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Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do about It by Jennie Allen
Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do about It
by Jennie Allen

The New York Times bestselling author of Get Out of Your Head provides a path to embracing a healthy relationship with your emotions, one that leads to life-giving connection with God and others as well as to a richer understanding of yourself.
Now and Not Yet: Pressing in When You're Waiting, Wanting, and Restless for More by Ruth Chou Simons
Now and Not Yet: Pressing in When You're Waiting, Wanting, and Restless for More
by Ruth Chou Simons

With vulnerability, warmth, and relevant examples from both scripture and her own experiences, When Strivings Cease author Ruth Chou shares her advice for keeping the candle of hope and faith burning when the desire to get more out of life is limited by circumstances beyond our control.
The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness by Andrew Klavan
The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness
by Andrew Klavan

In The Kingdom of Cain, crime novelist, screenwriter, and cultural critic Andrew Klavan eloquently argues that it is possible to be clear-eyed about the evil in the world while remaining hope-filled about God's ability to redeem it all.
Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom
Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
by Kai Cheng Thom

Activist, psychotherapist, and spiritual healer Kai Cheng found herself in a crisis of faith, barely clinging on to the values and ideals she'd built her life around: justice, hope, love, and healing. Rather than succumb to despair and cynicism, she began writing letters to everyone she had trouble holding in her heart--those seemingly beyond saving. In writing these love letters, Cheng found herself not only rediscovering and deepening her faith in humanity, but falling back in love with being human.
Surviving an Unwanted Divorce: A Biblical, Practical Guide to Letting Go While Holding Yourself Together by Lysa TerKeurst
Surviving an Unwanted Divorce: A Biblical, Practical Guide to Letting Go While Holding Yourself Together
by Lysa TerKeurst

A failed marriage doesn't make you a failure in God's eyes. Surviving an Unwanted Divorce offers biblically based, practical strategies for navigating loss, shame, intense loneliness, and the unfairness of it all as one life season ends . . . and a new hope-filled season begins.
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!) by Bethany Joy Lenz
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
by Bethany Joy Lenz

Unknown to millions of Bethany Joy Lenz's viewers and even her costars on the hit show One Tree Hill, she led a secret double life within a cult. As an only child seeking belonging, Lenz thought she found a safe haven in a Bible study group with fellow Hollywood creatives. However, the group morphed into something more sinister--a web of manipulation and fear under the guise of a church covenant called The Big House Family.  After nearly a decade in the cult, she broke free from the family's grip, beginning her healing journey from deep trauma that reshaped her faith and identity. 
It's Okay Not to Look for the Meaning of Life: A Zen Monk's Guide to Living Stress-Free One Day at a Time by Jikisai Minami
It's Okay Not to Look for the Meaning of Life: A Zen Monk's Guide to Living Stress-Free One Day at a Time
by Jikisai Minami

Zen monk Jikisai Minami takes the things we are supposed to strive for and turns them on their head. The 35 short, thought-provoking essays in this book are divided into four chapters about our sense of self, our hopes and dreams, our personal relationships and how to face death. Each essay begins with a deliberately controversial point of view to help us look at life's problems through fresh eyes. Each chapter features a number of short, thought-provoking essays providing fresh perspectives on familiar problems that can change your life.
Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier by Arthur C. Brooks
Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
by Arthur C. Brooks

In Build the Life You Want, Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey invite you to begin a journey toward greater happiness no matter how challenging your circumstances. Drawing on cutting-edge science and their years of helping people translate ideas into action, they show you how to improve your life right now instead of waiting for the outside world to change. They recommend practical, research-based practices to build the four pillars of happiness: family, friendship, work, and faith. 
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