When Your Parent Dies
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Adult children are expected to be "mature enough" to handle a parent's death. No matter your age, however, you never stop being your parent's child. And "the child within you" grieves their passing deeply. The 38 entries and illustrations in this book will remind you there is much to hold on to at this time of loss. The love you have for them remains and will endure forever.
Stress Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
With short, sound advice and lighthearted drawings, this unique book provides practical, effective, and insightful guidance for recognizing and responding to stress.
Scripture's Way to Live Each Day
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
The modern day proverbs tucked into the pages of this book, like the commandments, are pearls of wisdom that God shares with us, not to restrain or constrain us, but to give us the discipline we need to be truly free. Scripture's Way to Live Each Day combines insightful messages and meaningful passages from Scripture with delightful illustrations from R.W. Alley to bring guidance to everyday living.
Gratitude Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
How to count one's blessings and watch them grow. Practical advice is highlighted with whimsical illustrations. Approx. 80 pages.
Work Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
The Elves offer tips for reaching a new level of confidence and job satisfaction using their trademark wit, wisdom and whimsy.
Getting Older, Growing Wiser
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
We are all aging. We can view this situation as fraught with danger and decline, or as full of promise and possibility, claims the author.
Peace Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
In the enchanting style of the best-selling Elf-help Series, this wonderful little book suggests that all peace must begin within the individual heart and demonstrates how we can nurture peace within and take a peaceful stance toward the world.
Elf-help for Being a Good Parent
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Practical advice is highlighted with whimsical illustrations.
'Tis a Blessing to Be Irish
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Whether you're full Irish, just a touch, or simply Irish at heart, this is your lucky day! Join the wee folk in this booklet and explore what it means to be Irish!
Loneliness Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
This little book, with its wise elfin characters, is designed to help you find ways of connecting with yourself, with others, with God. A few moments alone with Loneliness Therapy, and you will realize that if you seek, you will find. You'll find that you're really not alone at all!
Happy Birthday Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Happy Birthday Therapy explores the many dimensions of birthdays-from facing regrets to appreciating the present to embracing the future. The inimitable elf-help blend of charm and vibrancy makes this birthday greeting an ideal gift for a friend-or for yourself!
Worry Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Whether you're feeling chronically bogged down in worry of are facing an immediate crisis, Worry Therapy can help. This little guide offers practical hints for "worryproofing" your life, as well as insights into deeper issues.
Be-good-to-your-family Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
The wise and whimsical elves provide simple but substantial direction for making your family life all it can be.
Christmas Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Do you go through the Christmas season feeling pressured, empty, inadequate, or depressed? Maybe you need some gentle, constructive, self-help therapy-Christmas Therapy. Insightful guidelines and enchanting illustrations-alive with color-will help you rediscover in your heart the magic, the meaning, and the mystery of this blessed time.
Teacher Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Teacher Therapy can't eliminate all of the tough times, but its sound and encouraging advice will help you take care of yourself and bring out the best in those you teach!
Friendship Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Friendship Therapy will help you to appreciate your friendships, be a better friend and, as a gift to another, tell a special person how much you value the relationship you share! This wise and uplifting guide will remind you of the blessing it is to be and have a friend.
Get Well Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
This helpful guide will lead you to healing and wholeness-body, mind, and spirit! Charmingly illustrated with elfin characters, this book offers a sound prescription for coping with the pain and distress of illness.
Elf-help for the Mother-to-be
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Wise and whimsical advice and inspiration for about-to-be mommies!
When You're Feeling Spiritually Empty
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Our spiritual lives can become a struggle at times and leave us feeling "empty" or "dry." We then feel that God is distant, although nothing could be further from the truth. This helpful little book points to how God beckons you to deeper faith through spiritual "desolation," teaching you to surrender your self reliance.
Elf-help for Raising a Teen
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Practical advice is highlighted with whimsical illustrations.
Believe-in-yourself Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Life sometimes brings a setback so unexpected or powerful that we feel confused, disoriented, and lost. We feel overwhelmed by doubt or fear, and lose confidence and faith in our abilities, our judgment, and our basic goodness. This wise book is designed to help readers recover self-confidence and move forward with life, filled with renewed hope and purpose.
Keeping-up-your-spirits Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Has illness, loss, or emotional pain worn you down? If so, this affordable and uplifting attitude-adjuster is just the book to bolster your spirits and help you smile in the face of life's inevitable rough spots.
Anger Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Anger can be a painful and powerful emotion that leaves you feeling helpless, defeated and immobile. Here, in clear and compelling language, is a concise guide to dealing effectively with anger.
Celebrate-Your-Womanhood Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
This book rejoices in the distinctive experiences and manifold gifts of half the human family. Timely and relevant with enchanting illustrations, the book offers an affirming and powerful message for women of all ages and life situations.
Elf-help for Coping with Cancer
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Elf-help for Coping with Cancer suggests how you can react to your illness and also act in ways that will help you heal. It will also help you see how having cancer, despite the limitations and downright terrors it may present, can offer opportunities to grow closer to God and those around you, and to focus on what's really important.
