Quit Hiding Start Living

What is your reaction when someone hurts you?The chances are you withdraw from them and possibly others. Like many, you may find yourself putting up barricades to protect yourself and hide your hurting heart. Whilst having a 'no entry' sign on your heart and hiding from others may seem to work for a while, long term, it can have a detrimental effect on your physical, emotional and spiritual health.And so, Quit Hiding, Start Living! has been written to help you uncover and deal with your past hurts without resorting to unhealthy withdrawal patterns and negative emotions. Based on Gladys' personal and professional experience, Quit Hiding, Start Living! will also provide you with steps to forgive others and (re)build healthy relationships with healthy boundaries in place.Working through Quit Hiding, Start Living! and its exercises will allow you or your group to discover and embrace God's plan for you and your valuable and active role in His community.

Life can be wonderful, and life can be wicked. There can be times in your life when you're happy: you're in love, your children are healthy, and you're professionally fulfilled. And there can be other times when you're worrying about whether you'll be able to get through: your finances have become a burden, your blood pressure is sky high, and your spouse has just left you. We all experience stresses and failures. The key is developing coping skills that can transform even the worst situation into an opportunity to build resilience--your capacity to deal with and push through different degrees of adversity. In this book, mental health expert Dr. William Howatt presents a five-part model to move you past the rut in your life and toward happiness. He first shows you how to build awareness of each area in your life--career, finances, relationships, physical health, and mental health. Then, he shows you to take accountability and make healthy changes that will improve your life. Finally, he gives you tools to build your resilience and take action to achieve your goals. Happiness and well-being are not destinations; they're an outcome of choices you make, and ways of being and living daily. William Howatt's model will help you make those choices in a smart way so you can stop hiding and start living.

Why do you continue to hide your pain, shame and guilt? You carry it with you everywhere you go, knowing that one day you need to deal with it; yet, you keep procrastinating. And another year has gone by. And another. You suffer in silence. This book will help you discover how to be set free from the pain and shame of your past so that you can experience freedom and live a life of meaning and purpose. In this book you will learn: *Why we hide and what masks we wear to hide our pain, shame and guilt *How our character defects and shortcomings influence our desire to hide *How to create a new past and deal with the old one

The fact is, life happens ... and when challenging situations strike they can leave devastation in their wake, not unlike the after-effects of a tsunami. But have you noticed how some people, in spite of everything, have the ability to bounce back from adverse events in their lives? Well, in spite of what you might have thought, they aren't superhuman with nerves of steel. They are people, just like you and me.You can be one of those people too!If you want to grow from your experiences to positively transform the course of your life, then this is the book for you. Bounce Back! aims to help you find meaning and purpose, two God-given things that can actually come out of such times of adversity. With them, you really can go on to make a positive impact in your world.The three parts of Bounce Back! support you in surviving, thriving and maximising your experiences, so as to achieve the following: Learn how flip your life situation on its head and handle life's unscripted moments. Discover how to get back in the saddle by embracing the 10 'Bounce Back' principles and mindsets. Understand how not to waste your pain by creating meaning and purpose for your life. Learn how to embark your very own 'Pay it Forward' project, where you proactively take action to help others around you. You will discover that life's traumas or adversity needn't destroy you. And with God's help, you can make something positive out of what seems negative. Your 'test' can become a 'testimony'. Your 'story' today can become tomorrow's inspiring 'history'. Your 'mess' can become your 'message' of hope to the world. Only one person can make this happen and that is YOU!

