easy-to-understand explanations
• Practical steps backed by science and by scripture
• Charts that show key information at a glance
• Relatable stories that show you how to apply its truth to your life

Perfect for:

• Group and individual use
• Church library
• To hand to a friend
• Biblical & pastoral counseling
• And more

About the Author: Dr. Gregory L. Jantz is the author of over 30 books, the host of a national radio program, and a regular contributor to Psychology Today. Recognized as a leading authority on family relationships and much more, he appears as an expert on media such as CNN, FOX, ABC, and NBC. Under Dr. Jantzs leadership, "The Center: A Place of HOPE" has been voted in the top 10 facilities for the treatment of depression in the United States.

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Begin the journey of recovery from sexual addiction!
Let’s start now on a twelve-step path that will lead us out of inappropriate sexual behaviors into the restoration of life. In the Life Recovery Workbook for Sexual Integrity, discover real-life stories of fellow travelers, great questions for individual or group discussion, and a Bible-centered approach to freedom. Twelve beautiful blessings await after our hard work on the journey of recovery from sexual addiction.

• Step 1: Open our hearts to God’s power to free us from the grip of unhealthy sexual behaviors. "O God, please strengthen me just one more time." (Judges 16:28)
• Step 2: Allow God to restore our sexual sanity. "Who can bring purity out of an impure person?" (Job 14:4)
• Step 3: Submit to God in order to be freed from the bondage of life-stealing addiction. "If you give up your life for me, you will find it." (Matthew 10:39)
• Step 4: Self-examination leads us out of addiction. "You showed that you have done everything necessary to make things right." (2 Corinthians 7:11)
• Step 5: Experience the healing that begins with mutual confession. "Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed." (James 5:16)
• Step 6: Get ready for God to heal us from addictive sexual behaviors. "You will not reject a broken and repentant heart, O God." (Psalm 51:17)
• Step 7: Invite God to remove our sexual shortcomings. "I restore the crushed spirit of the humble and revive the courage of those with repentant hearts." (Isaiah 57:15)
• Step 8: Create a list of people our unwise sexual behavior adversely affected. "Now, however, it is time to forgive." (2 Corinthians 2:7)
• Step 9: Restore relationships damaged by our sexual sins and experience a clean slate. "But then they turn from their sins and do what is just and right." (Ezekiel 33:14)
• Step 10: Review daily the defects in us that hinder healthy life with God and others. "So get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives." (James 1:21)
• Step 11: Grow closer to God through prayer and meditation. "Teach me how to live, O Lord." (Psalm 27:11)
• Step 12: Bless others with the blessing of healing from habitual sexual sin. "He will give a crown of beauty for ashes." (Isaiah 61:3)

STEPHEN ARTERBURN is the founder of New Life Ministries-the nation’s largest faith-based broadcast, counseling, and treatment ministry-and host of the nationally syndicated New Life Live! daily radio program. He is a Gold Medallion–winning author and co-editor of The Life Recovery Bible.

DAVID STOOP, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and the founder of The Center for Family Therapy in Newport Beach, California. He also serves on the executive board of the American Association of Christian Counselors. David is a Gold Medallion–winning author and co-editor of The Life Recovery Bible. Saber más

Begin the journey of recovery from grief!
Let’s start now on a twelve-step path that will lead us out of the death grip of grief into the restoration of life. In the Life Recovery Workbook for Grief, discover real-life stories of fellow travelers, great questions for individual or group discussion, and a Bible-centered approach to freedom. Twelve beautiful blessings await after our hard work on the journey of recovery from grief.

