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Valerie Fillmore has struggled with demonic attacks of fear, anxiety, depression, OCD, and intrusive thoughts. Valerie sought help within her Calvinist Baptist church, only to be led into further bondage by their denial of the existence of spiritual warfare and their condemnation of her thoughts and emotions. Valerie kept seeking the Lord, asking Him to help her understand Him and why she was suffering. She was led by the Lord to a different church where she learned the truth about how the enemy attacks the children of God.

Dealing with schizophrenia is so tough and life-altering. I know the struggle for myself. I know that there can be a lot of ups and downs. At least that's my hardship. If you are schizophrenic, this book is specifically for you. Schizophrenic to Schizophrenic is a book that is written from myself, a person living with schizophrenia, written to you, another person living with schizophrenia. I wrote this for you. My heart goes out to you. I know this life is not easy, but I have a reason for joy, hope, and peace in my life now. I just want to share my story with you.

Stroke of Love is the life story of a young stroke survivor from Texas named Hether Flanigan. It is a story of resilience, determination, strength, and love. A story about the human spirit, the will to live life to the fullest, the power of the human mind, and the love that surrounds us.

Through personal experience as a caregiver to my parents, I gained first-hand knowledge of the responsibilities family caregivers carry on their shoulders. It became important for me to find out what other family caregivers say they need to help sustain their spirit during the journey of caring for someone they love. The outcome of this inquiry is a devotional developed in direct response to family caregiver interviews and their answers to survey questions.

In this powerful and anointed book, Jeanie Traub opens up her personal spiritual journey through a diagnosis of terminal cancer. Her faith, relationship with Jesus, and determination brought her to her healing. This book will impact and change your life. It is written to set God's people free from the devastating pain and loss that cancer, sickness, and disease cause. Jeanie explains the life-changing lessons she learned while walking out her healing.

Beatrice was three years old when her parents, William and Francis Cummings, tragically died in a car accident. Ruth Singer, Francis's older sister, was thunderstruck when she heard that she was named guardian of the minor child at the reading of her sister's will. Being a stay-at-home mom to her three girls for the past ten years, living in a shoebox-sized house, and sacrificing personal wants and needs due to living on one income, Ruth was more than ready to break out of the house and return to the workplace.

Break the Cycle is a literary art, specifically created to openly and honestly share a personal life story with others, with hopes that each listener will embark upon their very own #WriteYOURownstorymovement. The author is passionate about encouraging as many people as possible to tell their unique and special life stories so that together, we can assemble a life manual, which most of us yearn for as we navigate through our own journeys.

Despite being raised in a loving family, life had left Ellen Busch traumatized and at her wit's end. Busch had no home, no job, no relationship, and no hope of having a family. Even though Ellen escaped from an abusive husband, she was controlled by the unshakable stigma of dyslexia that erased any shred of self-worth. Busch couldn’t see that she was a victim of trauma until one fateful day, on a crowded highway, when she had a moment of realization that would change the trajectory of her life.

This book is an event that proves beyond any shadow of a doubt for me that God is indeed alive and well and living within each of us. Every day, we are given a choice, before our feet hit the floor in the morning, to plug into our awareness of God's Spirit and goodness. I think we all have days when we lose sight of that gift of Spirit by the pressing elements that life throws at us. When you enter or are pulled into His realm of love and grace, the impossible happens--unconditional love.

The book Transformation Through Christ captivates the reader in an interesting way. Here, you will have the opportunity to familiarize yourself with the change of a girl at twenty-four years of age. As you delve into the progress of Christ's providence in the life of an ordinary girl with an extraordinary God, you will receive an appeal and a call directly from the Holy Spirit of Christ. Tedy Petrova is the girl who grew up in a not-so-warm family atmosphere, and it caused a rift in her relationship with God. In her teens, she entered a hard life with heavy moments.

This book explains what bipolar disorder is, outlines medications that work to combat it, describes Bridget's journey with God, and talks about how the stigma of mental illness has been somewhat alleviated, but there is still work to be done.

Imagine growing up where you were taught to love everyone. Then you get told you were found under a cabbage leaf. You get asked why you don't look like your sister or brother. You still don't think anything is wrong until...one day, many years later, something comes to light, and the next thing you know, you are taking a DNA test. Then you look back and realize not everyone loved you as you thought.

Beyond the Imprint (BTI) heralds a new paradigm of thinking within the field of mental health counseling that is beyond the duality of our unconscious conditioning. Quantum Physics is beginning to replace the mechanistic view of Newtonian Physics and is teaching us with every new discovery that we are intimately interconnected with our environment and everything in it. This includes the understanding that we can change what is outside of us by simply changing ourselves.

Not all daughters are their daddy's little girl. Too many times, their fathers are absent from their lives or nonexistent. Some may have been abusive. The book is about how much the Heavenly Father loves them. Earthly fathers may not be able to love their daughters in the way they need. Through scriptures, the author goes into detail on how much the Father loves his children. He can bring peace and comfort and an incredible love that can't be matched to any other love. We are all imperfect daughters with imperfect earthly fathers.

Uncertainty breeds fear, and we certainly live in uncertain times. Look around you--threats of violence and death, financial instability, natural disasters, pandemics, cancel culture, and war headline every news story and dominate nearly every conversation. The devil would have you trembling at all you could lose. But the child of God is not called to live in fear: "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind" (2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV).

From the dark ages, the treatment of those mentally ill has progressed from chaining to a wall those afflicted with mental disturbance who never saw the light of day. However, in US emergency rooms, our young people on the brink of despair are held hostage for psychiatric care. We have been bound to the antiquated biomedical model of mental health care.

Ray Bennet has been trying to forget the pain of her past for far too long when Kyle Walker moves into town, bringing mystery and excitement. Though Ray has never been interested in much more than her studies, she finds herself captivated by his intensity. It isn't too long before she discovers Kyle is hiding a secret about a world of Sorcery, a world he originates from. Though this new world intrigues Ray, it just might be connected to her painful past.

Otis Lee begins this story in the most innocuous of locations: a train from Charlottesville, Virginia, to Penn Station in New York City. But for Otis this journey brings to mind another train, from long ago and far away—representative of a past to which there can be no return.

Dethroning Your Personal Tyrants is a personal account on releasing emotional blocks stemmed from negative events, people, relationships, or vices that prevent an individual from letting go of a painful past, healing, and moving forward in the present, living in peace. Throughout the book, it provides guidance to forgiving yourself and others with a focus on self-worth and self-love, which ultimately allows a person to take back the power in one's life.

Are you feeling stuck in a stagnant friendship, romantic, or professional relationship? Has your trust been broken more times than you care to admit? Are you fearful to change what has been to uncover the limitless possibilities of what can be when you choose you? The even bigger question is are you up for the task of modifying or removing these barriers to reap the benefits of being content and fulfilled?