By: J.S. Park
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Veteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permissio…
Want to Read $ 2.99"It wasn't until I sat with patient after patient, from emergency room to deathbed, that I saw what they saw: In their illness or injury, I saw a memory loss of the future. This is called intrapsychic grief, the pain of losing what will never be, the reaching for something that was supposed to happen. This intrapsychic grief is a specific but universal ache."-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve
"She asks me, "How do you grieve someone you never met?" With each patient, I hear similar questions. It keeps emerging, this pulse. It presses in every room, leans on every shoulder, demands an answer: How do you grieve future loss? Underneath that, more questions: How do you deal with the viciousness of a broken dream? How do you move on from the picture of life in your head? How do you keep moving through a parallel-universe life? My patients suffer from good dreams. What I mean is, it's not the nightmares that keep them up. It's the hope. Daydreams of another life. Instead of homesick, they're timesick. Before becoming a chaplain, I thought grief was about missing the past. About reflecting on all the things before, the stuff we had until mortality crawled through the window. It's true. We grieve the past. But mostly no one gets a chance to grieve the future. It doesn't seem to read as a real loss. I need to tell you about this because nobody told me: The dream that didn't happen is as much of a loss as losing the one that did."-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve
"Speeding through grief always has a cost. To bury somebody's supposed-to-be is also to bury a story that's untold. When you bury someone's story like that, it gets lodged in the ribcage, it gets radioactive, it festers, it shouts to be heard. Grief is always a voice that needs to speak. If you suppress it, it still speaks— but not always in ways that are healthy. Not in the ways you need. It pushes through your skin like rogue splinters. Burying a future loss without telling its story can make you sick. Timesick. You get split between timelines. The further along you go, the further away you get from that dream, and you look around and wonder how people can keep going while you want the world to stop, time to freeze, to get back to your real universe. And you get well-meaning people around you, always the ones who mean well, who are nudging you forward, shoving you, really, and you clutch two timelines until you're ripped in half. Part of my role as a chaplain, I've learned, is to make room for these original timelines. That they may be spoken, shared. The story told. "There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you, Zora Neale Hurston said. It must be conversely true that there is no greater peace than to tell that story."-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve
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By: Scot McKnight
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
What is the way forward for the church?Tragically, in recent years, Christians have gotten used to … read more
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By: Sloane Crosley
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
By: Anne Lamott
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: John Mark Comer
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The author of the international bestseller The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry calls us to rediscover… read more
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By: Lisa Ko
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more
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"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece
By: Emily P. Freeman
Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition
New York Times Bestseller If life were a house, then every room holds a story. What do we do when … read more
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By: Preston Perry
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of Preston Perry’s path toward God. A hope-filled apologetics and evangelism book written… read more
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"Don't let your pride murder your message."-Preston Perry, How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts—Not Just Arguments
"When we're more invested in politics than we are in people--when someone shares their story--we won't hear a testimony, but a position. We won't hear a cry, but a stance."-Preston Perry, How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts—Not Just Arguments
"Let us ask God to kill our pride and all the other sin inside us that might be in the way of the gospel. We don't ever want our personal conduct or behavior to be the reason someone rejects the gospe…"-Preston Perry, How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts—Not Just Arguments
"The way we do apologetics looks different when we are motivated not by our desire to conquer the other person, but by our genuine love and compassion, and by our desire to see people discover God's l…"-Preston Perry, How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts—Not Just Arguments
By: Amanda Montell
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Ramani Durvasula
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
A transformative guide to protecting and healing yourself from the narcissism you can’t see, from p… read more
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"You may have had the belief that to forgive is divine but have come to learn that to discern may be transcendent."-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People
"Radical acceptance of the injustice is part of this process-it not fair, I cannot change it; I can, however, chart a different and authentic course forward and learn from this. Be kind to yourself, t…"-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People
"I am tired of people calling those of us who get stuck in these cycles "codependent" or "addicted" to the narcissistic relationship. It's not that. If you have any empathy, have normal cognitive func…"-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People
By: Kate Bowler
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Warm and witty blessings found within the struggles of our shared humanity, from the New York Times… read more
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"Blessed are we who choose not to look away from systems that dehumanize, deceive, defame, and distort. We who recognize that thoughts and prayers are NOT enough. We who stand with truth over expedien…"-Kate Bowler, The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days
By: Curt Thompson
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
In the face of personal and global suffering, is it possible to live with hope rather than despair?… read more
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By: Kate Bowler
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Witty, honest, and wise spiritual reflections that invite readers to embrace the bad, not just the … read more
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By: Laura E. Anderson
