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Contents:

Crisis Resources
Ways to Encourage Others
Words of Encouragement, Tips and Support
Ways to Heal Your Emotional Wounds
Talk To A Caring Mentor
How to Have Your Life Explode with Relevance

If you feel like killing yourself, please, PLEASE call a suicide hotline and talk to someone immediately! Don't wait! Don't hesitate! If you feel you can't go on, PLEASE call now!

''Get immediate[, professional] help if a loved one talks of suicide, has excessive guilt or anxiety, or starts to abuse drugs or alcohol.'' - Living With Anxiety | skip

Suicide Hotlines and Answers to Frequently Asked Questions | skip
Crisis Hotlines and Major Depression Recovery Resources
How to Help a Person in Crisis
Report Child Sexual Exploitation
Report Cyberbullying / Cyberabuse
Can't find a cure for an illness or want to get healthy? Give a Lifestyle Center a chance.
Tired of being scammed? Of being in debt? Of living paycheck to paycheck? Of struggling with your marriage? Of burning your bridges? Abandon mediocrity. Learn time-tested secrets and rise to success in your career, business, marriage, family and life.
Create An Online Memorial to Your Loved One
Free Inspirational e-Cards at 123greetings.com (encouragement, sympathy and condolences, recovery, etc.)
How To Encourage |
Inspire At-Risk Kids |
Get Inspired
Band Together to Help Create a Complaint-Free World
''Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.'' - Mother Teresa
Give A Child A Smile |
Get Smile Cards |
Sponsor Smile Cards
Befriend A Stranger (obviously NOT recommended for minors if not accompanied by a parent or guardian and the stranger is an adult!)
- Strangers Are Family You Have Yet to Come to Know
Commit a Random Act of Kindness and Pay It Forward

Words of Encouragement and Hope

First, Some Quotes to Think About

''Everything can be taken from a [person] but one thing; the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.''

''The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity — even under the most difficult circumstances — to add a deeper meaning to his life.'' - Holocaust Surviror Victor Frankl

''A life without purpose is a life without meaning. A life without meaning is a life without hope.'' - Nick Vujicic: No Limbs, No Worries, No Limits

Affluenza, n. ''a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.'' - John de Graaf

Affluenza, n. 1. ''The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses.'' 2. ''An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by the American Dream.'' 3. ''An unsustainable addiction to economic growth.'' - PBS

''It ruins people, who need a lot more down time than they get. It ruins families, who increasingly prefer plugging in to interacting. It ruins communities as neighborhoods turn into barred, deadbolted, wary populations of strangers. And it ruins the environment as the earth is trashed to meet the excessive demands of...consumers.''

''The cure for affluenza thus begins - like all good cures - with rest. What people need is not more money, but more time; not more expensive stuff, but more meaningful contact with one another.'' - John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H. Naylor

Affluenza Documentary and Simple Living Resources

For some, ''forgiveness is a journey. Today you can forgive and tomorrow you can feel the pain all over again.'' - The Forgiveness Project

Holocaust Survivor Corrie ten Boom: I'm Still Learning to Forgive

For others, after the initial shock and grief subside, it's an immediate choice.

Videos on the Power of Forgiveness & How Others Have Done It | skip

Film: The POWER of FORGIVENESS
The Amazing Power Of Forgiveness (The incredible story of a policeman who was shot and left for dead, and yet forgave.)
Both Sides of the Gun: Azim Khamisa and Ples Felix's Story
From Betrayal To Forgiveness (Anne Beiler, creator of Auntie Anne's Pretzels, talks about abuse at the hands of her pastor and how she and her husband survived)
Forgiveness with Dr. Dan Allender and Professor Tremper Longman
Forgiveness can be a strong asset. How does it work and for whom?
Reconciliation: Lisa Rea Discusses Restorative Justice
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''With every period of exhaustion comes a corresponding period of depression which goes to our weakest point at that time.'' - Drs. Ron and Nancy Rockey

''When you don't feel good about yourself you make wrong choices in terms of relationships, in terms of the jobs you settle for. You make wrong choices at every turn. And when you make a wrong choice, what then happens is it breeds a sense of being a victim.'' - Francine Ward

''The missing component with most self-help information products is, unfortunately, they...offer no automatic way to change the limiting patterns, which you run daily, that have been giving you your disappointing results. The greatest information in the world can't help you unless you're exposed to it repeatedly.'' - Think Right Now!

