New research has shown what your mother ate, drank, thought and even the amount of stress she was under can all contribute to your health as an adult. “Our mental and physical health as adults is not strictly based on hereditary, it is based on epigenetics. In fact,” says Dr. Janov, author of the new book Life Before Birth: The Hidden Script That Rules Our Lives, “how we’ve been nurtured in the womb and our first years is at least as important, if not more so, than heredity.”
With ground-breaking revelations, Life Before Birth explores in impact of:
Many of them choose to write letters of forgiveness, helping others to find peace. In the case of Julio, he is moved to offer forgiveness, and he addresses his letter to the police officer who accidentally shot him while doing his job. In other cases, there was the opportunity to offer the same message of forgiveness on earth, which serves as a powerful reminder to readers of the personal healing power that comes from forgiving others.
Even for adults, it can be challenging to distinguish the difference between people who say that they are Christians from the ones who actually follow Christ’s word. Horning presents a group of scoobs who do not behave in a Christian manner after the worship service is over; “For the Scoobs on the East Side, oh they'd show up for church! But once church was over, they'd act oh so awful!
Corpus Christi, Texas – When Nate Lytle faced a life-or-death struggle after suffering a traumatic brain injury, he touched people’s lives without even knowing it. Waking from his coma to a supportive and compassionate group of family and friends, he made it his goal to inspire and help others get the most out of life, even in the bleakest of moments.
From his surfing comrades urging his recovery through online forums to his church members and nurses passing along prayers in the hallways, Lytle’s struggle became a inspiration to everyone he met – especially the woman who would become his wife, Brianna, who from the moment she heard about Lytle’s condition felt a strong connection to him.
Launch Out Into the Deep encourages those who are too closely tied to their vices and addictions to seek and to walk the right path by turning back to God. Once individuals are on the right track again, it can help them to avoid the inevitable self-destruction that takes place when one continues down the wrong path.
LOUISVILLE, KY - In her new book, author Ellen Painter Dollar responds to the ethical dilemmas surrounding advanced reproductive technologies with her personal story of being a mother living with a disability. In No Easy Choice: A Story of Disability, Parenthood, and Faith in an Age of Advanced Reproduction (Westminster John Knox Press), Dollar describes living with a disabling genetic bone disorder called osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), which she passes down to her first child. As her toddler breaks numerous bones while learning to walk, Dollar considers whether to use assisted reproduction to conceive a second child. Her story brings to light the ethical dilemmas surrounding advanced reproductive technologies:
A handbook on mastering precepting
INDIANAPOLIS – A great clinical nurse automatically makes a good preceptor, right?
Wrong, according to Beth Ulrich, EdD, RN, FACHE, FAAN, and author of Mastering Precepting: A Nurse’s Handbook for Success.
The book, published by the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI), is written specifically as a guidebook for nurses who are preceptors, who are thinking of becoming preceptors or those who supervise preceptors.
A comprehensive compilation of knowledge and resources, Mastering Precepting includes content such as:
Christian shares how God transformed her mindset after life-altering events
LEXINGTON, TN – What does being a Christian mean to you?
To Dian Wells Matlock, it means having a sincere relationship with the Lord and devoting your life to Him while encouraging others to embrace His love and power.
In her new Christian guidebook, Come Walk with Me to Glory: What Being Christian Means to Me, Matlock presents an inspirational insight to help readers explore the reality of the love of God in our lives through the direct, personal and down-to-earth style of a heart that has been tested and found to be true.
Imagine a world in which we receive our innermost desires by simply asking. Be it from our earthly father, or God himself, it’s no surprise that “if we just get everything we need and want given to us, we will become like spoiled babies and not even realize our need for our Father.” Where is faith in a world accustomed to instant gratification and one that revolves around self-focused and egocentric individuals?
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Suisun City, CA - Minister Benoris P. Toney, Jr. helps readers to desire to know their true identities, leading them into a life of total freedom. It is through Minister Toney’s remarkable story that we realize that God has set up our lives to win, if only we would surrender to him and allow for it to happen, just as the author’s life was transformed from one of troubles and addiction to one of acceptance and success through God.
Minister Toney lost his father to racial violence at the age of seven and was on a path of self-destruction for more than 34 years; a path that involved sexual addiction, alcohol, drugs, and street violence, describing himself as “a man who had no sense of direction at all,” believing that this was all that his life had to offer.
A Contented Mind: Love, hope and the complicated
mess of redefining one’s life
by Samantha
Hoffman
“When women reach a certain age,” says Samantha Hoffman, “the struggle begins. They begin looking in the mirror with scrutiny, begin tucking nervously on their clothes and question their ability to follow their dreams.”
For some, the struggle only involves a little bit of self doubt, but for others it includes all-out tragedy, disappointment and failure. For women, knowing they are not alone with their struggle allows them to feel fortified and empowered.
In Hoffman’s debut
novel, A Contented Mind: Love, hope and the complicated
mess of redefining one’s life,
she encourages women to
do what is right within themselves.
Pasaribu, a father of several children and a devoted Christian, was on a Garuda 737 aircraft when it crashed on March 7, 2007 near Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Twenty-two people were killed instantly, with dozens more seriously injured.
“We all know we should make healthier choices,” Dr. Wright explains. “But we don’t necessarily make it a priority. Sometimes it feels like we can't make it our first choice. Staying fit and eating well seems to fall through the cracks.” Moms and dads with hectic schedules are the norm right now; this pragmatic guide to good health is written especially for them.