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Anderson strikes a smart, balanced tone. . . . An exemplary guide to an understudied issue."--Publ… read more
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"Rebuilding a worldview and identity likely needs to include space for uncertainty."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"I have lived far too much of my life with the end goal of eternal life in heaven, and so I missed a lot of life on earth."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"A marker of healing from religious trauma is not simply the process of deconstructing one’s worldview and identity and rebuilding a new one; it is also the willingness to remain open to shifting and …"-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"Religious trauma resides in our bodies and nervous systems in the same way that trauma from war, developmental trauma, or sexualized trauma live inside us. Though the triggers and environment of the …"-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
By: Anna Gazmarian
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening memoir that reconciles the author’s bipolar disorder diagnosis and her Evangelical f… read more
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By: Sebastian Junger
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sarah Bessey
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconn… read more
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"And yet religion in our modern era seems mostly concerned with systematizing theology, charting time lines, answering questions, and making God small and knowable. We have created a God we can regula…"-Sarah Bessey, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith
By: Alua Arthur
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more
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By: Nancy French
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--fr… read more
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By: Lore Ferguson Wilbert
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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By: Kaitlyn Schiess
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
How do Bible passages written thousands of years ago apply to politics today? What can we learn fro… read more
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"The Bible is not a free-floating book of ageless wisdom, an interesting historical document, or a weapon that can be put in the service of any political goal. The Bible is a gift from God to the chur…"-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
"What is government? What is the relationship between theology and politics? How should Christians think about their political participation? These questions typically get lost in our conversations. W…"-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
By: J.S. Park
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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"It wasn't until I sat with patient after patient, from emergency room to deathbed, that I saw what they saw: In their illness or injury, I saw a memory loss of the future. This is called intrapsychic…"-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve
"She asks me, "How do you grieve someone you never met?" With each patient, I hear similar questions. It keeps emerging, this pulse. It presses in every room, leans on every shoulder, demands an answe…"-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve
"Speeding through grief always has a cost. To bury somebody's supposed-to-be is also to bury a story that's untold. When you bury someone's story like that, it gets lodged in the ribcage, it gets radi…"-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve
By: Meghan Riordan Jarvis
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized by loss? Esteemed trauma therapist Meghan Riord… read more
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"If I could stop getting caught in the old cobwebs of disappointment and accept my dad as he was, I might enjoy myself too. In the emotional tumbling routine of my father slowly dying, I did manage to…"-Meghan Riordan Jarvis, End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir
By: Kate Spencer
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Kate Spencer lost her mom to cancer when she was 27. In The Dead Moms Club, she walks readers throu… read more
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"And I am still mad. So mad. I can starve it, avoid it, rationalize it, manage it, talk about it in therapy, and eat it up in neat little points value. No matter how much weight I lose, I will never l…"-Kate Spencer, The Dead Moms Club: A Memoir about Death, Grief, and Surviving the Mother of All Losses
"Most days now, [the feelings] lie dormant in me. Sometimes it gets so quiet in my brain I think they've finally packed up and left. But every year as the calendar rounds the corner to March and the a…"-Kate Spencer, The Dead Moms Club: A Memoir about Death, Grief, and Surviving the Mother of All Losses
"These feelings don't just go away. They linger. Hover. They are with me always. Even at my most functioning...they are there, watching me. These emotions are my roommates now, bunking up beside me at…"-Kate Spencer, The Dead Moms Club: A Memoir about Death, Grief, and Surviving the Mother of All Losses
"These feelings don't just go away. They linger. Hover. They are with me always. Even at my most functioning...they are there, watching me. These emotions are my roommates now, bunking up beside me at…"-Kate Spencer, The Dead Moms Club: A Memoir about Death, Grief, and Surviving the Mother of All Losses
By: Myquillyn Smith
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Finally, a decorating book that transcends trends and applies to every style! You want to create a … read more
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By: Joy Sullivan
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more
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By: Lisa-Jo Baker
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An honest and lyrical coming-of-age memoir of growing up in South Africa at the height of apartheid… read more
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By: Micha Boyett
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
When Micha Boyett's son was born with Down's Syndrome and later diagnosed with autism, she was draw… read more
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By: Prentis Hemphill
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more
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By: Alison Cook
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
When you're tangled up inside, it's hard to find clarity. Yet so many of us guilt-trip or gaslight … read more
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By: Mark Vroegop
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Exploring 6 Characteristics of Waiting to Prompt Wisdom from God and Gain Invaluable Peace Througho… read more
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By: Alan Townsend
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A compassionate, vulnerable, and transformative exploration of the nurturing and spiritual power of… read more
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