''If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.'' - Mother Teresa

''Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.'' - E. M. Forster

Resilience is created by community connectedness. ''Information by itself does not change people. It takes a community.'' - The Circle of Courage Project (inspired by traditional Native American methods of raising youth - focuses on belonging, mastery, independence and generosity)

''The most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.'' - Kurt Vonnegut

''We are living art, created to hang on, stand up, forbear, continue and encourage others.'' – Maya Angelou

What In Life Has You Feeling Discouraged?

Been having a bad day?
Suffering and / or dying from injury, cancer, AIDS or some other illness? Unable to afford medical insurance, pay medical bills?
Grieving the death and / or loss of a loved one to cancer or some other illness, an accident or addiction, murder, divorce, breakup or some other cause?
Suffering or recovering from a divorce, breakup, phobia, mental illness, addiction, affluenza, status anxiety?
Lost your home, your job in the credit - foreclosure crisis?
Lost your shirt, your retirement fund, in the stock market crisis, on the new Black Monday / Black Tuesday?
Lost everything you had in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Tsunami or some other natural disaster, a fire or in some other way?
Feeling pain, guilt and / or shame from physical, sexual, emotional, religious or self abuse?
Feeling frustrated and discouraged from having trouble dealing with temptation, withdrawal or triggers while in recovery?
...with the lack of caring and concern from family, friends, coworkers, fellow church members and / or authorities?
...from getting the runaround?
Hurting inside from the pain of a broken heart?
Feeling devastated, alone and lonely and / or unloved, ignored, betrayed?
...stressed out, overwhelmed, inadequate?
...helpless and hopeless, worried about the future?
Getting fed up with life? Has it lost meaning or purpose? Feel like you've lost your way?
Feel like Humpty Dumpty? That your life has shattered and you can't put the pieces back together again?

Words That May or May Not Help

Hi. I'm awfully sorry you're feeling discouraged or hopeless. For whatever reason you're feeling that way, I sincerely hope you'll find words of encouragement and hope here because you deserve them. No matter what anyone says, including yourself, you're of infinite value and significance and deserve peace, happiness and meaning in your life.

If you have thoughts, feelings and behaviors which have kept you bound in fear, anger, sadness, or feelings of worthlessness, these words probably won't give you the encouragement or hope you're looking for.

You certainly may read them, in case they will. skip

Secular Words of Encouragement, Tips & Support
Spiritual Words of Encouragement, Tips & Support
Biblical Words of Encouragement

If they don't, don't worry.

There's still hope!

Seriously consider getting daily doses of Hope Channel, Windows of Hope or Voice of Hope Radio, humor and childlike play for survival from crises.

World-renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson recommends Hope Channel, and psychologists, counselors and coaches recommend humor as a vital tool for dealing with stress.

''A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.'' - William Arthur Ward | skip

''Humor, no matter when it comes, helps us bear the unbearable.'' - Allen Klein, ''How Can You Laugh at a Time Like This?''

''Humor is another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. It is well known that humor more than anything else in the human makeup, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.'' - Holocaust Survivor Viktor Frankl

No matter what your age or situation is, if you're teachable, your stressed-out, unsatisfying or shattered life is fixable!

But those aren't the only reasons you'll want to get your life fixed. Stress created by developmental conditions, inequality, bad habits, trauma and suppressed and toxic emotions is dangerous to our, our children's and our grandchildren's health.

''If you do not give to yourself, you will always hold others at emotional gunpoint.'' - David White

''If we do not know our familial history, we are most likely to repeat it.'' - John Bradshaw

''It is true that we do not or cannot change what we do not know about ourselves. And we cannot alter history. But because the human brain is plastic and changeable, we are repairable.'' - Drs. Ron and Nancy Rockey

Why not commit to processing and recovering from those emotions and learning how to build healthy relationships, if not for yourself or even your children or your sibling's or friend's children, if you are or will be helping to raise them, why not do it for your or your friend's grandchildren?

Hope for Those With a Negative Past

Ways to Heal the Emotional Wounds

Watch and / or Listen to a TV Show on Addiction Recovery
Why Stress Destroys Our Health, Toxic Emotion Management, Relationship Improvement, Recovery Options, Healing Therapies and Mentor Support (includes resources on coping with loneliness, guilt, shame, anger and other toxic emotions, trauma, broken heart syndrome, dysfunction and addiction recovery and the healing power of deep self-massage)
Need to talk to someone? Chat or get advice from a caring mentor.

