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Poignant Moments...

Author : John Wissler
Publisher : BOOKSURGE, an Amazon.com Co
ISBN 13 : 1419610422
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Poignant Moments... written by John Wissler and published by BOOKSURGE, an Amazon.com Co. This book was released on 2005-07-20 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialysis patient and author Jurgen Hesse says, Poignant Moments. . .A Caregiver's Perspective is "A powerful memoir . . . it is the kind of moving story that cannot be told enough times." Many people unfortunately do not understand dialysis, but all know that we have kidneys. However, author John Francis Wissler will wager that almost everyone knows someone who gives care for a friend, mother, or father; a grandfather; a grandmother. . .a son, daughter. . .or a spouse and home hemodialysis patient. In the United States alone, caregiver value accounts for $265 billion per year. In this book a story is told of the skills, patience and stresses of one out of fifty million caregivers. Wissler takes the reader on a tortuous journey of him as caregiver, and his significant other, Lois, as care receiver, with all the bumps and laughs in the road along the way. No less important is the bureaucratic wrangling as the author relentlessly seeks the appropriate level of medical care for a woman in increasingly dire straits. It is a compelling human-interest, educational, nonfiction novel that NHHD caregiver Martha Washburn articulates is ". . . a required reading for everyone in government and the healthcare industry."

The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology

Author : Kirk J. Schneider
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761927822
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology written by Kirk J. Schneider and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology promises to be a landmark in the resurgent field of humanistic psychology and psychotherapy. Their range of topics is far-reaching--from the historical, theoretical, and methodological, to the spiritual, psychotherapeutic, and multicultural. Students and professionals are looking for the fuller, deeper, and more personal psychological orientation that this Handbook promotes.

Help, Lord! I'm Having A Senior Moment

Author : Karen O'Connor
Publisher : Gospel Light Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780830734405
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis Help, Lord! I'm Having A Senior Moment by : Karen O'Connor

Download or read book Help, Lord! I'm Having A Senior Moment written by Karen O'Connor and published by Gospel Light Publications. This book was released on 2003-10-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like it or not, senior moments happen. We might as well laugh about them and thank God for the way they add interest to our lives. After all, what would life be without the cordless phone ringing faintly from where you left it in the fridge? Some senior moments are more heartbreaking or embarrassing than funny. But in every case, we can take them to the Lord who cares for us. This book brings encouragement to people in their golden years. Each of the 90 short pieces contains a note to God about a topic of special interest to seniors, a word from God in Scripture, a prayer and a place for the reader to write his or her note to God.

It Takes a Child to Raise a Parent

Author : Janis Clark Johnston
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442221623
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis It Takes a Child to Raise a Parent by : Janis Clark Johnston

Download or read book It Takes a Child to Raise a Parent written by Janis Clark Johnston and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While advice abounds from a variety of sources before parents embark on their parenting journeys, the only parent preparation we actually receive comes from our family and peer stories. Yet most adults do not realize that in day-to-day challenges of guiding our children, something interesting happens. As we steer our children through life, we reopen our own childhood roads. Just when our child most needs us, we become needy ourselves: as adults and parents, we find that we have unresolved raising issues, basic needs that were not met in our childhoods. Our needs and memories echo and influence many of the parenting decisions we make, even though we’re unaware of those influences at times. Fortunately, children help parents reach their needs as much as their parents help them fulfill their own. Our child ends up guiding us, by connecting us to some earlier time in our life when we encountered distress. We dredge up a lesson, and we adapt by adhering to or changing the story that we tell ourselves about who we are. We re-negotiate the five basic needs that surface from our childhood memories as our youngsters pass through each of the developmental phases. The self-aware parent focuses on creative problem solving by focusing on one interaction at a time. It Takes a Child to Raise a Parent offers an exploration of how our own childhood memories and needs influence and shape our parenting decisions in our adult lives. Offering tips, stories from a variety of families, and step by step exercises, Janis Johnston helps parents better understand and grasp the tools necessary to face parenting challenges head on, and to explore new ways of understanding ourselves, our children, and our family interactions. Expectant parents and current parents interested in understanding their own personality development as well as the many moods of childhood and their own children, will find clear guidelines for understanding their roles in their children’s lives as well as concrete suggestions for how to navigate the choppy waters of raising children.

