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Deep Liberation: Shamanic Teachings for Reclaiming Wholeness in a Culture of Trauma
by Langston Kahn"With Deep Liberation, our sacred calling is made accessible to all who are willing to listen for it within themselves."--adrienne maree brown, author of Pleasure ActivismTo create a world free from oppression, we each have to face the ways that we maintain toxic social systems within ourselves. In Indigenous cultures throughout the world, it's understood that true transformation starts in the body with a change of heart.Shamanic healer Langston Kahn offers the Deep Liberation Process, a body-based approach that allows us to radically transform the range of fear-based stories we each hold in ourselves: from traumatic experiences, internalized oppression, and habitual emotional patterns to the outmoded beliefs that hold us back from healing, transforming, and freeing our authenticity and unique genius. Bridging the shamanic wisdom of ancient spirituality with the needs and demands of modern-day life, Kahn offers concrete skills to cultivate deep grounding, skillful boundaries, and a healthyenergy body; methods for authentic shadow work and healing our triggers; and tools for effectively tending personal and collective well-being in community.
Deep Listening: A Healing Practice to Calm Your Body, Clear Your Mind, and Open Your Heart
by Jessica Wolf Jillian PranskyTake your mindfulness practice to a new healing level with guided meditations, journaling prompts, and restorative yoga poses.World-renowned restorative yoga teacher Jillian Pransky came to the practice of yoga to heal herself. For much of her life, she subscribed to a relentless work hard/play hard mentality, burying parts of herself beneath the pursuit of busy-ness and accomplishment. It wasn’t until a devastating personal loss and health crisis thrust her into suffocating anxiety that she stopped racing around. As she began to pause and examine her actions and emotions, she found herself able to unlock deeply seated tension in her mind and body. Since then, Pransky has been devoted to studying and teaching mindfulness practices, deep relaxation, and compassionate listening.In Deep Listening, Pransky presents her signature Calm Body, Clear Mind, Open Heart program—a 10-step journey of self-exploration that she’s taught around the world. Derived from the techniques that healed her, the practice of Deep Listening invites you to pay close attention to your body, mind, and heart. You’re taught how to tune inward and relax into a state of openness, ease, and clarity. This is the new frontier in integrative wellness—mindfulness designed for healing.Pransky doesn’t ask you to “be your best self,” or “do more!” She asks you to “be here” and “do less.” She guides you gently through the stages of Deep Listening, from being present and noticing your tension to welcoming what you discover with softness and compassion. She integrates tools like guided meditations, journaling prompts, and restorative yoga poses to help you regard yourself with kindness and curiosity. Immersing yourself in the practice of Deep Listening will allow you to nurture your own well-being.
Deep Listening: Transform Your Relationships with Family, Friends, and Foes
by Emily Kasriel“If you’ve ever felt like two ears aren’t enough, this book is for you. Deep Listening reveals how we can improve at hearing others—and helping them hear us too.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and Hidden Potential, and host of the podcast Re:ThinkingWhy do so many conversations leave us feeling unheard and disconnected? In Deep Listening, acclaimed BBC journalist, accredited executive coach, and mediator Emily Kasriel argues that it’s because we've forgotten how to truly listen.Distracted by our own agenda, we so often hear without understanding, impatiently waiting for our turn to speak. In this exploration of transformational listening, Kasriel shows how shifting from surface-level exchanges to Deep Listening can enrich our relationships as friends, parents, and partners, enhance our effectiveness as leaders, and strengthen the fabric of our communities. At a time when divisions within communities, organizations, and families are often a source of profound pain, this book offers inspiration and practical guidance on how we can better listen to each other, even when we fiercely disagree.Drawing on scientific studies, new research, and powerful stories from legendary listeners in politics, business, and the arts, Kasriel unveils her simple yet transformative eight-step approach. With Deep Listening as your guide, you’ll learn to become a better family member, friend, co-worker and citizen.At once a practical guide and a heartfelt manifesto, this groundbreaking book challenges us to rethink our approach to listening and in doing so, transform our lives from the inside out. Whether readers seek to strengthen their empathy, boost their performance at work, or foster genuine understanding across cultural, political, and generational divides, Deep Listening provides the tools and inspiration to unlock the power of lasting, meaningful connections.
