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With practical and proven self-help steps, you will learn how to transform self-defeating behaviours, like insecurities, procrastination, fear, obsession, anger, self-pity, guilt, anxiety, and more. You make sense of your thoughts to uncover how to interrupt those destructive deep-seated patterns and make the kind of profound shift you need to get your life on track. Discover the methods and routines that can create real and lasting change when practiced regularly. Easier said than done, but worth the try by listening to this book.

Depression has only one goal: to kill you. Be it by the means of a swift and intentional act or by a long, drawn-out process of slowly taking your life with alcohol and drug abuse, it only wants you dead. Those who fight depression with a bottle of gin or a needle in the arm are losing the fight. They're currently killing themselves slowly, just like depression wants them to. Every antidepressant has a possible side effect of making your depression worse.

“The shortest distance between a human being and the truth,” so goes the saying, “is a story.” These stories, told by Dr. Scott Abramson based on his 40 years of medical experience and from coaching colleagues in the mission of physician communication, embody some of these human truths: truths about listening, connection, faith, bereavement, death, teamwork, empathy, courage, grace, joy, leadership, parenting, burnout, the challenges of work-life balance, and the secret of happiness.

Upon his return home from the battlefields of Europe in 1918, Col Blackwood, a UK Army infantry officer, is reunited with his family on Christmas Eve after nearly four years away. In the midst of telling his children a bedtime story, we learn of Artaban, a Magi priest, and the fourth wise man to present gifts to the newborn King. As a result of dissension among his fellow Magians, Artaban has no other choice but to embark on this journey alone. Though his quest is fraught with challenges along the way that test his courage and stir his compassion, his faith never wavers.

I remember first searching for truth in the nineties. My mind was captivated into the introductory Left Behind series of books, which were about the apocalypse and the Rapture. While fictitious, the grave thoughts stirred a deep desire in me to better understand Christianity and salvation. The next best-selling book that captured my mind was the book of Scientology. The book was intriguing into the deep study of engrams, which for me was a good crosswalk back into Christianity. My next natural outlook was into other Christian-denomination establishments, focuses, and teachings.

Benno Neuburger, a modest land investor from Munich, and Anna Einstein, daughter of a cattle dealer from Laupheim, marry in 1907. They begin their lives together with great hope. It is a relatively prosperous time and a very optimistic one for German Jews who are enjoying a social renaissance in the industrializing, urbanizing rising star that is Germany. It’s not clear that this good fortune might begin to unravel.

Billie Campbell, a Massachusetts adoption specialist grappling with fertility issues, dreams of adopting a baby, but not just any baby—her pregnant client’s baby. While her longing threatens to send her down a dark path, her husband, Tyler, is keeping secrets: he’s full of doubts about becoming a father, and he’s also trying to figure out who is sending him upsetting anonymous texts and photos. On the other side of town, Anne, a woman scarred by childhood abuse, obsesses with a second chance at becoming a family with the two people she regrets ever having let go of.

On a cold winter’s night, a pair of runaway lovers stop to refuel their car in a remote Pennsylvania town hours away from any major population center. The town has gone to rot after the death of its main industry, and the remaining citizens are kept in line by a powerful few who refuse to let the dwindling community die, no matter what the cost. The rare wayward travelers who come to the town are rarely ever allowed to leave, as the lovers discover when they are forced to play a deadly game of kill or be killed. A game called The Gauntlet.

We Are Creators reveals the truth about who are, why we were created, and how to unlock the unlimited abilities that we possess. It explains the power of our self-image and how our self-image will determine what we achieve or even attempt to achieve in life. It goes on to explain how we can change our self-image. There are so many hurting people in this world, and many have accepted depression, sickness, fear, loneliness, abuse, and poverty as a way of life

Let Rev. John take you through the purpose, logics, and importance of Christian life. His inspiring and in-depth discussions and teachings based on Biblical facts will give you new and enlightening insights into Christian living, enabling you in your walk with Christ. The inspiration for this book is the dire need he has experienced among Christian families around the world for a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of Christianity, especially baptism.

Roddel is an emotionally and mentally damaged warrior who has spent the last thirty years hating his enemies and running from his past and himself. All he knows is violence and survival, fierce commitment to his friends, and swift judgment to his enemies. Suddenly, a good friend's call for help forces him into cooperation with the very enemies he has sworn to kill. His only stability is the old friendship that he never thought would fail; but people change, loyalties shift, and even good friends can have ulterior motives.

Seventeenth-century North America was truly a new world for both the European and indigenous First Nations native cultures that interfaced upon that spectacular wilderness theater. For both the native people and the European, this stage forged new understandings from all things thought familiar to previous generations. Throughout this historical period were episodes that defined the era, episodes that captured the essence of the human spirit, and episodes that abase a work of fiction.