Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions
10 best books like Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions (Gerald G. May): Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change, Holy Listening: The Art of Spiritual Direction, Don't Call It Love: Recovery From Sexual Addiction, The Soul's Religion: Cultivating a Profoundly Spiritual Way of Life, The Only Necessary Thing: Living a Prayerful Life, The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community, and Small Groups, The Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible, The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions, Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions, Staying Sober: A Guide for Relapse Prevention- Based Upon the CENAPS Model of Treatment
Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change
| Author | William R. Miller |
| ISBN | 1572305630 |
This bestselling work has introduced hundreds of thousands of professionals and students to motivational interviewing (MI), a proven approach to helping people overcome ambivalence that gets in the way of change. William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick explain current thinking on the process of...
Holy Listening: The Art of Spiritual Direction
| Author | Margaret Guenther |
| ISBN | 1561010561 |
Guenther uses the images of the spiritual director as host, teacher, and midwife to describe the ministry of spiritual direction today. She pays particular attention to spiritual direction for women, and addresses such down-to-earth questions as setting, time, and privacy. The stories of real...
Don't Call It Love: Recovery From Sexual Addiction
| Author | Patrick J. Carnes |
| ISBN | 0553351389 |
"Dr. Patrick Carnes is a creative, pioneering, and courageous human being. His books are changing the lives of thousands!"
"I lost three marriages, all because of affairs." "I became suicidal because of multiple intense involvements."
"I spent money on...
| Author | Thomas Moore |
| ISBN | 0060930195 |
In this, companion volume to his worldwide bestseller, Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore offers a way of living in this new and confusing century. Drawing on faiths front all over tile world, as well as from his own vast well of knowledge and personal experience, Moore shows its ]low religion can be used to...
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0824518330 |
Throughout the forty-some books that Henri Nouwen wrote and the hundreds of talks that he gave, the subject of Prayer runs through them all and unites them. For him a life of faith is a life of prayer. Drawn from many decades of his life, the compilation of Henri's thoughts, feelings, and the struggle with...
The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community, and Small Groups
| Author | Joseph R. Myers |
| ISBN | 0310255007 |
A practical guide for those struggling to build a community of believers in a culture that wants to experience belonging over believing Who is my neighbor? Who belongs to me? To whom do I belong? These are timeless questions that guide the church to its fundamental calling. Today terms like neighbor,...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0060671084 |
The Renovare Spiritual Formation Study Bible offers a new way for discovering the full riches of the Scriptures. As bestselling author and the project's editor, Richard Foster explains, "When I first began writing about spiritual formation, the soul hunger in people was obvious and the resources...
This book is both a summary of various mystic traditions and practices, as well as a guidebook to a life in mystic spirituality. It is well-written, well-researched, with a style and tone equally balanced between scholarly neutrality and personal conviction. It is a book worthy of re-reading.
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| Author | Gerald Corey |
| ISBN | 0534614434 |
Up-to-date and comprehensive, this practical best-selling text now available with an online personalized study plan, helps students learn how to deal with and apply ethical standards. The authors provide readers with the basis for discovering their own guidelines within the broad limits of professional...
Staying Sober: A Guide for Relapse Prevention- Based Upon the CENAPS Model of Treatment
Having read my share of AA and NA literature, I was refreshed and interested to read a book based NOT on the 12 steps, but on a Medical Physician's experience and observations of over a hundred Addicts/Alcoholics in a clinical environment and their follow-ups post-clinic.
I would recommend...
Coming Closer to Ourselves: Making Everything the Path of Awakening
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1604077948 |
How to Befriend Your Most Challenging Emotions and Experiences
In challenging times, why do so many of us turn to Pema Chödrön for guidance? Many say that it’s her honest and caring way of communicating the core teachings of Buddhism—not just conceptually, but directly from her heart...
