Find hope for healing and deliverance from despair. Have you ever felt defective? Questioned your value? Wondered if life is worth it? Believed that everyone has it more together than you? Did you think you were too messed up? Too flawed? Too broken? Jennifer Turner allowed these thoughts and more to flood her mind and drown out her true identity in Christ for most of her life, especially when diagnosed with mental illness. In From the Psych Ward to the Sanctuary, Jennifer reveals how to go from living life in defeat and agony to finding lasting hope and freedom. By allowing God and others to enter into her suffering, she learned invaluable lessons that brought her out of the darkness. Begin to debunk the lies that hold you back and live a life of restoration today in this hundred-day devotional.

What does it mean to be church? Is it spending an hour on Sunday with people who look, think, and act much as we do? Or is it something more incarnational that seeks out those who are different, the ones living on the margins? For centuries Christians have presumed that we are to take the gospel to the poor. Instead, Wendy McCaig invites us to receive the gospel from the poor. Through a series of encounters with incarcerated, homeless, and impoverished individuals, Wendy McCaig experienced the mysterious power of Christian hospitality that turns strangers into family. Her gift for storytelling brings this mysterious transformation to life. Inspired by the dreams of a homeless mother who wanted to help her neighbors, McCaig started a ministry that empowers formerly homeless individuals to live out their dreams. Together these dreamers are transforming their city one person, one community, and one church at a time. Her true stories of the least, the lost, and the forgotten in her community will show you the Good News becoming reality in the midst of injustice in ways that will inspire you and deepen your faith. These twenty stories-within-a-story about what ordinary people can do when they come together across racial, economic, and geographic divides to fight poverty will expand your vision of what it means to be the church. With your eyes opened to the needs and gifts of your neighbors, you too can begin to dream God-sized dreams for a hurting world. And as you pray "thy kingdom come on earth," you will be inspired to live in such a way as to make it happen in your own community.

Inner Sanctuary: Healing from the Root to the Crown Chakra takes you on a healing journey through the seven main chakras of the body. Each chapter shares a story that can help you conquer fears, while experiencing forgiveness and spiritual enlightenment.

We pick up exactly where we left off in the first book, Arena's Forum. Only this time, in the form of a "tell-all" autobiography, as told and penned by Arena herself, so you won't be able to put it down! Last we left her, Arena was failing miserably at life, but her failures don't end there because, spoiler alert: she botched her suicide attempt. Revived, renewed and released from a mental ward, Arena goes on a quest to reinvent herself as a successful business mogul in the world of organized crime; forming new alliances and partnerships that prove to be lucrative, and deadly.Suddenly finding herself in the cross-hairs of Merchant, a YouTube rapper-slash-dope-dealer-turned-infamous, Arena uproots her premium life of luxury to go into hiding in order to avoid him--and a possible prison sentence. Meanwhile, Arena's pro-basketball Hall of Fame parents adjust to living "out and proud" and away from the rest of the James Family clan that has sadly drifted apart in her absence. Familiar with heartache, and no stranger to heartbreak, she is forced to revisit the pain of lost love but will she ignite an old flame, or start love anew? More importantly, will Arena's business dealings lead her down a path of death, destruction, incarceration, or all of the above?Area's Sanctuary is the sequel any fan of the Arena series would wish for. The book as a whole represents growth; in the author, the storytelling, and the leading character. It has highs and lows, ups and downs, good and evil, love and hate, along with the unexpected, signature twists we are blind to, but have come to expect from budding author Tia M. Myricks.

Edited by the author's grandson, the novelist Matthew Yorke, and with an Introduction by John Updike, this book is an excellent selection of Henry Green's uncollected writings. It includes a number of outstanding stories never previously published, written during the '20s and '30s ("Bees", "Saturday", "Excursion", and the remarkable "Mood" among them). It contains a highly entertaining account of Green's service in the London Fire Brigade during the War; a short play written in the 1950s; and a selection of his journalism, including revelatory articles about the craft of writing, a marvellous evocation of Venice, a description of falling in love, reviews which illuminate his literary enthusiasm and the entertaining interview with Terry Southern for the Paris Review. It is rounded off with a biographical memoir by Green's son, Sebastian Yorke. Fascinating and invaluable as an introduction to Green, Surviving casts new light on his work and illustrates the many facets of this exceptional writer, one of the two most important English novelists of his time.

** OPTIONED FOR FILM! ** The spectacular scenery and craggy beaches draw tourists to the small Oregon town of Sunset Bay. But Sanctuary Ranch offers a different kind of experience: a refuge for people—and animals—desperate for a new beginning . . . Haylee Hansen has made a career out of caring for and training the dogs and horses on her aunt's ranch. Part halfway house, part work camp it also gives troubled kids and adults the tough love they so desperately need. Haylee should know. She was her aunt's first success story. After thirteen years running a level one emergency room in Portland, Dr. Aiden McCall arrives in Sunset Bay a broken man. Anger and anxiety could sabotage his new job at the local hospital. Until someone proposes an unconventional solution: a therapy dog. Haylee has seen her share of damaged people, but no one like Aiden. As she tries to match him with the perfect dog, he'll help her to see that opening yourself up to love is the only way to heal your soul.

Powerful photographs of the grand exteriors and crumbling interiors of America's abandoned state mental hospitals. For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patients. The blueprint for these hospitals was set by Pennsylvania hospital superintendant Thomas Story Kirkbride: a central administration building flanked symmetrically by pavilions and surrounded by lavish grounds with pastoral vistas. Kirkbride and others believed that well-designed buildings and grounds, a peaceful environment, a regimen of fresh air, and places for work, exercise, and cultural activities would heal mental illness. But in the second half of the twentieth century, after the introduction of psychotropic drugs and policy shifts toward community-based care, patient populations declined dramatically, leaving many of these beautiful, massive buildings—and the patients who lived in them—neglected and abandoned. Architect and photographer Christopher Payne spent six years documenting the decay of state mental hospitals like these, visiting seventy institutions in thirty states. Through his lens we see splendid, palatial exteriors (some designed by such prominent architects as H. H. Richardson and Samuel Sloan) and crumbling interiors—chairs stacked against walls with peeling paint in a grand hallway; brightly colored toothbrushes still hanging on a rack; stacks of suitcases, never packed for the trip home. Accompanying Payne's striking and powerful photographs is an essay by Oliver Sacks (who described his own experience working at a state mental hospital in his book Awakenings). Sacks pays tribute to Payne's photographs and to the lives once lived in these places, “where one could be both mad and safe.”