Author: Annie G. Rogers
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440621098
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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"Soars into sublime meditation...what makes this book so extraordinary is her willingness to reveal exactly what goes on in the sometimes mysterious encounter between therapist and patient."—The Los Angeles Times. A moving account of a true-life double healing through psychotherapy. In this brave, iconoclastic, and utterly unique book, psychotherapist Annie Rogers chronicles her remarkable bond with Ben, a severely disturbed five-ear-old. Orphaned, fostered, neglected, and forgotten in a household fire, Ben finally begins to respond to Annie in their intricate and revealing platy therapy. But as Ben begins to explore the trauma of his past, Annie finds herself being drawn downward into her own mental anguish. Catastrophically failed by her own therapist, she is hospitalized with a breakdown that renders her unable to speak. Then she and her gifted new analyst must uncover where her story of childhood terror overlaps with Ben's, and learn how she can complete her work with the child by creating a new story from the old—one that ultimately heals them both.

Author: Vikram Paralkar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781941360354
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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The legendary Encyclopedia of Medicine is a dizzying collection of maladies: an amnesia that causes everyone you've ever met to forget you exist, while you remain perfectly, painfully aware of your history. A wound that grows with each dark thought or evil deed you commit but shrinks with every act of kindness. A disease that causes your body to imitate death, stopping your heart, cooling your blood. Will the fit pass before they bury you--or after? The Afflictions is a magical compendium of pseudo-diseases, an encyclopedia of archaic medicine written by a contemporary physician and scientist. Little by little, these bizarre and mystical afflictions frame an eternal struggle: between human desire and the limits of bodily existence. First published in English in the United States, The Afflictions has since been published in Argentina, Italy, and India. This second U.S. edition features the original illustrations created by Pia Valentinis for the Italian language edition.

Author: Russell Banks
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0676970958
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Wade Whitehouse, divorced, estranged from his young daughter, spends his days as a well-driller, snow-plow operator, and policeman, his nights in a wind-swept trailer park. But when a union boss is killed in an apparent hunting accident near Wade's home, and he is convinced that it is murder, he seizes the event as a chance to right many wrongs—unaware that as he unravels the mystery he himself will become unravelled. Soon his hunger for justice and self-respect become inseparable from a desperate violence.

Author: Phyllis A. Clemons
Publisher: WestBowPress
ISBN: 1490827498
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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God reveals Himself in marvelous ways in the midst of a journey through affliction. In the fire of affliction, there is grace for the process. Out of the fire comes a redeemed hope. Out of the fire comes renewed strength. Out of the fire comes greater glory. Out of the fire comes one of the greatest miraclesthe miracle of a life being transformed into the likeness of Christ. In Broken-Wing: An Expose on the Journey through Affliction, Phyllis A. Clemons shares the challenges and the God-given revelations of her personal journey through physical affliction. A raging fire arose. The timeline and the outcome were unknown. God, however, stood in the midst of it. He touched, He comforted, He spoke, and He transformed. Anyone whose life has been touched by affliction will gain a deeper understanding of the often-mysterious season. You will learn how to survive, how to grow, and the power of spiritual transformation.

Author: Phyllis A. Clemons
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692671313
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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God reveals Himself in marvelous ways in the midst of a journey through affliction.Contained within the fire of affliction is grace for the process. Coming out of the fire are redeemed hope, renewed strength, greater glory, and one of the greatest miracles - the miracle of a life being transformed into the likeness of Christ.In A Journey Through Affliction: A Devotional Guide to Hope, Phyllis A. Clemons shares the challenges and God-given revelations of her personal journey through physical affliction.A raging fire rose. The timeline and outcome were unknown. God, however stood in the midst of it all. He touched. He comforted. He spoke. And He transformed.Like Phyllis, you who have been touched by affliction can gain a deeper understanding of the often mysterious season. You can learn how to survive, how to grow, and the power of spiritual transformation. And you can be strengthened by the hope we have in our Almighty God.

Author: Edith Schaeffer
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441214984
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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Edith Schaeffer comes directly to grips with the eternal question of why we face suffering and affliction in this life, showing us how to trust in God alone for comfort.

Author: Daniel Ritchie
Publisher: Kirkdale Press
ISBN: 9781683590828
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Who am I? What am I here for? Does anyone love me? Do I have worth? Adversity can lead to doubt on the deepest levels: compared to others who have it "all together," our lives, with our difficulties, can seem beyond our ability to deal with daily tasks, let alone bigger topics like purpose, love, or faith. Daniel Ritchie was born facing a unique kind of adversity: he was born without arms. Yet after he surrendered his life to Christ as a young man, he learned that only in Christ could true worth and purpose be found--freeing him from others' comparisons and restrictions to live a full life that seemed impossible. Daniel's story will teach you to tackle life's challenges with grace and creativity--as he shows you how to see your life through Christ's eyes.

