Falling in love is easy. Staying in love - that's the challenge!

How can you keep your relationship fresh and growing amid the demands and conflicts and just plain boredom of everyday life?

In the #1 New York Times bestselling book The 5 Love Languages, you'll discover the secret that has transformed millions of relationships worldwide. Whether your relationship is flourishing or failing, Dr. Gary Chapman's proven approach to showing and receiving love will help you experience deeper and richer levels of intimacy with your partner - starting today.

"If we learn to meet each other's deep emotional need to feel loved, and choose to do it, the love we share will be exciting beyond anything we've ever felt."-Gary Chapman

The 5 Love Languages is as practical as it is insightful. Updated to reflect the complexities of relationships in today's world, this new edition reveals intrinsic truths and applies relevant, actionable wisdom in ways that work. Practice the simple steps outlined in each chapter and you'll be on your way to a healthier, mutually beneficial relationship.

Also includes an updated version of The 5 Love Languages personal profile.

You probably don't need to be told that the demands of modern living are taking their toll on our wellbeing. You likely feel it.

And yet, some of us feel as though we’re the only ones who are weary, overwhelmed or anxious so we don’t talk about it and try and pretend that it’s not happening.

The truth is that we’re far from alone; we all have days where life feels too much, and we’ve all had times when we’re desperate to know that brighter days are ahead.

Packed-full of practical tips alongside stories of struggle and strength, Brighter Days is for all of us who want tools to invest in our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual health so we can look forward to a healthier and more hopeful future.

A-Z of Wellbeing helps us to discover the language of wellbeing, so that we can speak it, live it, and share it with others. A-Z of Wellbeing is an accessible introduction to help you attend to your own wellbeing and live out your own alphabet of peace. It presents twenty-six words of wellness to help you discover new practices, connect with God, and share wellbeing with others.

Each topic includes:

• Connect the word to a biblical theme
• Learn a new habit to practise
• Get active sharing the habit with others
• Take Notice of a personal story
• Give back with questions and further resources

By sharing the words that were helpful in her own journey of recovery from breakdown, Ruth Rice gently encourages us to find our own toolkit of words and habits that will help us maintain our own wellbeing.

Content Benefits:

Ruth Rice helps us to find a language that enables us to speak honestly and live healthily together around the area of mental and emotional health.

• 26 words of wellbeing are unpacked with insights and practical application
• Uses the five ways of wellbeing from the New Economics Foundation
• Understands wellbeing within the framework of God’s character, practical habits and community reality
• Enables us to understand wellbeing as a life long journey rather than a quick fix
• Encourages us to find our own alphabet of wellbeing that works for us
• Enables us to speak, live and share wellbeing
• Suitable for anyone who wants to attend to their wellbeing
• Helpful for anyone who wants to understand and come alongside someone who is struggling with their wellbeing

Winner of the Michael Ramsay Prize 2016

Dementia is one of the most feared diseases in Western society today. Some have even gone so far as to suggest euthanasia as a solution to the perceived indignity of memory loss and the disorientation that accompanies it.

Here, John Swinton develops a practical theology of dementia for caregivers, people with dementia, ministers, hospital chaplains, and medical practitioners as he explores two primary questions:

• Who am I when I’ve forgotten who I am?

• What does it mean to love God and be loved by God when I have forgotten who God is?

Offering compassionate and carefully considered theological and pastoral responses to dementia and forgetfulness, Swinton’s Dementia redefines dementia in light of the transformative counter story that is the gospel.

Now repackaged with a new cover.

'Remarkably beautiful and pastoral' JUSTIN WELBY, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY

'Brimming with wisdom and humanity' DAME SARAH MULLALLY, DBE, BISHOP OF LONDON

Struggling with God gets right to the heart of a great predicament for many Christians. When it feels as if our struggles are overwhelming – and our capacity for faith and hope and love is diminished – how is it possible to maintain, never mind nourish, our relationship with God?

The truth, as this deeply compassionate volume reminds us, is that Jesus came alongside people wrestling with mental health problems. Many familiar conditions, such as anxiety and depression, and more severe ones, including bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia, are addressed by the authors here. Dispelling common myths and misconceptions, they explore the impact such mental health disorders can have on individual Christians, Church and society..

Each chapter includes biblical reflections relevant to its theme, prayers, questions to facilitate individual/group study, and pointers to further reading. In short, the book presents a Christian vision of spiritual and mental wellbeing through prayerful struggling with God.

A practical guide to help adults understand the unique mental health challenges facing our children, teenagers and students today.

From the rise of AI personal technology to the ability to connect to your loved ones wherever you are, you’d think that we’re advancing as a society. But for our young people’s mental health such progress has come at a cost.

The book examines the key mental health problems impacting young people today (such as depression, loneliness and anxiety) and explains how the lifestyle, culture and world they are living in has a significant mental health impact.

Suitable for parents, grandparents, teachers, youth workers and anyone in a position of care or interested in the future of mental health, this book offers tools, exercises and resources to support the next generation.

