Hope for Today's Families

Hope for Today's Families
Author: Willie Oliver
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2018-12-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9781786650023

Offers clever, realistic, and practical ideas and solutions.It will:¿ Help you build strong relationships with those around you.¿ Give you new skills to help build your children's characters.¿ Share time-proven principles that will facilitate a meaningfuland happy life.¿ Show husbands and wives how to draw closer emotionally,spiritually, financially, and intellectually.¿ Help you communicate more effectively, understand andheal the roots of violence, prevent distress and divorce, orlive happily as a single person.There is hope for you and your family!

Hope for Today

Hope for Today
Author: Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc
Publisher: Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Alcoholics
ISBN: 9780910034395

Hope for Today: Al-Anon's newest daily reader brings fresh insight and much-needed support to anyone affected by a loved one's addiction.

Hope for Today

Hope for Today
Author: Al-Anon Family Groups
Publisher: Al-Anon Family Groups Inc.
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2020-02-28
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0999503545

Daily sharings from Al‑Anon’s adult children members are for anyone who wants to grow in acceptance, compassion, and understanding. Indexed.

Hope and Despair in Narrative and Family Therapy

Hope and Despair in Narrative and Family Therapy
Author: Carmel Flaskas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2007-03-12
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135448574

How do experiences of hope and despair impact upon our capacity to meet life's challenges in narrative and family therapy? Clients' experiences of hope and despair can be complex, reflecting individual and family histories, current patterns and dynamics, the stresses of everyday life, and the social contexts of families' lives. This book analyses how therapists meet and engage with these dichotomous aspects of human experience. The editors place the themes of hope and despair at the centre of a series of reflections on practice and theory. Contributors from all over the world are brought together, incorporating a range of perspectives from narrative, systemic and social constructionist frameworks. The book is divided into three sections, covering: reflections on hope and despair facing adversity: practices of hope reflections on reconciliation and forgiveness. Hope and Despair in Narrative and Family Therapy looks at the importance of hope in bringing about positive therapeutic change. This book will be of great use to family therapists, psychotherapists, counsellors, and students on therapeutic training courses.

Courage to Change—One Day at a Time in Al‑Anon II

Courage to Change—One Day at a Time in Al‑Anon II
Author: Al-Anon Family Groups
Publisher: Al-Anon Family Groups Inc.
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2018-08-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0996306412

More daily inspiration from a fresh, diverse perspective. Insightful reflections reveal surprisingly simple things that can transform lives.

My Family, Your Family

My Family, Your Family
Author: Lisa Bullard
Publisher: Millbrook Press ™
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1467776602

Different can be great! Makayla is visiting friends in her neighborhood. She sees how each family is different. Some families have lots of children, but others have none. Some friends live with grandparents or have two dads or have parents who are divorced. How is her own family like the others? What makes each one great? This diverse cast allows readers to compare and contrast families in multiple ways.

Imagine Heaven

Imagine Heaven
Author: John Burke
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2015-10-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493400517

It's obvious from the bookshelves and the big screen that heaven is on everyone's mind. All of us long to know what life after death will be like. Bestselling author John Burke is no exception. For decades, he has been studying accounts of people who have had near-death experiences (NDEs). While not every detail of individual NDEs correlate with Scripture, Burke shows how the common experiences shared by thousands of survivors clearly point to the God of the Bible and the exhilarating picture of heaven he promises. Imagine Heaven is an inspirational journey through the Bible's picture of heaven, colored in with the real-life stories of heaven's wonders. Burke compares gripping stories of NDEs to what Scripture says about our biggest questions of heaven: Will I be myself? Will I see friends and loved ones? What will it look like? What is God like? What will we do forever? What about children and pets? This book will propel readers into an experience that will forever change their view of the life to come and the way they live life today. It also tackles the tough questions of heavenly reward and hellish NDEs. Anyone interested in NDEs or longing to imagine heaven more clearly will enjoy this fascinating and hope-filled book.