Awakening to Awe

Author : Kirk J. Schneider
Publisher : Jason Aronson
ISBN 13 : 0765706660
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Awakening to Awe written by Kirk J. Schneider and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awakening to Awe is a self-help meditation on an alternative—and growing—spiritual movement. This is a movement comprised of people who refuse the "quick-fix" model for healing, whether that model entails popping pills, indulging in material comforts, or adhering to doctrinal dogmas. By contrast, the movement about which Schneider writes is composed of people who have developed the capacity to experience the humility and wonder, or in short, awe, of life deeply lived. In particular, this book highlights the stories of people who through the cultivation of awe have transformed their lives. For example, readers will discover how awe transformed the life of an ex-gang member into a beloved and productive gang mediator, an ex-drug addict into a communally conscious healer, and a sufferer of stage three cancer into a contemplative and spiritual seeker. The book will also inform readers about the challenges and joys of awe-based child-raising, education, humor, political activism, and aging. Drawing on the philosophy of Schneider's earlier work, the acclaimed Rediscovery of Awe, Awakening to Awe tells the down-to-earth stories of a quiet yet emerging revolution in the transformation of lives.

Beyond Invisible Walls

Author : Jacob D. Lindy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134946260
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Invisible Walls written by Jacob D. Lindy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Westerners watched those who had survived the era of Soviet trauma emerge into what we hoped would be the exhilarating light of freedom. What we have witnessed, however, is a slow and painful process of progression and regression, of hope and disillusionment, of unexpected psychological barriers: invisible walls that block the progress we had hoped for. In Beyond Invisible Walls, East European therapists, themselves, draw a compelling picture of the waves of trauma that their people endured, the institutions of trauma that remained well after Stalin's era, and their impact on survivors and their families. They describe the psychological remnants of those years: walls that confine people by unconsciously preserving old adaptations to political terror, walls that divide one part of the mind from another, and walls that rise between one generation and the next. These therapists' stories allow us a striking glimpse into how patients' trauma evokes the therapists' own wounds; how both speaker and empathic listener find their way to a healing process, how the two begin to dismantle these invisible walls.

Four Small Words

Author : Jarrett Stevens
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310563461
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Four Small Words written by Jarrett Stevens and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world addicted to headlines and sound bites, where technology has taught us how to say more with less —Jarrett Stevens, a popular pastor and speaker, helps readers understand the deep meaning of their own story, written within the Story of God. And all in just Four Small Words. When it comes to a story as theologically thick and rich with history, metaphor, and meaning, as the Bible, the thought of trying to understand or communicate that story can be overwhelming. However, Stevens believes the essence of the Story of God can be understood, applied, and shared in just four small words. Of. Between. With. In. Using a simple, fresh, and memorable approach to the good news of God’s story, Four Small Words not only gives us a better framework for the Bible, but for our everyday lives. Seeing God’s big story through these small words allows it to sink deeper into our own lives and to be shared with others in a way that is more memorable and less intimidating.

The Last Tender

Author : Bette Price
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
ISBN 13 : 1662904967
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book The Last Tender written by Bette Price and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Victoria Morgan’s husband dies of cancer she convinces her son Robbie and his family to go on the cruise that she and her husband had planned to take. It would be part of their healing she suggested. Victoria and her husband had taken many cruises and Sorrento, the first stop on this cruise, had always been their favorite. This time Victoria was excited to spend the day alone in Sorrento, visiting her favorite shops while the rest of the family visited the Isle of Capri. But when Victoria fails to return on the last tender that evening before the ship’s sailing, pandemonium set in. Robbie is forced to stay in Sorrento to work with police while his family remains continues on their cruise and suddenly they are all compelled to rely on total strangers as they begin their search for Victoria.

