Soul Hunter
What mother murders her son? What uncle participates in the murder of his nephew with his girlfriend. What homeowner and her son provide a home for murderers? Coerced me with a lethal cocktail of drugs, leaving my body for 16 hours while they cleaned up and made excuses for each other. "Do not leave me here in this house with those people, please, mom, take me with you." It broke my heart that my mom did not help me and left. This friend of my mom's said to my mom, "you just cannot leave Sequoyah here in that condition. Take him down to his grandpa's". Sequoyah is a shape-shift trickster from the Ojibwe nation to the unjust. Sequoyah Hunter. 12 October 2004 - 6 April 2021. I love my dad, and when my dad cries from his heart for missing me, it shows how much spiritual love my dad has for me.
Soul Hunter
What mother murders her son? What uncle participates in the murder of his nephew with his girlfriend. What homeowner and her son provide a home for murderers? Coerced me with a lethal cocktail of drugs, leaving my body for 16 hours while they cleaned up and made excuses for each other. "Do not leave me here in this house with those people, please, mom, take me with you." It broke my heart that my mom did not help me and left. This friend of my mom's said to my mom, "you just cannot leave Sequoyah here in that condition. Take him down to his grandpa's". Sequoyah is a shape-shift trickster from the Ojibwe nation to the unjust. Sequoyah Hunter. 12 October 2004 - 6 April 2021. I love my dad, and when my dad cries from his heart for missing me, it shows how much spiritual love my dad has for me.
Winter Love
Winter Love A Guide to Senior Dating is a handbook toward a better life as a senior citizen. Everyone needs companionship and this book tells you how to get it. The author walks you through the steps of meeting new people, making that first connection, going on dates, and keeping the relationship strong. She even coaches you on how to breakups with partners that have turned out to be wrong for you. Filled with practical advice and funny stories the book is hard to put down. Ms. Hayes warns of the pitfalls one can come across if you get in too big a rush to find the perfect mate. She also lists many things you can do that will keep your partner contented. She explains the problems with dating sites but also spend a couple of chapters explaining what clothes are best for social media photos and how to promote yourself with better pictures and cameos. After spending 20 years interviewing single seniors, she has put together numerous anecdotes both funny and poignant. Once you read the book you will find yourself making wiser decisions that leave you happier for it.
Soul Mate
THIS BOOK IS ALL ABOUT LOVE AND ABOUT A GIRL LIFE AND HOW SHE SUCCED IN HER HER LIFE WITH HELP OF HIS SOUL MATE AND HOW HE HELPED HER, THE PROBLEMS WHICH FACED IN HER CHILHOOD AND HER. AFTER IN HER GRADUATION SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH A PERSON BUT HE DIDN'T ACCEPTED HER BUT ALSO HIS HELP HER OUT TO BECAME A SUCCED PERSON IN THAT GIRL'S LIFE. ITS VERY INTERESTING STORY AND WHILE READING U WILL ENJOYING IT AND YOU MAY CONNECT TO STORY. BECASUE SO MANY SITUATION CONNECT TO YOUR LOVE LIFE ALSO.HOPE YOU WILL LIKE IT.
Conversations With the Departed
Conversations with the Departed, is an escape from reality. Giving you the opportunity to venture into that forbidden desire to feed the yearning that wishes, heaven had a phone to call your loved ones. This journal offers 31 daily prompts that helps you get the words out that you've been meaning to say, but just didn't know where to begin. You will have a chance to add a photo or name to make this journal a personal conversation with your loved one. If you want to speak with different loved ones, you can have a journal dedicated to each of them. There's nothing holding you back from having that last conversation.
Passionately yours
This love story runs around Priya and Sri Ram.This story depicts an ideal love marriage which was successful due to hardwork and dedication.This story teaches us that only hardwork and dedication can reach you to heights. It is a story filled with love, pain and hardwork. HAPPY READING!!
Forget and Forgive, My Dear!
It was love and then it was life. A character reminding the emotions of a heartbreak. A thrilling short love story leaves you with a question.
