Acclaimed church leader, blogger, founder and chief strategic officer of The Unstuck Group, Tony Morgan unpacks the lifecycle of a typical church, identifies characteristics of each phase, and provides practical next steps a church can take to move towards sustained health. Think about your church for a moment. Is it growing? Is it diminishing? Is it somewhere in between? Acclaimed church leader, blogger, and founder and chief strategic officer of The Unstuck Group, Tony Morgan has identified the seven stages of a church's lifecycle that range from the hopeful and optimistic days of launch, to the stagnating last stages of life support. Regardless of the stage in which you find your church, it carries with it the world's greatest mission—to "go and make disciples of all the nations . . ." With eternity at stake the Church should be doing most everything within its power to see lives changed forever. The Church should strive for the pinnacle of the lifecycle, where they are continually making new disciples and experiencing what Morgan refers to as "sustained health." In The Unstuck Church, Morgan unpacks each phase of the church lifecycle, and offers specific and strategic next steps the church leader can take to find it's way to sustained health . . . and finally become unstuck. The Unstuck Church is a call for honest an assessment of where your church sits on the lifecycle, and a challenge to move beyond it.

The Unstuck Process is designed to explore limiting and fearful beliefs and either reduce or eliminate them. The Story of the Unstuck Process One weekday afternoon sometime in 2003, I sat in my home office, as stuck as I'd ever been. All productive work had ground to a halt several days before, and I was feeling down, frustrated, overwhelmed, stuck. I could barely get through the routine tasks of the day, such as checking email. And instead of working, I avoided almost everything. A number of important tasks and projects that had seen no progress for over a week languished on my to-do list. And every time I looked at the list, I felt more hopeless than the moment before. Then I remembered something. During the past year I had been working with Byron Katie's process designed to get one past limiting and stressful beliefs. I had used it a number of times with some success, even with clients, but this time was different: I was as intractably stuck as I'd ever been. So I decided to give it a try. I pulled out the worksheet to go through the steps of this written process. It included several questions that I answered by writing them down. In about half an hour I had answered all the questions in the process. Once I was done, I sat there wordless for several minutes. In that short span, something had shifted. The doom and gloom that had hung over me for the past few weeks lifted like the fog on a sunny day. I looked out at the world through different eyes, with different thoughts, with different feelings. And then I turned my attention to my to-do list. My hopeless feelings were replaced by hopeful ones. Items that had seemed impossible to accomplish seemed ridiculously easy. And by the end of the day, I had completed everything I had been putting off for so long. If I'd only gotten that one result from doing this process I'd, have been more than satisfied. But that was only the beginning. For the next several months, I experienced an explosion of productivity and creativity unlike anything I'd experienced before. My business took off as I created new programs and services, and my income increased and then doubled over two years. I initiated several large projects and succeeded at all of them with very little struggle. These results got my attention, to put it mildly. And whenever I felt down or stuck and started to avoid things, I'd simply apply the process again with similar results. Over the past several years I've also done a lot of tinkering with the process. I wanted to make it easier and even more effective. I tested it on my clients with similar results. I led workshops and created programs that integrated this process. Ultimately I called it The Unstuck Process. If you are stuck, avoid doing things you want to be doing, have had little success with motivational approaches and just want to get unstuck, then this book will give you what you need. All you need to do is answer the 12 questions in the process as honestly as possible regarding any issue where you're stuck, and your stuckness will lessen or even disappear. Try it! Cheers, Robert Middleton About Me My name is Robert Middleton, and for 30 years I've been an internationally known marketing coach and consultant for self-employed professionals. People come to me because they are not having great results with their marketing. I teach and coach them in my step-by-step system for attracting ideal clients. But some people don't move forward because they are stuck - often paralyzed by fear, lack of confidence or overwhelm. Years ago I went on a search for a methodology to help my clients get unstuck. In 2002 I discovered the Work of Byron Katie and then adapted it to work my clients who were stuck. I've used this adapted process with hundreds of clients, in workshops and virtual programs. Now I'm making it available as a book to help anyone who is stuck to get unstuck.

Feeling stuck? It happens to everyone. Whether we're facing everyday stumbles or big, complex issues, we can get stuck on emotions, beliefs, and habits of thinking. And that can block us from making our lives, relationships, and work as rich and rewarding as they could be. The S.T.U.C.K. Method gets you unstuck. Based on the concepts of mindfulness and psychology, Shira Taylor Gura has developed a simple technique you can practice anytime, anywhere to overcome emotional challenges and enhance your well-being. Through these stories, tools, and worksheets, you'll laugh, empathize, and learn how to turn your "stuck" spots into sources for energy and positive change.

“Extraordinary. . . . Both therapist and patient will benefit hugely from reading this book.” —Deepak Chopra “Exactly what this over-medicated country needs right now.” —Christine Northrup, M.D., author of The Wisdom of Menopause Despite the billions spent on prescription anti-depressant drugs and psychotherapy, people everywhere continue to grapple with depression. James Gordon, one of the nation's most respected psychiatrists, now offers a practical and effective way to get unstuck. Drawing on forty years of pioneering work, Unstuck is Gordon's seven-stage program for relief through food and nutritional supplements; Chinese medicine; movement, exercise, and dance; psychotherapy, meditation, and guided imagery; and spiritual practice. The result is a remarkable guide that puts the power to change in the hands of those ready to say "no" to suffering and drugs and "yes" to hope and happiness.

A smart and fearless practical guide to turn to for inspiration and immediate solutions. It is meant to be acted on, not just read, and is based on proven practices the authors have discovered while working with IBM, Sony, Hewlett-Packard, Nike, Gap and many other major companies. Whether one needs to step back to move forward, motivate a struggling team, change goals or create a clearer vision, Unstuck can help diagnose the situation, identify the most important challenges and implement the right tools and techniques to get things moving again.

Every leader functions on two stages--the front stage or public world, and the back stage or private world. One cannot lead successfully front stage when one is completely depleted back stage. In a time when pastors are leaving the ministry in record numbers due to cynicism, disillusionment, weariness, and personal scandals, there is an urgent need for soul care in the private lives of leaders. Replenish helps leaders focus on the back stage, the interior life, in order to remain spiritually healthy. In a caring, encouraging tone, it will show pastors how to prioritize matters of the soul develop healthy spiritual practices address problems that lead to burnout create a healthy rhythm in their lives improve their people skills and the spiritual climate of their team develop better systems in their churches discover how to lead an unhurried life For the many ministry leaders who feel alone, in over their heads, or simply worn out, this book will offer welcome relief and a healthy way forward.

Presenting an evidence-based treatment for couples in which one or both partners suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), this step-by-step manual is packed with practical clinical guidance and tools. The therapy is carefully structured to address both PTSD symptoms and associated relationship difficulties in a time-limited framework. It is grounded in cutting-edge knowledge about interpersonal aspects of trauma and its treatment. Detailed session outlines and therapist scripts facilitate the entire process of assessment, case conceptualization, and intervention. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 50 reproducible handouts and forms.