Crawl of Fame

Author : Julie Moss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681779218
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Crawl of Fame written by Julie Moss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The courageous and transformative story of triathlon hall-of-fame athlete Julie Moss. In 1982, Julie Moss ran the Ironman triathlon for her college senior research project. Her idea was quirky, even crazy: a 140.6-mile combination of swimming, cycling, and running. Julie brought no triathlon experience, but she did bring a latent willpower that, the world soon found out, wouldn’t be denied. What happened next changed Ironman forever . . . After becoming the unlikely leader during the final leg, Julie fell and lost all bodily function fifteen meters (50 feet) from the finish. While on hands and knees, she watched her rival pass her. Thirty seconds later, she crawled across the line—stunning the millions who were watching on television. At age twenty-three, Julie became the instant global icon. That this young co-ed would represent such a new sport was unlikely. That she would inspire millions in the three decades years since was unthinkable. Yet, it happened. And keeps happening. In 2017 Julie won her age group in the Ironman North American Championships—racing 25 minutes faster than her 1982 Ironman. How does a 58-year-old woman beat the time of her 23-year-old self? Which begs the question, Could she also beat her 1982 time in the more demanding Kona? The world will find out in October 2018. Crawl of Fame is the long-awaited release of her incredible story. Julie describes how she found her greater purpose while lying across the finish line at Ironman 1982 — and how that greater purpose as a woman, athlete, endurance sports symbol and, now, iconic figure has defined her life and inspired others since.

How God Becomes Real

Author : T.M. Luhrmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691234442
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book How God Becomes Real written by T.M. Luhrmann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hard work required to make God real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faith How do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people—as if they were standing right next to them? Humans tend to see supernatural agents everywhere, as the cognitive science of religion has shown. But it isn’t easy to maintain a sense that there are invisible spirits who care about you. In How God Becomes Real, acclaimed anthropologist and scholar of religion T. M. Luhrmann argues that people must work incredibly hard to make gods real and that this effort—by changing the people who do it and giving them the benefits they seek from invisible others—helps to explain the enduring power of faith. Drawing on ethnographic studies of evangelical Christians, pagans, magicians, Zoroastrians, Black Catholics, Santeria initiates, and newly orthodox Jews, Luhrmann notes that none of these people behave as if gods and spirits are simply there. Rather, these worshippers make strenuous efforts to create a world in which invisible others matter and can become intensely present and real. The faithful accomplish this through detailed stories, absorption, the cultivation of inner senses, belief in a porous mind, strong sensory experiences, prayer, and other practices. Along the way, Luhrmann shows why faith is harder than belief, why prayer is a metacognitive activity like therapy, why becoming religious is like getting engrossed in a book, and much more. A fascinating account of why religious practices are more powerful than religious beliefs, How God Becomes Real suggests that faith is resilient not because it provides intuitions about gods and spirits—but because it changes the faithful in profound ways.

Television/Death

Author : Helen Wheatley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474451756
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Television/Death written by Helen Wheatley and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Television/Death intertwines the study of death, dying and bereavement on television with discussion of the ways that television (and the TV archive) provides access to the dead. Section One looks at the representation of death, dying and the afterlife on television, in historical and contemporary factual television (from around the world) and in US television drama. Section Two focuses on dramas of grief and bereavement and discusses how the long form seriality and narrative complexity of television, from family melodramas to the ghost serial, allows for an emotionally realist representation of experiences of grief, bereavement and death-related trauma. Finally, Section Three proposes that television has been overlooked in critical analyses of recorded sounds' and images' propensity to 'bring back the dead'. It argues that television is the posthumous medium par excellence and looks at how the dead return via incorporation into new television programmes or through projects to bring television out of the archive.

