It’s hard to understand about the needs of service dogs, and how to act around them unless you have one. Fake service dogs are unfortunately a thing, and so is ignorance about service dogs. So, what’s the big deal? Why does it matter? It matters because this leads to safety concerns for handlers and their service dogs. In this book, real service dogs introduce the world to the life of a service dog. You’ll learn about how hard working and how different each service dog and their tasks can be. This book has been a collaboration. Service dog teams from all over the US and Canada have submitted images of their service dog, the dog’s “uniform,” and their tasks, to help tell the story of service dogs in an enjoyable but easily understood way. In these pages you’ll meet six incredible, hardworking service dogs who spend their days caring for the humans who depend on their help. Every dog, uniform, and task in this book is real.
Through exciting and vivid imagery, Barnett shares life experiences that can encourage men and women to plug into their relationships with Jesus Christ for more power and energy. Readers discover how seeking the Kingdom means seeking Kingdom-minded solutions for every situation. (July)
This text offers the first comprehensive overview of the Triad Training Model for counsellor education, which is seen as particularly important for those training to work in a multicultural context. Topics explored include: positive and negative internal dialogue in counselling; training implications of hidden messages; and developing multicultural competencies with the Model.
Kindness isn’t merely about getting along with people and being nice. It’s a game changer in business, the door-opener to opportunity, and the key to authenticity and confidence. Discover the true potential of kindness and harness its power. Through years of developing her own kindness practices and studying those of others, Good Morning America correspondent and ABC News journalist Adrienne Bankert has experienced firsthand the unbeatable power of kindness and witnessed its transformative impact on others. Adjusting our perspective from being closed off and self-centered to a mindset of kindness ripples into a staggering amount of personal fulfillment and growth. No matter our age or ethnicity, where we come from, or how much money we make, every one of us can be kind. Every one of us can be a change agent. In Your Hidden Superpower, Adrienne will help you: See simple acts of kindness from a new and empowering perspective; Learn how to make kindness a habit and experience more peace, inspiration, and impact; Engage kindness at work and enjoy remarkable opportunities—plus, know how to get from “here” to “there” quickly; and Activate kindness as a force to reconnect you to your authentic self, replenish your passion and creativity, and find your voice. Your Hidden Superpower describes how kindness is a superpower that can be honed through an intentional lifestyle of kindness and is especially important in these divisive times.
Deep Calls Too Deep Over the years, Ive always felt I had a great relationship with the Lord. I was told I was a gifted child. I would hear things or see people that werent there. My grandmother Letha Mae would tell me that it was a gift from God, that he would one day use me to HELP (healing everything life presents) people. Yes, what a life to live! For that reason, I stayed close to God as I could. I lived in much fear and silence in an upside-down world that never stopped turning. The tears I shed and the rejection I witnessed became my personal testimony. I felt I needed to keep this a secret. In order to do so, I talked less. I would dream, and the next day, I would be walking into my dream. They sometimes dictated my day. As a child, Ive always wanted to just grow up, live my life, get married, and have children with God being the center. Im living in a world they say is normal, which seems to take me on a different path in life. The comfort I find in God is that he loves me and he cares for me and Im always on his mind. His favor follows me, and I cant do anything about it. So I choose to love him back. Knowing that he knew me before I was in my mothers womb is amazing to me. The safety of his love takes my fears away as I crawl upon his lap and let him be my God. What I want you to see in my writings is that no matter what youve gone through or where youve been, he cant help but love you. We are to serve and walk in love. Its notes all the time, but it gets easier with the Lords help. It is a learned behavior to choose and do it! I remembered hearing people call out for help. Yet when I looked around, everyone would appear to be very happy. I believe then God was guiding me in a path of faith. Deliverance and healing Im experiencing now in ministry. The biggest challenge is to hear someone calling for HELP and not finding the voice that carries such pain. I fasted and prayed to God for an answer for what to do with what Im hearing. The answer I got was to challenge it by praying and looking for a person. I did, and when I located who that person might have been, she tried to deny it until I sincerely, with oozing love, asked her again, How are you really doing? Then at that point, she burst into uncontrollable tears that I knew as a human being I couldnt handle within myself. God led me every step of what to do, and from then on, I cant help myself. Ladies, in this book alone, we choose to share our stories. What is your story? Remember, one womans cry is another womans cry. You must choose to be loved. Forgive them that wounded you. Win by losing. And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever lose his life shall for my sake shall save it (Luke 9:2324, KJV).
