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Curious about therapy? Get oriented and comfortable before you begin. Psychotherapist and author Faith Freed (LMFT) believes that therapy benefits anyone brave and wise enough to begin. In this down-to-earth book, she shares her first-hand knowledge and clinical experience to send you off with confidence. Starting Therapy is an easy-to-read guide for anyone new to therapy or eager to learn more about it. It makes sense that you’d want to know what you’re signing up for before your first session. This book answers your questions before you hit the couch. -Decide with more certainty whether therapy is for you-Find a therapist and discern the right fit-Feel prepared for your first session and those to follow-Get the most value out of the time you invest-Glimpse what therapy is really like from actual case examples-Learn what’s expected of you and much more.Starting Therapy is a concise-yet-comprehensive guide that gets you primed and ready for your first session and beyond. If you like to look before you leap, you’ll love this preview and primer. This practical guide offers loads of helpful tips to make you feel at ease, even before you begin treatment. Read this jargon-free, user-friendly book and be thoroughly prepared for the life enhancing adventure of psychotherapy.Author and licensed psychotherapist (LMFT) Faith Freed brings over a decade of experience in the San Francisco Bay Area and two advanced degrees to her new private practice in downtown Santa Barbara. She collaborates with clients to know themselves better, improve their relationships, and reveal game-changing insights. Her specialties include personal growth, creativity, love, spirituality, anxiety, and EMDR. Find out more at FaithFreed.com.

How can we possibly find our purpose if everything that can happen does happen?See how Jesus is more relevant than ever in the dizzying, infinite multiverse.As cutting edge physics increasingly suggests that we may live in a multiverse filled with alternative realities, what possible relevance can Jesus have for our lives?  Discover how faith is vitally necessary for the integrity of our souls in this new vision of God’s glorious, endless creation.Theologian, pastor, and critically acclaimed science fiction author David Williams leads us on a journey through this complex and mindbending topic with grace and humor.Christ and the Multiverse shows the growth of human knowledge brought us to the realization that there could be countless alternative realities.  In the face of that dizzying possibility, the book lays out how this cosmology connects with the Gospel.  Deeper still, it shows how the moral teachings of Jesus are even more critically relevant.

Refresh your prayer life with this fresh take on the Psalms.We all pray. And we all struggle at it. We need help. For thousands of years, God’s people have turned to the Psalms for that help. This ancient collection of prayers, songs, and wisdom poems has been a faithful guide for those who pray. Even Jesus used them. There’s no better place to shape a biblical spirituality that takes into account the realities of everyday life.Peter Santucci’s love of the Psalms was ignited by his mentor Eugene Peterson. Peter has been a pastor, a journalist, a hospital/hospice chaplain, and a volleyball coach. He blogs at GodAndLifeAndStuff.com and lives with his family in Bend, Oregon."Transforming old lines into strikingly modern ones, Peter Santucci’s new translation of Psalms offers a fresh and down-to-earth rendering of the Hebrew text. Frustration, questioning, and complaint, alongside praise, joy, and trust — Santucci invites us to experience the wide range of the psalmists’ deepest emotions: faith and fear combined. Clearly the Bible’s message is for us today! Enter in and enjoy!" —Dr. Lynell Zogbo, Bible Translation Consultant and Author, United Bible Societies"The Psalms are the prayerbook of the Bible. Here we are invited to pray with utter honesty, leaving nothing out including the hard, the bad and the ugly and turn to God with all of our might. In this fresh and creative rendering, Peter Santucci unlocks the Psalms for us, removes archaic language and recovers for us what it means to pray all of life back to God like a reversed thunder. Don’t miss this!" —Dr. Gisela Kreglinger, author of The Soul of Wine:Savoring the Goodness of God.

You are allowed to laugh.Too often our faith is like wearing a T-shirt that’s two sizes too small. We keep trying to pull it and tug it and all the while it feels like we are slowly suffocating.You are allowed to laugh.The finger pointers and the self-appointed judges of what’s appropriate and what isn’t sit in the back row and scowl. They sing “Joy to the World” as if it were a funeral dirge. They say, “Stop that laughing. You are in CHURCH!”You are allowed to laugh.Jesus did. He must have. How could any human being (or divine being) made of love and joy spend all his life being a scowler and fun-spoiler?Most people don’t know, just prior to his career as an itinerant minister Jesus took a shot a sketch comedy. Long before Abbot and Costello or the Pythons or any of those people on Saturday Night Live—there was Scott and Jesus, traveling around Jerusalem playing wedding receptions and open-mic nights. (Well there was no “mics” but you get the idea.)So what if it didn’t last? Jesus and Scott took a shot. Now Jesus has moved on and we must take a look at the bits Scott saved so that some day you could hold this book. Someday in the midst of all the arguments...you could laugh.Laugh. God is not judging you. God loves you. Sit back. Relax. Oh, and it’s probably best not to drink coffee sitting across from someone you love while reading this book—just fair warning.Oh, and did we mention? It’s okay to laugh.

