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3) The rescuer: one firefighter's story of courage, darkness, and the relentless love that saved him
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"Jason Sautel had it all. Confident in his abilities and trusted by his fellow firefighters, he was making a name for himself on the streets of Oakland, California. His adrenaline-fueled job even helped him forget the pain of his childhood--until the day he looked into the eyes of a jumper on the Bay Bridge and came face to face with a darkness he knew would take him down as well. In the following months, a series of traumatic emergency calls--some...
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Holy Longing turns his attention to one of the stigmas of our time. A new way of understanding death by suicide with chapters on • Removing the Taboo • Despair as Weakness rather than Sin • Reclaiming the Memory of our Loved One Ronald Rolheiser is a Catholic priest, internationally renowned speaker and spiritual writer whose books appeal to Christians of all backgrounds and spiritual seekers of all...
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"An extended reflection on finding authentic Christian joy in the midst of suffering and despair, especially the twenty-first-century epidemics of suicide and addiction"--
"My vocation was supposed to be joy, and I was speaking at funerals." Shortly after being hired by Yale University to study joy, Angela Gorrell got word that a close family member had died by suicide. Less than a month later, she lost her father to a fatal opioid addiction and...
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More and more people who are terminally ill are choosing assisted suicide. When is it Right to Die? offers a different path with alternatives of hope, compassion, and death with real dignity. Joni Eareckson Tada knows what it means to wrestle with this issue and to wish for a painless solution. For the last 50 years she has been confined to a wheelchair and struggled against her own paralysis. And she sat by the bedside of her dying father, thinking,...
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While meaning and purpose are often seen as synonymous, this book argues that they sometimes are in opposition, the search for meaning at times suicidal, and living with purpose life-enhancing and invigorating.
No people seemed to search for meaning in their lives more than did the ancient and classical Greeks. They were not content with living simple lives but oftentimes took on gargantuan tasks which resulted in a great deal of upheaval and unpleasantness...
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Deep, Dark, Black Hole, written in narrative form, describes the harrowing anguish a pastor and his wife experienced "walking out" his devastating health crisis. The title symbolizes the terror of many who suffer anxiety and depression and the consequent sense of hopelessness and despair they experience.
This book emphasizes the importance of family, friends, and faith as well as the collaborative support needed between medicine and ministry to survive...
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In order to understand and prevent suicides, we must begin to explore the topic with a new perspective and spirit of hope. In Suicide: Fast or Slow, part of the GET A GRIP series, therapist and author Derek O'Neill shares knowledge gained from 20 years of working with suicidal clients and their families, to offer a powerful guide for support and healing.
Looking at both the internal and external influences that can steer a person to considering ending...
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In Schizophrenia and Suicide: Finding Hope, Meaning, and Direction, the author shares how, as a person with schizophrenia, the thought of suicide, for her, and also for others with this disease, can be a constant threat to their well-being. In this book she explores the topic of survival for people who have a mental illness, for whom self-destruction through suicide is all too common in the age of medicines, psychotherapies, and peer counselling....
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Trina Olson can be, described as someone God is transforming into someone she never knew. After being, pulled off an embankment while committing suicide, God turned her life around and spoke to her audibly, saying, "You can continue to be stupid, but I (God) have a plan for your life." God has taken her on an incredible journey ever since!
Unleashed and Ready to Reign was, birthed out of a vision God revealed to Trina while she was on a mission trip...
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Nothing is as heart-breaking as a loved one who has lost hope and is contemplating suicide. A person who seems cheerful one day can slip into despair and hopelessness the next. God's heart is tender and full of compassion toward those experiencing deep pain. Prevention requires compassion toward the sufferer, along with practical steps and biblical assurance of God's love. Suicide Prevention covers the steps to identifying and preventing suicide using...
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This Is Your Anti-Suicide Note…
I'm writing this note to YOU because I want you to know your life has great value. There are many books about preventing suicide, but few are written for those who want to commit suicide. This book is that book. This is a direct note to YOU…your anti-suicide note.
Maybe you've been abandoned, abused, mocked, or humiliated. Perhaps you have sunk so low into despair that you think there's no way to overcome what...
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In Dying for Heaven, Georgetown scholar and advisor to the defense community Ariel Glucklich explains the religious motivation of terrorism. This provocative work of political science argues that the very best qualities of religion-its ability to make people feel good and bring them together-are in fact its most dangerous. Glucklich, author of Sacred Pain and Climbing Chamundi Hill, offers a new understanding of religion and provides a vision for...
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All I wanted to do was to make things easier for everyone else, in my life by removing my problems from their lives.
In this intimate revelation about her personal mental health journey, Evangelist Angie BEE displays to readers the strength, hope, and faith that it takes to be an overcomer with one's mental health.
Evangelist Angie BEE preaches from a prophetic gift from God. She conducts red carpet event interviews and features those videos on...
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After the suicide death of our daughter, my heart became a battlefield between seeking answers that could put all the pieces back together again, finding peace and courage that enabled me to forgive myself, and even God, to move forward. This is my journey at the cliffs of abandonment. It is a place of death, loss, hopelessness, and fear. It is a place of wrestling with who the Father truly is and who I am in Him. It is a place of courage to embrace...
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Suicide is the nation's tenth leading cause of death, and in 2018 nearly 50,000 people in the US died by suicide, with thousands more attempting to take their own lives. Countless others experience suicidal ideation due to depression, anxiety, addiction, and more, living for years in silent misery. The sad truth is that someone you know may be suffering.
With great compassion and clear, actionable strategies, So Much to Live For shows you what to...
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Vernon Slovin was a legend-one of the best swimmers in his home country of South Africa, and for a time in the world. He prided himself on being the best-in sports, business, and life. He had it all, a big home, athletic prestige, fancy clothes and cars, and a beautiful wife and family. Everything was going his way until it all came tumbling down. He lost everything, including his own life. In the wake of his suicide he left his wife and two young...
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Do you sometimes, feel life is completely hopeless and it's just too hard to keep going? You are not alone! Me too! An average of 129 people in the US-men, women, and children-end their lives daily. And, for every person who commits suicide, 268 others consider it. That's 12.6-million people a year whose lives are directly impeded or ended by it, without counting the friends and family members it indirectly affects.
But, we don't have to be part of...
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"Turbulent Hope" is the compelling story of Heather Gibson, a teenage girl who held on to hope through the many storms life threw her way. Wave after wave of misfortune crashes over young Heather Gibson. She falters and struggles, yet somehow manages to hold on. The secret to her strength is found in her faith. Heather's story is a beautiful testimony to the importance of the local church and the practicality of the Word of God.
A companion to "Turbulent...
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