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Have you ever felt confused and abandoned by God during your most difficult seasons of life? Does it feel easier just to avoid Him rather than to press in and continue to seek Him all while enduring such pain? In this book, Olivia Adebayo recounts her journey through infertility, loss, and the miracles she's experienced. She shares her testimony of getting to know who Jesus is first-hand in a way that can only be revealed through suffering.
LAILA Held for a Moment
Twenty-four, fresh out of college, and beginning a career in finance, the moment Leah Mele-Bazaz learned she was pregnant, she thought, I want this baby. Her boyfriend, Gautam, felt the same, and for the next six months, they were ready to move heaven and earth to welcome their daughter into the world.Then the unthinkable happened. At twenty-six weeks gestation they got the worst news that confirmed her biggest fear: their daughter, Laila, had no detectable heartbeat. The news shattered her, upending her newlywed bliss and sending her into a downward spiral of depression from which she felt she would never recover. But amid this despair, Leah would find lights to guide her out of the darkness: Gautam's support, a dog from the shelter, her passion for running, and, above all, an unwavering love for Laila.In this heart-wrenching memoir, Leah Mele-Bazaz shares her experience with the devastation of stillbirth. Her inspiring journey from loss and anguish to newfound hope and healing shows there's a way to live when our children are no longer with us.
The Journey of Life
THE JOURNEY OF LIFE IS THE BOOK THAT EXPLAINS HOW A MAN FACE THE SITUATION IN THEIR LIFE AS WE KNOW THAT THERE IS A SOLUTION OF ANY PROBLEM OR A SITUATION. THIS BOOK BASICALLY HELP THE PERSON TO FIGHT WITH THE PROBLEM OR ANY SITUATION IN THEIR LIFE
Conflict REVOLUTION(R)
Do the events in the world leave you feeling depressed, hopeless, confused, ineffective, or afraid? Do you long to connect with your passion and to find creative ways to express it in your life? Do your relationships need more balance? Do you want to learn to experience your feelings in healthier and more positive ways? Do you want to learn to be more confident and competent in handling conflict? Are you ready to pick up your power and truly become the change you are waiting for in others?If you answered YES to any of these questions, Conflict REVOLUTION(R) can helpCon REV is a highly effective process to deal with conflict-any conflict-at its root within us. This isn't conflict resolution, which focuses on the details of the physical arena where the conflict is playing out. Con REV uses those details to revolve the focus back inward, where our power lies. Guided by Compassion, we learn to maneuver through the arena of conflict using the revolutionary maps of Human Consciousness to find the root and develop an Action Plan to resolve it. This plan becomes personalized step-by-step instructions, written by and for you, based on what you learned looking deeply into your own life. This is Self-Love.In our teaching, we nurture a nonjudgmental, joyful, and well-paced environment. You learn step-by-step instructions for revolving any conflict, including: Learning a new definition of who you are;The three dimensions of human consciousness-Emotion, Intuition, and Intellect-and how to train them to work together;The importance of your feelings and how to feel all of them;Simple ways to differentiate between Intellect and Intuition;How to train the Intellect to listen to and act on Intuition;How to align the entire system to Compassion to create Cn3 (consciousness to the third power);Inspiration to work the process on a daily basis.When you resolve the conflict within, how it resolves in the arena is always greater than you could have achieved otherwise. The results of this work are nothing short of miracles.Once you experience the difference of knowing where your power truly lies and how to use it, you become inspired to do more. You will become a Conflict REVOLUTIONARY: someone committed to world peace, one person at a time, starting with you.
The Healing Tree
The tree that healed meIt calmed my mind and my soulAnd brought happinessThis is a book that celebrates the beauty of nature, and one tree in particular. It caught the eye of one of nature's lost children.Motivated to get outside after COVID changed how we needed to approach our daily lives, Dave used his walks to connect with nature and do some really impactful soul-searching. Many unresolved thoughts and painful memories were uprooted in his heart during this time and by serendipitously connecting with this one tree, a healing journey was started and continues to this day.My hope is that THE HEALING TREE will inspire you to find your own connection with the healing powers found in nature and examine the places inside yourself that might need some soothing.
