With playful, witty cartoon art, The Soul Support Book offers wise and reassuring observations on getting unstuck, gaining new perspectives, and opening to love, creativity, and joyfulness in everyday life. Author and artist Deb Koffman first created these colorful cartoons as reminders to herself, with clever visual interpretations of common sayings like: Explore Options; Make Room for What you Need; Consider Another Point of View; Notice What is Happening Now; and Anything is Possible Here. Her delightfully uplifting mini-meditations have found a broad audience, appealing to anyone seeking a little bit of encouragement for approaching life’s challenges with insight, open-heartedness, and a healthy dose of laughter.

"With playful, witty cartoon art, The Soul Support Book offers wise and reassuring observations on getting unstuck, gaining new perspectives, and opening to love, creativity, and joyfulness in everyday life"--

As seen on the TODAY show! A dazzling debut from an artist with a great sense of humor, The Soul Support Book is a wise and reassuring meditation on getting unstuck in your creative projects, your relationships, and your life. Full of encouragement and reminders that everyone could use a little help now and then, Deb Koffman’s cartoons pair colorful and whimsical illustrations with joyful and inspiring text. Funny and poignant, this delightful book will brighten your outlook and help you approach life’s challenges with a healthy dose of laughter.

A young dancer's last hope--a bone marrow transplant--has failed. A homeless man, in the final stages of AIDS, refuses to speak. A newly retired woman has just received a terminal diagnosis and is wailing in despair. What can we learn about death, dying, and the human spirit as we journey with a hospital chaplain into sickrooms like these? Soul Support tells true stories of people coming to terms--or not--with their final days. It offers intimate, behind-the-scenes accounts of the many ways patients, their families and friends, and hospital staff all deal with death and dying. It speaks to readers reflecting on their own mortality or the life-threatening illness of a loved one, and tells of the sometimes-astonishing events that can occur when people are in their last hours of life. The book tells not only their stories, but also the chaplain's. It relates how she listened and learned and stumbled and grew. Soul Support speaks to believers and nonbelievers alike, providing information, inspiration, and hope.

Think of Deb Koffman as a guru with a great sense of humor. She's deep, she's funny, she's inspiring. Deb gets her point across fast through bold, colorful cartoons, each accompanied by just a single line of text. Every spread is a mini-meditation, visually exploring common words of wisdom such as, There's always another way, Follow your intuition, and Seek new perspectives. Deb's fresh insights into these concepts are sure to make you smile and say, Oh, yes, I've been there. Deb wasn't trained as an artist or a writer, but you'd never know it by looking at her cartoons. She favors big blocks of color, comical cartoon faces, and pairs of happy feet in magical red shoes. The combination of whimsical drawings with insightful copy lines is simply brilliant. These cartoons are the kind of thing you'll want to tape to your refrigerator, use as a screen saver on your computer, even carry around in your pocket for those moments when your soul could use a lift. Deb's cartoons are drawn from her own life experience, but the truths they convey--be more joyful, be more loving, live a creative life, don't be afraid to take a chance--apply to everyone. Such universality makes The Soul Support Book a perfect gift for grads, newlyweds, new moms (and new dads), job changers, or anyone else in the midst of a life-altering transition. Everyone in the office thinks The Soul Support Book should be a fixture in every doctor's waiting room--it's a guaranteed stress reliever. Some early readers have described The Soul Support Book as a contemporary survival guide. That strikes us as right on the money: Deb's observations are wise and witty, encouraging and reassuring, and so darn true you'll wonderwhy you didn't think of them yourself.

Revised to incorporate the changes in opinions and attitudes since its first publication, the second edition of 'Places of the Soul' has brought Christopher Day's classic text into the 21st century. This new edition of the seminal text reminds us that true sustainable design does not simply mean energy efficient building. Sustainable buildings must provide for the 'soul'. For Christopher Day architecture is not just about a building's appearance, but how the building is experienced. 'Places of the Soul' presents buildings as environment, intrinsic to their surroundings, and offers design principles that will open the eyes of the architecture student and professional alike, presenting ideas quite different to the orthodoxy of modern architectural education. Christopher Day's experience as an architect, self-builder, professor and sculptor have all added to the development of his ideas that encompass issues of economic and social sustainability, commercial pressures and consensus design. This book presents these ideas and outlines universal principles that will be of interest and value to architects, builders, planners and developers alike.

This book provides a well-researched biblical and scientific overview of abuse. A broad overview, it deals with the various types of abuse, the various effects of abuse, and the means of healing. Abuse can be sexual, physical, neglect, spiritual, and verbal. The chief arguments pursued throughout the book are: (1) abuse is far more rampant than most Christians realize, but due to human depravity and satanic influence, widespread abuse is predicable. (2) All types of abuse create profound, long-term soul damage due to the way abuse perverts various aspects of the image of God. (3) God is the healing redeemer. Human salvation came through horrible physical abuse. (4) Healing must take place in the context of relationships. Humans are deeply impacted by others due to being made in the image of God. Just as surely as abusive relationships have tremendous power to wound the soul, so healthy relationships have tremendous power to nurture and heal the soul. Questions answered in the book include: - How can a genuine believer abuse a child? - Why would someone abuse a child? - How can parents and childrens’ workers identify abusers? - How can abuse victims heal? - What does genuine healing look like? - Is anger appropriate or hurtful for abuse victims? - Where does forgiveness fit in? Helpful sample child protection policy, application, screening interview, and warning signs of potential abusers equip ministry leaders. Illustrations, case studies, and art therapy drawings.