we're all healing from something. may these curated words find their way to you and provide comfort. they help me. i hope they help you too. for hearts that ache. is a collection of archived works assembled for anyone that has ever felt the loss of someone, lost a part of themselves, or dealt with heartache.

How do you forgive when the wound is still open? People often ask Sarah, "How did you forgive your alcoholic mother?” How do you forgive someone who carelessly brushed aside your pain, who caused such destruction, and who doesn’t show remorse? How do you know when to stay and when to go? In The Complicated Heart, you will travel through Sarah's story with her, from age 14 and beyond, as she wrestles with these very questions. Prepare yourself: she holds nothing back. If you’ve struggled with a difficult relationship, if you’ve felt torn-up and crazy and confused because of it, if you just want to know how to move forward and be okay, this story is for you. Dysfunction does not have to be your destiny or your identity. Victory is on the table. What's more: you’ll not only travel with Sarah, you’ll travel with her mom as well as you read her mom’s journal entries and letters. What goes on in the mind of the person who hurt you the most? In this story, you’ll get a rare peek into that mind and heart. In these pages you'll be reminded that light always finds a way in, even in the deepest darkness, and redemption and joy are possible in the midst of trauma and unmet needs. If you want to learn how to forgive when your wound is still open, heal when circumstances don't change, and become a generational bondage-breaker, The Complicated Heart is for you. And if not for you, for someone you know. Pass it along.

Forty years, twenty solo albums, numerous musical collaborations -- this book contains the lyrics and poems to over 350 works by Scottish singer-songwriter Chris Connelly, with a foreword by Shirley Manson.

Let Boundaries for Your Soul show you how to turn your shame to joy, your anger to advocacy, and your inner critic into your biggest champion. Do your emotions control you or do you control your emotions? Boundaries for Your Soul, written by bestselling authors and licensed counselors Alison Cook and Kimberly Miller, shows you how to calm the chaos within. This groundbreaking approach will give you the tools you need to: Know what to do when you feel overwhelmed Understand your guilt, anxiety, sadness, and fear Move from doubt and conflict to confidence and peace Find balance and emotional stability Gathering the wisdom from the authors' twenty-five years of combined advanced education, biblical studies, and clinical practice, this book will set you on a journey to become the loving, authentic, joyful person you were created to be. Praise for Boundaries for Your Soul: "Personal growth requires that we create healthy boundaries for our internal world, just as we are to do in our interpersonal relationships. When the various parts of our soul are connected and integrated, the result is that we heal, relate, and function at the highest levels. Alison Cook and Kimberly Miller have written a very helpful, engaging, and practical book on how to accomplish this process." --Dr. John Townsend, New York Times bestselling author of Boundaries and founder of the Townsend Institute "Boundaries for Your Soul spoke to me in echoes of already-known, yet-not-fully-applied truths, as well as with sweet new understandings. For both those familiar with Jesus' inner healing and those new to the process, there is real help here." --Elisa Morgan, author of The Beauty of Broken and The Prayer Coin, cohost of Discover the Word, and president emerita of MOPS International

Heart’s Ache is a collection of traditional-style poems that seeks to express for others what their own hearts have been struggling to express. It's about pain and love, loss and surrender, desire and youthful loneliness. It’s about fallen man’s longings for a higher experience of love; his memories of a fallen Eden, his visions of a distant heaven, and his painful awareness that pain and love are never separated. It’s the poetic result of one young person’s desire to allow pain to be felt, to express it in words, and then to continue trusting in God’s goodness to do exceedingly above all that we could ask or think. It’s about bravely connecting with the inner yearning for God’s love and the love of His people, even though pain is always sure to be present in some measure. It’s about loving, and then loving again, never ceasing to look in hope for God’s own abundant provision of love and reciprocation. He who loves deeply hurts deeply, but never will the soul of man experience love's rapture like those who bear their cross and wait for God’s blessing.

Thirty biblical meditations for women that offer hope in times of suffering. Thirty biblical meditations for women that offer hope in times of suffering. Hurt is real. But so is hope. Kristen and Sarah have walked through, and are walking in, difficult times. So these thirty biblical reflections are full of realism about the hurts of life-yet overwhelmingly full of hope about the God who gives life. This book will gently encourage and greatly help any woman who is struggling with suffering-whether physical, emotional or psychological, and whether for a season or for longer. It is a book to buy for yourself, or to buy for a member of your church or friend. For anyone who is hurting, this book will give hope, not just for life beyond the suffering, but for life in the suffering. Each chapter contains a biblical reflection, with questions and prayers, and a space for journaling.

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The 6th book in the "PoemS" series. An intended farewell to friends and a tribute to David Bowie. An experience of hurt, healing, and love. A self-discovering autobiography and dream-filled escape! Enjoy and thank you.