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**Honoring Birth Parents Unlocking Compassionate Adoption** Are you navigating the complex and emotional journey of adoption? "Honoring Birth Parents" is your indispensable guide to building respectful, compassionate, and open-hearted adoption experiences, designed to benefit both adoptive families and birth parents. **Chapter Highlights** 1. **Introduction to Compassionate Adoption** Understand the core principles of compassion, respect, and openness that form the foundation of a successful adoption process. Learn about the profound benefits these values bring to both adoptive families and...

If you’re caring for a parent with dementia, you know how quickly life can shift. One moment you’re having breakfast together, and the next, you’re explaining the same thing for the fifth time, while trying not to break down. Caring for someone with dementia is not just a task. It’s a deeply emotional, often exhausting role filled with love, confusion, grief, and unspoken guilt. Yet, you show up… again and again. Why? Because you love them. But who’s showing up for you?

Parenting doesn’t end at eighteen—it changes shape. From Authority to Friendship: Navigating New Seasons with Adult Children gives you a clear, biblical roadmap for that new season, moving you from authority to influence and from rules to relationship. With pastoral warmth and real-life counsel, Tim Goeman shows how to honor your adult children as responsible, independent adults, while still offering gospel-shaped guidance on what these relationships should look like.

Have you ever had the feeling that you were left waiting for something to happen in your life because your children have moved out and you no longer feel needed? Did it bother you? Most people have been through the empty nest after their children were born. It’s a transition that is often painful but also liberating when it’s complete and your kids are on their own and you can finally do what you want, not just what they want. It can be a difficult time when a parent finally decides to leave their child's life and they head off into the world with someone else. Will your kids still love...

Parenting is a wonderfully fulfilling journey that comes with its own set of challenges. For one, have you ever reached that point when you felt like you’re already at the end of your rope? If so, then you should know that you aren’t alone. This is a common situation stressed parents experience when they are faced with difficult situations. Much as we want to avoid stress altogether, this isn’t possible because stress is a part of all our lives.

Imagine being away on a work trip and receiving a phone call that turns your entire world upside down. From a father's perspective, experience the journey of Keesha the Warrior Princess and her battle with Stage 4 Breast Cancer at just 30 years old. Learn life lessons that Bob learned during her journey — what Bob calls “Keesha-isms” - that apply to everyone: Learn to adapt to your limitations or disabilities and how they can become your superpowers. Learn to focus on what you can change, not what you have no control over.

“That’s nail soup, Janie. It will give you all the iron you need. Go ahead and eat up. We have work to do!” And there really is work to do. Jane Eden’s dad was once a successful farmer, construction-company owner, and church builder, and he tore right through Middle Tennessee successfully for more than half a century. But then her brother’s accidental death changed everything. And her dad started eating strange food, building odd contraptions to save money and hoarding. He simply refused to let go of anything from old fast-food containers to unfixable bull dozers and archaic ...

For Your Information: A "Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat?" essay by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline "Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat?" is s collection of funny stories and true confessions that every woman can relate to by Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella--the...

This is a guide offering self-help thought processes for improving daily life. It is not a therapy writing. Life is busier and more demanding than it used to be. Everyone has more on their plates. Time runs short. The COVID-19 Pandemic rampant in the world has sown seeds of fear and hopelessness as its creeping paralysis spreads. We become torn in different directions Daily maintenance of ourselves is challenged. We need it to provide balance and help us stay healthy and flourish. We find the same thing for relationships. People can feel pulled apart. What to do, where to start? Start by ...

In Growing Up Catholic, in Philly, During the 50s and 60s With a Very Controlling Mother, the author takes us on a poignant journey through his tumultuous childhood. This compelling autobiography paints a vivid picture of a young boy's life, navigating the harsh realities of a Catholic school and the relentless interference of his overbearing mother.

When 11-year-old Savannah West was reunited with her parents after four years of being held captive by a child pornography ring, questions remained about her captivity and those responsible for her disappearance. Why was she unhappy to be home? Was the kidnapper someone known by the family? Would Jack and Hallie’s marriage survive the trauma? What was the key that would preserve Hallie’s sanity? Would Alzheimer’s and Dementia force Hallie to institutionalize her parents? This page-turner mystery is interwoven throughout captivating themes of parenting, ageing, faith and family ...

This is a seminal work that allows you to see the world from the eyes of a person with muscular dystrophy. It's important to keep your eyes open as you put this book down and start today by making a contribution to those with disabilities so that they too can live life to the fullest. Evin lived his whole life knowing that his days were numbered and that every single event or activity could possibly be his last. I want you to deeply imagine the mental pressures these types of thoughts can cause.

Daddy Chronicles—5 Life Lessons From a Girl Dad is a heartwarming and insightful book that takes listeners on a journey through the multifaceted life of James Barksdale, a devoted son, brother, father, husband, leader, and pastor. The book is structured around five key life lessons. Through humorous and touching stories, the author brings to life the challenges and triumphs of a "girl dad."

We know you want the very best for your child or the young people in your circle. You want to set them up to be wealthy in every sense, healthy and above all happy. Juliane & I have been coaching people for over 40 years world champion athletes, business leaders, the terminally ill – you name it. But this is a passion project because we want people like you, busy working parents to be able to give your child the best and set them up for life!

Why does love feel so hard? Why do you keep attracting the wrong people, or pushing the right ones away? Why does it feel like you give everything, and still end up wounded, abandoned, or alone? What if the issue isn’t just them, but something deeper, spiritual, and unresolved in you? Made for Relationships is not a book about dating tips or marriage advice. It is a soul-revealing, spirit-led manual for anyone who’s tired of relational cycles that never lead to joy. Whether you’re single, married, or recovering from heartbreak, this book confronts the real reasons behind disconnection...

Noah Hickman’s murder is on the mind of Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas Hart. At his undercover gold panning claim in Mormon Basin, he is freezing. And thinking about his search for evidence – proof – that Dottie and Billy were responsible for the killing. Noah’s old friend Ten Crows (now “Otter” in his freedom) had shared his vision of the killers – perfectly describing the couple – but justice requires more. Other killings in Mormon Basin, spur deeper investigation into the affairs of Dottie and Billy and their bar, boarding house, and prostitution operation. The sheriff of ...

Life: Four Quarters Plus Overtime is a book created specifically with the African American community in mind. The book will examine the periods of development associated with the human life span with brief overview of the social, emotional, congenital, perceptual, and moral development specific to each life stage.

I am a retired clinical psychologist whose forty-year specialty was treating substance abusers and their families. I worked both in private practice and in school settings. In the schools I frequently counseled both youthful bullies and their victims. The word “bully” fascinated me. It has gone through a mysterious evolution from its beginning in the middle ages. It originally identified someone as a “sweetheart,” but during the seventeenth century its meanings became, first, “fine fellow,” then, “blustering daredevil.” By the end of that century, being called a bully meant ...

'I’ve never read a book like it. It’s as if they tore their own hearts out and asked the other to hold it for them while they wrote.' Phoebe Waller-Bridge ‘Alcohol flows across families like water over a landscape. Sometimes it moves in torrents, sometimes in floods, sometimes in...

I'm just a girl that loves to write. I write when I'm happy and I write when I'm sad, and these are my thoughts in words as I seek peace. As you read, may these words lead you to peace. As others look for happiness, I'm in pursuit of peace.