Wounded Hearts

A portrayal of trauma and innocence lost at an infamous Halifax orphanage, from veteran journalist Lois Legge, which centers the strength and sorrow of the survivors. Thousands of children, between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, passed through Halifax Protestant Orphan's Home. Legge writes an in-depth narrative of an institution that betrayed so many of the children it was entrusted to protect.

First published in 1989, Dan Allender's The Wounded Heart has helped hundreds of thousands of people come to terms with sexual abuse in their past. Now, more than twenty-five years later, Allender has written a brand-new book on the subject that takes into account recent discoveries about the lasting physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual ramifications of sexual abuse. With great compassion Allender offers hope for victims of rape, date rape, incest, molestation, sexting, sexual bullying, unwanted advances, pornography, and more, exposing the raw wounds that are left behind and clearing the path toward wholeness and healing. Never minimizing victims' pain or offering pat spiritual answers that don't truly address the problem, he instead calls evil evil and lights the way to renewed joy. Counselors, pastors, and friends of those who have suffered sexual harm will find in this book the deep spiritual guidance they need to effectively minister to the sexually broken around them. Victims themselves will find here a sympathetic friend to walk alongside them on the road to healing.

The literary study of emotion is part of an important revisionary movement among scholars eager to recast emotional politics for the twenty-first century. Looking beyond the traditional categories of sentiment, sensibility, and sympathy, Jennifer Travis suggests a new approach to reading emotionalism among men. She argues that the vocabulary of injury, with its evaluations of victimhood and its assessments of harm, has deeply influenced the cultural history of emotions. From the Civil War to the early twentieth century, Travis traces the history of male emotionalism in American discourse. She argues that injury became a comfortable vocabulary--particularly among white middle-class men--through which to articulate and to claim a range of emotional wounds. The debates about injury that flourished in the cultural arenas of medicine, psychology, and the law spilled over into the realm of fiction, as Travis demonstrates through readings of works by Stephen Crane, William Dean Howells, Willa Cather, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. Travis concludes by linking this history to twenty-first-century preoccupations with "pain-centered politics," which, she cautions, too often focuses only on women and racial minorities.

Healing Wounded Hearts brings together stories, poems and artwork that illustrate the struggles and strengths the author has, as a Metis woman, living in intersecting, parallel, sometime colliding, socio-cultural realities. -- cover.

Cane disentangles the web of deceit that teaches believers to be content with the mediocre, narrow-minded life they imagine for themselves in favor of the exceptional existence God has for them. (Practical Life)

Attraction, fear, danger—an unlikely recipe for healing scars. Men in Blue, Book 5 In the year since Ellie escaped The Scientist’s ghastly dungeon, she still can’t stop looking over her shoulder. Or stop feeling guilty over the man who sacrificed so much to save her. He lost everything. His career, his aspirations—even part of his body. It’s no wonder he wants nothing to do with her. Too bad he’s the only man she can think about. Lucas has vowed to stay away from Ellie, but not for the reason she thinks. The woman he craves doesn’t need to waste her life taking care of a man with a missing leg, not when she needs to focus on her own healing. Despite the best matchmaking attempts of the Men in Blue—and their wives—the emotional and physical gap between them seems uncrossable. Until Ellie is threatened again, and the only choice is to work together until she’s safe. But to stay in the land of the living, they’ll both have to fight through their pain—and relive a few nightmares—to guarantee their demons won’t destroy her future. Warning: Contains an alpha male with a broken body, but whose best bits are in fine working order. And a woman who survived hell, and is determined to fit enough of their jagged edges together to make a whole. Vivid PTSD flashbacks of sexual violence could be disturbing for some readers.

A collection of poems for dealing with the stress of everyday life and for the healing of wounded hearts. Poems were inspired by author’s life experiences. Also included are poems concerning the power of spirituality and the experiences associated with the grief process.

The love of a good woman can heal a lot... All Jerod Stevens wants to do is get his ranch open in time for the wounded veterans who are arriving shortly. His signpost has finally arrived! While he's overseeing the set-up of the new Crooked Arrow Ranch sign, he witnesses a red truck skid on the black ice and crash. Dana Baker is on her way to work in her dad's old truck. The thing is a tank. And it's what saved her skin on the cold, icy backroad of Frenchtown, Montana. When she hits her head, she swears she's died and gone to heaven. The man who saved her is the most handsome cowboy she'd ever seen. And when she wakes up, well, he's none too happy about being labeled a hero. In fact, he's still dealing with his own demons from Afghanistan. Will Jerod be able to defeat the PTSD that's fighting to take over his life, or will Dana, with a little help from above, be exactly what he needs?