New Release October 2025
Alterations
When life hands us what we could never have imagined.
From vivid recollections of intimate childhood moments to soul shaping whole chapters, Shauna Gill narrates her raw struggles of keeping faith in times of existential crisis. In this unique memoir, she carries us along with her through the deep challenges and redeeming discoveries that can surprise, bend, and enliven us.
The book did not write itself quickly. Alterations came about through a series of gentle and serendipitous invitations over the wandering course of 20 years. Its pages unfold with great depth and detail because of this.
One such nudging came from Henri Nouwen, who lent particular importance to the profound role we step into when we share our honest reality through story. Authentic witness requires the bold offering of our lived experience, in all our doubts and hopes, failures and successes, loneliness and woundedness. Shauna does just that, making her journey available to us as a space in which we can struggle with our own humanness and quest for meaning.
In these pages we find thorns and flowers, and that’s what makes it so particularly meaningful and accessible. Alterations is a life story that travels to the heart, where Shauna paints pictures of experiences we can touch, taste and feel within ourselves and then reflect upon as we consider our own journey of growth.
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Learning Social Literacy
Can social life become more civil? Are children learning to care about themselves as well as other people? In a world that says it values relationship, do we understand what's involved in meeting human need so people can flourish in these relationships? This book offers a perspective on making human connections more stable and satisfying and claims that the exchange depends on learning how to read and interpret what's going on during social interaction. Social literacy is the ability and willingness to read what's going on during our encounters with others so that we remain true to ourselves (authentic) and yet remain well connected to other people (integrated).
Love Builds Brains
You'll never look at child development the same way again.
Dr. Clinton lays out the early years' journey of attachment, self-regulation, connection, resilience and well-being, and does so with scientific explanations measured out in understandable doses. This book is full of deeply researched wisdom, offered in a conversational style. It's like having a coffee and a chat with Jean as you sit at her kitchen table.
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(CanadianPaediatric Society review – Emmett Francoeur)
JeanClinton delivers the strongest of arguments for the need to zero in on early years to nurture and promote the mental health of children. She describes how the brain’s plasticity makes it exquisitely capable of change, particularly in the early years but also over the lifespan. She does so with the special touch of a mother-grandmother-physician who knows about “feeling felt” and the need for the “drip-by-drip” consistent and sensitive responsiveness of the loving caretaker.
https://www.cps.ca/en/blog-blogue/your-grandmother-was-right-love-really-does-build-brains
Thick Listening at Thin Moments
A welcome manual for chaplains, pastors and spiritual caregivers in any context.
The book focuses on theory and is rich with scenarios that demonstrate ideas conveyed in each chapter. Its theoretical groundwork is balanced by comprehensive descriptions of clinical implications for spiritual care practice based on theories presented throughout its pages.
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