From Average to Awesome

Author : Jim Smith, Jr.
Publisher : Association for Talent Development
ISBN 13 : 1607282410
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book From Average to Awesome written by Jim Smith, Jr. and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wish you had your own personal career and life coach, giving you advice and cheering you on? Now you do! Jim Smith Jr.'s energy and enthusiasm are contagious. Catch them—and enjoy your own journey From Average to Awesome. Start reading at any point because, like success, getting to awesome is not a linear step-by-step process. Dozens of uplifting, true-life stories tell how others have catapulted themselves from mediocrity to stellar achievement—despite long odds. Each chapter ends with a self-quiz to help you reflect upon your own situation, rate your level of awesomeness, and move forward.

Nikita

Author : Susan Hayward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857715194
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Nikita written by Susan Hayward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nikita" (1990) is the story of a nineteen-year old junkie, Nikita (Anne Parillaud) who is given a second chance in life through being trained to be - and becoming - a skilled assassin for the State. "Nikita" is a cult classic, directed by Luc Besson (with Thierry Arbogast as director of photography) in his hallmark powerful style. The film was an international hit, which spawned a TV series and a Hollywood remake. Susan Hayward develops here a fresh and provocative way of understanding "Nikita"'s plot structure as a neo-baroque symphony. She goes in depth into key sequences of the film, examines its reception as a popular film by audiences and critics, and looks at "The Assassin", the Hollywood remake of "Nikita". This is a wonderfully exciting book on an underrated film. It also shows that the woman placed at the centre of a film noir can', as Susan Hayward points out, 'for once win - or at least 'get away with it".

Opera Journeys’ Guide: Opera at Movie Theaters(Season 2013-2014)

Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1102008656
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Opera Journeys’ Guide: Opera at Movie Theaters(Season 2013-2014) written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Daily Affirmations for Adult Children of Alcoholics

Author : Rokelle Lerner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0757310427
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book Daily Affirmations for Adult Children of Alcoholics written by Rokelle Lerner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The messages that we give to ourselves are the most important messages we hear. The internal briefings and conversations we hold determine our attitudes, our behavior and the course of our lives. If, as children, we were criticized and shamed, our internal dialogue will be self-deprecating. If we are used to large doses of self-imposed sarcasm and negative reviews of our daily performance, we gradually mutilate our self-esteem, our creativity and our spirit.

Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics

Author : Melissa A. Goldthwaite
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809335913
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics written by Melissa A. Goldthwaite and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the need for interpretations and critiques of the varied messages surrounding what and how we eat, Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics collects eighteen essays that demonstrate the importance of food and food-related practices as sites of scholarly study, particularly from feminist rhetorical perspectives. Contributors analyze messages about food and bodies—from what a person watches and reads to where that person shops—taken from sources mundane and literary, personal and cultural. This collection begins with analyses of the historical, cultural, and political implications of cookbooks and recipes; explores definitions of feminist food writing; and ends with a focus on bodies and cultures—both self-representations and representations of others for particular rhetorical purposes. The genres, objects, and practices contributors study are varied—from cookbooks to genre fiction, from blogs to food systems, from product packaging to paintings—but the overall message is the same: food and its associated practices are worthy of scholarly attention.

Ovarian Cancer? You Can Not Be Serious!

Author : Janice M. Coggins MSW
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1481713558
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Ovarian Cancer? You Can Not Be Serious! written by Janice M. Coggins MSW and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS IS THE NOW. I am still here. Call me blessed. Call me determined. And yes, call me very grateful. Now call me a writerbecause I need to share my story. I have been diagnosed with the fifth most common cancer killer of women: ovarian cancer. I have broken through to a brighter time. My mission now is to increase the likelihood that many more stricken-women, may also live beyond the onset, diagnosis, and treatment of ovarian cancer. This book begins with my story of being here as a survivor. I love to meet other survivors because they are like instant family. I often hug them simply because we have walked the same path. For me, having cancer is real, and I embrace it as being part of who I am now. Just as I believe that each time Moses spoke of God, and Paul spoke of Jesus, it deepened their relationships with God. So it is with me. Telling my story often helps keep me in touch with my true self and with my God. Cancer may be part of me, but I am more than just cancer. And I refuse to give it more power than it is due.