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How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime | Nadine Burke Harris
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neg ...
The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family
"An extremely useful parenting handbook... truly outstanding ... strongly recommended."--Library Journal (starred review)"A tremendous resource for ...
What is Epigenetics? The Answer to the Nature vs. Nurture Debate
Scientific research shows that experiences can affect whether and how genes are expressed. Nature vs. Nurture is no longer a debate—it's nearly alw ...
A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss
An expanded edition of this classic book on grief and loss―with a new preface and epilogueLoss came suddenly for Jerry Sittser. In an instant, a tr ...
I sacrificed more by leaving the mission field
“I sacrificed more by leaving the mission field.” When my friend recently made this statement, I not only knew she was right; I recognized how few ...
Recovering from Churches That Abuse
This book is a healing balm for those who have been spiritually abused. This excellent SHORT book brings home poignantly the plight of the vulnerab ...
Choosing the Gift of Forgiveness: How to Overcome Hurts and Brokenness
The authors of Choosing the Gift of Forgiveness, a pastor and a psychologist, approach the task of forgiving realistically. It is always painful. S ...
Burn Up or Splash Down: Surviving the Culture Shock of Re-Entry
Just like a space shuttle struggles and strains to re-enter the earth's atmosphere, so those returning from living overseas can find themselves con ...
Adverse Outcomes to Early Middle Age Linked With Childhood Residential Mobility
Introduction Links between childhood residential mobility and multiple adverse outcomes through to maturity, and effect modification of these assoc ...
Mom's Boundaries Saved My Life
Vechi Mutum, National Outreach Coordinator for Tree House Recovery, describes how addiction took his life down to a very dark place, leaving him ho ...
Deadly Emotions
Did you know that negative emotions can adversely affect your health? Depression, anger, guilt, condemnation, low self-esteem-these are only a few ...
When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community From Emotional and Spiritual Abuse
Why does narcissism seem to thrive in our churches?We've seen the news stories and heard the rumors. Maybe we ourselves have been hurt by a narciss ...