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Author: Marci Shimoff
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-01-10
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1439165033
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Transformational leader and author Marci Shimoff outlines seven steps aimed at helping readers develop and maintain unconditional love which she believes will allow them to have lasting joy and fulfillment in life.
Author: Marci Shimoff
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-03-03
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1416547738
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Everyone wants to be happy--yet so many people are unhappy today. What are they doing wrong? Clearly, a new approach is needed. Self-help guru Shimoff presents three new ideas and a practical program to change the way readers look at creating happiness in their lives: 1. Happiness is not an emotion, a spike of elation or euphoria, but a lasting, neuro-physiological state of peace and well-being. 2. True happiness is not based on what people do or have--it doesn't depend on external reasons or circumstances. 3. Research indicates that everyone has a happiness set-point. No matter what happens to a person, they will tend to return to a set range of happiness. This book shows how you can actually reprogram your set-point to a higher level.--From publisher description.
Author: Alison Fraser
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-07-16
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 145928416X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Little Consequences An illegitimate baby was fodder for the local gossips—especially when the identity of the baby's father was uncertain. But Riona knew that Cameron Adams, the wealthy American who owned the farm she managed in Scotland, was her son's father. He was also the man who'd left her without a word. When Cam returned and took one look at the five-month-old baby in her arms, Riona's deepest fear became a reality. Cam gave her a choice—a marriage of convenience to legitimize their son…or a custody battle that Riona knew only Cam could win!
Author: John Ortberg
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Published: 2015-05-05
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0310342457
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How do you explain a love that has no explanation? What will happen if you let it touch your heart? God loves you not because you are flawless, not because you are a perfect person, but just because you are you. In Life-Changing Love, John Ortberg reveals the God you’ve longed to encounter: a Father head-over-heels in love with you, his child, and intensely committed to your highest joy. Ortberg takes you to the very focus of who God is to discover a burning, passionate love that gives, and gives, and gives. He explores the life-changing ways this love has expressed itself through Jesus. And he shows how you can love your mate, your family, your friends, and the world around you with the same practical, transforming love. Dispelling your fears and misconceptions of God, Life-Changing Love brings you face-to-face with the Love that frees and empowers you to love.
Author: Kate Bowler
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2018-02-06
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0399592075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.”—Lucy Kalanithi “Belongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subject, like Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air and Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal.”—Bill Gates NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a creed that sees fortune as a blessing from God and misfortune as a mark of God’s disapproval. At thirty-five, everything in her life seems to point toward “blessing.” She is thriving in her job, married to her high school sweetheart, and loves life with her newborn son. Then she is diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. The prospect of her own mortality forces Kate to realize that she has been tacitly subscribing to the prosperity gospel, living with the conviction that she can control the shape of her life with “a surge of determination.” Even as this type of Christianity celebrates the American can-do spirit, it implies that if you “can’t do” and succumb to illness or misfortune, you are a failure. Kate is very sick, and no amount of positive thinking will shrink her tumors. What does it mean to die, she wonders, in a society that insists everything happens for a reason? Kate is stripped of this certainty only to discover that without it, life is hard but beautiful in a way it never has been before. Frank and funny, dark and wise, Kate Bowler pulls the reader deeply into her life in an account she populates affectionately with a colorful, often hilarious retinue of friends, mega-church preachers, relatives, and doctors. Everything Happens for a Reason tells her story, offering up her irreverent, hard-won observations on dying and the ways it has taught her to live. Praise for Everything Happens for a Reason “I fell hard and fast for Kate Bowler. Her writing is naked, elegant, and gripping—she’s like a Christian Joan Didion. I left Kate’s story feeling more present, more grateful, and a hell of a lot less alone. And what else is art for?”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior and president of Together Rising
Author: Mark Peter Kahn
Publisher:
Published: 2019-07-15
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781920535971
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Our greatest suffering is that we do not feel complete as we are. Right here, right now! We have been trained to reject our uniqueness and our value. We live in a prison; a cage of guilt, anxiety and worthlessness, believing that we are never 'good enough' just as we are. Mark Kahn, a practicing clinical psychologist of 35 years, and management consultant with 17 years' worth of experience, has devoted his life to helping people to realise self-love, without arrogance. In this unique Self-Esteem work, penned straight from the heart and shooting straight from the hip; readers will be taken through the theory, as well as a range of simple, yet powerful techniques enabling individuals: -Dissolve your feelings of victimhood in the face of conflict and threat.-To no longer be a slave to the conditioned rules of society.-To reclaim the power and confidence you have given away to others.-To choose to risk yourself more than you avoid.-To let go of the noose of guilt and performance anxiety, which society has placed around your neck.-To move from the hell of wanting to be loved, to the heaven of loving yourself for no reason!"This insightful book is both a direct and powerful response to the prison walls created by our conditioning. To dismantle these walls enables a freedom of spirit and psyche to emerge, that honours the individuality, the uniqueness and the genius of every one of us."Dr. John F. Demartini
Author: Harry G. Frankfurt
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009-01-13
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 1400826063
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Bullshit, a profound meditation on how and why we love In The Reasons of Love, leading moral philosopher and bestselling author Harry Frankfurt argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of caring, and that the purest form of love is, in a complicated way, self-love. Through caring, we infuse the world with meaning. Caring provides us with stable ambitions and concerns, and it shapes the framework of aims and interests within which we lead our lives. Love is a nonvoluntary, disinterested concern for the flourishing of what we love—and self-love, as distinct from self-indulgence, is at heart of this concern. The most elementary form of self-love is no more than the desire to love, and self-love is simply a commitment to finding meaning in our lives.
Author: Alfie Kohn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2006-03-28
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0743487486
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author of Punished by Rewards and The School Our Children Deserve builds on his parenting theories of working with children rather than trying to control them, argues against practices that teach children that they must earn a parent's approval, and presents techniques that promote desired child qualities through unconditional support. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
Author: Matt de la Peña
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2018-01-09
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 1524740918
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[A] poetic reckoning of the importance of love in a child's life . . . eloquent and moving."—People "Everything that can be called love -- from shared joy to comfort in the darkness -- is gathered in the pages of this reassuring, refreshingly honest picture book."—The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice / Staff Picks From the Book Review “Lyrical and sensitive, ‘Love’ is the sort of book likely to leave readers of all ages a little tremulous, and brimming with feeling.”—The Wall Street Journal From Newbery Medal-winning author Matt de la Peña and bestselling illustrator Loren Long comes a story about the strongest bond there is and the diverse and powerful ways it connects us all. "In the beginning there is light and two wide-eyed figures standing near the foot of your bed and the sound of their voices is love. ... A cab driver plays love softly on his radio while you bounce in back with the bumps of the city and everything smells new, and it smells like life." In this heartfelt celebration of love, Newbery Medal-winning author Matt de la Peña and bestselling illustrator Loren Long depict the many ways we experience this universal bond, which carries us from the day we are born throughout the years of our childhood and beyond. With a lyrical text that's soothing and inspiring, this tender tale is a needed comfort and a new classic that will resonate with readers of every age.
Author: Judith Ridge
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2017-03-14
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0763696714
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Essays by popular children's authors reveal the books that shaped their personal and literary lives, explaining how the stories they loved influenced them creatively, politically, and intellectually.