Who Cares Wins
YOU MAY HAVE LIVED THROUGH AN EMOTIONAL CRISIS, BUT FEW HAVE FACED THE CHALLENGE OF TRYING TO NEGOTIATE SOMEONE OUT OF ONE. Police crisis negotiators have to wrestle with the demons in people's psyche, not with clever words, but through using their training in techniques such as active listening. What counts is their skill and steadfast conviction that every life matters. This book is a compilation of true life-and-death crisis negotiations told through the eyes of the negotiators. By drawing on their reflections to resolve the situation, you will not only learn something transferable, but you will be inspired to be an agent of social good for the benefit of all humanity. The experiences shared here also represent excellent case studies for mental health professionals. These riveting cases from Hong Kong are arranged and explained through a unique eight Cs model developed by one of the authors, and are complemented by a similar story from a former unit chief of behavioral science of the FBI in the USA. Self-taught acrylics artist and trained hypnotherapist Karma Castilho endows this book with a number of artworks that personify what crisis negotiators are mentally hoping to achieve through their negotiations.
Who Cares Wins
YOU MAY HAVE LIVED THROUGH AN EMOTIONAL CRISIS, BUT FEW HAVE FACED THE CHALLENGE OF TRYING TO NEGOTIATE SOMEONE OUT OF ONE. Police crisis negotiators have to wrestle with the demons in people's psyche, not with clever words, but through using their training in techniques such as active listening. What counts is their skill and steadfast conviction that every life matters. This book is a compilation of true life-and-death crisis negotiations told through the eyes of the negotiators. By drawing on their reflections to resolve the situation, you will not only learn something transferable, but you will be inspired to be an agent of social good for the benefit of all humanity. The experiences shared here also represent excellent case studies for mental health professionals. These riveting cases from Hong Kong are arranged and explained through a unique eight Cs model developed by one of the authors, and are complemented by a similar story from a former unit chief of behavioral science of the FBI in the USA. Self-taught acrylics artist and trained hypnotherapist Karma Castilho endows this book with a number of artworks that personify what crisis negotiators are mentally hoping to achieve through their negotiations.
Working Daughter
Working Daughter is a revelatory look at who's caring for our aging population and how these unpaid family caregivers are trying to manage caring for their parents, raising their children, maintaining relationships, and pursuing their careers. It follows the author, who was enjoying a fast-paced career in marketing and raising two children when both of her parents were diagnosed with terminal illnesses on the same day. In the challenges she faced and the choices she made, readers will learn how they can navigate their own caregiving experiences and prepare for when they are inevitably called on to care for their parents. Working Daughter sparks the conversation we so desperately need to have about women and the workplace. With 10,000 people turning 65 every day and a shortage of caregivers predicted in the next few years, it's time we talk about how family caregivers and their employers will face the impact of a rapidly aging society. There are plenty of books about managing career and children, but little advice on how to balance career and parents - along with children, marriages, and friendships. Working Daughter provides a blueprint for women and a call to action for business leaders and policy makers. This book is for women who want straight talk and real advice about the challenges of eldercare, the choices they will need to make, the aspects of caregiving they can control, and that which they cannot. And finally, Working Daughter shows family caregivers how they can achieve the caregiver's gain--the underreported but well-documented upside to caring for an aging parent.
Hope
Nona's strength and confidence is put to the test when members of her own family, whose love and support she once depended on, leave her behind, either by choice or circumstance. Nona's once secure world is breaking apart piece by piece. She needs her friends Layne, Dixie, and Betty Jo- now more than ever to help her put it back together. Will the Fearsome Foursome and Nona's faith in God be strong enough to carry her through life's unexpected challenges?
