Shannon Thomas

The story revolves around the Skylers, a very old and wealthy family in a small town. The family is preparing for a charity fundraiser that they throw each year, but this year is different. A mysterious visitor with potential for harm towards the family and the family's employees has returned. The family sets a trap to find and capture the individual using a new employee as bait, but the outcome of the plan does more damage to the family than any of them could have imagined.

Are you ready to help the next generation of students find a collegiate ministry that inspires them to impact and influence the world and reach their fullest potential? Together, we can build a positive spiritual community that aspires to a higher purpose and strengthens each individual's faith in God. Our Taking the Yard Book contains a comprehensive guide to reaching your ministry goals. The book delves into the practical aspects of starting a college ministry, from developing a mission statement to formulating a financial plan. The book provides the information you need to build a robust, relevant, and revolutionary collegiate ministry. It covers building the leaders, volunteers, and partners you need and gives clear instructions on launching and marketing your ministry and events. Raise the bar on your collegiate ministry. Bring your collegiate and young adult ministry to life with fresh strategies and a solid strategic approach for the future. Taking the Yard Book will cover: - 10 strategies to use for ultimate success in collegiate ministry - 25 core concepts a collegiate ministry should master - 40 strategic themes to measure ministry effectiveness and relevance

From a leading voice on recovering from toxic relationships, a deeply insightful guide to getting back to your "old self" again--in order to truly heal and move on. Jackson MacKenzie has helped millions of readers in their struggle to understand the experience of toxic relationships. His first book, Psychopath Free, explained how to identify and survive the immediate situation. In this highly anticipated new book, he guides readers on what to do next--how to fully heal from abuse in order to find love and acceptance for the self and others. Through his work with thousands of survivors of abusive relationships, Jackson discovered that survivors frequently have symptoms of trauma lasting long after the relationship is over. These may include feelings of numbness and emptiness, depression, mood swings, isolation, perfectionism, rumination, caretaking and people-pleasing, a need for control, physical maladies, substance abuse, and more. But he also found that it is possible to work through these symptoms and find love on the other side. Through a practice of mindfulness, introspection and exercises using specific tools, readers learn to identify the protective self they've developed - and uncover the core self, so that they can finally move on to live a full and authentic life--to once again feel light, free, whole, and ready to give and receive love. Like Bren Brown's The Gifts of Imperfection and John Bradshaw's Healing the Shame that Binds You, Whole Again offers hope and multiple strategies to anyone who has survived a toxic relationship, as well as anyone suffering the effects of a breakup involving lying, cheating and other forms of abuse--to release old wounds and safely let the love back inside where it belongs.