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Spirituality for Extroverts

And Tips for Those who Love Them

By: Nancy Christine Reeves

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Spirituality for Extroverts

And Tips for Those who Love Them

By: Nancy Christine Reeves

Does prayer have to be silent? Does meditation have to be solemn? If I'm an extrovert, can I worship God? In this groundbreaking book, psychologist and spiritual adviser Nancy Reeves presents a refreshing view of spirituality that goes beyond personality to provide extroverts (and those who love them) with exciting new ways of approaching God. Reeves explores a wide variety of spiritual practices for extroverts, including: Praying in motion Singing Cultivating spiritual friendships Practicing spirituality in groups In the end, she urges all of us, extrovert and introvert alike, to seek a mature spirituality that embraces all the aspects of our personalities. Includes questions for reflection and discussion. Perfect for book clubs, discussion groups, and bible study classes. "For some reason, we think of quiet, introverted people as the very name of holiness. This cannot be true, and Nancy Reeves shows us why!" -Richard Rohr, author of Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality "I've been waiting a long time to read a book like this! Nancy Reeves provides much needed insight and guidance." -Joyce Rupp, author of Fresh Bread: And Other Gifts of Spiritual Nourishment "As an introvert, I found Reeves' perspectives eye-opening and enormously helpful. They will change the way I interact with the extroverts in my life. This book should be required reading for anyone offering spiritual guidance." -Marjorie J. Thompson, author of Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life Nancy Reeves is a clinical psychologist, spiritual director, poet, and author. She is director of the Island Loss Clinic, teaches at the University of Victoria, and conducts many lectures and workshops internationally. She is the author of A Match Made in Heaven: A Bible-Based Guide to Deepening Your Relationship with God and I'd Say Yes, God, If I Knew What You Wanted.

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Abingdon Press

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0687650747

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9780687650743

The Midwife's Story

Meditations for Advent Times

By: Nancy Christine Reeves,Margaret Kyle

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The Midwife's Story

Meditations for Advent Times

By: Nancy Christine Reeves,Margaret Kyle

Still your busy heart with The Midwife's Story: Meditations for Advent Times. In this season of waiting, it is easy to get caught up in the tension and the stress. There is great value in taking quiet time for reflection. The Midwife's Story will allow you to ready yourself spiritually for the birth of the Divine. As the title suggests it is a poem about a very special midwife who may have been present at the birth of Christ. The poem, which reminds us that holiness comes to the world through a physical body, is accompanied by beautiful illustrations that are meant to help open your mind and heart, and bring new awareness and insight. The second half of the book invites you to delve deeper, by exploring a different theme for each of the poem's eight sections. The Midwife's Story will assist you on the journey through Advent and help you learn what healing or growth God is wanting to bring to birth in you.

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Wood Lake Publishing Inc.

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1896836593

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9781896836591

Found Through Loss

Healing Stories from Scripture & Everyday Sacredness

By: Nancy Christine Reeves

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Found Through Loss

Healing Stories from Scripture & Everyday Sacredness

By: Nancy Christine Reeves

Some people find that the painful journey through grief and loss is also a journey through which they find themselves. They grow in self-awareness, or self-esteem, or in the ability to be in a healthy relationship, or in skills that help them or others, or in an ability to live a deeper, more meaningful life. 'Found Through Loss' contains 32 inspiring stories of individuals, couples, families, or groups who grew because, not just in spite of, loss. The message of each is further illustrated by concepts and strategies for healing. The holy scriptures are examined for their insight into the process, and healing methods -- visualisations, symbols, ritual, journalling, and creating art -- are suggested after each story. The CD records the author reading the stories, accompanied by the music of Linnea Good, a well-known Canadian singer/songwriter.

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Wood Lake Publishing Inc.