Deep Peace: Finding Calm in a World of Conflict and Anxiety
by Todd D. HunterExperience deep wholeness in your life that springs forth from the peace of God.We live in a fearful, anxiety-driven age where the problems and challenges of the world assault us from every direction and every media source, and they far exceed our abilities to respond to them. The sense of desperation that often comes of this leads to discord and violence: from bitter, cutting remarks to the atrocities of war; from pervasive racism to knee-jerk micro-aggressions. It contributes to our current, peace-bankrupt social discourse, leading to patterns of dismissing, dividing from, condemning, or hating people.But what if the root of these problems is not found out there, in the situations, the information or misinformation of what's happening in the world? What if they come from here: in our minds, hearts, thought-life, and emotions?In Deep Peace, Todd Hunter, founding pastor of Holy Trinity Anglican Church, analyzes the anxiety and desperation of our current moment and brings it before a biblical framework of profound peace. This book provides practices to help Christians value and actively seek peace, becoming people of reconciliation in ordinary life. Deep Peace:Uncovers the ten things that are most harmful to peace in a person's life.Unpacks the "Trinity of Peace" found in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit and how we can find rest in each person of the Trinity.Reveals spiritual practices that will teach you how to pursue an inner calm and become the kind of person that meets conflict with love and renounces fear.Deep Peace is a timely benediction that offers a practical and spiritual guide to recenter believers in the peace of Christ.
Deep Play
by Diane AckermanWith A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman let her free-ranging intellect loose on the natural world. Now in Deep Play she tackles the realm of creativity, by exploring one of the most essential aspects of our characters: the ability to play. "Deep Play" is that more intensified form of play that puts us in a rapturous mood and awakens the most creative, sentient, and joyful aspects of our inner selves. As Ackerman ranges over a panoply of artistic, spiritual, and athletic activities, from spiritual rapture through extreme sports, we gain a greater sense of what it means to be "in the moment" and totally, transcendentally human. Keenly perceived and written with poetic exuberance, Deep Play enlightens us by revealing the manifold ways we can enhance our lives.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
by Cal NewportAN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF 2O16 PICK IN BUSINESS & LEADERSHIPWALL STREET JOURNAL BUSINESS BESTSELLER A BUSINESS BOOK OF THE WEEK AT 800-CEO-READMaster one of our economy&’s most rare skills and achieve groundbreaking results with this &“exciting&” book (Daniel H. Pink) from an &“exceptional&” author (New York Times Book Review). Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep Work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way. In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill. 1. Work Deeply 2. Embrace Boredom 3. Quit Social Media 4. Drain the Shallows A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, Deep Work takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories-from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air-and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world.
Deep Work: डीप वर्क
by Cal Newport'जिस तरह स्वचालन (ऑटोमेशन) और बाहरी स्रोत (आउटसोर्सिंग) हमारे कार्यक्षेत्र को एक नया रूप दे रही हैं, ऐसे में वे कौन से नए कौशल हैं, जिनकी हमें ज़रूरत हैं? कैल न्यूपोर्ट की यह दिलचस्प किताब न सिर्फ एक विचलन-रहित वातावरण में गहन एकाग्रता से हमारा परिचय कराती है बल्कि हमें उस तक पहुँचने का मार्ग भी दिखाती है। इस गहन एकाग्रता के परिणामस्वरूप हमारे सीखने की गति तेज हो जाती है और हमारा प्रदर्शन सशक्त हो जाता है। इसे अपने मस्तिष्क के व्यायाम के रूप में देखें और आज से ही यह व्यायाम शुरू करें।' 'यह किताब गहन एकाग्रता की क्षमता विकसित करने के पक्ष में ठोस तर्क देती है और इसके लिए ऐसे कदम सुझाती है, जो फौरन उठाए जा सकते हैं।' 'कैल न्यूपोर्ट भारी शोरगुल के बीच एक स्पष्ट सुनाई देने वाली आवाज हैं, जिनके काम में विज्ञान और जोश, दोनों का संगम है। हमें और अधिक क्लिक्स व इमोजीस (वेब पेजों में उपयोग किए जानेवाले स्माइली) की ज़रूरत नहीं है। हमें बहादुरी भरे काम की ज़रूरत है। ऐसा काम तभी संभव होता है, जब हम सच्चाई को नज़रअंदाज करने से इंकार कर देते हैं।' 'इंसान की मानसिक शक्तियों को दोबारा सक्रिय करने के लिए कैल न्यूपोर्ट जितने व्यावहारिक, दक्ष और जानकारियों से भरपूर सुझाव देते हैं, मैंने उतने कारगर सुझाव देते हुए किसी और को नहीं देखा।' 'अगर आपको लगता है कि आप यह सब पहले से जानते हैं, तो गहन कार्य अपनी अनूठी और उपयोगी अंतदृष्टियों से आपको आश्चर्यचकित कर देगी। दरअसल इस किताब की उपयोगिता सिद्ध करने के लिए इसमें प्रस्तुत नियम-3 ही काफी है, जो कोई भी लाभ काफी है दृष्टिकोण पर चर्चा करता है।'
