A practical way to make true progress past the dead end of resentment and revenge. "What does it take to forgive?" asks John Monbourquette, best-selling author, psychologist and priest. His answer is a unique twelve-step guide which offers profound and practical advice on overcoming the emotional, spiritual and psychological blocks to true forgiveness. Monbourquette begins by exploring the nature of forgiveness and exploding some of the myths. He shows how essential forgiveness is for us all, whatever our beliefs. Forgiveness touches on all aspects of the human person, the biological and psychological as well as the spiritual. He then takes the reader through his twelve-step healing process, providing practical exercises, case histories, anecdotes and even poetry along the way. How to Forgive is an honest and touching book which unlocks the liberating and transformative power of forgiveness.

How to Forgive: A Step-By-Step Guide (John Monbourquette)

Self-Help

John Monbourquette

Death & Grief

Novalis Press (CN)

How to Befriend Your Shadow: Welcoming Your Unloved Side by Monbourquette, John (2001) Paperback

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Monbourquette, John

Psychology & Counseling

"In the beginning..." Sjoerd Bonting, scientist and Anglican priest, explores an alternative to the idea that God created the universe out of nothing at all. Instead, looking at Genesis 1, he explores the implications of God's creation out of 'chaos:' when "the earth was without form and void." But some of that origianal chaos remains, which consequences for both morals and disease.

Chaos Theology: A Revised Creation Theology

Bonting, Sjord L.

History

In this first book in a new series, twelve leading practitioners and theorists explore the theory and practice of forgiveness and its place in pastoral counselling. Together they present an insight-filled overview of the meaning of forgiveness and the difficulty of attaining it in concrete situations ranging from marital infidelity to large social ills such as abuse in residential schools. The result is a collection of experience-rich observations which will be of benefit to anyone working in or interested in the pastoral dimensions of counselling.

The Challenge of Forgiveness (Saint Paul University Series on Pastoral Counselling)

Augustine Meier

How to Love Again

How does one live through grief, the end of a marriage, or a devastating disappointment of one's hopes? How can one move on from such an ordeal not only undiminished but, on the contrary, renewed and open to living and loving again? From his long experience counselling individuals on their long journey from grief to growth, Monbourquette has identified the stages of this process and guides us on a healing journey through it. (A newly revised edition of his best-selling To Love Again.)

Jean Monbourquette

Ferdinanda van Gennip

Women & Christianity: Vol III: From the Reformation to the 21st Century

Malone, Mary T.

From the juvenile diabetes that took away her sight, the heart disease that called for bypass surgery, to the cancer that resulted in a double mastectomy and which eventually took her life in August 2001, Dr. Jane Poulson was both a fighter and survivor. In this inspirational autobiography finished shortly before her death, Jane Poulson shares her hard-earned insights into human frailty, vulnerability and courage. Despite the daily challenges she faced, Dr. Poulson, "the blind doctor," continued to serve the public as a specialist in pain management and palliative care. 
The Doctor Will Not See You Now is a remarkable spiritual autobiography in which Dr. Poulson takes the reader by the arm, as it were, through the story of her career as a sighted medical scientist who became blind in the first year of her professional career. She learned not only to accept every challenge to her health, but also how to live and work in a sighted world. And she did more than survive, she went on to a stellar career as a phsician, teacher and researcher. In 1987 she was awarded the Order of Canada. 
Her story is also about her search for meaning as a doctor learning to accept life with a failing body. Through the daily challenges of the medical profession as well as the complicated details of her own life story, Jane Poulson learned to trust in God, who told her to live her life fully "even as it appears to be closing in on me." 
The person Dr. Poulson showed to the world was serrene, good-humoured and insouciant. Her acknowledgement of fear, of anxiety and depression would have surprised most people who knew her. Yet it's small wonder that so few guessed her private thoughts. "She was a skilled pianist and singer. She gave superb and lively dinner parties. She danced with single-minded energy!" (From the Globe and Mail obituary written by her friend, journalist Michael Valpy.) 
Jane Poulson's autobiography is a profile in courage and faith. No reader will fail to be astonished and inspired by her accomplishments and her intractable optimism. Her spirit defiantly lives on in this joyful, courageous, completely unique book.

The Doctor Will Not See You Now

Poulson, Jane

Women and Christianityz: Vol II: From 1000 to the Reformation

Becoming Fully Human: Living the Bible with God, Each Other and the Environment

Walter Vogels

From mushing dog-teams 70 miles in 40-below blizzards, to helping unionize a mine, Brown has had a career like few Roman Catholic priests. Fifty years ago, Brown began to record his exploits in the Far North: his gripping Arctic Journal is the result. Inspired by tales told him by a pioneer, young Brown longed to discover the beauty and mystery of Canada's Far North. He duly joined the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, an order of missionary priests at work in the Arctic. Brown's first challenge was to learn French (the language of his Oblate colleagues) as well as the language of the Hareskin Indians. He then mastered fishing and hunting, learned to breed and drive dog teams, build igloos and make snowshoes. To his priestly duties were added those of medic - delivering babies and pulling teeth. Arctic Journal is bursting with remarkable tales - some comic, some tragic - of a way of life that existed nowhere else on earth, and that has now disappeared forever.

Arctic Journal: 50 Years in the North

Biographies & Memoirs

Brown, Bern Will

Leaders & Notable People

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