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1896836496

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9781896836492

A Path Through Loss

A Workbook for Healing and Growing

By: Nancy Christine Reeves

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A Path Through Loss

A Workbook for Healing and Growing

By: Nancy Christine Reeves

This is a self-directed workbook that guides the reader through the process of grief. Grief can result from many things: divorce or separation, abuse, unemployment, a serious injury or chronic/terminal illness, death, loss of childhood due to a parent illness or substance abuse; or a life transition such as career change, a move, or retirement. Learn why working with grief through various means, including journalling, is helpful. Become aware of the different issues that affect and prevent or assist healing and growth. Author Nancy Reeves provides practical information and easy-to-use tools to help the reader nurture the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of the self. Although it is intended for individual use, this book is a valuable resource for counsellors. This updated and expanded edition of the best-selling original includes questions suitable for group discussion. It also includes a section on children and grief.

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Wood Lake Publishing Inc.

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1770644385

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9781770644380

A Match Made in Heaven

A Bible-Based Guide to Deepening Your Relationship with God

By: Nancy Christine Reeves

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A Match Made in Heaven

A Bible-Based Guide to Deepening Your Relationship with God

By: Nancy Christine Reeves

Improve your relationship with God, using the original 'how to' book -- the Bible. Books, magazines, and talk shows are full of advice on how to improve our love lives. Psychologist and spiritual director Nancy Reeves points out that some of these same principles apply to our relationship with God. The principles include: Say "I Love You" Frequently Tell Your Loved One What You Need Share Your Pain as Well as Your Joy Take Time Just to Be Together. Each of 12 chapters includes a psychological principle, the corresponding scripture passage, stories that bring the principle to life, and a relationship-building exercise. A discussion guide is included to facilitate small group use. Again Nancy Reeves has gifted us with new depth of healing through scriptural spirituality and psychology.

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Wood Lake Publishing Inc.

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1551455617

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9781551455617

Gifts of the Eucharist

Stories to Transform and Inspire

By: Nancy C. Reeves,Bernadette Gasslein

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Gifts of the Eucharist

Stories to Transform and Inspire

By: Nancy C. Reeves,Bernadette Gasslein

In this collection of compelling personal stories and theological reflections, noted spiritual guides Nancy Reeves and Bernadette Gasslein team up to revitalize Catholic appreciation of the Eucharist as the communal center of the faith. Each chapter is built around stories from a variety of believers that guide readers to explore ten gifts received through the Eucharist: 1. Transformation 2. Remembrance 3. Thanksgiving 4. Reconciliation 5. Healing 6. Nourishment 7. Guidance 8. Embrace 9. Community 10. Celebration Each chapter concludes with the authors' adaptation of a psalm, questions for personal reflection or discussion in a small group, and a guided spiritual exercise.

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Ave Maria Press

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1594714142

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I'd Say Yes God If I Knew What You Wanted Study Guide

Spiritual Discernment

By: Nancy Reeves

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I'd Say Yes God If I Knew What You Wanted Study Guide

Spiritual Discernment

By: Nancy Reeves

This course guide is intended for use with Dr. Nancy Reeves' book "I'd Say Yes God, If I Knew What You Wanted". It has been written primarily for people who wish to facilitate courses, workshops or retreats on spiritual discernment. The study guide provides seven 90-minute long sessions including: What is Discernment? Graced History Gratitude Methods of Discernment Challenges in Discernment Charism How Do I Know It's God?

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1896836550

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Living Through Loss

Interventions Across the Life Span

By: Nancy R. Hooyman,Betty J. Kramer,Sara Sanders

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Living Through Loss

Interventions Across the Life Span

By: Nancy R. Hooyman,Betty J. Kramer,Sara Sanders

Living Through Loss provides a foundational identification of the many ways in which people experience loss over the life course, from childhood to old age. It examines the interventions most effective at each phase of life, combining theory, sound clinical practice, and empirical research with insights emerging from powerful accounts of personal experience. The authors emphasize that loss and grief are universal yet highly individualized. Loss comes in many forms and can include not only a loved one’s death but also divorce, adoption, living with chronic illness, caregiving, retirement and relocation, or being abused, assaulted, or otherwise traumatized. They approach the topic from the perspective of the resilience model, which acknowledges people’s capacity to find meaning in their losses and integrate grief into their lives. The book explores the varying roles of age, race, culture, sexual orientation, gender, and spirituality in responses to loss. Presenting a variety of models, approaches, and resources, Living Through Loss offers invaluable lessons that can be applied in any practice setting by a wide range of human service and health care professionals. This second edition features new and expanded content on diversity and trauma, including discussions of gun violence, police brutality, suicide, and an added focus on systemic racism.

