Download or read book A Mother s Survival Finding Balance Through the Storms written by Hope Brooks and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a childhood marked by sexual abuse, author Hope Brooks has forged a path in life by forever facing down severe challenges and unexpected family crises. Ultimately she was able to rise above the fallout of lost innocence, bitter divorce, and more to create a joyful life. A Mother's Survival: Finding Balance through the Storms is her candid account of struggle and success that she hopes will help others emerge from personal despair. A seasoned teacher of young children, Brooks came to her profession after finding herself and children abandoned by a man with bipolar disorder. She weathered that storm and found new fulfillment in a second marriage, only to discover that the tough times were not behind her family. Brooks and her husband Ray soon learned that the fallout of divorce presents even more formidable strains on a family. As she worked to balance the joys and adversities in both her professional and her personal life, Brooks arrived at a new understanding of how to effectively solve problems. Embracing accountability and forgiveness, she has now achieved hard-won peace and bliss. Her stirring life account serves to help others on a similar course to the happiness they deserve.
Download or read book Crazy for the Storm written by Norman Ollestad and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-05-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Breathtaking....Crazy for the Storm will keep you up late into the night.” —Washington Post Book World Norman Olstead’s New York Times bestselling memoir Crazy for the Storm is the story of the harrowing plane crash the author miraculously survived at age eleven, framed by the moving tale of his complicated relationship with his charismatic, adrenaline-addicted father. Destined to stand with other classic true stories of man against nature—Into Thin Air and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer;Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm—it is a literary triumph that novelist Russell Banks (Affliction) calls, “A heart-stopping story beautifully told….Norman Olstead has written a book that may well be read for generations.”
Download or read book Against All Odds a Mother s Struggle to Survive written by Treshia Green and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS BOOK IS TO ENCOURAGE ALL MOTHERS THAT CANNOT VISUALIZE THE END OF THEIR STORMS. ALTHOUGH MANY OF YOU MAY NOT HAVE TRAVELED THROUGH THE STORMS MY MOTHER OVERCAME, SHE IS SPEAKING OUT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THE CLOUDS WILL DEPART, AND THE SUN WILL DEFINITELY SHINE. SHE IS A LIVING WITNESS TO WHAT GOD CAN AND WILL DO IF YOU KEEP THE FAITH AND SURRENDER YOUR LIFE TO HIM. SHE REPEATS THE 23rd CHAPTER OF PSALSMS THROUGHOUT THE DAY, AND SHE HAS NEVER BEEN STEERED WRONG.
Download or read book Survival of the Heart Tragedy of the Mind written by Dwight N. Wood Wood Sr. and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a life that has spanned more than six decades, Dwight N. Wood, Sr., now provides an intensely painful but transparent account of his story starting from birth and leading to the present day. He always attempted to hide away the damaging scars of a major heart surgery and the sometimes cruel events prompted by poverty. It was his choice to cover up and contain his deepest emotions within his heart and mind. Survival of the Heart Tragedy of the Mind is a spiritual and surprising story of medical survival and human tragedy. Wood characterizes his most detailed memories of his childhood and the sacrifices of his family, which always supported his dreams of living a normal life. After he became an adult, he once again faced the demons of his past physical and mental battles. He recounts the hardships associated with despair, dying, and death. He expresses the mental struggles of living in the past while not looking toward the present and future. The emotional and monetary costs of failing to seek professional guidance nearly led to his demise. Wood admits to the consequences of being a man who has had to deal with denial and rejection. His book is about learning the lessons of life and making the confusing connections between commons sense and poor judgment. He rationalizes the reasons we should embrace love and forgive people. The crucial decisions he made as a child and an adult now allow him to complete his circle of life. Survival of the Heart Tragedy of the Mind is an intimate portrayal of a very emotional boy who develops into a mentally quick and capable man. His often hopeful approach to overcoming human miseries is highlighted by his failures as well as his victories. From his youthful days to his elderly years, he suffered from a congenital heart abnormality and eventually developed post-traumatic stress disorder. His lifelong search for the answers to human love, spiritual happiness, and the true meaning of human life eventually leads him to some remarkable solutions with noteworthy conclusions.
