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Lisa Irish

Although each person’s needs and style of grieving is unique, there are universal themes that can help all of us. The invitation offered in this new Elf-help book reaches across individual ways of grieving to help you move toward healing. The wisdom of author Lisa Irish will help you cultivate a spirit of gratitude for your lost loved one, as you renew the bonds of love and discover that the love you shared will always endure.

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Grieving With a Grateful Heart

Karen Katafiasz

In Elf-Help for Living with Joy, author Karen Katafiasz—with the help of the whimsical illustrations by R. W. Alley—offers insights into how to hold onto a spirit of true, profound joy that can remain with us, even when things seem to be at their worst. The clear, life-affirming wisdom of this small book will truly help you discover the passion of being fully alive and the elation of living with joy!

Elf-Help for Living with Joy

Lisa O Engelhardt

The purpose of parenthood is to nurture children, so that someday they can fly solo. Yet an “empty nest” can cause confusing emotions for parents. While this juncture can bring on sadness and loneliness, it can also signal newfound freedom and fulfillment. This book is designed to help “empty nesters” recognize the gift that their children and families continue to be while helping them move forward with life, filled with renewed purpose, a sense of fun, and an open spirit.

Empty Nest Therapy

Victoria Ryan

This new book from the Elf family celebrates the many ways pets enrich our lives and the gifts, both simple and profound, they offer. These affirmations are sure to bring a smile of recognition, a seed of new thought, and a renewed awe of God’s wisdom in creation, all reminders of the blessing your pet has been for you.

Pets Are a Blessing

Linus Mundy

The Elves offer help and hope to readers seeking to summon courage and thereby expand and enrich their lives.

Everyday-courage Therapy

Ted O'Neal

Nature heals. This little book of Nature Therapy shows just how all of creation—by delighting and inspiring us, by teaching us, by feeding and providing for us, and, finally by engaging us—does its therapeutic good work on our weary or broken or over-stressed selves.

Nature Therapy

What can we do to come to know and appreciate some of the “simpler ways” of life? One answer is to rediscover the joy of a quiet conversation, a simple story, an honest expression of affection. These simple gifts and pleasures will keep your life balanced. The wisdom of this book is sure to enhance and unencumber your life!

Keep-life-simple Therapy

Slow-down Therapy offers thirty-five concrete ideas for helping you rediscover something you already possess: time, enough time. This delightful book will guide you to a more peaceful, relaxed use of time—and help you celebrate the priceless prize time gives, the priceless prize called life.

Slow-down Therapy

No matter how long, no matter how short, a life lived is never lost to those who remember. And the anniversary of a loss is, of course, a very special time to remember, and thereby further the healing. It is a time to take stock of the lessons learned, the hardships endured, the small victories won. This book offers 38 illustrated bits of wisdom, each bit offering the reader loving, healing ways to observe and “mark” this special anniversary. This gift book, based on the extremely popular CareNote of the same name, will be a welcome treasury of comfort and consolation.

On the Anniversary of Your Loss

The Elves use their trademark wit and wisdom to offer constructive ways to grieve and grow as a man.

Grief Therapy for Men

Elf-help for Overcoming Depression shows how to look into your own heart and soul, as well as to others, for help in managing emotions.

Linus Mundy has written a number of books for children and grown-ups, as well as articles for the religious press. The founder of the popular CareNotes and CareNotes for Kids booklet series from Abbey Press, he has written Slowdown Therapy and Keep-life-simple Therapy, and several books on prayer and spiritual growth. Linus and his wife, Michaelene, wrote the Bringing Religion Home newsletter for a number of years.

R.W. Alley is the illustrator for the popular Abbey Press adult series of Elf-help books, as well as an illustrator and writer of children’s books. He lives in Barrington, Rhode Island, with his wife, daughter, and son. See a wide variety of his works at: www. rwalley. com.

Elf-help for Overcoming Depression

Whimsical Elfin characters offer simple, sage advice for dealing with life’s challenges!

Elf-help for a Happy Retirement

Carol Ann Morrow

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.

Trust-in-God Therapy

Keith McClellan

This book will fill readers with the confidence they need to add prayer to life.

Prayer Therapy

Joel Schorn

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.

Elf-help for Coping with Cancer

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.

Peace Therapy

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.

Getting Older, Growing Wiser

Sarah Cecelia Ann Mueller

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.

Ability Therapy

Craig R Wagner

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.

When You're Feeling Spiritually Empty

Laura Pirott

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.

Elf-help - The book series

Elf-help - The book series

Elf-help books in order

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