Revolutionary Mind Self Therapy Books

Are you yearning for a better life? Then I encourage you to check out the spiritual or biblical section below. But if the secular section is more your style, or even if it isn't, I highly recommend getting the book by Dr. David Burns, ''Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy - The Clinically Proven Drug-free Treatment for [Mild] Depression[, Discouragement and Unhappiness].'' (cognitive behavioral therapy and how to apply it)

(''The ten forms of cognitive distortion cause many, if not all, of your depressed states...When you become familiar with these ten forms of distortion, you will benefit from this knowledge all your life.'' - Dr. David Burns in ''Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy'')

15 Common Cognitive Distortions (Burns' and Beck's)

I also encourage you to check out the other revolutionary mind self therapy books by peak mental performance expert Dr. Neil Nedley and brain plasticity expert Michael Merzenich.

Revolutionary Mind Self Therapy Books

Another book I encourage you to also check out is real horse whisperer Monty Roberts' book ''Horse Sense for People: Using the Gentle Wisdom of Join-Up to Enrich Our Relationships at Home and at Work'' in which he ''demonstrates how trust, respect and communication - not coercion - are the keys to fruitful relationships.''

In raising his three children and 47 foster children, most of whom came to him as troubled teens, Monty applied and taught them principles he learned from the natural behavior and language of wild horses and his gentle Join-Up technique.

To learn more, visit the Resources on Toxic Emotion Management & Relationship Improvement section.

Secular Words of Encouragement, Tips & Support

May you be encouraged and find hope to press on in spite of the trials in your life as you check out these resources. I encourage you to also explore answers to the following tough questions. skip

