A collection of poems by Megan Theodore on love, growth, normalizing the tension and depth of human emotion that often gets obfuscated by society.

In his first collection of poems, Andrew Rumney provides a personal commentary regarding the emotional complications that come with being an early 20-something in the age of coronavirus, with special attention paid to the topics of anxiety, romance, and life.

The Big IF By: B. L. Buehler The Big IF pertains to a righteous relationship with God in the light of truth and reality. Having served the Lord for 30 years at his own expense, B. L. Buehler was anointed to write the book for the spiritual edification of others. The emphasis of The Big IF is upon God first and foremost, sincere and devotional faith, truth, discipline, and reverence for the Lord. Buehler’s experiences, failures, and devotion unto the Lord, and the truth of the spiritual relational reality, which is all about the Lord, are all depicted in the pages within.

This book is about discovering the causes of how we love. The experiences that we encounter throughout our lives that teaches us how to love or how we feel we should be loved and should love another. It will take you on a journey of self exploration. Whether it's through the scenarios in each chapter that you may identify with or just the written truths. You will question yourself. These writing are about ways to learn how to love yourself as well as your chosen partner or future partner. They will show you how to identify the contributing factors of your perception of love, from your childhood and upbringing to adulthood. We are all affect by our past and know how and why is the keys to success. ENJOY!!!

Life is about loving—to know love, and then just as freely as you have received it, to give it away to a world that is in desperate need of real and authentic affection and encouragement. What if you could see yourself in a whole new way? What freedom could you walk in if you could see yourself as God sees you? The Love Project is a daily journey that will inspire you to see and enjoy God’s great affection for you, and in so doing, allow you to be a catalyst to help others transform their own perspective of who they are and how they see themselves. It is not just the journey of a lifetime; it’s the journey for a lifetime. Watch your life, and those around you, turn from ordinary to extraordinary as day after day you live out The Love Project.

Love has been the subject of much fascination. It is indeed one of those things which elude us in many ways. The long-lasting disagreement over love's nature is unsurprising. In light of this, a piecemeal approach to love is in order. Instead of asking what love is down the line, we might need to investigate its various features and its connection to other things. The Rationality of Love addresses the question whether love belongs, paradoxically enough, to the realm of reason, whether love belongs to the class of responses, such as belief and action, that admit of norms of justification and rationality. Are there normative reasons to love someone? Can it be an appropriate or fitting response to an individual? Can it be rational? Or is love, like perceptual experiences, sensations and urges, the sort of thing we just have and for which we cannot be rationally criticizable? Hichem Naar provides a sustained defense of the rationality of love. There are reasons to love others, reasons provided by the unique value of each individual. This will in turn rule out popular accounts of love which deny love's rationality and vindicate those accounts that make room for it. Drawing on various domains of philosophical inquiry such as the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of normativity, and epistemology, Naar provides a careful assessment of the various positions in the debate over reasons for love and develops his own answer to the normative question about love.

The essential companion book for The 5 Love Languages® Singles Edition You want to be able to love effectively and truly feel loved in return. The 5 Love Languages®Singles Edition Workbook provides the sure steps to meaningful, relational connection. These ten lessons—created to strengthen and deepen your relationship with God and others—provide workable strategies for applying the principles of The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition. This workbook includes interactive questions, quizzes, charts, and diagrams—all aimed at helping you better experience love, express love, and identify areas for development. Whether you want to be closer to your parents, reach out more to your friends, or give dating another try, this workbook gives you the confidence to love well. This companion book—designed for individuals or small groups—helps you take the joy-filled insights of The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition and put them into practice.