Fun and new innovative Bible bindings for kids ages 8 and up. New! Innovative! Fun! Perfect for kids on the go, the Sili-Flex Bible, NIV contains the full text of the bestselling New International Version with a cool new squishy binding and portable compact size. Ideal for home, school, or church use, the Sili-Flex Bible, NIV is small enough to fit into almost any backpack or bag. Features include: Fun, new "squishy" binding with two removable enclosure tabs that can be applied to other areas of the cover for added fun Complete text of the New International Version (NIV) translation of the Bible Words of Christ in red Ribbon marker
An updated edition of the bestselling guide on reprogramming one's negative thoughts and behaviour Once the province of mental health professionals, CBT (or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) has gained wide acceptance as the treatment of choice for anyone looking to overcome anxiety, manage anger, beat an addiction, lose weight or simply gain a new outlook on life. Written by two CBT therapists, this bestselling guide helps you apply the principles of CBT in your everyday life-allowing you to spot errors in your thinking; tackle toxic thoughts; refocus and retrain your awareness; and finally, stand up to and become free of the fear, depression, anger, and obsessions that have been plaguing you. Includes tips on establishing ten healthy attitudes for living as well as ten ways to lighten up Helps you chart a path by defining problems and setting goals Offers advice on taking a fresh look at your past, overcoming any obstacles to progress as well as ways to maintain your CBT gains Includes new and refreshed content, including chapters on how to beat an addiction and overcome body image issues With indispensable advice on finding your way out of the debilitating maze of negative thoughts and actions, the book is brimming with invaluable suggestions that will have even a confirmed pessimist well armed for the journey forward.
Guided by a vision of her recently deceased mother, Dallas socialite Barbara Allan travels through Cambodia searching for clues about her mother’s enigmatic past. After a busy two-week adventure tour, Barbara intends to rest on a tropical island off the southern coast, but instead contracts a deadly virus that’s swept the country. Her tour guide, Dara, unemployed because of tourists’ fear of the virus, helps Barbara recover. Determined to uncover her mother’s secrets, Barbara and Dara motorcycle up the east bank of the Mekong River. On their way, they discover an irresistible attraction that only grows stronger as they unravel the mystery of Barbara’s mother’s early life in Cambodia, with the help of the wise, altruistic Chantha.
This book enters areas of my life and moments that have offered me the wonderful gift of understanding. We all believe to understand and know, but in reality, as the years pass, we realize that sometimes, we did not, but we quickly learned. There are angered spats, there are cheers, there are so many different emotions and feelings in us that we do not always tap into and some, we tap into, too much. This book is not only a collection of thoughts and reflections relevant to positive thinking, but more so, a rerouting of energy, quite often created by negative interjections in my life. I have met so many people that have often made me wonder, why still a belief in them and why the yearning to help those individuals, even if with just words and it sort of struck me with clarity. How, can people be positive and well natured, when some have not learned the methods? Ergo, comes the initialization of this compilation. I will not say that I will touch everyone in America, nor will I say that my methods are the best or the only, but instead, I will classify it, functional. That is really all we need, a functional method of achieving a mental attitude that gives us motivation, understanding, drive and total belief, in what we are doing or plan to do. In my eyes, and I have seen a great deal, there lie views of despair, desolation, depression, anger, distrust, to name a few, that totally eat people up inside and this, is not a good thing. Individuals tend to keep things bottled up inside, for they have no method for release, no one to listen, no one to really care. This, in turn, converts into introverted people, with internal problems which surface, as external displays of anger. Anger is a scary thing, when you keep it all bottled up inside. It becomes somewhat like held pressured contents, inside you, that basically turns you into a ticking time bomb. Release of this pressure is completely necessary and must be considered a very serious matter. When we bottle things up inside and look the other way of solutions, we cause ourselves harm and within the pages of this book I strongly attempt to help decipher, when this harm is brewing and how we should attempt to deal with it, properly, for the sake of mental stability. The samples written are real, the experiences expressed are real, the sincerity with which I offer my resolve is and always will be, totally real. I bring the point of view of someone who has been through it, not someone offering strictly, the views of others ́ experiences. The pages are raw and to the point, yet subtle enough, to entice your reading and provide a good, clean experience-driven account, of positive living through positive thinking. There may be some points to agree with and some to not agree with, after all, this is all based on one man ́s thought process, not necessarily a global following, but the lessons are good and the visuals are helpful. I simply want people to understand that sometimes we carry the answers to our minor and some major problems, and we just need to know where to look. Inside ourselves we carry so much and within our minds we potentially harness such power, yet, we encase it all in a shell of doubt or a cover of question. Why? What we should be doing is exploring within ourselves and making what works for us priority, instead of secondary thoughts, to those implanted in our heads by way of negative influences or downplaying environments. In order to take hold of our situations, we need to take hold of ourselves, our thoughts, our beliefs, our goals and make it all, one big effort, not for mom, not for dad, not for uncle Rob, but for us. You shine your brightest, when you feel your finest. Feeling positive about yourself and what you do, can give you just that. That, in a summation, is my primary goal with this writing, to inspire people to just feel positive with themselves and what they do, how they do it. Granted, although we won ́t be in a completely p