Deep in the Wave
by Lou Aronica Bear WoznickFor world-class surfer Bear Woznick, the ocean has always been the center of his universe. He's spent his entire life with it; riding its waves, learning from it, loving it. The ocean also nourishes the soul as Bear shows us on his surfboard.In DEEP IN THE WAVE, readers ride along with Woznick through the calmest of tides and most turbulent waves. Woznick's portrayal of the beauty and power of the ocean is truly inspiring and showcases the profound meaning surfing has had on his life.From the way a surfboard is painstakingly crafted, to the faith and patience that is required to ride a monster wave, Woznick weaves his relationship to surfing with his relationship to God, relating how the two are often one in the same. Instead of standing on the shore with our toes in the surf, Woznick takes us on the board--to the deep water--to watch and wait--and, if need be, to paddle hard to survive.
Deep is the Hunger: Meditations for Apostles of Sensitiveness
by Howard ThurmanHoward Thurman, the Pastor of The Church for the Fellowship of all Peoples, was one of San Francisco’s most sought-after preachers at college chapels. His contribution to the large audiences he addressed each year across the country and to his own inter-racial congregation consisted not only of prophetic quality, but also of an ability to lead a group into an atmosphere of devotion.In Deep is the Hunger: Meditations for Apostles of Sensitiveness, Dr. Thurman provides the devotional reader with twenty-five working papers for meditations, which grew out of his weekly messages at The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples. The book is divided into four parts: (1) A sense of history; (2) A sense of self; (3) A sense of presence; and (4) For the quiet time.“The attempt is not to set forth a connected series of observations or reflections, but rather to throw a shaft of light on aspects of thought, of life, of religious experience, as they are encountered in the daily round.”—Howard Thurman, Preface“This is a book of rare quality, indeed, admirably suited for use during the season for personal or group devotions…Dr. Thurman has an unusual and extraordinary gift for using the penetrating word, phrase and illustration…This book and the meditations deal with problems everyone can all relate to…One of the best devotional books of the year.”—Kirkus Review
Deepak Chopra Collection
by Deepak ChopraFour of the most popular and celebrated books by New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra are now available together in this collection.Buddha is an inspiring re-imagining of the life of a prince who gave up the trappings of royalty for something much more important--wisdom and enlightenment. This revolutionary journey has changed the world forever, and the lessons Buddha taught continue to influence every corner of the globe today. This is a new form of teaching for beloved Chopra and with it he brings us closer to understanding the true nature of life and ourselves.Jesus captures the extraordinary life of Christ in this surprising, soul-stirring, and page-turning novel. Uncovering the transformational "lost years" that are not recounted in the New Testament, Chopra has imagined Jesus's path to enlightenment moving from obscurity to revolutionary, from doubt to miracles, and then beyond as the role of the long-awaited Messiah. As a teenager, Jesus has premonitions of his destiny, and by the end, as he arrives to be baptized in the River Jordan, he has accepted his fate, which combines extremes of light and darkness.Born into the factious world of war-torn Arabia, Muhammad's life is a gripping and inspiring story of one man's tireless fight for unity and peace. In a world where greed and injustice ruled, Muhammad created change by affecting hearts and minds. Just as the story of Jesus embodies the message of Christianity, Muhammad's life reveals the core of Islam. In the groundbreaking and imaginative God, the evolution of our highest spiritual figure is told through a unique blend of storytelling and teaching. By capturing the lives of ten historical prophets, saints, mystics, and martyrs who are touched by a divine power, Chopra brings to life the defining moments of our most influential sages, ultimately revealing universal lessons about the true nature of God.