Download or read book Preaching Through a Storm written by H. Beecher Hicks and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his own experience in shepherding a church through a difficult building program, the author explains how to survive the storms of pastoral ministry spiritually and emotionally.
Download or read book The Continuing Storm written by Kai Erikson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifteen years later, Hurricane Katrina maintains a strong grip on the American imagination. The reason is not simply that Katrina was an event of enormous scale, although it certainly was by any measure one of the most damaging storms in American history. But, quite apart from its lethality and destructiveness, Katrina retains a place in living memory because it is one of the most telling disasters in our recent national experience, revealing important truths about our society and ourselves. The final volume in the award-winning Katrina Bookshelf series Higher Ground reflects upon what we have learned about Katrina and about America. Kai Erikson and Lori Peek expand our view of the disaster by assessing its ongoing impact on individual lives and across the wide-ranging geographies where displaced New Orleanians landed after the storm. Such an expanded view, the authors argue, is critical for understanding the human costs of catastrophe across time and space. Concluding with a broader examination of disasters in the years since Katrina—including COVID-19—The Continuing Storm is a sobering meditation on the duration of a catastrophe that continues to exact steep costs in human suffering.
Download or read book Teaching Through the Storm written by Karen Hale Hankins and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully written narrative, a first-grade teacher takes us into her classroom during an emotionally stormy year. Ride the storm with Hankins as she struggles to address the pressing emotional needs of her disparate students while also meeting their need for literacy development.
Download or read book The Choice To Survive written by Natalie D. Wilson and published by Natalie D Wilson. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexandria Grace Marcus has faced the darkness, the demons, and their children with bravery uncommon to one so young. She has fought to protect innocents and her loved ones as well, while the horde circled time and again since her return to the Lord’s Nephilim. And just when she was sure that peace had settled over her family, as they await the birth of Wallace’s child, danger strikes in the blink of an eye. On an innocuous night in London, Alex is stunned to find herself at the center of a coordinated attack by children of the Fallen – while she is alone. She valiantly defends her life, only to discover that her life is now the prize in a brilliantly spun game by those vying for power within the ranks of the darkness. Alexandria and her immortal brethren are thrown headlong into a battle which will take them to Valencia, Avignon, Schwerin, the sands of Saudi Arabia, and to the Colosseum of Rome as she works her way steadily through the gauntlet designed to lure her in. And she must revisit painful and poignant memories of Arianna’s past to keep one step ahead of the enemy. Alex knows the Light will always outshine the darkness, but it is the doing of it all which is the challenge. And now, she faces challenges unlike any she has known thus far.
Download or read book The Balance written by Neal Wooten and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a dystopian future, life hangs in the balance. Piri is a nineteen-year-old boy who lives in a technological metropolis that rises above the clouds. But when an accident drops him out of the city, everything changes. At first terrified by the atrocious reality of life on the surface, including surviving gruesome creatures known as Scavs, Piri is soon mesmerized by the bond they have for one another. He also comes to understand his own feelings for Niko, the boy who rescued him. In the end, Piri chooses love over comfort. But things are never as they seem. When he discovers just how far the city dwellers will go to maintain control, and the horrific truth behind an ancient and secret alliance, he will do everything he can to protect his new familyÑand disrupt the balance.
Download or read book Get a Life written by The Scribble Sisters and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2014-08-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GET A LIFE! Get Real! Never, never give up! Live generously! Know when to cross a bridge, when to burn it, or when to build a new one! But, get over it! GET A LIFE is the book for you. It can be your own personal survivors guide of how to deal with real life...the ups, the downs, the sideways, because in life that is what we all go through, each and every one of us, no matter the age or the circumstances. Where could you find a book like this...that is so beautifully written in the lost art of calligraphy? The quotes in this book are ones when read can be an insightful 'Aha" moment for the reader because the words are drawn from 1,000 years of love and pain and grief and joy. It also will make the reader take a reality check...to slow down life in order to fully reflect how powerful the written word can express our deepest emotions. You know what else makes this book so unique? The reader can write their silliest, funniest, saddest, brightest or darkest moments or thoughts in a book that they can keep as their own survivor's guide in their own walk through life. Or guess what? They can give it to a partner, a daughter, a mother, a son or a friend who can then create a different and personal guide of their own. So, we have the words of wisdom, the healing quotes, the words of laughter, the words of grief and self-worth. How else could the reader experience another level of connection to GET A LIFE? ...The art, the beautiful art... The abstract and mosaic art engages the reader at a very personal level...to enjoy visually with the eye and connect emotionally with the heart. The mosaic of a shattered heart, or a new version of how to go down the yellow brick road, the purple shards of grief, and the bridge of how to get over it...that's what we're talkin' about. This book speaks to us all...every age, every race, every gender will find value in the timelessness of the words in our book, GET A LIFE. From the 'Life Quality Test' page to the 'Taking a Risk' page, our book is full of pages to stimulate or motivate a reader to play it forward in life. In other words, GET A LIFE is truly an uncommon, one of a kind book, a Survivor's guide to finding the balance and getting the bounce!
