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Connecting Paradigms: A Trauma-Informed & Neurobiological Framework for Motivational Interviewing Implementation provides an innovative approach to helping those struggling with past trauma to make critical life changes and heal from their pain and suffering. Scientific understanding of the brain, the impact of trauma, and research around behavioral change has grown exponentially over the last several decades.

How do you quantify the mental, physical, social, and cognitive health of people and organizations? Heart rate variability or HRV is the answer. HRV is a biometric that measures the differences in successive heartbeats. While simple, HRV provides an incredible amount of information on the health of our autonomic nervous system and brain. Heart Rate Variability explores how professionals and organizations can implement HRV to track the psychological, social, and physical health of those they serve, their staff, and the organization.

Understanding Islam's sacred text is integral to understanding your Muslim neighbor. Cross-cultural missionary and scholar Matthew Aaron Bennett blends the insights of Islamic believers, secular Qur'an scholars, and missionaries to Muslims, making The Qur'an and the Christian like no other resource for Christian ministry to Muslims. Combining these perspectives in one guide better equips Christians to communicate the biblical gospel to friends and neighbors who are adherents to Islam—both in and out of majority-Muslim cultures.

Today, something is going to happen to an innocent child. Tomorrow, that child will walk into their school. What happens next will impact the rest of their life. What is this powerful event? Childhood trauma. Most students will experience some form of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, neglect, family dysfunction, racism, homelessness, or poverty by their 18th birthday. If left untreated, their traumatic experience may have lasting implications on their physical and mental health and their success in school.

The ability to manage and recover from stress is crucial for resiliency and cognitive, medical, mental, and social health. Burnout is the enemy of productivity, creativity, and overall business success. Until recently, it was difficult for leaders to get reliable data on people's ability to perform at their best and understand levels of burnout within the business. The Heart(beat) of Business presents the science behind peak performance and how stress and burnout destroy people's health and devastate business outcomes.

As a follow-up to the successful Connecting Paradigms, Talking About Trauma & Change: A Connecting Paradigms' Supplement provides analogies and models to help people understand the complexity of changing behavior and healing psychological trauma. Talking About Trauma & Change presents the approaches that Matthew Bennett has used in his training and clinical work in a format that is easily integrated into individual or group conversations.

The Bottom Rock podcast shares stories for inspiration, personal experience and efficient solutions to support during challenges we endure as humans. Whether the challenges or short-term, chronic, devastating or simply confusing, the podcast offers perspective, and clinical experience to move the needle toward a positive outcome. The bottom rock is a place for rest, reflection and the next step is only up!

The trauma-informed paradigm is challenging traditional views and approach in a wide variety of areas in education, social work, psychology, and public health. Each week the Trauma-Informed Lens Podcasters Curt Mower, Jerry Yager, and Matthew Bennett explore aspects of the trauma-informed paradigm and how it challenges traditional views of service delivery and current events. Join the revolution!

The apostle John wrote one of the most loved yet misunderstood books of the Bible. He is a very personable and loving man when you meet him. As the "disciple that Jesus loved," he was very close to Jesus when he walked the earth. Now he is in heaven and is a remarkable saint. In September 2017, he came to visit Matthew and spoke on a number of subjects.

El libro es una historia inteligente y linda sobre animales de fantasía con recursos que viven en la selva salvaje y empiezan un equipo de hockey. Esta historia enseña a los niños de todas las edades lecciones de cómo cooperar, la valoración y el uso de la tierra y los recursos, para la vida y para divertirse.

This is a story about ants that make a haunted house and props for Halloween. The ants are getting ready for Halloween. They decorate with the help of the parents. The book includes words of wisdom for young listeners who may look up to the author for encouragement.

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Are you preparing to take the gospel to the nations? You’ve said “yes” to God’s call to go, and now you will pack up your things and step into the unknown of a new location, people, and culture. The following years will likely include great joy, frustration, homesickness, difficulty, and excitement. In this book, ten men who have served in missions in various ways share what they wish they had known before they began.