Reports from an NHS watchdog suggest that the number of people in Britain deliberately harming themselves is reaching epidemic levels. This book aims to bring awareness and possible answers both to those who suffer and those who care. Written by two authors with personal and professional experience in the field, it offers insights into the lonely, and often secret, life of those who self-harm.

The text is divided into three easy-to-use sections:

Part 1 explores the nature of self-harm, who suffers and the underlying causes;

Part 2 addresses the path to recovery, including the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects

while Part 3 offers tips for dealing with relapse and for those helping in different settings.

A range of people will find this book helpful, from those still stuck in the dark world of self-harm, to family members, friends, church and youth workers, and those helping in a professional capacity. Readers are encouraged to address the reasons behind the issue and offered keys to coping with life’s hurdles – tools and hope for recovery.

She couldn't believe it. There she was with her medical qualifications sitting on the floor of a mental hospital. She'd been baptized, offered her life to God, wanted to serve him anywhere, but no, surely not this...

Sharon Hastings is absolutely passionate about helping anyone who suffers from 'severe and enduring mental illness' (SEMI): schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder. She wants the church to know all about these illnesses: how they devastate ordinary people and how they need to be treated. By telling her story, warts and all, showing her own tortuous, painful journey, she equips us to come alongside loved ones, fellow church members, friends and neighbours, understanding the social and spiritual ramifications of their illnesses, including them in our activities (where appropriate) and encouraging their spiritual growth.

A natural storyteller, the author draws us in. We journey with her as she shares deeply. With wisdom, kindness and the heart of a bruised survivor, she interweaves her exceptional story with vital teaching which cannot be ignored by anyone within the church today.

Insight into Child and Adult Bullying by Helena Wilkinson is the latest in the Waverley Abbey Insight Series.

Written from personal and professional experience, this book will help sufferers, and those standing alongside to help them, to:
- recognise the signs of bullying
- answer the question ‘Why me?’
- understand the traits of bullies
- establish strategies to combat bullying
- and take the first steps to recovery.

Bullying is far more widespread in society than we realise; and patterns of being targeted as a child often repeat themselves in adulthood, within social networks, the workplace and sadly, at times, even the Church. This comprehensive, practical and empathetically written guide will empower the target, provide insight for the bully and equip those supporting people caught in the bullying cycle.

A biblical framework for understanding mental illness and helping the mentally ill. Synthesises the relevant biblical material with our scientific understanding of mental illness.

Equips the reader to deal wisely, intelligently and compassionately with issues of mental health in churches and the community. Helps us discern between bad behaviour which is a result of illness and that which results from sin.

The Waverley Abbey Insight Series is based on CWR's one-day seminars held at Waverley Abbey house to give insight into key issues that many people struggle with today.

Drawing on biblical wisdom and professional expertise, Insight into Managing Conflict, by Claire Musters and Chris Ledger, is packed with case studies, practical insights and scriptural guidelines.

Everyone knows what it feels like to worry. But one of the clearest and repeated things the Bible tells us about worry is: Don’t. Don’t do it. It’s not worth it. It doesn’t work. And, oh yeah, by the way, it’s sin. And it’s not just a lighthearted, white collar, domesticated sin. It’s serious business. It’s deadly. It’ll ruin your life…and your eternity if you let it.

This short book is designed to help us understand worry all the way down to its roots and all the way up to its worst fruits. We want to see worry the way God does so that we can repent and by His grace be fully and finally free. We will never move past all sin and temptation in this life. But by the blood of Christ, we can see progressive and sustainable victory over sin in our lives.

Thank God that’s not all He tells us about worry. He is such a good and gracious Father. More than that, He is our great High Priest that has come and lived among us. He has suffered with us and for us. He fought the fight against worry with us and for us. He is our model of how to fight. He is also our Savior when we fall in the fight.

Olan Stubb’s wise book is an ideal read for anyone who struggles with worry.

Based on the Waverley Abbey Insight Day, Insight into Eating Disorders presents a detailed consideration of the causes and effects of different forms of eating disorders and offers hope to sufferers, their families and those working with them.

Issues covered include:
- Understanding anorexia, bulimia and compulsive eating
- Dealing with painful emotions
- Expressing anger and resolving conflict
- Establishing core identity
- Facing reality and breaking free

Using case studies and with a wealth of practical and biblical insights, this book offers a life line to sufferers as well as insight and understanding for those wanting to help others with eating disorders.

Dementia is experienced in different forms, in different ways and is coped with differently by different people, but with nearly 10 million new cases every year, it is something many people face. It’s tough on those with the disease, but it is also incredibly hard for the loved ones around them.

Karen Martin’s story about her friend Kathleen, however, is overwhelmingly one of love and persistence. Despite their nearly half–century age difference, their commonality drew them to each other, and their genuine friendship uplifted them both.

Charting the story from pre–diagnosis to Kathleen’s eventual passing, this moving tale highlights the difficulties and joys of facing dementia, through the lens of friendship.