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Columbia University Press

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0231550219

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9780231550215

The Kid-Dom of God

Helping Children Grow in Christian Faith

By: Nancy C. Reeves,Linnea Good

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The Kid-Dom of God

Helping Children Grow in Christian Faith

By: Nancy C. Reeves,Linnea Good

Many parents wonder how to share their faith in a way that respects their child's need to develop and grow their own spirituality. The Kid-Dom of God: Helping Children Grow in Christian Faith is a complete collection of the award-winning "Children Celebrate" columns by psychologis Nancy Reeves, Ph.D., and composer/musician Linnea Good. Selected as the "Best Family Life Column" in 2012 by the Catholic Press Association (U.S. and Canada), and placing 2nd in the "Best Column" category by the Canadian Church Press, each article is "filled with both simple and complex concepts meant to enrich family relationships, enhance spiritual growth, and offer a nexus point where everyday experience meets reflection on the sacred." As one judge commented, Reeves and Good "pack a lot of good advice into [these] provocative columns." Topics include endings, gratitude, patience, obedience, fairness and justice, awe, creation, discernment, ego, nuturing spirituality, and more.

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1770646906

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Two Suns of the Southwest

Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the 1964 Battle between Liberalism and Conservatism

By: Nancy Beck Young

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Two Suns of the Southwest

Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the 1964 Battle between Liberalism and Conservatism

By: Nancy Beck Young

Over time the presidential election of 1964 has come to be seen as a generational shift, a defining moment in which Americans deliberated between two distinctly different visions for the future. In its juxtaposition of these divergent visions, Two Suns of the Southwest is the first full account of this critical election and its legacy for US politics. The 1964 election, in Nancy Beck Young’s telling, was a contest between two men of the Southwest, each with a very different idea of what the Southwest was and what America should be. Barry Goldwater, the Republican senator from Arizona, came to represent a nostalgic, idealized past, a preservation of traditional order, while Lyndon B. Johnson, the Democratic incumbent from Texas, looked boldly and hopefully toward an expansive, liberal future of increased opportunity. Thus, as we see in Two Suns of the Southwest, the election was also a showdown between liberalism and conservatism, an election whose outcome would echo throughout the rest of the century. Young explores how demographics, namely the rise of the Sunbelt, factored into the framing and reception of these competing ideas. Her work situates Johnson’s Sunbelt liberalism as universalist, designed to create space for all Americans; Goldwater’s Sunbelt conservatism was far more restrictive, at least with regard to what the federal government should do. In this respect the election became a debate about individual rights versus legislated equality as priorities of the federal government. Young explores all the cultural and political elements and events that figured in this narrative, allowing Johnson to unite disaffected Republicans with independents and Democrats in a winning coalition. On a final note Young connects the 1964 election to the current state of our democracy, explaining the irony whereby the winning candidate’s vision has grown stale while the losing candidate’s has become much more central to American politics.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700634193