The Home for the Friendless

The Home for the Friendless
Author: Betty Auchard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Depressions
ISBN: 9781935043263

The eldest of three in an unconventional family making their way through The Great Depression, Betty narrates this humorous and poignant recollection. Although poor in possessions, Betty's family leads a life so rich in turmoil that it rivals today's sitcoms. Betty's young parents tie and untie the marital knot three times amidst a string of separations. When relatives become too weary to keep the children, Betty and her siblings are dropped off at The Home for the Friendless where they enjoy three meals a day, indoor plumbing, a grassy playground, and plenty of holiday parties. When the family reunites two years later, the roller coaster resumes as they move many times across two states, proving that love overcomes all and that normal isn't always better.

Hope Heals

Hope Heals
Author: Katherine Wolf
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0310344557

When all seems lost, where can you find hope? Katherine and Jay Wolf married right after college and sought adventure far from home in Los Angeles, CA. As they pursued their dreams--she as a model and he as a lawyer--they planted their lives in the city and their church community. Their son, James, came along unexpectedly in the fall of 2007, and just six months later, everything changed in a moment for this young family. On April 21, 2008, as James slept in the other room, Katherine collapsed, suffering a massive brain stem stroke without warning. Miraculously, Jay came home in time and called for help. Katherine was immediately rushed into brain surgery, though her chance of survival was slim. As the sun rose the next morning, the surgeon proclaimed that Katherine had survived the removal of part of her brain, though her future recovery was uncertain. Yet in that moment, there was a spark of hope. Through forty days on life support in the ICU and nearly two years in full-time brain rehab, that small spark of hope was fanned into flame. Hope Heals documents Katherine and Jay's journey as they struggled to regain Katherine's quality of life and as she relearned to talk, eat, and walk. As Katherine returned home with a severely disabled body but a completely renewed purpose, she and Jay committed to celebrating this gift of a second chance by embracing life fully, even though that life looked very different than they could have ever imagined. As you uncover Katherine and Jay's remarkable story, you'll be encouraged to: Find lasting hope in the midst of struggle Embrace the unexpected Welcome God's miracles into your everyday life In the midst of continuing hardships, both in body and mind, Katherine and Jay found what we all long to find: a hope that heals the most broken place--our souls. Let Hope Heals be your guide along the way. Praise for Hope Heals: "As I read this book, tears streamed from my eyes even as joy flooded my heart. Jay and Katherine are a raw yet refreshing testimony to the unshakable trustworthiness of God amidst the unimaginable trials of life. This book reminds all of us where hope can be found in a world where none of us know what the next day holds." --David Platt, author of the New York Times bestseller Radical and president of the International Mission Board "Hope Heals is a beautiful, true story that illustrates the love and protection God has for us even in the darkest times of our lives. Katherine and Jay's dedication to each other and the Lord through their most devastating season is inspiring. This book will help your heart believe that He sees, He knows, He cares, and He is still working miracles today!" --Lysa TerKeurst, New York Times bestselling author and president of Proverbs 31 Ministries

Family Healing

Family Healing
Author: Salvador Minuchin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1998-04-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1439107890

At the center of people’s lives is the family, which can be and should be a haven from the harshness of the outside world. Unfortunately, the source of people’s greatest hope for happiness often turns out to be the source of their worst disappointments. Now, the family therapist, Salvador Minuchin unravels the knots of family dynamics against the background of his own odyssey from an extended Argentinian Jewish family to his innovative treatment of troubled families. Through the stories of families who have sought his help, the reader is taken inside the consulting room to see how families struggle with self-defeating patterns of behavior. Through his confrontational style of therapy, Dr Minuchin demonstrates the strict but unseen rules that trap family members in stifling roles, and illuminates methods for helping families untangle systems of disharmony. In Dr Minuchin’s therapy there are no villains and no victims, only people trying to deal with various problems at each stage of the family life cycle. Minuchin understands the family as a system of interconnected lives, not as a “dysfunctional” group. Each story of a therapeutic encounter brings a new understanding of familiar dilemmas and classic mistakes, and recounts Dr Minuchin’s creative solutions.