Deeper Experiences of Famous Christians: Gleaned From Their Biographies, Autobiographies And Writings
by James Gilchrist Lawson"Deeper Experiences of Famous Christians" by James Gilchrist Lawson is an inspiring and enlightening collection of spiritual biographies that delves into the profound and transformative experiences of some of the most influential figures in Christian history. Lawson, a respected Christian author and historian, brings together the stories of men and women whose deep faith and extraordinary encounters with God have left an indelible mark on the Christian faith.Among the figures featured are saints like Augustine and Francis of Assisi, reformers such as Martin Luther and John Wesley, and revivalists like Jonathan Edwards and Charles Finney. Lawson meticulously recounts their struggles, revelations, and the divine interventions that led them to a deeper understanding of God's love and purpose for their lives. Through these stories, readers are given a window into the inner workings of God's grace and the ways in which He shapes and molds His servants."Deeper Experiences of Famous Christians" is not just a historical account; it is a source of spiritual inspiration and encouragement. Lawson's engaging and accessible writing style brings these historical figures to life, making their experiences relatable and applicable to contemporary readers. The book serves as a powerful reminder that the same God who worked in the lives of these great Christians is still active and present today, inviting all believers to seek a deeper, more intimate relationship with Him.This book is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to deepen their faith and understand the rich heritage of Christian spirituality. It is ideal for personal devotions, small group studies, and anyone interested in the lives of those who have profoundly influenced the course of Christianity. "Deeper Experiences of Famous Christians" offers timeless wisdom and inspiration, encouraging readers to pursue their own deeper experiences with God.
Deeper Mindfulness: The New Way to Rediscover Calm in a Chaotic World
by Mark Williams Danny PenmanUse the hidden foundations of mindfulness to rediscover calm and reclaim your life in our chaotic world. There are moments in life that decide your fate. They ripple into the future and dictate how you experience the world in the moments that follow; either positive and uplifting, dark and chaotic, or flat and dull. What if you could recognize these moments before they seized control of your life? What if you could use them to set sail for a better future? What if all moments, big and small, could be harnessed this way? In Deeper Mindfulness, Oxford Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman reunite to present a new eight-week guided meditation program that takes mindfulness to the next level. Deeper Mindfulness reveals how the latest advances in neuroscience, combined with millennia old wisdom, can be used to transform your life. These discoveries open the doors to a deeper layer of mindfulness known as the 'feeling tone'. This sets the 'background color' that tinges your entire experience of life. It is also the tipping point from which you can reclaim your life in an increasingly stressful and chaotic world. Proven effective at treating anxiety, stress and depression, the practices in Deeper Mindfulness offer a new and more fruitful direction for both novice and experienced meditators. It also allows the rest of us to approach life with renewed strength, vigor and equanimity.
Deeper Than Money: Ditch Money Shame, Build Wealth, and Feel Confident AF
by Chloe EliseA guide for women to find financial confidence, say goodbye to guilt, and finally get ahead with money without sacrificing what they care about, from money expert, podcaster, and CEO Chloe Elise.This is not your average finance book. Like most people these days, Elise went to college not only with student loans, but also completely clueless as to how debt even worked. Instead of abiding by restrictive, guilt-filled advice, she set off on a new debt-payoff journey where she made the rules. Fast-forward eighteen months, and not only did she become completely debt-free, paying off more than $36,000 of debt, but she did it while traveling and enjoying life in her twenties. And now she&’s sharing how you can do it, too. In Deeper Than Money, Elise demystifies finance for anyone who feels stuck in cycles of guilt around spending. Part practical guide to finance and part motivational kick in the butt to set yourself up for success, this book is all about showing how to live your life, love your finances, and make money matter less. It&’ll have you ready to talk about money at brunch with your friends, and finally allow you to get ahead with money—without skipping the mimosa. Deeper Than Money will help you level up not only your finances, but also your life. Because in order to enjoy the wealth you&’re building, you also need to enjoy the life you&’re living.
