If It Hurts, It Isn't Love

Author: Chuck Spezzano
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 9781569246344
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
In If It Hurts, It Isn't Love, author Chuck Spezzano finds truth in simple insights: What I think I need is what I am called to give. Depression is the fear that something new will leave me. When someone gets angry at me, there is a lesson for me to learn. Jealousy is a birthing place. These principles show how to look afresh at one's most important relationships, in a way that heals pain and brings love and forgiveness. After each principle, the author gives brief exercises that nudge readers further, prompting them to absorb the insights even more deeply.

If It Hurts, It Isn't Love

Author: Chuck Spezzano
Publisher: Coronet
ISBN: 9780340818640
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 412

Book Description
If it Hurts, it isn't Love first came to media attention when Princess Diana gave an underlined and personally annotated copy of it to a friend. Its wise and inspiring principles clearly touched a chord with her - as they have many others in the previous edition. It is Chuck Spezzano's aim, through this book, to bring everyone the love and happiness they deserve.

Loveability

Author: Robert Holden, Ph.D.
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 140194163X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description
"Love is your destiny. It is the purpose of your life. It is the key to your happiness and to the evolution of the world." Loveability is a meditation on love. It addresses the most important thing you will ever learn. All the happiness, health, and abundance you experience in life comes from your ability to love and be loved. This ability is innate, not acquired. Robert Holden is the creator of a unique program on love called Loveability, which he teaches worldwide. He has helped thousands of people to transform their experience of love. "Love is the real work of your life," says Robert. "As you release the blocks to love you flourish even more in your relationships, work, and life." In Loveability, Robert weaves a beautiful mix of timeless principles and helpful practices about the nature of true love. With great intimacy and warmth, he shares stories, conversations, meditations, and poetry that have inspired him in his personal inquiry on love. Key themes include: • Your destiny is not just to find love; it is to be the most loving person you can be. • Self-love is how you are meant to feel about yourself. It is the key to loving others. • When you think something is missing in a relationship, it is probably you. • Forgiveness helps you to see that love has never hurt you; it is only your misperceptions of love that hurt. • The greatest influence you can have in any situation is to be the presence of love.

Love Like You've Never Been Hurt

Author: Jentezen Franklin
Publisher: Chosen Books
ISBN: 1493413511
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
The human heart was created with a great capacity to love. But along with that comes a great capacity to feel pain. There is no denying that those who love us, who are closest to us, can wound us the most profoundly. That kind of pain can be difficult, if not impossible, to overcome. And it can feel even more impossible to continue loving in the face of it. Yet that is exactly what we are called to do. Sharing his own story of personal pain, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Jentezen Franklin shows us how to find the strength, courage, and motivation to set aside the hurt, see others as God sees them, and reach out in love. Through biblical and modern-day stories, he discusses different types of relational disappointment and heartache, and answers questions such as Why should I trust again? and How can I ever really forgive? The walls we build around our hearts to cut us off from pain are the very walls that block us from seeing hope, receiving healing, and feeling love. Here are the tools and inspiration you need to tear down those walls, work through your wounds, repair damaged relationships, and learn to love like you've never been hurt.

Hope When It Hurts

Author: Sarah Walton
Publisher: The Good Book Company
ISBN: 1784980749
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
Thirty biblical meditations for women that offer hope in times of suffering. Thirty biblical meditations for women that offer hope in times of suffering. Hurt is real. But so is hope. Kristen and Sarah have walked through, and are walking in, difficult times. So these thirty biblical reflections are full of realism about the hurts of life-yet overwhelmingly full of hope about the God who gives life. This book will gently encourage and greatly help any woman who is struggling with suffering-whether physical, emotional or psychological, and whether for a season or for longer. It is a book to buy for yourself, or to buy for a member of your church or friend. For anyone who is hurting, this book will give hope, not just for life beyond the suffering, but for life in the suffering. Each chapter contains a biblical reflection, with questions and prayers, and a space for journaling.

The Love That Hurts

Author: Nicole Strycharz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781691861118
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394

Book Description
Includes a bonus chapter and a Q&A with the author at the end of the story! Josefina: My story isn't sweet or easy to hear. It's the truth. A brutal truth anyone you know could be living through right now. I'm the person people talk about, asking, "Why does she stay?" My story will tell you why. It will tell you how it starts, where it leads. When does it end or will it ever? This is a different side of love, a darker, and deadly side that isn't always discussed. People think it can't be love, that it starts with pain. Trust me, it starts with love. A love that hurts. Ridge: Because if love doesn't hurt, it can't be real. *TRIGGER WARNINGThis book contains strong language, violence, and graphic descriptions of domestic abuse. Please read with caution.Only for readers 18 years and up.

Enough

Author: Sharon Jaynes
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736973540
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
What Can You Do When You Feel You're Just Not Good Enough? Do the voices in your head say you're not good enough, smart enough, pretty enough...or just not enough, period? It's time to stop listening to lies that sabotage your confidence and embrace the truth of who God says you are. Popular author and speaker Sharon Jaynes exposes the lies that keep you bogged down in shame, insecurity, and feelings of inadequacy. By recognizing the lies and replacing them with truth, you'll be able to silence the voice inside that whispers you're just not good enough accept God's grace and move past failures that have defined and confined you preload your heart with truth to fight your deepest insecurities Your confidence and faith will grow when you trade self-defeating thoughts for God's truth. Today is the day to embrace your incredible worth as a woman who is uniquely fashioned and spiritually empowered.

In My Heart

Author: Jo Witek
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 164700828X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Celebrate feelings in all their shapes and sizes in this New York Times bestselling picture book from the Growing Hearts series! Happiness, sadness, bravery, anger, shyness . . . our hearts can feel so many feelings! Some make us feel as light as a balloon, others as heavy as an elephant. In My Heart explores a full range of emotions, describing how they feel physically, inside, with language that is lyrical but also direct to empower readers to practice articulating and identifying their own emotions. With whimsical illustrations and an irresistible die-cut heart that extends through each spread, this gorgeously packaged and unique feelings book is sure to become a storytime favorite.

Better When It Hurts

Author: Skye Warren
Publisher: Book Beautiful
ISBN: 1940518253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
Better When It Hurts: Stripped Series

A GRIEF OBSERVED (Based on a Personal Journal)

Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 45

Book Description
A Grief Observed is a collection of Lewis's reflections on the experience of bereavement following the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, in 1960. The book was first published under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk as Lewis wished to avoid identification as the author. Though republished in 1963 after his death under his own name, the text still refers to his wife as "H" (her first name, which she rarely used, was Helen). The book is compiled from the four notebooks which Lewis used to vent and explore his grief. He illustrates the everyday trials of his life without Joy and explores fundamental questions of faith and theodicy. Lewis's step-son (Joy's son) Douglas Gresham points out in his 1994 introduction that the indefinite article 'a' in the title makes it clear that Lewis's grief is not the quintessential grief experience at the loss of a loved one, but one individual's perspective among countless others. The book helped inspire a 1985 television movie Shadowlands, as well as a 1993 film of the same name. Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is best known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.