Tough, Frequently-Asked Questions By Those Who Don't Believe or Know if God Exists | skip
Words of Encouragement for Hope | skip
- Listen to Words of Encouragement by Stephen Pierce with Flash Player
- How to Turn Discouragement Into Encouragement
- ''Give encouragement (the incentive to action) and you will have courage and be encouraged.'' - Jackie Stanley’s Dictionary of Encouragement skip
  - How To Encourage
  - Words of Encouragement by Sonny Melendrez
  - Begin Your Own 30K Notes of Encouragement Marathon
  - ''How can you survive the economic crisis? One moment at a time.''
  - Daily Doses of Encouragement
  - Read and Be Encouraged
  - Quotes from the Dictionary of Encouragement
  - Get the Dictionary of Encouragement
- Book by Catherine DeVrye: ''Hope Happens! Words of enCOURAGEment for Tough Times''
  - Preview ''Hope Happens!
- Mary Nelson's Story and Her Books ''Grace for Tough Times: Keys to Hope, Comfort and Encouragement'' and ''Grace for Each Hour: Through the Breast Cancer Journey''
- Hide These Links
Words of Inspiration for Motivation | skip
- ''Remember the formula: Inspiration = Motivation and Motivation = Realized Dreams!'' - Cheryl Richardson
- Some Inspirational Quotes | skip
  - ''Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.'' - Epictetus, Phrygian Philosopher
  - ''Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well.'' - Danish Proverb
  - ''Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.'' - Confucius
  - ''Fall seven times, stand up eight.'' - Japanese Proverb
  - ''A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.'' - William Arthur Ward
  - ''If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.'' - Mother Teresa
  - Resilience is created by community connectedness. ''Information by itself does not change people. It takes a community.'' - The Circle of Courage Project (''Inspired by traditional Native American methods of raising youth, the Circle of Courage focuses on four areas - belonging, mastery, independence and generosity.'')
  - ''Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.'' - William Arthur Ward
  - ''We are so often caught up in our destination that we forget to appreciate the journey, especially the goodness of the people we meet on the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling; don't overlook it.'' - Author Unknown
  - ''Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.'' - Ralph Marston
  - ''Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.'' - William Arthur Ward
  - (But we can't love others, nor care for others without overdoing it and burning out, unless we love ourselves - not in a conceited or narcissistic way, in a healthy way.)
  - Ways to Learn How to Love Yourself in a Healthy Way
  - Hide These Links
- The Foundation for a Better Life: Be Inspired and Pass It On
- Inspiring & Uplifting Stories (includes the stories of Azim and Ples and their journey from murder to forgiveness, Jacob Favela, who was saved through music from hate and a life of crime, the Hoyts, a father who races with and for his quadriplegic son and Nick Vujicic, a motivational speaker born without arms or legs)
  - Watch Randy Pausch's Last Lecture Called ''Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams'' (a talk by a professor dying of pancreatic cancer to Carnegie Melon students meant for his kids - ''It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the dreams will come to you.'')
  - More Videos of Talks by Randy Pausch and Links to Related Web Sites
- Inspirational Videos, Audios, Stories and Articles at Sonny Melendrez' Radio Web Site, SonnyRadio.com
- Inspirational Movies From Simple Truths/li>
- Quotes, Stories, Poems and One-Liners for Courage, Encouragement, Motivation
- Daily Inspirational and Motivational Quotes
- Daily Thoughts
- Motivational Sayings
- Free Weekly MP3 Motivator
- Motivation 123: Motivation Techniques & Tips for Your Happiness & Success
- You Are Your Own Best Motivational Speaker
- Words of Inspiration by Catherine DeVrye
- Book by Catherine DeVrye: ''Who Says I Can't?'' / ''Serendipity Road''
- Subscribe to Free E-Zines by Recognized Personal Development Experts
- Denis Waitley's E-Zine Archives
- Denis Waitley's Articles
- Jim Rohn's E-Zine Archives, Articles and Vitamins for the Mind
- Ron White's Articles
- Ron White's Ezine Archives
- Inspire At-Risk Kids
- Hide These Links
Practical Answers to Life's Questions and Free Help for Dealing with Life's Issues (for students, women, men, couples, troops and their spouses and seniors)
Tips & Support to Help You Live a Better, More Satisfying Life (stress relief, support, life improvement, relationships & grief resources) | skip
- Stress Relief Tips | skip
- Grief Support | skip
  - How to Fix a Broken Heart
  - Grief Overview and What to Say and Not Say to Someone Who Is Grieving the Death of a Loved One
  - Video: How to Talk to the Grieving: Do's and Don’ts for Helping People in Grief
  - Grief: Coping with Reminders After a Loss
  - Mayo Clinic's Grief Resources
  - Survivors of Suicide: Healing After a Loved One's Suicide
    - Book: Grieving a Suicide: A Loved One's Search for Comfort, Answers & Hope by Albert Y. Hsu
    - Preview of Grieving a Suicide
  - Baby or Child: skip
    - Miscarriage: You Are Not Alone
    - Coping with Pregnancy Loss / Miscarriage / Abortion
    - Infant Death: Grief and the Path to Loving Remembrance
    - A Place To Remember (uplifting support materials and resources for those who have been touched by a crisis in pregnancy or the death of a baby)
    - Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day
    - Links and Resources for Parents Who Have Lost Their Baby or Child (disable Javascript and refresh the page to access the actual sites)
  - Divorce Recovery: skip
    - Divorce Care
      - Divorce Care for Kids
    - Helping Young Children Cope with Trauma
  - Facing Fear: Helping Young People Deal With Terrorism and Other Tragic Events (a lesson download)
  - Hide These Links
- Support Resources | skip
  - Support Groups
  - The Hope Of Survivors (support, hope and encouragement for victims of pastoral / clergy sexual abuse and misconduct)
  - Troubled With (immediate help, long-term hope)
  - Reach Out (helping young people help themselves through tough times)
- Life Improvement Tips | skip
  - Mayo Clinic Resources: | skip
  - How Nutrition Affects Emotions and Behavior
  - Resources on Toxic Emotion Management & Relationship Improvement
  - Relationship Help: Building Great Relationships Using Emotional Intelligence
  - How to Stop Worrying: Self-Help Strategies for Anxiety Relief
  - Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (revolutionary books that help you think clearly, beat the blues, and live a longer, happier life)
  - Helpguide.org: Understand, Prevent and Resolve Life's Challenge
  - The Road to Well-Being (developed by psychologists at the Department of Clinical Health Psychology, Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
  - Book: The 12 Bad Habits That Hold Good People Back: Overcoming the Behavior Patterns That Keep You From Getting Ahead [in Your Job]
  - Book: Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
    - Condensed Summaries of ''Seven Habits of Highly Effective People''
  - Book: Carpe Aqualis! ''Seize the Wave'' (NOT another ''how to deal with change'' book, but instead a ''how to master change survival course'')
  - Book: Rocket Mom! 7 Strategies To Blast You Into Brilliance
  - Hide These Links
Country, Reminisce and Taste of Home: Some of The Nicest Magazines on Earth (no ads! if you enjoy visiting family, you'll find these magazines soothing and uplifting - if you don't, I encourage you to check out one of these options)

Spiritual Words of Encouragement, Tips & Support

May you be encouraged and find hope to press on in spite of the trials in your life as you check out these resources. I encourage you to also explore answers to the following tough questions. skip

Biblical Words of Encouragement That May or May Not Help

If you believe God exists, aren't angry at Him and think of Him in a positive way, or want to, or want to learn about Him and how much He loves you and cares about you, here are some quotes from the Bible and a favorite writer of mine that I hope will give you the encouragement and hope you're looking for and a new outlook on life.

