Abuse, be of any kind, is ruinous. Physical abuse is usually evident with all the bruises and scars but emotional abuse goes glossed over for years. It's often confused with simple blames or some dry sarcasm and could be more destructive and insidious because the abuser is often eluding and always making the victim presume that he/she is at fault and unless one has outlived an emotional abuse, it’s quite abstruse for one to believe what it means to fight those daily battles with someone who’s nothing more than a Black Hole, someone you just can’t feel connected with no matter how hard you try. The damages stay forever. This book is a collection of poems that talks about not just some vague and restless disquiets but also about the wounds of the heart and scars of the mind, poems that talk about the constant mental struggles and a desperate but doubtful fight for daily survival, poems about not just what is lost but also about the priceless lessons learned, poems about believing in oneself and making an effort to live the life of one’s dreams.

A Disciple’s Dilemma is a collection of inspiring and encouraging sermons. The book is actually four books in one. Each book is a sermon series focusing on the challenges that Christians face. It is a must-have for preachers and teachers. Each chapter is a sermon that can be preached directly from the book.

A provocative and unsettling look at the nature of love and deception Is it possible to love well without lying? At least since Socrates's discourse on love in Plato's Symposium, philosophers have argued that love can lead us to the truth—about ourselves and the ones we love. But in the practical experience of erotic love—and perhaps especially in marriage—we find that love and lies often work hand in hand, and that it may be difficult to sustain long-term romantic love without deception, both of oneself and of others. Drawing on contemporary philosophy, psychoanalysis and cognitive neuroscience, his own personal experience, and such famed and diverse writers on love as Shakespeare, Stendhal, Proust, Adrienne Rich, and Raymond Carver, Clancy Martin—himself divorced twice and married three times—explores how love, truthfulness, and deception work together in contemporary life and society. He concludes that learning how to love and loving well inevitably requires lying, but also argues that the best love relationships draw us slowly and with difficulty toward honesty and trust. Love and Lies is a relentlessly honest book about the difficulty of love, which is certain to both provoke and entertain.

When Love Is Not Enough relates how a multitude of factors--the competence of staff; the safety, nurturing, and protective elements of the emotional, physical, and political setting; and all overt and covert organizational dynamics--determine whether or not a treatment setting accomplishes its therapeutic aims. Authors in When Love Is Not Enough continue the emphasis on the group-as-a-whole “Group Relation” model of organizational and group processes begun with Wilfred Bion’s work at the Tavistok Clinic in London in the 1940s. This model helps those providing services to children and adolescents evaluate their treatment programs and make the necessary changes toward improvement. Chapters in When Love Is Not Enough are dedicated to improving the psychological treatment of children and adolescents in postmodern society, a society in which life in interdependent communities is becoming increasingly important for the health and survival of all persons. Topics covered include: the Tavistok approach to understanding group and organizational behavior the emphasis on group-as-a-whole in problem solving and treatment design narrowing the gap between plan and outcome the dynamics involved in the psychiatric treatment of children issues of staff selection, training, and development in programs designed to treat children countertransference responses in the treatment of children and adolescents revitalizing organizations the subjective experience of school life When Love Is Not Enough helps organizations realize the ways in which they may, inadvertently, undermine the emotional and cognitive functioning of the staff or the identified patients and set serious limits on the growth of members of the organization, staff and patients alike. It urges organizations to conduct an ongoing self-scrutiny concerning their rational and irrational processes, as this self-examination is crucial to the health and vitality of the treatment offered to others. The book also promotes thinking of the conscious and unconscious dynamics of the group-as-a-whole to more completely inform organizational decisions concerning changes that may enhance the treatment of children and adolescents. When Love Is Not Enough serves as an invaluable guide for mental health professionals who treat children and adolescents, group therapists, hospital and clinic administrators, psychoanalysts, nurses, social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists.

Lewis Smedes has written a penetrating study in ethics based on the five "moral" commandments--those pertaining to honor of parents, lying, stealing, adultery, and murder. Smedes examines what the commandments actually tell us to do and why, and how they can be understood amid the ambiguities of everyday living.

A dying wish brought her home. Can the promise of happily ever after keep her there? When the grief-stricken Andi Calloway loses her mother, she leaves her with one final wish: Stay in her hometown Bayshore Beach and pursue her dream of becoming a published author. So when Andi discovers a want-ad for an assistant to the famous novelist Ford Delaney, it’s the break she’s been waiting for. However, he has deep wounds in his past; he’s as moody and sullen as he is handsome. Ford senses Andi might be the one to redeem him. But falling for him just might ruin her dreams and break her mother’s final wish in the process.