Who was Carlos Duarte Costa? Some called him "courageous and democratic," "the antifascist bishop," and the "Rebel in Rio." Others called him "completely misguided," "disturbed," and a "psychical anomaly." He was an outspoken critic of fascism, imperialism, capitalism and the Vatican, and he exposed links between them. He preached the compatibility of socialism and Christianity, decades before his one-time friend Hélder Câmara described himself as a 'socialist bishop.'Duarte Costa was both prophetic and pioneering, anticipating Catholic debate (and dissent) over celibacy, divorce, religious freedom, authority, and clericalism by several decades, and not waiting for permission to enact reforms. His groundbreaking 1945 Manifesto is presented here with comprehensive commentary, analysis, contextualization, and explanatory references. The Manifesto is both a handbook for dissenting Catholics and a forerunner of Liberation Theology, offering an impassioned Marxist-inspired critique of organized Christianity, Capitalism, and the Papacy.Carlos Duarte Costa: Testament of a Socialist Bishop examines the bishop's life, thought, influences, and discusses his lasting legacy. In an age when the relationship between faith and politics is more hotly debated than ever, the words and witness of this extraordinary individual are as relevant, incisive and portentous as they were seventy-five years ago.

A pastor with a kind heart. A black op with a deadly aim. All wrapped up in one amazing woman...Blood sacrifice. Could there be anything more evil? What happens when the symbols of grace get turned upside down? Are we left without hope?Set in the Adirondack Mountains, the clash between good and evil escapes its local confines to threaten the nation and even engulf the globe. The selling of souls to perdition fuels the fires of hell so that we on Earth cannot avoid the heat.Discover Leona's Law: You know it's the voice of Satan when you hear the call to shed innocent blood.

Moving from one country to another constitutes a rite of passage for many. It all begins with the decision that a change is right, and it’s time to make that change. What follows that decision is a process that involves a number of stages...What is it like to leave work, friends, and family behind and move to another country? Moving to Mexico: Relocation as a Rite of Passage explores the progression people negotiate when moving from one country to another.Mexico has become home to many from all over the world. A range of expatriates from not only the U.S. and Canada, but also Germany, Kenya, Japan, Russia, and Scotland shared personal stories of the inspiration for their move, how they negotiated the process, and successfully adapted to a new life.Sydney Metrick is the author of I Do, and Crossing the Bridge, and co-author of The Art of Ritual, and Rituals for Life, Love and Loss. She has a doctorate in Expressive Arts and she specializes in supporting individuals, couples and groups through life transitions by using creative expression, ceremony, and strategic planning techniques.

Today I was leaving my familiar little home patch to explore a much wider home...Slow Travels in Unsung Spain is a warts n' all trip through some of Spain's hidden gems: towns, cities, landscapes and cultural highlights that are typically overlooked by foreign tourists but which the Spanish often keep to themselves.Against a backdrop of strikes and continuing economic hardship across Spain, the author travels alone by rail and bus, encountering the vibrant heritage of the regions, including a singing Gypsy by an ancient well in remote, unspoilt Extremadura, the creativity and resilience of a gourmet beggar in the big city of Zaragoza and a lone disabled pilgrim going home from the Camino de Santiago after quitting the road.As well, he discovers intrepid ex-pats who are carving out their own lives away from international communities.Slow Travels in Unsung Spain is new and fresh because it largely ignores Spain's over-developed coastal resorts and islands, bypassing the standard fare of Spain's beaches and fiestas or clichés around bullfighting, the siesta, and football. Instead the author, uncovers the real heartland where the next future waves of tourism could well be.Brett Hetherington is a long-time Spanish resident and journalist. His sweet-and-sour travelogue uncovers a deeper Spain that has a rich culture and past, alive and well in these hidden corners of Europe.

Sedevacantism, American Catholicism's only homegrown "new religious movement" (NRM), argues that the Catholic Church has sunk into heresy at the hands of false popes. It sits at the extremes of two growing phenomena: Traditionalist Catholicism and Independent Catholicism. The only Roman Catholic bishop ever to espouse Sedevacantism was Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô-dinh-Th¿c - but who was he?ARCHBISHOP TH¿C, Godfather of Vietnam's notorious ruling clan, key CIA contact, and apologist for a brutal, failing regime. But Th¿c escaped, leaving behind a mysterious fortune, secret deals, abuse cover-ups, and the Vietnam War. In exile, Th¿c helped launch the fanatical Palmarian cult (which later canonized Franco and Hitler), inspired assorted renegades, and reemerged as the icon of a new hardline movement called Sedevacantism. SEDE VACANTE: The Life and Legacy of Archbishop Th¿c painstakingly reconstructs this remarkable story: from French Indochina to the Japanese occupation; from the Communist revolution to the doomed US-backed puppet regime; from Th¿c's exile to his role in Vatican II. Sede Vacante investigates the origins of the secretive Palmarian cult and analyzes the theological, sacramental, and canonical issues arising from all of Th¿c's exploits; it explains why, now more than ever, Catholics and non-Catholics alike should be aware of Sedevacantism.