Download or read book Life After the Storm written by Jan Harrison and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2015-03-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are winds of change, doubt, or grief swirling around you? Engaging author and teacher Jan Harrison shares how, when storms strike, you can depend on God's spiritual supplies— His promises, His Spirit, His ever-present help, and the treasures of His Word. After a storm of loss forever changed the landscape of Jan's life, her faith and years of Bible study were tested. In that journey, she discovered how God was and is able to fill her every need. Now, with compassion and courage, Jan will help you: stop living in fear of "what if" and be ready for life "even if" sense God's constant presence and gentle healing experience the transforming confidence and faith that only a storm can unveil Whether you or someone you care about faces a difficult season, the lifelines of God's promises will lead you to life and hope after the storm.
Download or read book Transformative Eco Education for Human and Planetary Survival written by Jing Lin and published by IAP. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transformative eco-education is environmental education that is literally needed to transform and save our planet, especially during the global ecological crises of our present century. Such education demands inner transformation of many deeply rooted ideas, such as the following: the Earth exists merely to provide for human comfort; the extinction or reduction of other species does not matter; we are free to consume or destroy natural resources at will but are safe from destruction ourselves; and the Earth will continue to sustain us, even if we do not sustain the Earth. Unless these concepts are changed, we will increase global warming and add to the ruin of much of the Earth. This book presents powerful ideas for transformative eco-education. At this time of ever-increasing ecological crisis, such education is needed more than ever before. We urge readers to use the ideas and activities in this book with your students, develop them further, and create new conceptions to share with other educators and students. The chapters in this book provide key principles, of which the following are just a few. First, educators can and should prepare students for natural disasters. Second, stories, case studies, the arts, and hands-on environmental experience, all enriched by reflection and discussion, can offer profound learning about ecology. Third, education at all levels can benefit from a true ecological emphasis. Fourth, teachers must receive preparation in how to employ transformative eco-education. Fifth, Indigenous wisdom can offer important, holistic, spiritual paths to understanding and caring for nature, and other spiritual traditions also provide valid ways of comprehending humans as part of the universal web of existence. Sixth, transformative eco-education can be an antidote to not only to environmental breakdown, but also to materialistic overconsumption and moral confusion. Seventh, we can only heal the Earth by also healing ourselves. If we heed these principles, together we can make transformative eco-education a blazing torch to light the path for the current century and beyond.