The Path to Soul Immunity
Dr. Sophia Edwards-Bennett, a Radiation Oncologist, has dedicated this book, Path to Soul Immunity, to people diagnosed with and suffering with Cancer - The Big C. This book serves to uplift and encourage us to see past their diagnosis, and move on to the glorious future that is available for us. In taking us past the dark aftermath of diagnosis, it entreats cancer victims not to enter a state of hopelessness, one filled with the devastation of "why me?" Rather, they have the fulfilling option to adopt the hope that comes with Divine Faith, one which will allow us all to amass our reward above - "a rich, seasoned elixir of $oul Currency" - on a journey that takes us on to 'Soul Immunity.'In taking us through the traumas, losses and grief she has experienced, the author expounds on her analysis, especially the pillars of forgiveness and gratitude, to develop 'Soul Immunity.' The Doctor gives insight into her recognition of the psychological trauma cancer patients go through, along with the sympathy and understanding that she and her profession propound. Her development of "The Re-Attitudes" counsels cancer patients in planning their future and giving them purpose. This is a thoughtful and compelling book of hope for every cancer victim.
An Inconvenient Flame
Love in the Adirondacks-where hearts come together like the moon and the stars shining bright in the sky, showing the boats the way home at night.The last thing she wanted was a man. But he was exactly what she needed.Tayla Johnson doesn't have time for romance. She barely has time to stop and smell the roses. However, when her parents plan a big family reunion, she makes a promise to her mom and dad she will take two weeks off work and spend time with them and her two sisters. Something she hasn't done in years. She's ready for a little fun in her childhood home, but she's not prepared for the sexy next-door neighbor that won't take no for an answer. She doesn't want love or happily-ever-after. All she's ever known is work, career, and sheer determination.Gael Waylen spent most of his twenties and thirties chasing dollar signs. He had no idea life had passed him by until his parents and baby sister were killed in a small plane crash six months ago. At their funeral, he vowed to make changes in his life, but he has no idea what that really looked like until the day Tayla Johnson came home. He sees in her exactly who he used to be and he doesn't want her to make the same mistakes. While he tells himself he's only trying to give her the gift of time, he ends up giving her his heart.
Joy
Betty Jo is beyond excited when she learns her son, Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Ethan Breedlow, has received orders transferring him from the Pentagon to the Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia. His new assignment will bring her three precious grandchildren closer. Unfortunately, it will also bring Chloe, her daughter-in-law who has never been a fan of hers, closer. Without warning, Ethan's orders are changed sending him far away and leaving his family stranded. Betty Jo takes her three young grandchildren along with Chloe into her home. While helping her family and friends-Layne, Nona, and Dixie-cope with the unexpected events in their lives, Betty Jo receives startling news which puts her trust in God to the test. Will her faith in God persevere to bring her through this trial so she can find joy once again?
Peace
Dixie's unwavering faith in God carried her through the tragedies of losing her parents and her beloved sister. When her own son's life is threatened, her trust in God is put to the test in more ways than she ever imagined possible. Dixie turns to her friends Layne, Nona, and Betty Jo for the strength and courage she needs to remain grounded in her faith.
What the Living Do
Until the age of twelve, Georgia Lee Kay-Stern believed she was Jewish - the story of her Cree birth family had been kept secret. Now she's living on her own and attending first year university, and with her adoptive parents on sabbatical in Costa Rica, the old questions are back. What does it mean to be Native? How could her life have been different? As Winnipeg is threatened by the flood of the century, Georgia Lee's brutal murder sparks a tense cultural clash. Two families wish to claim her for burial. But Georgia Lee never figured out where she belonged, and now other people have to decide for her.
Is It Really Love?
WHAT IS LOVE? LOVE is; Even if you tell me you don't love me, I will still love you. Even if you ask me to leave everytime we fight, I will still love you. Even if you don't miss me, I will still love you. Even if you feel tired of me, I will still love you. Even if you don't want to talk to me for days, I will still love you. Even if you don't want to see my face becuase you don't feel i am pretty anymore, I will still love you. Even if you sleep everytime even knowing I am crying, I will still love you. Even if you start hating me for no reason, I will still love you. Even if you say you don't deserve me, I will still love you. Even if you fall for someone else, I will still love you. Love is when you need me, I will be there even if you've wronged me a thousand times before. Love is when we get old, we still fight for not talking to each other nicely. Love is when we reach to our goals, we don't forget about each other. Love is when you're tired, I will let you sleep, without asking for explanation. Love is saying sorry, everytime when i feel i am annoying you. Love is saying I LOVE YOU, whenever you feel saying it even if you've said it before a second. Love is sharing every good and bad memories together. Love is trying my best to get better everyday, just to make you feel that i deserve you. Love is not making each other feel down. And LOVE IS STILL UNDEFINED. The Book is a must read if you have ever fallen in love.