• Step 1: Open our hearts to God’s power to free us from the grip of grief. "Have compassion on me, LORD, for I am weak." (Psalm 6:2)
• Step 2: Allow God to join us in the powerful emotions of grief. "My heart is heavy with grief. Weep for me, for I wither away." (Isaiah 24:16)
• Step 3: Rest in God’s care and help to take our loss and grief. "Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:28)
• Step 4: Gain a true picture of how God sees us as we grieve. "Don’t be dejected and sad, for the joy of the LORD is your strength!" (Nehemiah 8:10)
• Step 5: Experience the healing that begins with confession. "But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins." (1 John 1:9)
• Step 6: Get ready for repentance and movement through our grief. "Would you like to get well?" (John 5:6)
• Step 7: Allow God’s Spirit to heal our hearts from grief. "I will comfort those who mourn." (Isaiah 57:18)
• Step 8: Create a list of people our grief may have adversely affected. "Do to others as you would like them to do to you." (Luke 6:31)
• Step 9: Restore relationships damaged by our sins and experience a clean slate. "Go and be reconciled to that person." (Matthew 5:24)
• Step 10: Review daily the defects in us that hinder healthy life with God and others. "Be careful not to fall." (1 Corinthians 10:12)
• Step 11: Grow closer to God through prayer and meditation. "The LORD is good to those who depend on him, to those who search for him." (Lamentations 3:25)
• Step 12: Bless others with the blessing of healing from grief. "Gently and humbly help that person back onto the right path." (Galatians 6:1)

STEPHEN ARTERBURN is the founder of New Life Ministries-the nation’s largest faith-based broadcast, counseling, and treatment ministry-and host of the nationally syndicated New Life Live! daily radio program. He is a Gold Medallion–winning author and co-editor of The Life Recovery Bible.

DAVID STOOP, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and the founder of The Center for Family Therapy in Newport Beach, California. He also serves on the executive board of the American Association of Christian Counselors. David is a Gold Medallion–winning author and co-editor of The Life Recovery Bible. Saber más

Begin the journey of recovery from eating disorders!
Let’s start now on a twelve-step path that will lead out of the bondage of eating disorders and into the freedom that comes from a closer relationship with God. In the Life Recovery Workbook for Eating Disorders, discover real-life stories of fellow travelers, great questions for individual or group discussion, and a Bible-centered approach to freedom. Twelve beautiful blessings await after our hard work on the journey of recovery from eating disorders.

• Step 1: Open our hearts to God’s power to free us from the grip of food addiction. "We now have this light shining in our hearts." (2 Corinthians 4:7)
• Step 2: Allow God to join us in the powerful emotions behind our eating disorder. "Daughter," he said to her, "your faith has made you well. Go in peace." (Luke 8:48)
• Step 3: Rest in God’s care for every decision and eating habit. "Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:28)
• Step 4: Gain a true picture of how God sees us. "At that moment their eyes were opened." (Genesis 3:7)
• Step 5: Experience the healing that begins with confession. "Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed." (James 5:16)
• Step 6: Get ready for repentance from sins expressed in unhealthy eating. "You will not reject a broken and repentant heart, O God." (Psalm 51:17)
• Step 7: Allow God’s Spirit to fix our food addictions. "For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted." (Luke 18:14)
• Step 8: Create a list of people our eating disorders have affected. "Do to others as you would like them to do to you." (Luke 6:31)
• Step 9: Restore relationships damaged by our sins (when possible) and experience a clean slate. "But then they turn from their sins and do what is just and right." (Ezekiel 33:14)
• Step 10: Review daily the defects in us that hinder healthy life with God and others. "Be careful not to fall." (1 Corinthians 10:12)
• Step 11: Grow closer to God through prayer and meditation. "The LORD is good to those who depend on him, to those who search for him." (Lamentations 3:25)
• Step 12: Bless others with the blessing of healing from eating disorders. "Gently and humbly help that person back onto the right path." (Galatians 6:1)

STEPHEN ARTERBURN is the founder of New Life Ministries-the nation’s largest faith-based broadcast, counseling, and treatment ministry-and host of the nationally syndicated New Life Live! daily radio program. He is a Gold Medallion–winning author and co-editor of The Life Recovery Bible.

DAVID STOOP, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and the founder of The Center for Family Therapy in Newport Beach, California. He also serves on the executive board of the American Association of Christian Counselors. David is a Gold Medallion–winning author and co-editor of The Life Recovery Bible. Saber más

This lay-ministry counseling guide is a good leader resource for womens ministries or personal use. Learn how to address your own needs so you can effectively help others, take people to Jesus without taking on responsibility for their burdens, and balance a counseling ministry with your other priorities. With Kitchen Table Counseling, you can offer true biblical hope to other women in the face of heartaches. Saber más

With a biblically based approach, this groundbreaking textbook for life coaching presents a coaching model using how-to sections field-tested for more than eight years, custom forms coaches can use, and more. Saber más