How People Grow: What the Bible Reveals About Personal Growth
| Author | Henry Cloud |
| ISBN | 0310257379 |
All growth is spiritual growth. Authors Drs. Cloud and Townsend unlock age-old keys to growth from Scripture to help people resolve issues of relationships, maturity, emotional problems, and overall spiritual growth. They shatter popular misconceptions about how God operates and show that growth...
The Healing Path: How the Hurts in Your Past Can Lead You to a More Abundant Life
| Author | Dan B. Allender |
| ISBN | 1578563917 |
Don't Waste Your Pain
None of us escapes the heartache and disappointments of life. To live is to hurt, and we all have the wounds to prove it. Regardless of how we've been hurt, we all face a common question: What should we do with our pain? Should we stoically ignore it? Should we just "get over...
Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction
| Author | Mark R. Laaser |
| ISBN | 0310256577 |
Hope--real hope--for recovery is within reach. This book goes beyond cliché answers and offers meaningful, spiritual, and practical steps to healing and freedom from sexual addiction--or any addiction.
With today's rampant availability of Internet pornography, sexual addiction...
| Author | Larry Crabb |
| ISBN | 0849914132 |
This was one if my favorite required readings in college on intrapersonal relationships. So much so that I purchased it again fifteen years later for a refresher. Though you need a good cup of coffee (or caffeine of choice) before sitting down with this book, Crabb offers very valid biblical thoughts...
Fully Human, Fully Alive: A New Life Through a New Vision
| Author | John Joseph Powell |
| ISBN | 0883473216 |
* John Powell I don't Know What To say and What to write !FULLY HUMAN FULLY ALIVE Really makes me speechless !
The BOOK of wisdom and Gory !
* I Liked it soo Much ! really & seriously Recommended to those who like the Journey to inside themselves and their Beliefs .those who enjoy time with...
Thomas Merton: Spiritual Direction And Meditation
| Author | Thomas Merton |
| ISBN | 0814604129 |
On Spiritual Direction:
The concept of spiritual direction (also called spiritual friendships or other things) has been on my mind for a while now – my imagination captivated by the experiences of a spiritual direction relationship.
Our call as Christians is to spread the lifestyle...
Mindfulness and Acceptance: Expanding the Cognitive-Behavioral Tradition
| Author | Steven C. Hayes |
| ISBN | 1593850662 |
This volume examines the role of mindfulness principles and practices in a range of well-established cognitive and behavioral treatment approaches. Leading scientist-practitioners describe how their respective modalities incorporate such nontraditional themes as mindfulness, acceptance,...
The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation
| Author | Thomas Keating |
| ISBN | 0809138824 |
Originally a Wit Lecture by one of today's key spiritual writers, this is a reflection on contemplative prayer, the search for happiness, and our need to explore the inner world. The search for God, Keating says, is also the search for ourselves, but our self-consciousness gets in the way. He takes the...
A Celebration Of Sex: A Guide to Enjoying God's Gift of Sexual Intimacy
| Author | Douglas E. Rosenau |
| ISBN | 0785264671 |
Dr. Douglas Rosenau is a licensed psychologist, and a Christian sex therapist who has for the past seventeen years used his training in theology and counseling to help Christian couples enrich and reclaim God's wonderful gift of sexuality within marriage.
A Celebration of Sex answers specific,...
Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality in Christian Counseling
The American Association of Christian Counselors and Tyndale House Publishers are committed to ministering to the spiritual needs of people. This book is part of the professional series that offers counselors the latest techniques, theory, and general information that is vital to their work. While...
The Practice of Spiritual Direction
| Author | William A. Barry |
| ISBN | 0866839518 |
Short Review: I am considering going to formal training to become a spiritual director. Because I am who I am, I decided to read widely about spiritual direction as part of the decision making process.
This is a classic (originally published in 1982). The authors are Catholic, but it is widely...
Psychology and Christianity: Five Views
How are Christians to understand and undertake the discipline of psychology? This question has been of keen interest (and sometimes concern) to Christians because of the importance we place on a correct understanding of human nature. Psychology can sometimes seem disconnected from, if not antithetical...