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9780700634194

Why We Fight

Congress and the Politics of World War II

By: Nancy Beck Young

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Why We Fight

Congress and the Politics of World War II

By: Nancy Beck Young

History tells us that World War II united Americans, but as in other conflicts it was soon back to politics as usual. Nancy Beck Young argues that the illusion of cooperative congressional behavior actually masked internecine party warfare over the New Deal. Young takes a close look at Congress during the most consensual war in American history to show how its members fought intense battles over issues ranging from economic regulation to social policies. Her book highlights the extent of-and reasons for-liberal successes and failures, while challenging assumptions that conservatives had gained control of legislative politics by the early 1940s. It focuses on the role of moderates in modern American politics, arguing that they, not conservatives, determined the outcomes in key policy debates and also established the methods for liberal reform that would dominate national politics until the early 1970s. Why We Fight--which refers as much to the conflicts between lawmakers as to war propaganda films of Frank Capra—unravels the tangle of congressional politics, governance, and policy formation in what was the defining decade of the twentieth century. It demonstrates the fragility of wartime liberalism, the nuances of partisanship, and the reasons for a bifurcated record on economic and social justice policy, revealing difficulties in passing necessary wartime measures while exposing racial conservatism too powerful for the moderate-liberal coalition to overcome. Young shows that scaling back on certain domestic reforms was an essential compromise liberals and moderates made in order to institutionalize the New Deal economic order. Some programs were rejected-including the Civilian Conservation Corps, the National Youth Administration, and the Works Progress Administration—while others like the Wagner Act and economic regulation were institutionalized. But on other issues, such as refugee policy, racial discrimination, and hunting communist spies, the discord proved insurmountable. This wartime political dynamic established the dominant patterns for national politics through the remainder of the century. Impeccably researched, Young's study shows that we cannot fully appreciate the nuances of American politics after World War II without careful explication of how the legislative branch redefined the New Deal in the decade following its creation.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700619178

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9780700619177

Gaining Ground

A History of Landmaking in Boston

By: Nancy S. Seasholes

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Gaining Ground

A History of Landmaking in Boston

By: Nancy S. Seasholes

Why and how Boston was transformed by landmaking. Fully one-sixth of Boston is built on made land. Although other waterfront cities also have substantial areas that are built on fill, Boston probably has more than any city in North America. In Gaining Ground historian Nancy Seasholes has given us the first complete account of when, why, and how this land was created.The story of landmaking in Boston is presented geographically; each chapter traces landmaking in a different part of the city from its first permanent settlement to the present. Seasholes introduces findings from recent archaeological investigations in Boston, and relates landmaking to the major historical developments that shaped it. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, landmaking in Boston was spurred by the rapid growth that resulted from the burgeoning China trade. The influx of Irish immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century prompted several large projects to create residential land—not for the Irish, but to keep the taxpaying Yankees from fleeing to the suburbs. Many landmaking projects were undertaken to cover tidal flats that had been polluted by raw sewage discharged directly onto them, removing the "pestilential exhalations" thought to cause illness. Land was also added for port developments, public parks, and transportation facilities, including the largest landmaking project of all, the airport. A separate chapter discusses the technology of landmaking in Boston, explaining the basic method used to make land and the changes in its various components over time. The book is copiously illustrated with maps that show the original shoreline in relation to today's streets, details from historical maps that trace the progress of landmaking, and historical drawings and photographs.

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MIT Press

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0262534835

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9780262534833

Children and the Criminal Law in Connecticut, 1635-1855

Changing Perceptions of Childhood

By: Nancy Hathaway Steenburg

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Children and the Criminal Law in Connecticut, 1635-1855

Changing Perceptions of Childhood

By: Nancy Hathaway Steenburg

This book presents an intelligent overview into the driving forces that shaped American history in the Northeast. It draws on primary documents such as farmer's diaries, small rural papers of the 19th century, and the publications of state agricultural societies.

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1000143708

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The American Century

A History of the United States Since 1941

By: Walter LaFeber,Richard Polenberg,Nancy Woloch

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The American Century

A History of the United States Since 1941

By: Walter LaFeber,Richard Polenberg,Nancy Woloch

This text presents a rendering of America from World War II into the 21st century, stressing economic and urban growth, social and political change, civil rights and liberties, and the growth of the United States into a global superpower.

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Book's by Nancy Christine Reeves

Spirituality for Extroverts

Spirituality for Extroverts

The Midwife's Story

The Midwife's Story

Found Through Loss

Found Through Loss

A Path Through Loss

A Path Through Loss

A Match Made in Heaven

A Match Made in Heaven

Gifts of the Eucharist

Gifts of the Eucharist

I'd Say Yes God If I Knew What You Wanted Study Guide

I'd Say Yes God If I Knew What You Wanted Study Guide

Living Through Loss

Living Through Loss

The Kid-Dom of God

The Kid-Dom of God

Two Suns of the Southwest

Two Suns of the Southwest

Why We Fight

Why We Fight

Gaining Ground

Gaining Ground

Children and the Criminal Law in Connecticut, 1635-1855

Children and the Criminal Law in Connecticut, 1635-1855

The American Century

The American Century

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