Have you ever walked away from a conversation asking yourself, "Why didn't I just say what I really meant?"You're not alone-and you're not lacking confidence. You've just been conditioned to seek approval, to overthink your words, and to prioritize being liked over being heard. It's exhausting. And it's holding you back.In this powerful and practical guide, communication coach Ellen Davis shows you how to break free from the people-pleasing cycle and reclai...

Have you ever looked in the mirror and felt like a stranger to yourself?Do you feel stuck, as if the vibrant, passionate person you once were is just out of reach?You're not alone - and you don't have to stay lost.In How to Find Yourself Again, you'll embark on a compassionate, step-by-step journey back to your authentic self.Through powerful insights and practical exercises, this guide will help you release the weight of the past, rediscover what truly make...

Opening Israel's Scriptures is a collection of thirty-six essays on the Hebrew Bible, from Genesis to Chronicles, which gives powerful insight into the complexity and inexhaustibility of the Hebrew Scriptures as a theological resource. Based on more than two decades of lectures on Old Testament interpretation, Ellen F. Davis offers a selective yet comprehensive guide to the core concepts, literary patterns, storylines, and theological perspectives that are central to Israel's Scri...

“This is a book about getting, and staying, involved with God-what it takes, what it costs, what it looks and feels like, why anyone would want to do it anyway. It is at the same time a book about reading the Old Testament as a source of Good News and guidance for our life with God. The key piece of Good News that the Old Testament communicates over and over again is that God is involved with us, deeply and irrevocably so.”-from the IntroductionWith sound scholarship and her...

In the late 1960s, at the age of eighteen and living far from home amidst the thriving counterculture of Ottawa, Marilyn Churley got pregnant. Like thousands of other women of the time she kept the event a secret. Faced with few options, she gave the baby up for adoption.Over twenty years later, as the Ontario NDP government’s minister responsible for all birth, death, and adoption records, including those of her own child, Churley found herself in a surprising and powerful positio...

Come to terms with your past while moving powerfully into the futureThe Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and a map of the healing journey to every woman who was sexually abused as a child—and to those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual abuse are long-term and severe, healing is possible.Weaving together personal experience with professional knowledge, the authors provide clear explanations, practical sugges...

Science and Religion is a record of the 2009 Building Bridges seminar, a dialogue between leading Christian and Muslim scholars convened annually by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The essays in this volume explore how both faith traditions have approached the interface between science and religion and throw light on the ongoing challenges posed by this issue today. The volume includes a selection of relevant texts together with commentary that illuminates the scriptures, the ideas ...

Making links between different professional roles, policies and practices, this book equips readers swith the skills, knowledge and understanding that managers, practitioners and students require to work in integrated multiprofessional settings. It draws on case studies to consider the dilemmas, challenges and complexities common within workplaces.Chapters cover:- roles, policies and practices in integrated services- quality assessment in a multiprofessional context...

What does it mean to hear scientifically? What does it mean to see musically? This volume uncovers a new side to the long nineteenth century in London, a hidden history in which virtuosic musical entertainment and scientific discovery intersected in remarkable ways.Sound Knowledge examines how scientific truth was accrued by means of visual and aural experience, and, in turn, how musical knowledge was located in relation to empirical scientific practice. James Q. Davies an...

Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard-drinking writers, Southern Comforts explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the U.S. South.Edited by Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, this collection of seventeen thought-provoking essays proposes that discussions about drinking in southern culture often orbit around familiar figures and mythologies that obscure what alcohol consumption has meant over time. Comple...

Three short science fiction stories; Morning Dove, The Stars As Sheep The Void As Grass, and Too Loose Toulouse.

Standards-Based Counseling in the Middle School is replete with information about counseling middle school students. The national counseling standards are highlighted throughout book, as they are the keys to organizing and delivering effective services. The contents of the book exemplify the role of the counselor in responding to and assisting middle school students to enjoy positive educational and personal/social experiences. Those persons needing to read this book are among the followin...