The third volume in Dr. Sky’s inspiring five-part SohKiDo® series, Pathways III and IV: Masks and Rituals focuses on two powerful tools for use in therapeutic healing and self-discovery. SohKiDo, a Japanese hybrid word created by Dr. Sky, essentially means “the way of Transpersonal creativity.” This book explains the third and fourth of its seven pathways. Using masks and rituals as therapy can be extremely effective as an alternative to more traditional and clinical methods. Using a myriad of discoveries from Dr. Sky’s own creative and spiritual journey—including centuries-old Japanese Noh Theater techniques and Finnish lamenting traditions—Pathways III and IV: Masks and Rituals will inspire you to access the healing power available to us all through SohKiDo and its unique and life-changing insights into spirituality and the self.

Sex is love’s fast-forward button. If you’re normal, sooner or later, you’re going to fall in love with the person you’re sleeping with, or they’re going to fall in love with you, whether you like it or not. “Passionate love,” as Jonathan Haidt rightly observes in The Happiness Hypothesis (2006), “is a drug. Its symptoms overlap with those of heroin . . . and cocaine . . . . Passionate love alters the activity of several parts of the brain, including parts that are involved in the release of dopamine. Any experience that feels intensely good releases dopamine, and the dopamine link is crucial here because drugs that artificially raise dopamine levels, as do heroin and cocaine, put you at risk of addiction.” The feelings we develop for someone we’re sleeping with are powerful. This is largely a function of oxytocin, a hormone normally associated with mother-infant bonding. In most mammals, oxytocin is released solely during breastfeeding, where it helps to forge a powerful bond between mother and child. But in certain species, large quantities of oxytocin are also released during sex, where it helps to forge a powerful bond between lovers. In Blueprint (2019), Nicholas A. Christakis maintains that these modifications of the oxytocin reflex are nothing short of astounding: “a set of physiological experiences that originally evolved to facilitate mother-child bonding” have, in our species, evolved to facilitate and support pair-bonding. “The neural circuits that light up in a woman’s brain are similar whether she looks at her baby or her partner.” Evolution seems to have selected for human neediness. This explains the voracious nature of human sexuality. Unlike tigers, bears, and salamanders, who only have sex during the mating season, we have sex all year round. What’s more, we have a great deal of sex that’s clearly not going to result in pregnancy (e.g., gay sex, straight sex after menopause, etc.). Sex’s primary purpose has long since transcended procreation. Sexual desire renders us needy. It takes us out of ourselves and into the world, making hunters of us all. If the greatest friendships fall into our laps serendipitously, like the treasure you find buried in your own backyard, the greatest loves of our lives are like spoils we bring home from the field of battle.

Sarah finds herself entangled in the delicate threads of marriage, questioning the impulsive choices that led her to this uncertain crossroad. Faced with financial pressures, she and Bruce hurriedly exchanged vows, a decision driven more by circumstance than by the readiness of her heart. Now, as the weight of matrimony settles upon her shoulders, Sarah wonders if she's made a commitment she wasn't fully prepared for. While their engagement held the promise of a shared future, the reality of married life with Bruce proves to be a tumultuous journey. As the days unfold, Bruce's actions take a disconcerting turn, revealing an unsettling obsession that Sarah hadn't anticipated. Was this the man she believed herself to be marrying, or has the veil of familiarity lifted to expose a stranger with a darker, more unpredictable side? In book 4 of the Tainted Love Saga, Sarah's emotional landscape becomes a battleground of conflicting emotions. Delve into the complexities of marriage, self-discovery, and the struggle to define one's identity within the confines of a union that was meant to bring solace, not turmoil. Can Sarah navigate the treacherous waters of matrimony, or is she faced with the daunting realization that the man she thought she knew is, in fact, a stranger harboring secrets of his own? As Sarah grapples with the uncertainty of her choices, book 4 of the Tainted Love Saga invites readers to explore the transformative power of love, the fragility of trust, and the resilience it takes to confront the shadows that lurk within the heart of a relationship. Will Sarah find the strength to unravel the mysteries of her marriage, or will she succumb to the veil of uncertainty that shrouds her newfound life? Join her on this gripping journey, where the line between dreams and reality blurs, and the quest for self-discovery takes center stage.