Download or read book Harbinger of the Storm written by Aliette de Bodard and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in the critically acclaimed Obsidian and Blood trilogy: The year is Two House, and the Emperor of the Mexica has just died. The protections he afforded the Empire are crumbling, and the way lies wide open to the flesh-eating star-demons--and to the return of their creator, a malevolent goddess only held in check by the War God's power. The council should convene to choose a new Emperor, but they are too busy plotting against each other. And then someone starts summoning star-demons within the palace, to kill councilmen... Acatl, High Priest of the Dead, must find the culprit before everything is torn apart. REVIEWS: ‘Political intrigue and rivalry among a complex pantheon of divinities drive this well-paced murder mystery set at the height of the Aztec Empire in the late 15th century. De Bodard reintroduces the series hero Acatl, high priest of the dead, immediately following the death of the Tenochtitlan leader. One of the council members in charge of choosing a successor has been brutally murdered in what looks like an attempt to influence the decision. But the deaths continue and the political situation grows more complex, while the empire looks to be increasingly at risk of invasion by malignant powers. Acatl must go face-to-face with the most powerful god in his world and put the good of the empire above his antipathy for is rivals to achieve the uneasy succession. De Bodard incorporates historical fact with great ease and manages the rare feat of explaining complex culture and political system without lecturing or boring the reader.’ —Publishers Weekly ‘Another thing that intrigues me here is the whole fact that historically we know that the real empire died out mysteriously and completely and as such there is always that thought in the back of my mind that the author could choose to bring about the end of days. That highlighted sense of possible doom is something that is missing from too many novels. The way the story is told in this book is very impressive, the plot is both mature and seductive, twisting and turning like a weather vane in a force 9 gale while the action is both bloodthirsty and imaginative. The world building is fantastic and we get to learn even more of this rich culture and the many gods and creatures of the dark. I really can’t fault this book at all and recommend it to one and all but if you haven’t yet read Servant of the Underworld I suggest that you get them both and read them in order, you won’t be disappointed.’ —SF Book Reviews ‘Bodard’s writing is polished and striking, as she convincingly fills in the colorful elements of the Aztec culture–even if those colors tend to be of blood and bile as well as flowers and hummingbirds... beautiful, grimy, breathtaking, and morbid. 5*’ —Examiner ‘Aliette de Bodard has done it again. Harbinger of the Storm is an action packed Aztec mystery opera with magic, interventions from the gods and more twists and turns than the first book. It even has a love story with amusing snippets here and there... The story is self contained and can be enjoyed standalone, but you will not want to miss out on the first. I wish it was 2012 already even if the world is going under while I read the final Obsidian & Blood.’ —Cybermage
Download or read book Release the Storm written by Michelle Dawn and published by Lostica Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2022-09-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Storm is coming, but we may not survive… King Vaile is finally back by my side, but the war is far from over. With only a few months until our daughter is born, it’s more important than ever to end King Eston’s reign and free the breeders. However, Vaile is still recovering from Eston's torture, making him reluctant to address his responsibilities. Despite all I have done to fight against my half-brothers, the Azurin citizens continue to distrust me. They accuse me of being in league with the Bastran royals, who have done nothing but try to destroy us. When Eston begins to regain his losses from our previous battles, putting Vaile’s brothers in imminent danger, my husband knows what we must do. It is time to join the fight, and despite the increasing risks, I refuse to leave his side. We cannot waste our opportunity to end the war once and for all. Or else our enemy will become unstoppable…
Download or read book The Tenderhearted Mom written by Jan Stoop and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mom, Are you too Tenderhearted? Do you Have a Hard Time Getting Tough When you Need to? Are you Afraid That Being Tough Might Ruin Your Tenderness? All mothers are divinely gifted with tenderness. And this gentleness is essential to the healthy development of their children. Yet as moms care for their children they face a painful dilemma -- How to Balance Gentleness With Toughness that they must use sometimes to discipline and set boundaries for their children. In The Tenderhearted Mom, counselor and author Jan Stoop shows women how to exercise motherhood with just the right blend of tenderness and firmness. Many women struggle with the tender-tough dilemma because their own mothers failed to resolve it. Some were too tough and others were too soft. This book helps these moms to analyze their styles of mothering by recognizing the patterns they received from their mothers. And it helps them to break out of inadequate mothering molds and adopt a style of caring for children that balances gentleness and toughness. Book jacket.
Download or read book On Earth We re Briefly Gorgeous written by Ocean Vuong and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times Bestseller • Nominated for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction “A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universal…Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard. With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years. Named a Best Book of the Year by: GQ, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, TIME, Esquire, The Washington Post, Apple, Good Housekeeping, The New Yorker, The New York Public Library, Elle.com, The Guardian, The A.V. Club, NPR, Lithub, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal Magazine and more!
Download or read book Listen to the Drum written by Blackwolf Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steeped in Anishinaabe remedies for psychological healing and personal growth, Listen to the Drum invites us to learn to listen at the deepest level. Steeped in Anishinaabe remedies for psychological healing and personal growth, Listen to the Drum invites us to learn to listen at the deepest level. It also helps us learn about our unique and special purpose, how to walk in balance and harmony on the Red Road, and how to connect to the River of Life. A deeply inspiring and refreshing invitation to learn from Native American traditions.