Deeper, Richer, Fuller
by Tom PatersonDiscover the true purpose of your life with a patented nine-step process. In Deeper, Richer, Fuller, Tom Paterson, world-renowned business strategist, inventor, and mentor, demonstrates how Christians can become everyday saints, learning to love and help others by living out God's purpose.Through Patterson's patented LifePlan process you can: - Identify important milestones in your spiritual journey - Discover your spiritual roadblocks - Create a life of joyous fulfillment - Deepen your relationship with GodPeppered with personal stories from a lifetime of interactions with world and spiritual leaders--from U.S. presidents to Walt Disney to famous CEOs--Deeper, Richer, Fuller delivers an extraordinary process of spiritual transformation, allowing you to chart your course for the future.
Deeply Defined: Understanding Who You Are In Christ
by Janey PittsDeeply Defined uses biblical culture and the original languages to explain common “church words” Christians use every day but have a hard time explaining when asked. Deeply Defined helps readers become deeply defined by God’s word on a personal level as they begin to understand how to apply biblical concepts in their lives. Janey Pitts takes readers on a journey of discovery. She begins by exploring holiness, then defines areas that need to be worked through, like sin, repentance, and forgiveness. The bulk of Deeply Defined however swims in the concepts of grace, peace, joy, hope, and wisdom. Readers will finish Deeply Defined having a better understanding not only of the Bible, but of who they are in Christ.
Deeply Grateful & Entirely Unsatisfied: A Book for Anyone Wondering if Life Is Giving You Magical Gifts or Just Messing with You
by Amanda HappéWhat does it mean to be vulnerable and defiant at the same time? In Deeply Grateful and Entirely Unsatisfied, author and artist Amanda Happé poses this question with disarming honesty and humor. Her colorful marker drawings and quirky hand-lettered sentiments offer an idiosyncratic take on life's challenges, reminding the reader that "you are the sign you've been waiting for." Brimming with compassion, empathy, and a healthy dose of sarcasm, Deeply Grateful and Entirely Unsatisfied is, in Happé's own words, "so good it's odd."
Deeply into the Bone: Re-inventing Rites Of Passage (Life Passages Ser. #Vol. 1)
by Ronald L. GrimesThis is a general introduction to the topic of rites of passage from a cross-cultural perspective.
Defeating Depression
by Leo J. BattenhausenDo you feel stuck, trapped in a cycle of loneliness, despair, discontent and sadness? Do you have trouble sleeping, have to "wind" yourself up to get out of bed in the morning, have difficulty concentrating and focusing on work, loved ones and family? According to a recent survey 54 million people do. Defeating Depression will guide you toward identifying, understanding, coping with and healing conflicts and issues in your life so you will no longer feel powerless and filled with pain. Finally, you will be free to find and enjoy happiness and satisfaction.Defeating Depression will teach you how to identify these problem areas in your life and overcome barriers before you feel like they are paralyzing you. It will provide you with the tools to face life's issues and show you how to handle undesirable feelings, attitudes, reactions and falsities that cause too many people to feel powerless. Compiled from his twenty-five years of experience, Battenhausen's revolutionary "Calm and Sense" approach will empower you to take control of your life and feelings, not just today, but in the future.
Defeating Depression: How To Use The People In Your Life To Open The Door To Recovery
by Roslyn LawThis ground-breaking new self-help book is based on Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), a therapeutic approach being adopted by the government's nationwide Improved Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme, alongside Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. IPT is commonly used to treat those suffering from depression and eating disorders. IPT is now being used by IAPT therapists nationally and this book will be the first self-help book based on this approach and will be widely recommended to patients. The author, Dr Roslyn Law, is one of the UK's leading authorities on IPT.
Defeating Depression: How to use the people in your life to open the door to recovery
by Dr Roslyn LawThis ground-breaking new self-help book is based on Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), a therapeutic approach being adopted by the government's nationwide Improved Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme, alongside Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. IPT is commonly used to treat those suffering from depression and eating disorders. IPT is now being used by IAPT therapists nationally and this book will be the first self-help book based on this approach and will be widely recommended to patients. The author, Dr Roslyn Law, is one of the UK's leading authorities on IPT.