What the Living Do
Until the age of twelve, Georgia Lee Kay-Stern believed she was Jewish - the story of her Cree birth family had been kept secret. Now she's living on her own and attending first year university, and with her adoptive parents on sabbatical in Costa Rica, the old questions are back. What does it mean to be Native? How could her life have been different? As Winnipeg is threatened by the flood of the century, Georgia Lee's brutal murder sparks a tense cultural clash. Two families wish to claim her for burial. But Georgia Lee never figured out where she belonged, and now other people have to decide for her.
The Lost Flower
Dedicated to the depressed, the anxious, and the hopeless romantic, 'The Lost Flower' challenges its' readers to see the beauty in the shadow aspects of one's self. All are encouraged to go on their own journey within their hearts' emotions and childhood memories to cultivate a healing from a place of personal power and unconditional love of self.
My Hardcover Book
A true story of how living in poverty, having a dysfunctional family, and living in Syria with domestic abuse should have destroyed me, but God pulled me out of it all by giving me a will to never give up and to keep fighting for my son and my right to live free through Jesus.
He Waters Dead Flowers
Take me anywhere but home. Thank you for everyone who takes the time to read this book.
If There's a Mailbox in Heaven
"It's not about me. It's about Christ working through me." Christina BowersKnowing her God was bigger than any cancer, ten-year-old Christina faced this tremendous obstacle with unwavering faith and a smile in her heart. There was no room for anger, and the question "Why me?" would never be asked. Instead, this diagnosis was answered with "Use me. Use me, Lord, for Your Name and Your Glory!" There was no coincidence that Celeste Bowers would be blessed with gifts of writing, teaching, coaching, making people laugh, and being a mom. All these gifts held crucial roles when her ten-year-old daughter, Christina, was diagnosed with cancer.If There's a Mailbox in Heaven, these letters are what Bowers would send her daughter. Take the time to unwrap every package bundled in love and filled with life lessons, and be forever blessed! Celeste's own testimony lives on through her second book, When Your Voice Became Mine: There Is a Mailbox in Heaven.
Closer Than Ever
Strengthen your communication and build a brighter future together The differences between you and your partner can be the building blocks for growth in your relationship -- you just need the right tools to guide you. This relationship communication workbook is filled with compassionate advice and exercises to help any couple interact productively, handle conflict, and deepen their connection. Understand the fundamentals-- Grow closer with guidance for maintaining healthy communication and listening with an open mind. Practice your skills-- Discover prompts and activities to help you and your partner increase self-awareness, become comfortable with vulnerability, and own your mistakes. Find inspiration from others-- Learn from the stories of other couples who have improved their communication with these evidence-based techniques. For every couple --Find guidance and activities that are inclusive for couples of all backgrounds, lifestyles, and orientations. Create a deeper connection with your partner through this supportive couples therapy workbook .
A Relationship Guide
A Relationship Guide will help you have the relationship you crave! This book prides itself at helping you get the "Total Connection!" This is where the mind, body, heart and soul are intertwined into the relationship you've always desired! Of course, nothing is perfect.: ) Love, Sex & Everything In Between discusses sex, insecurities, and personal growth, along with strategies to reach one another emotionally and physically. You'll laugh, perhaps be shocked, and gain insights into having a dynamic relationship! I am humbled to be recognized as Detroit's Love Guru, and have written this book as an improvement to my previous book The Relationship Guide. Since I am all about constant growth and improvement, I wanted to give readers more tools and thought provoking insights to help improve their love lives. This book is dedicated to all of those who crave having a terrific, romantic, loving and passionate relationship! It's for the married, cohabiting, or in a new relationship. PLUS this is for single people seeking and maintaining a fantastic and sexually fulfilling relationship!
