In this powerful and compassionate guide, survivors of childhood physical abuse will find a roadmap to healing and reclaiming their lives. With gentle wisdom and practical strategies, "Mending the Shattered Mirror" offers: - Insight into the long-lasting effects of childhood physical abuse - Tools for managing difficult emotions and building self-esteem - Guidance on setting healthy boundaries and navigating relationships - Strategies for turning painful experiences into sources of strength - Inspiration for moving from survivor to thriver Drawing from both professional expertise and the lived experiences of survivors, this book provides a beacon of hope for those who have long felt trapped in the shadows of their past. It acknowledges the pain of what was lost, while illuminating the path toward what can be gained – a life of wholeness, purpose, and joy. Whether you're just beginning your healing journey or have been on the path for years, "Mending the Shattered Mirror" offers validation, support, and practical tools for every step of the way. It reminds us that while we cannot change our past, we have the power to shape our future. This isn't just a book about surviving childhood physical abuse – it's a guide to thriving in spite of it. It's about gathering the shattered pieces of self and creating something beautiful and new. If you're ready to move beyond merely coping and start truly living, this book is for you. Your journey of healing and self-discovery starts here. You are not what happened to you. You are what you choose to become.

Mending the Shattered Mirror is a story of despair, hope and eventual triumph. Analie Shepherd, the author, found herself in need of the support of a therapist after a tragedy in her life. Within the confines of this relationship, Analie suffered extreme abuse: verbal, physical and emotional. Finally able to leave the abusive therapist, Analie reached out to TELL, an international organization, whose purpose is to support victims in the struggle to regain their lives after abuse by a health care practitioner. Through TELL, Analie connected with responder Laurie, a retired Psychiatrist who was herself sexually abused in therapy for ten years. Contained within the book, is a four-year email exchange between Analie and Laurie, in which both of their stories are told--the tragedy and the triumph. Analie's story is complicated by the fact that she is diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder, also known as Multiple Personalities. Much of the abuse within her therapy, was perpetrated on her alter personalities, and their voices and stories are included in the book, as well as some of their original artwork.

A shattered mirror can never project a perfect image of what we want others to see in us. And somehow in this autobiography Jay Burton painted a portrait unlike any other gritty street-life legend. Jay's experience growing up in Watts California, from raising Pitbulls and Roller Pigeons. To playing sports, then trading it all in for the "Bounty Hunter Watts Bloods" And drug dealing. It's a seductive testament to him. Shattered Mirror, is the first half of a two-part autobiography. " Love, Loyalty, & Betrayal " picks up where this rollercoaster ride ends. Where Jay colors in all the consequences of the causes and effects, of manchild growing wild in search of steeet fame. That leads to a crooked L.A Sheriff's Division, crossing Jay up with a murder at the tender age of 16. This story crosses all racial and economical boundaries. The portrait is framed a posted. Readers will identify themselves, or someone they know or heard of, within this well written true story. "Love, Loyalty, and Betrayal" Part 2 is coming soon!

Do you ever feel like your spiritual life is incomplete? That makes sense, because we can tend to separate things God always meant to go together. We say we are a thinker or a feeler. A “be” person or a “do” person. A “truth” person or a “Spirit” person. While separating these things seems normal to many Christians, doing so is as crazy as calling yourself an “inhaler” or an “exhaler”—after all, both are necessary to survive. If you’re feeling like you’re missing something on your spiritual journey, this segmented view of relating to God could be the problem. In Whole, journey along with Kathryn Maack and Aaron Williams (founders of Dwell Ministries) as they explore the spiritual change that’s possible when learn how to reunite these areas of your Christian life: head + heart being + doing truth + spirit sinner + saint God never meant for you to relate to Him with only part of yourself. He wants the whole you. Discover the life-changing power of relating to God with all of yourself.

I would like to enter a partnership with you, sharing what these assigned passages say to me, setting forth what I might do with each assigned text, hopefully igniting ideas in your busy and at times overburdened mind and spirit, so that together we may bring that word from the Lord. ... My hope is not to take the work entirely out of sermon preparation, but to generate a process whereby the busy -- sometimes overworked -- preacher can get off to a running start.

Though protected behind a barrier of magic, the Realm of the Summer Court is anything but safe… Deirdre, James, and Iain finally reach Seelie Court to warn them of the impending war and heal Deirdre's stolen magic. However, their greatest challenges are yet to come. Deirdre must prove she can regain her magic and control it or risk losing her chance to belong in the Realm. When Iain volunteers to be her champion, he must undergo a trial of his own to prove his claims about the Iron Guard by joining the perilous Wild Hunt. James continues his quest for magic by communicating with Cecil, the enigmatic emissary of the Winter Court. Although the monstrous Cait Sidhe cannot be trusted, can James trust the man behind the beast? As Alan and the army draw nearer to the Summer Court with each hour the dark magic aiding him threatens to destroy not only him but Kallista—and everything he is fighting for. This is the fourth installment in the seven-book Winter's Blight series.

THE FANTASY BOOKTOK SENSATION! For fans of Uprooted and For the Wolf comes a dark, lushly gothic fantasy about a maiden who must unleash the monster within to save her kingdom—but the monster in her head isn't the only threat lurking. Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her. Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom she calls home—she needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercurial spirit trapped in her head. He protects her. He keeps her secrets. But nothing comes for free, especially magic. When Elspeth meets a mysterious highwayman on the forest road, her life takes a drastic turn. Thrust into a world of shadow and deception, she joins a dangerous quest to cure the kingdom of the dark magic infecting it. Except the highwayman just so happens to be the King’s own nephew, Captain of the Destriers…and guilty of high treason. He and Elspeth have until Solstice to gather twelve Providence Cards—the keys to the cure. But as the stakes heighten and their undeniable attraction intensifies, Elspeth is forced to face her darkest secret yet: the Nightmare is slowly, darkly, taking over her mind. And she might not be able to stop him.

Prayed Upon won first place in the Inspire Christian Writer's "Great Openings" contest for non-fiction.