Author: Lene Fogelberg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1631529862
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER GOLD MEDAL WINNER OF THE 2016 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS ("IPPY”) Lene Fogelberg is dying—she is sure of it—but no doctor in Sweden, her home country, believes her. Love stories enfold her, with her husband, her two precious daughters, her enchanting surroundings, but the question she has carried in her heart since childhood—Will I die young?—is threatening all she holds dear, even her sanity. When her young family moves to the US, an answer, a diagnosis, is finally found: she is in the last stages of a fatal congenital heart disease. But is it too late? A young woman risks everything to save her own life in this “unusual, riveting medical drama crafted with deep emotion and exquisite detail” (BookPage).

Author: Diane K Hiltz Chamberlain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Are you looking for a book that will bring renewed hope back into your life, while teaching you how to exchange weakness, for God's perfect strength? "My Journey with God: Walking thru Endless Moments of Affliction, with a Love that Would Not Let Go;" will allow you to walk through the many painful moments that Diane endured throughout her lifetime, as a means of allowing God to take her weaknesses and exchange them, for a perfect strength that could later be used for Him.You will journey with Diane, as she goes through a series of twenty-one knee operations...counselling for sexual abuse, while at the same time experiencing much loss in her life. You will come to see how God filled each empty void, with a plan and purpose for Diane's life...something that would be used, as a means of sharing God's love with other's who feel hopeless, while dealing with their own moments of affliction.As you read through the book, you will discover how God taught Diane to rise above her circumstances, through a broken heart that became humbled through the dark and hopeless moments she faced. The book will also reveal how God allowed each circumstance for a reason; so He could repair a heart that had been shattered by heartache, pain and abuse.Many times, we don't always fully understand why God allows these weak moments to enter our lives but one thing Diane learned; is that instead of trying to figure God out, she needed to come to a place in her life, where she could let go of the reign to her life and allow God to step in and work, in a way that He could only do. Once Diane learned this, she truly found that there was a way out of her wilderness of despair, while allowing God to fashion her life in the way He had destined, since the day she was born.

Author: Madeline Sonik
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781897535677
Category : Canadian essays
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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'Afflictions & Departures' is a collection of first-person experiential essays by writer and academic Madeline Sonik. Although Sonik explores some of the salient personal experiences of her young life, the essays in 'Afflictions & Departures' are not traditional memoir. In addition to incidents and feelings recaptured from memory, Sonik seeks out connections between the microcosm of of the daily events of her childhood and the social, historical, and scientific trends of the time. 'Afflicitons & Departures' begins by considering the turbulent and changing nature of the world in the late 1950s and early 1960s-the world in which the author was conceived and born. Like many couples of that era, Madeline Sonik's parents focused on shared social and economic ambitions at the expense of authentic personal feeling. These ambitions would erode and, by the 1970s, completely collapse. In 'Afflictions & Departures ' Sonik exercises both intellectual depth and emotional range. The essays are as incisive as they are deeply moving, and leave the reader with a sense of history as it was lived, not as it is codified in countless textbooks."Startlingly original, Madeline Sonik's moving story of her childhood defies all our expectations of memoir. She captures crystalline moments of childhood memory and links them in a daisy-chain with corresponding events of the tumultuous societal change taking place outside her home. It is North America in the 1960s and 70s and her letter-perfect, child's-eye view of the world brings back that time with such intensity that the reader can almost smell and taste it. Droll, tragic, and absolutely compelling, 'Afflictions and Departures' is a visceral portrayal of a family imploding." -Jury, Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction"Her memory is dustless, capacious, uncanny. With a storyteller's skill and a poet's depth of vision, she recreates her childhood with one eye on her family and the other on the larger world. Significant cultural markers sit side-by-side with the small, painful intensities of her childhood. This memoir is crammed with pathos, yet is written with a light touch. I adore the narrator who never falls into self-pity or narcissism. The clarity of her vision makes the prose gleam and transforms autobiography into art." -Lorna Crozier, author of 'Small Beneath the Sky'"Honesty has to be at the centre of any memoir, and 'Afflictions & Departures' pulsates with raw, straightforward truth. ... Sonikhas overcome enormous challenges and turned them into literary jewels. This book encourages readers to think about family, memory and history - and above all, resilience." - Times ColonistWinner of the City of Victoria Butler Book PrizeFinalist, Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fictionNominated for the BC National Award for Canadian non-Fiction