Return to Pō
You have come here to explore who you are and what you are here for. Your purpose as an individual and as a member of society is intertwined with your desire to reflect on the past but also move forward in life.This is how you have found yourself before Return to Pō, a coming-of-age travel memoir combining mythology, environmental conservation, and self-improvement, written by your guide along this journey, Jon-Erik Jardine.Prepare yourself for a true story that will have you gently bobbing through the ebbs and flows of various memories, emotions, and experiences. You'll cheer when you envision the Albatross fledglings raising their wings to practice flying for the first time. Your heart will catch in your throat as you read about how adolescents in a wilderness therapy program realize the importance of their lives as they lie in a temporary symbolic grave in the ground. You'll laugh when you read about the ship's engineer who sits and stares at the clock every time he isn't working. And afterwards, you'll shut your eyes and remember your biggest loss and how you healed after grief.This book is for those who are ready to face the unknown, question their upbringing and beliefs, and search their souls for areas of improvement. It is for those who have found themselves both running from and embracing death, connecting to nature and disconnecting from society. It is for those who seek truth within them-but also know the value of listening to the world around them.If you are introspective, intrigued by the mysteries of life, and desire a stronger connection to nature, this book is for you. Perhaps you have been called to read it. Will you answer the call?
The Essential Family Therapy Workbook
Form a stronger bond as a family Families are complicated--and fostering healthy relationships often takes work. This supportive guide provides you and your loved ones with the therapeutic tools you need to strengthen your connection. Guided by simple exercises, your family will learn how to reduce conflict, boost communication, and build deeper connections. Focus on core family dynamics-- Learn how to improve the eight traits fundamental to healthy families, including mutual respect, affirmation and support, and setting boundaries. Explore engaging exercises-- Put your newfound knowledge into practice with a range of prompts and activities, such as kindness meditations, conversation calendars, and positive affirmation checklists. Try different approaches -- Find the right tools for your family, with a range of therapy techniques including dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and narrative therapy. Find fresh perspective and move forward together with help from The Essential Family Therapy Workbook .
You Don't Have to Crush Your Ex
Drop the Battle.Win the War that Matters.Vanessa and Luke met in college. Young and ambitious, they fell in love, married, bought a house in the suburbs, and created a perfect family. He worked tirelessly to advance his career, so she could stay home with the children and manage their busy household. For fifteen years, they built a network of friends, family traditions, and an amazing life together. Everything was going great until it wasn't. Now, they are facing a very painful divorce and a custody battle over two children both parents adore.Family members, friends, and legal professionals-everyone has an opinion about how to come out on top.In You Don't Have to Crush Your Ex, Lori Bonnevier-a clinical social worker and seasoned child custody evaluator-invites you to walk beside Vanessa and Luke, as they face challenges similar to yours. You will have the unique opportunity to make choices about divorce, your children, and how to participate in a custody evaluation to achieve the best outcome. Through this insightful and witty choose-your-own-outcome-style story, Lori shares her more than twenty years of trade secrets to help you navigate the complex and often-thorny experience of participating in family law litigation. By the end of the book, you will know how to: Present your best self to a child custody evaluator.Protect your child's emotional health and well-being.Keep your sanity and thrive on the other side.Discern which attorneys will hurt or help your efforts.Acquire resources to manage specific challenges.Save your family time and money.This book is a must-read for parents, grandparents, and interested third parties involved in or headed toward a custody lawsuit over the children they love.The Choices We Make, Make Us.Lori Bonnevier, a court-appointed evaluator and child advocate for more than two decades, helps parents effectively navigate high-conflict custody battles.
From A Lady's Lips
How would you like to discover the secrets of how to identify, develop and maintain your relationships? Within these pages with the help of Ariel L. Lewis, you'll quickly discover the simple commonsense methods necessary to make better decisions, develop stronger relationships and how to deal and cope with life's ups and downs. You will also discover exactly how to identify and how to say goodbye to Toxic relationships. Join Michael Wayne Dickerson as he engages in conversations all throughout the world with Ariel L. Lewis and by the end of this book, you will have discovered everything you need to know about how to become the person you have always wanted to become and it will all come...From A Lady's Lips
Understanding Animal Abuse and How to Intervene with Children and Young People
This volume offers a trauma-informed approach to understanding and intervening in animal abuse. It provides an accessible cross-disciplinary synthesis of current evidence on animal abuse, and a toolkit for professionals working with people and/or animals to help them understand, prevent, and intervene in cases of animal abuse.
