Books like When the Heart Waits by Sue Monk Kidd

Explores how some women develop a pattern of over‑loving as a response to family dynamics, examining the psychological roots and effects of this compulsive behavior.

A collection of speeches and writings by Angela Y. Davis focusing on the fight for racial, sexual, and economic equality and social changes in the past decade for African American women and people of color.

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

Robert A. Johnson offers a practical four‑step guide to harness dreams and imagination for inner transformation, drawing on Jungian insight and personal experience.

Explore the powerful and transformative energies that emerge for women over fifty in this nonfiction study of the third life phase, drawing on Jungian archetypes and goddess symbolism.

Moving panoramically from Mesopotamia to Canaan to Egypt, The Red Tent is robustly narrated by Dinah, from her upbringing by the four wives of Jacob, to her growth into one of the most infulential women of her time.

Trusted Pastor Dr. Charles Stanley offers words of comfort and patience to anyone waiting for answered prayers. Are you waiting for God to answer your prayers? Do the days, weeks and years go by without evidence that your deepest longings could ever come true? If so, you?re not alone. In fact, you are facing a common faith-building challenge in the Christian life, and this book has the guidance you need to endure victoriously. God has very special plans for your life, and the way He most often prepares you for them is through times of directed, active, purposeful waiting. So through timeless, biblical teaching, Dr. Stanley gives you the practical wisdom you need to make the most of the delays and follow God?s lead to the blessings you long for. With counsel for staying on track when the tunnel is getting dark, claiming God?s promises, and finding purpose in the waiting, Dr. Stanley draws on personal experience and biblical principles to offer you encouragement and guidance no matter where you are in your spiritual journey.