Women Overcoming

Self-confidence is the key to unlocking the greatness that lies within us. Without it, you can bet that you will just always settle for less, let opportunities pass you by, feel disappointed with yourself, feel unhappy about your life, and have low self-esteem as a result! Self-confidence will make you try new things, take up responsibilities, put your skills to test, and much more.

Discover the way to perfect your skills and unburden your soul by boosting your self-esteem and ultimately accomplishing whatever you set your mind to when it comes to talking to others. Make use of a wide range of simple yet effective tips, along with practical information and examples of what to say, how to say it, and how to evaluate each situation to your best interest.

After the deaths of her white father and mixed-race mother, young Eliza is left with neither home nor family in the newly forming frontier of Texas. Enslaved by men who treat her body as their property, she eventually escapes, marries, becomes a mother, and realizes her dream of having a small farm. But she must fight and kill to keep it—even if it does mean welcoming others who have been shunned or forgotten by society. Living and laboring together, will these outcasts find the strength and community they need to survive and flourish?

Chloe has led a safe, quiet life. Adventure? No thank you! But when her fiancé dumps her the night before their wedding, her friends convince her to take the vacation of a lifetime … and timid Chloe blossoms into daring Chloe. A Chloe who just might be ready to face her biggest adventure of all.

Who you really are as an individual is exactly what delights God and what the world needs. Lynne Hybels knows. Sharing from her personal journey, she reveals the tremendous importance of resisting the forces that would shape you into something otherand lessthan who God made you to be.

Their best-selling memoir, Come Back, moved and inspired with the story of Mia Fontaine's harrowing drug addiction and her mother, Claire's, desperate and ultimately successful attempts to save her. Now it's a decade later. At 51, Claire's shed her identity as Mia's savior but realizes that, oops, she forgot to plan for life after motherhood; Mia, 25 and eager to step outside her role as recovery's poster child, finds adult life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

From growing up in foster care, to miscarriage, divorce, and remarriage, this author knows a thing or two about disappointments, but she also knows the power of what God can do! She takes you on 31 days of healing through scripture and her personal testimony, together with affirmations. Adversity, depression, rejection, and temptation don't have a chance when they are counteracted with perseverance and prayer! Take each day to reflect on God's goodness and mercy and what you mean to him!

Aida Rodríguez ha vivido, por decir poco, una vida de torbellino. La historia de cómo pasó de la pobreza a la opulencia es alucinante: cuando era niña, su madre la secuestró y se la llevó de la República Dominicana a los Estados Unidos. Más tarde, un nuevo secuestro, esta vez a manos de su abuela y su tío, la dejó en Florida. Ya de adulta, escapó de un matrimonio tormentoso y terminó, junto con sus hijos, mendigando por las calles de Los Ángeles. Durante todas esas adversidades, Aida nunca perdió su sentido del humor.

Washington, D.C., is crammed with people eager to bend your ear about statistics, polls, and policies. Karen Pence is more likely to talk about beekeeping—if she’s not busy teaching an art class, painting watercolors, or riding her bike. An elementary schoolteacher who never expected to leave Indiana, Karen found during her extraordinary journey to becoming Second Lady that—despite the turbulence inherent to political campaigning, and through eighteen moves and countless surprises—God’s grace was sufficient.

Un amor que renació con la ilusión, forjando un camino de mentiras antes de llegar al altar, caminando al dolor no imaginado, llevando en cada paso que da desde el amor hasta la destrucción emocional. La profundidad de un sentir quebrantado, perdiendo el sentir en tiempos dolorosos. Logrando llegar al final el resurgir de una nueva vida, luego de la oscuridad dolorosa, llegar al renacimiento emocional de una mujer.

When the miracle-working God whom Pastor Stacy Henagan loved and served did not answer the prayers on behalf of her terminally ill one-year-old daughter as expected, she was left crushed with grief and struggling to understand. How could a loving God allow this to happen? What do you do when it seems God has let you down? Is God trustworthy? Rather than choosing to remain in overwhelming pain and doubt, Stacy emerged with a much greater belief that God is good and trustworthy, even when we don’t think his plans make sense.

Trying to do better and be perfect is not only exhausting, but impossible. But living truer is both possible and life-enriching. With wit and tenderness, popular blogger Melissa Camara Wilkins offers soul-level simplicity through the principles of showing up as your real self - an instant upgrade for this complicated life.

The inspirational story of an American woman who moved mountains to secure medical treatments - and eventually a home - for a young Iraqi girl severely burned in a roadside terror attack. This is a story of the astonishing power of self-sacrificial love.

After personal tragedy, Piper Boone retreats to her childhood home — a secluded mansion for the wealthy Boone family, who are practically American royalty. When catastrophe strikes, her family is put in the spotlight, and the line between victim and suspect gets blurred. A forensic artist with his own haunting past. Tucker Landry is drawn to Piper in the midst of the trauma, but the connections being made to her family might prove to be their undoing. With a hurricane beating down on the private island, there isn’t much time to find answers.

A classic memoir of trauma recovery where L.L. Kirchner's post-divorce search for nirvana took her from university halls in the Persian Gulf to the streets of Manhattan to a sex cult in India. Between her family’s gym and the years she’d spent in substance abuse recovery, Kirchner felt versed in physical and spiritual wellness. But when her husband demanded a divorce over the phone, she feared a return to her addictions.

Tired of inauthentic prattle, CEO and president of Concerned Women for America Penny Young Nance is ready to change the way women today engage the culture. In her debut title, Feisty & Feminine, she takes an honest and transparent look at what it means to be a conservative Christian woman with thoughtful commentary on the real issues confronting American women.

In Brave Mom, Sherry Surratt, president and CEO of MOPS International, shares honestly and openly about the fears every mom struggles with. From worry about your child's safety and health to wondering if you are a good parent, to fears about your marriage and loss of self-identity, Sherry comes alongside every mom with practical, real, and hopeful help for these common fears that we're all afraid to talk about.

Growing up, I was expected to look a certain way, act a certain way, and talk a certain way. My parents pastored a few churches and my siblings and I followed their every move like ducks in a row. Everyone thought we were the perfect family. Beautiful parents who made the ultimate power couple and their talented and even more beautiful children. We were praised, admired, and envied. Yet, little did anyone know what transpired when we said our goodbyes and shut the door to our home. No one knew the secrets, the lies, the betrayals, and the sacrifices.

Solo el amor de una madre podría soportar las tormentas que enfrentamos. Cuanto más yo crecía, más sabiduria adquiría, y cuanto más sabía, más me sentía obligada a compartir su historia. Esa historia de abuso, maltrato y dolor. Su historia de triunfo, revelación y alegría. Su historia es mi historia. Su historia es la historia de mis hermanos. Su historia es la historia de mi hermana.

Las memorias tan esperadas y tremendamente entretenidas de la leyenda del escenario Chita Rivera, tres veces ganadora del premio Tony, homenajeada en los Centros Kennedy y ganadora de la Medalla Presidencial de la Libertad.