A Lover's Wish
This book highlights the struggles, sacrifices and affections in relationships. It shows how easily our feelings can be shattered in times of adversity, and how the strength of love and peace can overcome such hardships. It also depicts our close relationship with nature, and its importance in providing beauty and stability in our lives.
Life After Her
This is a story of mother who gave her all to the development, growth and building of her family legacy; shared through the lens of her middle son. Evelyn Bailey, affectionately known as Teenie, shared an enriching display of love, guidance and wisdom to ensure her families legacy was intentionally defined through life stories, events and pivotal conversations that teach morals, values and life principles from an African-American middle class family by providing: sound guidance and biblical sincerity as her barometers for future family inspiration, generational development and spiritual growth. Through her conversations, lessons and displays of affection are a full exhibit of her immeasurable talents and boundless acts of love as she overcame life's challenges with grace, grit, and determination rarely prelevant in today's society. Without a doubt, she was cut from a cloth of an earlier era of mothering. She experienced an early onset of Lupus and type-2 Diabetes, yet showed her strength in every aspect of her existences despite her limitations, disease and infirmities. She was a prayer-warrior for her home, marriage and family.
The Transient
Someone taken from us too soon; loss we may not have seen coming; pain we literally cannot bear--these are the most perilous risks of loving someone, and we don't know ahead of time ifour future might hold such torments ... but in grief we discover more fully why we would choose that love over again, even if we knew. "A brilliant, graceful evocation of the arc of grief and the dawning of redemption. Judy Evans brings us this extraordinary work of soulful self-awareness within which exquisitely rendered personal details are masterfully swept into transcendent principles of shared humanity." - Debra Finnegan-Suler, PhD, Clinical Psychology After an unforgettable phone call delivering the news that her younger brother Dave had been killed in a car crash at age 22, author Judy Evans was plunged into a grief for which there was no guide. From the childhood joy of cradling her baby brother, to the stunning near-muteness that overcomes her as she holds his body just hours after his death, The Transient describes her experience of having, and catastrophically losing, a younger sibling. It follows her through the early aftermath of loss and on to the larger task of living with anguish not just at anniversaries and holidays, but in the innumerable moments of everyday life. Each chapter ends with a meditation inviting the reader to explore and honor, rather than simply endure, his or her own experience of loss. This intensely personal account unfolds in an atmosphere of companionship with the reader, while also recognizing the individuality of grief. The Transient is a shared journey, with each small step tenderly contemplated. Judy Evans lives and works in the suburban Philadelphia area.
A Gracious Goodbye
A GRACIOUS GOODBYE presents in-home hospice nursing care for terminally ill individuals. Each story presents unique end of life challenges that affects not only the patient's life but also the lives of family members and caregivers. The stories provide insight into the journey that each reader will ultimately experience for themselves as they or loved ones progress through unpredictable debilitating health issues. Examples show how our spirits can be lifted when we take the opportunity to offer empathy and love, without condition, to ease a terminally ill person's discomforts, or to lessen their fear of dying. Examples of patient and caregiver coping skills will encourage you to utilize your: - Quiet listening skills - Eye contact - Touch The dying process is an integral part of living and often presents us with miracles and surprises that often become our most cherished blessings and memories of our loved ones. You will understand that there are many methods available to help you solve daily challenges confronting you or a loved one's end of life care. At the age of forty John began his nursing studies at the University of Florida, earning his Bachelor's Degree in Nursing two years later. Now retired from nursing, John and his wife have a daughter, son, and three grandchildren. Life's lessons accumulated; BA Marketing, Certificate In Gerontology, and multiple employment opportunities proved to be invaluable stepping-stones for John's success as a hospice nurse. John is grateful to share with you astonishing life events that he has experienced with his hospice patients and families. Many cherished memories of inspiration and beauty, moments of awe, sadness and tears, bonds and love that spanned his twenty year hospice nursing career are documented here with hopes that your end of life experiences might be less frightening, and blessed with dignity, love, and hope.