If you are angry at God, think of Him in a negative way or have thoughts, feelings and behaviors which have kept you bound in fear, anger, sadness, or feelings of worthlessness, as I said earlier, these words probably won't give you much, if any, encouragement or hope.

Again, you certainly may read them, in case they will, but if they don't, don't worry. Remember, there's still hope! If you're teachable, your stressed-out, unsatisfying or shattered life is fixable! How? With one of the following.

Effective Biblical Solutions

The one I especially recommend is either the ''Binding the Wounds'' or ''The Journey'' seminar by Drs. Ron and Nancy Rockey. skip

Hurt by the Church - Forgiving Friendly Fire
The Journey Home to Love
The Good News About God, False Assumptions About the Christian Life & How to Enjoy It | skip
- Learn the Good News About God's Character
- If you've lived a weary, unhappy and guilt-ridden Christian life, learn about the 12 'Christian' beliefs that can drive you crazy and get relief from false assumptions.
- Did the terrible death and destruction Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami caused, reawaken questions the 9/11 tragedy raised in your mind?
  - I believe you'll find the answers you're looking for here. | skip
- Find and get actively involved in a friendly, accountable, recovery-supportive church, home church or Bible study group every week and maybe also an online church community.
- Hide These Links
The Rockeys' Bible-Supported Recovery Program: | skip
- Attend or buy ''Binding the Wounds'' or ''The Journey,'' the lifelong, research-based, Bible-supported recovery program by internationally-respected counselors Drs. Ron and Nancy Rockey. (learn more)
- A Sample Chapter From Their Book ''Belonging''
- If you have a negative view of God, the Bible and Christianity, you're probably saying to yourself, ''How can the Bible help me recover, when it has caused so much misery in this world?''
- Or ''Why would God care whether I recover or not, when he's vengeful and tyrannical, making people burn in Hell for eternity (Does the Bible say that? The Twisted Message About Hell Untangled), letting children and babies die or deal with lifelong complications from hunger or abuse, and allowing so many people to die in the Holocaust, the tsunami and other natural disasters, the Hutu/Tutsi massacre, the AIDS epidemic and other diseases, and so many wars and terrorist attacks like 9/11?''
- If you are, you're not alone. Many others have asked such questions, and gotten frustrated with people's answers which have failed to satisfy their longing for healing and happiness, and for an accepting, forgiving and caring God.
- But through research-based, Bible-supported therapy, careful, prayerful study of the previous list of resources on the good news of God's character, and love, support, forgiveness, prayer, perseverance and determination, satisfying answers to tough questions about God can be found and the cycle of dysfunctional behavior can be broken!
- The Rockeys' research-based, Bible-supported recovery program really can allow your emotional wounds to heal, and make your life happy, satisfying and meaningful. You have nothing to lose. Why not take a minute to learn more?
- Hide This Section
Other Bible-Supported Recovery Options: | skip
- Help for Sex and Pornography Addiction
- Counseling skip
- Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage with Mark Gungor (for any couple with a relationship, whether good or bad, or any single person interested in a relationship)
- Love Takes Time (dedicated to strengthening the Christian family)
- Where Grace Abounds (support for those that are sexually broken)
- Just As I Am (the Kollenbergs' ministry for addiction recovery)
- True Step (Cheri Peters' ministry for addiction recovery) skip
- Polly's Place Network (dedicated to providing consultation, education, resources, evaluation and research in domestic violence, family violence, related abuse and teen pregnancy)
- The Bridge To Recovery (a retreat in Bowling Green, Kentucky based on the 12-step program, which I believe is not as effective as the Rockeys' research-based, Bible-supported program)
- Advent Home Youth Services (a child care agency in Calhoun, Tennessee that provides remedial schooling, lifestyle changes and total wellness for at-risk boys and their families and works to reverse ADHD in a safe, minimum distraction environment)
  - Text and Video Reviews of Advent Home
- Heart and Soul International (help and hope for families who want to follow God)
- The Hope Of Survivors (support, hope and encouragement for victims of pastoral / clergy sexual abuse and misconduct)
- Calling The Faithful (recovery for pastors and church leaders)
- Hide These Links

If you just can't bring yourself to view God in a positive way or see what the Bible really has to say about Him and about recovering from your emotional wounds, check out the...

