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Discovering how to live with dementia
"I'm a stranger in a strange land," sighed the dignified gentleman, Janet L. Ramsey, met walking down the care-center hallway. Those words, her first glimpse of the confusion that comes with dementia, led her into a lifetime of work with older adults.
If you have been, diagnosed with dementia or you are accompanying someone with this illness, you may find yourself on a journey that began with a sudden diagnosis...
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Companionship and strategies for job seekers
Millions of people become unemployed every year, yet when job loss happens to us, we typically feel completely alone and often lost, ashamed, and afraid. No one knows how to comfort us, when we lose our job. Unlike other griefs, when someone can say, "I'm sorry for your loss", joblessness leaves family, friends, and acquaintances awkwardly searching for words.
Jobs Lost, Faith Found is for those who feel...
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Trends and skills for those who offer pastoral care
Christian pastoral care has changed a great deal in the past few decades, in response to many factors in our rapidly, changing world. In part 1 of Nurturing Hope, Lynne Baab discusses seven trends in pastoral care-shifts in, who delivers pastoral care, the attitudes and commitments that undergird pastoral care, and societal trends that are shaping pastoral care today. She illustrates them with stories...
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In They Don't Come with Instructions, Hollie M. Holt-Woehl offers wise companionship for the journey with a developmentally challenged child.
The mother of a son with an autism diagnosis, Holt-Woehl recognizes that parenting is never easy. Challenges abound as parents help children grow up and find their place in the world. But she knows firsthand that adding a developmental challenge makes parenting far more complex.
Drawing on her own experience...
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How growing in self-awareness deepens relationships
From their years of counseling individuals, couples, and families, George Faller and Heather Wright show how to repair conflict, move from disconnection to reconnection, and discover God's movement in our life and relationships.
They call their model NAME IT (Notice, Acknowledge, Merge, Embrace, Integrate, and Thank). To heal a relationship, first we connect with our own hearts and stories, then...
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Support and wisdom when serious illness strikes
Sally Wilke gets it. She has lived with, and through, the serious chronic illness of someone, she cared deeply about. And, she has provided pastoral care to individuals and families in similar situations. Waiting for Good News captures her hard-won, helpful, and hope-filled wisdom.
Wilke organizes this book around seven questions that those who face serious illness often ask. From "What Is the Diagnosis"...
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Companionship for the lifelong journey of recovery
In Addiction and Recovery: A Spiritual Pilgrimage, Martha Postlethwaite, pastor and a person in recovery-reflects on her pilgrimage of healing through valleys of despair and vistas of resurrection.
Addiction and Recovery is not just Postlethwaite's story, though. She also draws on the wisdom of pilgrims who have walked other paths to explore themes such as surrender, truth telling, shame, powerlessness,...
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Carrying Them with Us: Living through Pregnancy and Infant Loss is a reflection on what pastors David Engelstad and Catherine Malotky have learned, since the day in 1984, when their eight-week-old daughter Erin died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Drawing on their own loss, they offer themselves as companions to parents who struggle to deal with the end of an eagerly anticipated pregnancy or the death of a joyfully welcomed baby. Readers will find...
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How to heal from trauma and restore laughter, love, and faith
When trauma wounds, victims are, thrown into unexpected darkness and experience unfamiliar symptoms. Some trauma survivors draw upon a lifelong faith in God; others find themselves in a wilderness devoid of spiritual grounding. The recovery stories in this book offer diverse pathways to faith and hope.
In When Trauma Wounds, psychologist Karen A. McClintock combines psychological approaches...
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Discover hope, comfort, transformation-the gifts given in grief
Too often, we think of loss, like we might a broken bone. We leave the bone alone, protect it from bumps, and wait. We think eventually everything will go back to normal, the same as it always was. But, losing a loved one is nothing like a broken arm. Loss is amputation, and the path to healing doesn’t lead back to the same, only ahead to the different. A Grief Received offers a personal,...
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