One-day-at-a-time Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Helping you focus on today, instead of feeling stuck in the past or projecting what might or might not happen in the future, this little book will awaken your confidence as a gifted child of God-happy, loved, and in control of your own life.
You Are an Amazing Woman
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
The Elves offer tips for reaching a new level of confidence and job satisfaction using their trademark wit, wisdom and whimsy.
New Baby Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
This charming volume will help you make the most - and cope with the worst - of a special time in a family's life: the birth of a new baby. Written by a mother of three, it offers sound advice for handling the changes you're going through (including diapers!) and provides tips for nurturing your baby and yourself.
Elf-Help for Coping With Pain
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
This book offers no quick-fix solutions. What it does offer are gentle reminders that any journey from woundedness to wholeness is a process and not to be traveled alone. There are things we can do to make the trip easier-and blessings to be found along the way.
Forgiveness Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Move beyond being a victim of others' actions and discover the freedom that is yours in choosing therapeutic forgiveness. The 35 lessons contained in this book can help you to put yourself back in control, transcend the most hurtful of circumstances, and make the healing choice of wellness over bitterness.
Grieving at Christmastime
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Christmas is a time for rejoicing, but it can also be a stressful time, even under the best of circumstances. When you are grieving the death of a loved one, Christmas can be particularly challenging. In this book, you'll find gentle, practical, hope-filled guidance that suggests ways to recognize the season while also acknowledging and responding in a healthy way to the sadness and grief in your heart.
Healing Thoughts for Troubled Hearts
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
The author of this new, illustrated guide tells us there are a number of ways to respond when trouble knocks at the door of one's heart. Reaching out, reaching up, and reaching within can bring balm to ease the pain. Let this book of support and inspiration point the way toward a better day.
Trust-in-God Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Trust in God isn't so much of a stretch when things are going well. But when life betrays us, trust is harder to muster. Join the endearing elves on these pages to build some spiritual muscle to withstand life's heavy burdens.
Ability Therapy
by Sarah Cecelia Ann Mueller
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
While striving for inclusivity, equality, and a full life, people with disabilities are frequently confronted with pity and isolation, and are routinely disenfranchised by a focus on perceived weaknesses rather than strengths and abilities. In Ability Therapy, author Sarah Cecelia Ann Mueller offers words of wisdom and insight based on her own experiences, encouraging others who are living with physical disabilities of all types to live an ability-driven life.
Be-good-to-yourself Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Our all-time bestseller! Do you feel bad if you express anger? Are you ashamed of your feelings? Do you harass yourself if you make a mistake or fail? Do you experience guilt when you put your own needs before those of others? Be-good-to-yourself Therapy will help you overcome the distorted notions that keep you from living fully and honestly.
Caregiver Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Caregiver Therapy shows you how to take care of yourself as you take care of someone else. It invites you to deepen and enrich your caregiving experience-opening your heart to others and opening your spirit to lessons of love and trust.
Music Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
"If music be the food of love, play on," wrote William Shakespeare. And linking music with food and love is another example of the Bard's genius. Music, after all-like food-has the ability to fill us, to satisfy our hunger, to express our joy, longing, regret, sadness, sheer delight. And, like love, music can touch our hearts and make us aware of people and places and events that have imprinted themselves in our lives with melodies both sweet and sad. "Play on," indeed, as you turn the pages of this little volume!
Acceptance Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
For those who have trouble letting go, for those who struggle to reconcile themselves to life's brokenness, here is a delightful, inspiring, liberating guide to spiritual and psychological wellness and serenity!
Take Charge of Your Eating
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
This book offers a view of eating that is quite different from the standard. It declares that food is neither good nor bad; it's mostly neutral. Neutral, however, is not what our attitude about food should be, suggests the author. In making our food choices and establishing our eating habits, it is to our benefit to take charge.
Self-esteem Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Self-esteem goes to the heart of a person's identity, affirming that you're acceptable and loved just as you are. Without adequate self-esteem, you have an aching sense of wrongness and shame about yourself and an emptiness that you may try to fill in unhealthy and futile ways. Self-esteem Therapy invites you to go deep within to confront the inner emptiness. With gentle and reassuring insight, it demonstrates how the power to heal your wounded self-esteem rests with you.
Grief Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
A gift book, a self-help book that has helped hundreds of thousands of readers. Its succinct, meaningful guidelines and hope-filled illustrations have reassured those who grieve that out of their pain can come profound, transforming healing.
Be-good-to-your-marriage Therapy
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Most married couples give careful attention to the practical aspects of their shared life, but do they give enough attention to their relationships? This book is a warm-hearted guide for couples who know the rules of love and romance, but need occasional encouragement to rekindle the sparkle and joy of their love.
Elf-help for Dealing with Difficult People
Part of the Elf-Help Therapy series
Some people are just plain difficult-or, at least, we have difficulty dealing with them. Elf-help for Dealing with Difficult People is a sensible little guidebook empowering readers to achieve peace and harmony in life's inevitable problem relationships.