Secular (Non-Religious) Support and Recovery Options

Words of Encouragement & Hope from the Bible & A Favorite Author

To get a greater benefit from this part of my site, now, for the rest of your life and for the next life, I earnestly encourage you to read, listen to and apply the contents of as many of the sections in the following list as you can make time for.

I truly believe that if you do, you'll find most, if not all of the answers you're looking for and the encouragement, hope, healing, peace of mind, meaning and happiness you desire. skip

Words of Encouragement and Hope | skip
- A Personal Message for the Discouraged and Hurting
- To God, You're of Infinite Value (God is Crazy About You!)
- Why Many Christians Often Feel Discouraged (last 5 paragraphs)
- For Every Trial, God Has Provided Help
- If You Let Him, God Will Meet Your Needs And Guide Your Life
- If You Let Him, God Will Heal Your Guilt-Burdened Heart
- If You Let Him, God Will Heal Your Broken or Grieving Heart (words of encouragement and hope for those who have lost a loved one)
- Words of Hope About Heaven
- You're Not Alone in More Ways Than One
- There's A Better Way
- God's Law of Life
- The Gospel (Good News) of Health
- HopeNet - A Resource Center for Hope and Encouragement
- Hide These Links
Audios and Videos Filled with Encouragement and Hope | skip
- Father's Love Letter: An Intimate Message from God to You (available in text, audio, video and 89 languages)
- Videos on Life Issues Such as Bitterness, Loss of Faith, Forgiveness and Meaning
- The Causes and Cures of Loneliness
- A Better Way to Live (a 3-5 minute daily devotional podcast Monday - Friday)
- A Journey in Song and Story from Misery and Hopelessness to Hope and Peace (includes the stories of what God did or has done for Nick Vujicic, Nicky Cruz, Corie ten Boom and Keith Green)
- Other Video Stories of What God Has Done for Others
- Audio Stories of What God Has Done for Others
- Songs and Radio Programs
  - Music to Soothe the Soul with RealPlayer
- Hide These Links
Free Life-Changing Books and Inspiring Magazines to Read or Listen To
Prayer Request | skip
Life Improvement Tips and Support Resources (Includes Help for Those Fighting Depression, Cancer or Other Serious Illness | skip
- Alternatives to the American Dating System/a>
- Help for Sex and Pornography Addiction
- Resources on Toxic Emotion Management & Relationship Improvement
- The Source of Unconditional Love
- Dave and Jan Dravecky's Outreach of Hope (for those who are hurting, struggling with depression or dealing with serious illness)
- Crisis Hotlines and Depression and Counseling Resources
- Coping with Grief, Disaster, Fear & Crisis
- Answers and Free Help for Dealing with Life's Issues
- Overcoming Bad Habits
- Time-Tested Biblical Secrets to True Wealth Through Serving Others
- How to Make Business a God-Anointed Ministry
- Additional Resources
- Hide These Links
Other Things You Can Do to Experience Encouragement, Hope, Healing and Peace | skip
- Read Healing Promises
- Read ''Help in Daily Living''
- Have a Spirit of Gratitude and Praise
- Sing Songs of Gratitude and Praise and Give Thanks
- Sing Songs of Hope
- Do Good Deeds
  - Doing Good Deeds Benefits Health
  - Share Hope
- Learn time-tested biblical secrets to financial and spiritual success through serving others. (Tired of being in debt? Of living paycheck to paycheck? Abandon mediocrity. Unlock the keys to personal achievement, true wealth and Christian-based spiritual success.)
- Make Your Business a God-Anointed Ministry
- Hide These Links

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Words of Encouragement and Hope

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What In Life Has You Feeling Discouraged?

Words That May or May Not Help

There's still hope!

Ways to Heal the Emotional Wounds

Revolutionary Mind Self Therapy Books

Secular Words of Encouragement, Tips & Support

Spiritual Words of Encouragement, Tips & Support

Biblical Words of Encouragement That May or May Not Help

Effective Biblical Solutions

Words of Encouragement & Hope from the Bible & A Favorite Author