Defeating Teenage Depression: Getting There Together
by Dr Roslyn LawHIGHLY COMMENDED for the British Medical Awards book prize for Popular MedicineAre you feeling down and irritable a lot of the time? Do relationships with your family and friends seem more complicated than they used to? Do you wish that someone would understand that you aren't just being a moody teenager? If so, you're not alone and this book can help. Depression is more than being sad or in a bad mood and it can make life feel like it is all too much. Depression tells you that there is nothing you can do about it, but with the right help you can turn your story around and rediscover all there is to enjoy in life.This practical guide uses techniques based on Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Adolescents (IPT-A) which has been used to help children and young people with depression around the world. IPT-A helps you to develop your own story of what is happening in your life so that you can understand your depression and how to get out of it.You will learn who you can call on to help, even when depression tries to tell you that no one is interested. Don't listen - depression gives bad advice! IPT-A helps you to sort out the problems with other people that are an inevitable part of life when you are growing up and so much is changing around you. With IPT-A, we will get there together.
Defenders of the Heart: Managing The Habits And Attitudes That Block You From A Richer, More Satisfying Life
by Marilyn Kagan Neil EinbundYour heart deserves the best protection possible, but you can’t lock it away for safekeeping. You must keep your heart in touch with the world: giving and receiving love and reaching out to embrace the people, activities, and causes that create a deeply rewarding life. In this truly transformative book, Marilyn Kagan, LCSW, and Neil Einbund, Ph.D., well-known therapists in the Los Angeles area, help you discover the common defense mechanisms we all use to guard our hearts against being hurt. Over time, these mechanisms, which the authors have coined "defenders of the heart," can become habitual and overly entrenched. In one way or another, they are at the base of nearly all of our bouts with dissatisfaction. Defenders of the Heart delivers a strong basic understanding of these 10 strategies, shows how to recognize which ones are sabotaging your life, and offers a comprehensive tool set to break free of their life-limiting powers. If you want to change your life yet are too guardedto see the very obvious paths that are open before you, this book will guide you toward the glorious, awe-inspiring, and utterly fulfilled existence you’re striving for!
Defending Your Marriage: The Reality of Spiritual Battle
by Tim MuehlhoffIs your marriage under attack?
Defiant Joy Bible Study Guide: What Happens When You’re Full of It
by Candace PayneJoy is closer than you think because God is better than you may believe!We live in a culture that either tries to connect feelings of joy to empty and broken pleasures, or else it makes us feel guilty for feeling joyful at all. But both extremes are corruptions of the call to gladness that God gave us.With infectious humor, delight, and unfaltering wisdom, Candace Payne (aka "Chewbacca Mom") reveals biblical insights that lead to unshakable joy and freedom in every circumstance. Dispel the myths that joy is frivolous, laughter immature, and happiness unbiblical or undeserved; and open your heart to receive the freedom and joy that God created you to live in.John 15:11 says, "I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete."In this six-session video Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately), learn what it is to live a life expressed by the joy of knowing how much you are loved by God!The Defiant Joy Bible study challenges groups to get honest and real in their discussion time and to explore the truth in what Scripture says about happiness. It also includes a personal "Joy Lab" that makes homework a new daily practice in the art of encountering the abundance God intends for each of us when we know joy.Sessions include:Laugh It Up, Live It OutKnow Hope, Know JoyJoy Is a FighterJoy Is Not Arrogant, But She Is ConfidentJoy Embraces SorrowYou&’re Full of ItDesigned for use with the Defiant Joy Video Study (9780310090557) sold separately.
Defiant Joy: Taking Hold of Hope, Beauty, and Life in a Hurting World
by Stasi EldredgeBestselling author Stasi Eldredge shows readers how to choose a joy that stands against the tides of life's real and often overwhelming pain.We are called to live. And, miraculously, to live with joy.Walking in joy often feels crazy and like a denial of actual life. Yet Christians are called to "be joyful always" (1 Thess. 5:16). What does this mean, and how is it even possible?In her new book, Stasi Eldredge meets readers in their painful realities and offers an invitation to a joy that is defiant in the face of this broken world. This joy does not Pollyannaish-ly ignore life's heartache; rather, it insists that sorrow and loss do not have the final say. This kind of joy is present to both goodness and grief and interprets them in the light of heaven. With deep vulnerability about her own chronic pain, surprising diagnoses, and relational struggles and loss, Stasi demonstrates how to maintain a posture of holy defiance that neither denies nor diminishes the pain, but instead leans fully into the experience of knowing God's presence and promise in the middle of whatever life may bring.