Discover God’s wild freedom as you find your identity in Jesus with 100 devotions that will help you target and banish lies and insecurities. Jess Connolly and Hayley Morgan, bestselling authors of Wild and Free, walk you through the gift of truly knowing who you are in Christ in Always Enough, Never Too Much: 100 Devotions to Quit Comparing, Stop Hiding, and Start Living Wild and Free. We’ve all been there. We know that sneaking, small voice in our heads all too well—you’re too loud. Too quiet. Too young. Too old. Too unimportant. Too ugly. Too silly. Too serious. You’re not as successful as she is—look at her perfect family, look at her high-powered job, look at her great hair and size 4 skinny jeans. Why can’t you be more like her—be more in general? Why do you expect so much from everyone? Why can’t you take up less space? Ask for less? Be less? The lies track well-worn paths in our minds and our hearts, wearing us down and making us question our role in God’s kingdom. Jess Connolly and Hayley Morgan, founders of the Influence Network and bestselling authors of Wild and Free,reject those lies, and you can too with Always Enough, Never Too Much: 100 Devotions to Quit Comparing, Stop Hiding, and Start Living Wild and Free. Through the Scripture and the devotions, find the tools you need to claim the fullness of Jesus in your own life and soak in the encouragement of two girls who will never stop cheering you on! With a unique flip-book design, these 100 devotions are topical, so you can choose what you need most every time you open the pages. This book is designed for you, the woman who feels like she can be both too much and not enough—sometimes on the same day. Always Enough, Never Too Much is the daily marching orders after the anthem cry of Wild and Free. Join Jess and Hayley on a journey toward freedom with this beautiful new devotional.

When you’re human in a supernatural world, life can have unexpected twists. Cori has spent the last few years trying to get herself back on track after tragedy struck in the worst possible way. She’s opened a business, made new friends, and even helped save lives. Sure, she doesn’t tell anyone about the dark deeds haunting her, but she does her best to make up for them whenever she can. That includes helping her new neighbor, a half-angel who has just spent a hundred years in Purgatory, adjust to modern life. Bartol is damaged inside and out. The torture he has suffered left him with no desire to interact with the outside world, and so far he’s pushed everyone he knows away. Cori can’t help wanting to do what she can for the traumatized immortal—even if it requires being a little pushy—because she’s drawn to him for reasons she can’t explain. And, anyway, a little crankiness has never been enough to scare her off. But her plans are about to come crashing down when a man from her past returns with vengeance on his mind. He’s not human anymore, and he wants Cori dead. In the end, it might not be her saving Bartol, but the other way around. Word Count- 92,000 words This is the first installment in the Dark Destiny Series (a spin-off from the Sensor Series). It will feature the same couple for three novels.

William C. Morris YA Debut Award Winner! A hilarious YA contemporary realistic novel about a witty Black French Canadian teen who moves to Austin, Texas, and experiences the joys, clichés, and awkward humiliations of the American high school experience—including falling in love. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon, When Dimple Met Rishi, and John Green. Norris Kaplan is clever, cynical, and quite possibly too smart for his own good. A Black French Canadian, he knows from watching American sitcoms that those three things don’t bode well when you are moving to Austin, Texas. Plunked into a new high school and sweating a ridiculous amount from the oppressive Texas heat, Norris finds himself cataloging everyone he meets: the Cheerleaders, the Jocks, the Loners, and even the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Making a ton of friends has never been a priority for him, and this way he can at least amuse himself until it’s time to go back to Canada, where he belongs. Yet against all odds, those labels soon become actual people to Norris…like loner Liam, who makes it his mission to befriend Norris, or Madison the beta cheerleader, who is so nice that it has to be a trap. Not to mention Aarti the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, who might, in fact, be a real love interest in the making. But the night of the prom, Norris screws everything up royally. As he tries to pick up the pieces, he realizes it might be time to stop hiding behind his snarky opinions and start living his life—along with the people who have found their way into his heart.

For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. Jeremiah 29: 1112 NLT In a world of constant noise, it is no surprise that many of us struggle to tune in to hear what God has to say to us. Yet, God is very interested in every detail of our lives. He still speaks. Do you believe that God can communicate with you today as He did with Eve, Abraham, Samuel, and Moses? Do you believe that He wants to have intimate conversations with you like He had with Mary, Zacchaeus, the Samaritan woman at the well, and Peter? Do you believe that He still performs miracles to make lame individuals walk again, as He did in the past? In this devotional that shares personal experiences and life lessons learnt from biblical characters and nature, Ruth Pearson encourages the reader to have a more intimate relationship with Father God. Her prayer is that you will be renewed and transformed by developing your own personal relationship with Father as you listen for His voice.