Getting the Blues
Title | Getting the Blues PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen J. Nichols |
Publisher | Brazos Press |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2008-09 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1587432129 |
A vivid investigation of how blues music teaches listeners about sin, suffering, marginalization, lamentation, and worship.
Getting Over the Blues
Title | Getting Over the Blues PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie Vernick |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Depressed persons |
ISBN | 9780736914550 |
One in five women will experience clinical depression in her lifetime. Christian counselor Leslie Vernick offers words of hope and encouragement as she helps women understand the symptoms of depression, what causes depression, and what steps they can take not only to get better but to grow stronger. Employing godly wisdom and surprising insights, Leslie addresses the following: Depression is revealing something about you. Listen to it. Growth takes time and practice. Things are not hopeless, you are not helpless, and you are not worthless. Getting over the Blues is a timely resource for women battling depression and the men and women who love them and want to understand what they are going through.
Beyond the Blues
Title | Beyond the Blues PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa M. Schab |
Publisher | New Harbinger Publications |
Pages | 181 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1572246111 |
Despite what you might have been told, the feelings of sadness and hopelessness you may be struggling with are probably not "just a phase" or "something you'll grow out of." As many as 20 percent of people your age have symptoms of serious depression, yet many teens and even many adults don't recognize the signs. Only half of depressed teens get the help they need to overcome these feelings. If you're feeling depressed, this workbook offers things you can do, both on your own and with a counselor, to feel better.
Beat the Blues Before They Beat You
Title | Beat the Blues Before They Beat You PDF eBook |
Author | Robert L. Leahy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Depressed persons |
ISBN | 9781401921699 |
Do you feel plagued by negative thoughts about yourself, overwhelmed by loneliness, paralyzed by a fear of failure? If so, you're not alone. Depression affects millions of people worldwide, regardless of race, gender, age, and socioeconomic class. These numbers have been steadily rising, and sadly, most people who feel the unbearable pain, hopelessness, and self-criticism of depression never seek treatment. If not you, then someone you know most likely hides within these statistics, suffering in silence. The good news is that with effective treatment you can overcome depression--and once you do, you will be better equipped to prevent its recurrence.In his new book, Beat the Blues Before They Beat You, world-renowned cognitive therapist and best-selling author Robert Leahy shows how you can alleviate the effects of major depressive disorders. By redefining your relationship with depression, you can learn to change your attitude and responses toward these unpleasant, intrusive thoughts. Using mindful awareness practices and thought exercises, the troubling images you experience can be looked at in a new light.In a clear and easy-to-read manner, Leahy outlines the causes, symptoms, and treatments for depression, combining real-life patient stories and simple step-by-step instructions to help you understand your depression so you will know how best to treat it. Learn what triggers your moods. Figure out how to defeat feelings of fatigue, hopelessness, and worthlessness. Design a plan to develop self-confidence. Determine what treatments--both medication and therapy--are available to prevent relapse. Beat the Blues Before They Beat You is a collection of the most powerful tools in cognitive therapy to help you curb your thoughts and behaviors, so you can begin to feel good again. You don't have to wait for someone to rescue you. You can rescue yourself.
The Van Gogh Blues
Title | The Van Gogh Blues PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Maisel, PhD |
Publisher | New World Library |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2012-08-22 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 1608681939 |
Creative people will experience depression — that’s a given. It’s a given because they are regularly confronted by doubts about the meaningfulness of their efforts. Theirs is a kind of depression that does not respond to pharmaceutical treatment. What’s required is healing in the realm of meaning.In this groundbreaking book, Eric Maisel teaches creative people how to handle these recurrent crises of meaning and how to successfully manage the anxieties of the creative process. Using examples both from the lives of famous creators such as van Gogh and from his own creativity coaching practice, Maisel explains that despite their inevitable difficulties, creative people possess the ability to forge relationships, repair themselves, and find meaning in their work and their lives. Maisel presents a step-by-step plan to help creative people handle their special brand of depression and rediscover the reasons they are driven to create in the first place.
Last Day Blues
Title | Last Day Blues PDF eBook |
Author | Julie Danneberg |
Publisher | Charlesbridge Publishing |
Pages | 35 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1580890466 |
During the last week of school, the students in Mrs. Hartwell's class try to come up with the perfect present for their teacher.
Even Vampires Get the Blues
Title | Even Vampires Get the Blues PDF eBook |
Author | Katie Macalister |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2006-05-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101210621 |
Paen Scott is a Dark One: a vampire without a soul. And his mother is about to lose hers too if Paen can’t repay a debt to a demon by finding a relic known as the Jilin God in five days. Half-elf Samantha Cosse may have gotten kicked out of the Order of Diviners, but she’s still good at finding things, which is why she just opened her own private investigation agency. Paen is one of Sam’s first clients and the only one to set her elf senses tingling, which makes it pretty much impossible to keep their relationship on a professional level. Sam is convinced that she is Paen’s Beloved—the woman who can give him back his soul...whether he wants it or not.