Something Borrowed A Novel
Jill and Scott are getting married in less than a week. Like any other bride, Jill is caught up in the endless details and preparation--bridesmaids' dresses, veil fittings, the rehearsal dinner...the list never ends. No wedding would be complete without a bit of family drama, although Jill and Scott are about to get more than they bargained for.In a last-minute decision to include her mother on one of the finer details, Jill happens upon a secret that might not only ruin her big day but also the lives of those she holds dear. As a shocking infidelity threatens to rip apart both Jill and Scott's families, the no-longer blissfully happy couple must scramble to pick up the pieces as the clock ticks closer to the big day. Can Jill and Scott contain the heartache, or will it seep into their own plans for marital bliss?Something Borrowed explores the unraveling of deceit, consequences of certain choices, and ultimately whether love really can conquer all.
Happily Ever After
No relationship is perfect. From deciding when to go to sleep to whether or not to have children, Happily Ever After will help you prepare for the decisions, large and small, that every couple faces. In this interactive workbook, Dr. Lawrence Sank shares insights from more than 40 years of working with couples, sharing vignettes from his work as a marriage counselor. Happily Ever After will help couples: - Understand the challenges of marriage - Develop and refine their communication skills - Enhance their problem-solving skills, ability to empathize, and capacity to give and receive - Promote emotional and physical intimacy - Find ways to preserve romance and passion in daily life - Appreciate the marital bond as it matures Whether married, engaged, or simply in a committed relationship, this book will help you better understand both yourself and your partner, and pave the way to Happily Ever After.
My Prison Had No Bars
James Lucot's very personal narrative speaks as a story of the evolution of a soul. His raw, poignant, and sometimes haunting childhood experiences develop into an authentic metamorphosis as an adult. His words reflect a genuine effort to not erase the past in an effort to survive, but to truly wrestle with events and emotions in order to embrace his own life with more resolution, gratitude, and dignity. The culminating triumph of the work rests in the beauty of truth to make us stronger, better, and whole. His honesty in addressing the past and its consequences in his present stand as an open encouragement and call to all of us to recognize ourselves, to dig deeply into the events that shape who we are, and confidently move forward and evolve in hope. - Alison E. Schuster, Esq.
Know Your Worth
KNOW YOUR WORTH is a woman's guide to happiness in relationships, the workplace and life in general. This small, yet effective book is jammed packed with valuable knowledge and information that will lead to a more successful you. KNOW YOUR WORTH comes from years of experience as well as real interviews from MEN, who have opened up about what makes WOMEN powerful, sexy and desirable. Take this book with you. Study it, apply the concepts and watch yourself take off to levels you've never dreamed possible. It's time to KNOW YOUR WORTH
Marriage Uncut
Many spend weeks, if not months, planning for the big day! The perfect wedding dress. The most exquisite flowers and bouquets. The most quality linen and the finest cuisine. Yet, once the big day is over, many realize that they've said, "I do!" but they don't even know to what! This book deals with the real-life stories of six individuals who realize that marriage is about much more than the first dance and cutting a cake! Prepare to experience Marriage Uncut!
Honeybee Cottage
The last time Joey Walker watched Josh Reynolds leave Pepper Bay was three years ago. She decided there and then that the next time he visited she would never in a million years, even if her life depended on it, sleep with him ever again. She was done with secretly being in love with him. She couldn't keep falling into his arms every time he was around. Josh was never going to see her as anything more than a holiday fling, or a sure thing. She had made her decision and had happily stuck to it, but only because he wasn't around. She soon realises just how hard keeping him at arm's length actually is when he unexpectedly turns up just before Christmas.Josh had always loved Joey, but he knew she never took him seriously. She had no reason to. Growing up, he only went to his grandmother's family home in Pepper Bay for the summer. As an adult, he knew that the world viewed him as a playboy heir to his grandfather's millions. This year, he was determined to prove just how reliable he could be. He was back, and on a secret mission to get Joey to fall in love with him, because she was all he had ever wanted.
