Self-Help

2024 Kingdom Indie Author Award 3rd Place in the Teen & Young Adult category

Do you ever feel like you just don’t measure up? There’s always someone smarter, richer, prettier, skinnier, funnier, holier, or (you fill in the blank)? Too much of my life—oh, let’s say, give or take decades—was spent figuring out that there is life beyond rejection. This book is written for those who doubt their worth, thanks to memories of betrayal by others who used them as their personal punching bag.

For these hurting individuals, walking into a room full of strangers produces enough sweat to frizz their hair, and if asked to spearhead the church social, they hyperventilate. I get it. After a group of my high school seniors asked me to lead them in a Bible study, the message became clear: If my students could recognize from Whom their value came and not from what others thought of them, their lives forever would be changed. The message is true for everyone.

So, if you desire to move past the pain that has left you joyless or insecure, if you are ready to take risks and refuse to give anyone or anything the power to make you less than God desires, if you seek to know your immeasurable value (and perhaps even laugh in the process), A Little Faith Lift is for you.

Are you creating a life warmed by honor, love, and compassion? Or are you caught up in a “do for all until you hit the wall” atmosphere? Maybe your life is chaos central—or just the opposite—strictly glued to the high-control side. Perhaps, disappointments are zapping your spirit.

For most women, all those atmospheres swirl. Yet, we long for centered lives full of joy, purpose, and soul-calming peace.

In Gracious Living, Margaret Allen provides an eye-opening look into the atmospheres we create in our homes, churches, workplaces—and our own heads. With prophetic insights from Scripture, Margaret digs deep into her own experience with God, using humor, raw vulnerability, and wisdom to shine light on a loving way to do life. She uses a velvet hammer to help women:

• Destroy inept attempts at being pleasant.
• Get down to real-deal ways to speak joy and hope into others—and our own souls.
• Embrace lives filled with honor, love, and compassion.

Raise your hand if you suspect that you are the only one who struggles with anxiety, doubt, fear, resentment, comparison, jealousy, etc.?

In Soul-Selfie: #NoFilter, Heather turns the camera back on herself, exposing her own battles with those same “plagues of the heart”, as she calls them. She lays bare her raw, unfiltered inner-world and invites you to come along side and walk with her toward hope, healing, and transformation.

Heather shares her experience, strength, and hope with anyone God puts in her path. Much of what she writes about will not be new information for you, but maybe, just maybe, you will finally know that you are not alone as you battle the plagues of the heart that seem to haunt us.

Heather reveals her heart and hope in candid, authentic posts about fear, control, ego, jealousy, greed, worry, doubt, etc. It hasn’t been cleaned up to make her look smart or wise or that she has it all figured out.

It’s real and raw and redemptive.

She shares her messiness, hoping that others will feel comforted and use their own messiness to give hope and comfort to others.

Are you a Christian? Do you walk daily with the Lord? Are there times when the darkness and demons overtake your thoughts?

Just know, you are not alone.

A Walk With The Light In The Shadows is the personal journal of Paul Gaumer, a Christian who lives each day with Bipolar Disorder. Join him on a journey into his life as he deals with the darkness and demons all while trying to keep God at the center of his life. He understands that dealing with a mental illness cannot be prayed away. The thoughts that he, and you, are feeling are real and sometimes need to be dealt with beyond prayer. But, God will never leave you nor will He forsake you and will walk along side of you during the times you need Him most.

The stigma of mental health is real, especially in the Christian community. Paul hopes that his book will help begin to start the discussions to end the stigma of mental health among Christians. We have stayed in the shadows long enough. It's time to discuss mental health in the Christian community and let the Light lead your path.