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Postpartum Depression: Hope for a Hard Season
R88.51Retail: R110.64Many new mothers experience what some call postpartum "baby blues" a short period of feeling sad, irritable, anxious, and overwhelmed. But what happens when those feelings worsen as the newborn weeks go by? What help is there for you when sleepless...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Helping Children with Shame: Resting in God's Approval
R88.51Retail: R110.64Shame is the experience of feeling unacceptable, less than others, or different. Children often experience the sting of this particular sense of failing to measure up. Whether this heavy feeling comes from internal or external pressures, children need...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Relief without Cutting: Taking Your Negative Feelings to God
R88.51Retail: R110.64People handle the hard things in life in all different ways. What do you do when you get upset? Cry? Blow-up? Get depressed? Or perhaps, no one notices when you're upset because you find a quiet place and cut yourself. You're looking for relief, but is...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Your Child Says, "I'm Gay"
R88.51Retail: R110.64Four little words that will rock any parent's world: "I think I'm gay." If your child said this, you are probably experiencing a combination of shock, denial, anger, confusion, and uncertainty. Despite your shock you still want to respond well. What...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Authority Issues: When It's Hard Being Told What to Do
R88.33Retail: R110.64It's frustrating to be under imperfect authority. And sometimes it's more than frustrating—we suffer when someone's authority is unfair, capricious, or just plain wrong. But does that let us off the hook? Do we have to listen only to those we...R88.33Retail: R110.64 -
Healing after Abortion: God's Mercy is for You
R88.51Retail: R110.64The turmoil women experience after having an abortion is sometimes called "post-abortion syndrome." But you don't need a technical term to describe what you are feeling. The guilt, regret, depression, and grief are the honest struggles of a woman who's...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Making Friends: Beyond Loneliness to Rich Relationships
R88.51Retail: R110.64Making friends is one of the most basic aspects of life, so why does it often feel so difficult? You reach out to others, but they don't reach back. You think you've found a friend, but then they let you down or move away. How do you forge genuine...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Autism Spectrum Disorder and Your Child: Help for Your Family
R88.51Retail: R110.64Your child's diagnosis with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) may have left you feeling sad, confused, or perhaps even relieved to finally understand why he or she behaves differently from other children. Whatever your initial response to the diagnosis,...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Protecting Children from Abuse in the Church
R88.51Retail: R110.64How do we protect the children in our Christian community from sexual offenders? We are becoming more and more aware of the prevalence of child abuse, both in society at large and in the church. We want to protect children in our community from abuse,...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Recovering from Child Abuse: Healing and Hope for Victims
R88.51Retail: R110.64The damage you suffered may have been done in one terrible moment or over time. But the healing and the restoration will unfold at your pace, at a human pace. It unfolds as part of your story, and it unfolds over time. As a vulnerable child, instead of...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Teens and Anxiety: How Parents Can Help
R88.51Retail: R110.64Anxiety is the number one mental health issue facing people today, and teens are not exempt. The causes are many school pressures, relationship struggles, social media issues and the results can be debilitating for your teen. If you are noticing...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Alzheimer's Disease: Help for Families in Crisis
R88.51Retail: R110.64It starts out as small moments of forgetfulness that can be chalked up to simply getting older. But as time passes and symptoms accumulate, you are forced to face the fact that your loved one has Alzheimer's disease. Now you're wondering how the course...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Life Beyond Your Parents' Mistakes: The Transforming Power of God's Love
R88.51Retail: R110.64What if your human parents were violent, deceptive, cold, or even just occasionally disappointing? Can their failures keep you from understanding God's love and having a growing relationship with your heavenly Father? Some say that you can't know God's...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Bitterness: When You Can't Move On
R88.51Retail: R110.64It's only natural to bristle when you are mistreated. Perhaps you were passed over for a well-deserved job promotion, hurt by a family member, falsely accused, or experienced a severe disappointment. An array of emotions—anger, frustration,...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
What's Wrong with a Little Porn When You're Single?
R88.51Retail: R110.64"I know porn is wrong for a married person, but I'm single. What can it hurt?" The accessibility of pornography through the Internet means that more singles are asking themselves if porn use really matters. But Nicholas Black of Harvest USA, a ministry...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
What's Wrong with a Little Porn When You're Married?
R88.51Retail: R110.64You feel emotionally isolated and sexually disengaged from your spouse. Could it be that the fantasy world of pornography has intruded upon your real-life marriage? Nicholas Black of Harvest USA, a ministry for people struggling with sexual issues,...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
The Problem with Masturbation
R88.51Retail: R110.64"It's normal." "Everyone does it." "Nobody gets hurt." These are some commonly held beliefs about sexual fantasy and masturbation, but are they really true? Are sexual fantasies and masturbation harmless ways of dealing with sexual frustration? Marriage...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Forging a Strong Mother-Daughter Bond: Beyond Manipulation and Control
R88.51Retail: R110.64Moms want to be close to their daughters. Daughters (for the most part) want a good relationship with their moms. But when that relationship is strained by one person's attempt to control and manipulate, closeness is replaced by hurt, disappointment,...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
Your Husband Is Addicted to Porn: Healing After Betrayal
R88.51Retail: R110.64Betrayed. Broken. Angry. Devastated. Chances are, you've felt one or all of these since discovering your husband's interest in porn. How can you possibly trust him again? How do you rebuild your broken heart and fractured marriage? Is it even possible?...R88.51Retail: R110.64 -
When Children Experience Trauma: Help for Parents and Caregivers
R88.51Retail: R110.64When our children experience a traumatic event, we can feel powerless to help. We fear getting it wrong or reminding them of the hurt. Or we miss important cues that signal a child is in distress, leading us to address problematic behaviors with...R88.51Retail: R110.64
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