Download or read book Building Me back Brick by Brick written by Mattie Leonard and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thank you for taking the time to purchase my book. Your support is greatly appreciated. Building ‘Me’ back: Brick by Brick brings awareness to addiction through my life experiences and help others determine which step you will take in your recovery process. Knowing that relapse was a part of my story but does not have to be a part of yours. This is a memoir realizing that through external pressures and self-induced internal pressures Mattie’s foundation had been broken and needed to be rebuilt which wasn’t an easy task. Life on life terms happen and she learned that you have to go through them and not hide behind drugs, pills, alcohol and sex. Building ‘Me’ back: Brick by Brick is a story of a woman creating a deep crack in her foundation through the trials of life – the abstinence from drug use she never wanted to have. In rebuilding one brick at a time, she found out the foundation crack was traced back to her childhood past long before she ever decided to pick up the first drug. Mattie makes it clear that the attraction for drugs cost her so many things: car, money and nearly her house and life. The book will show you mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally how to and how not to deal with your addiction. How stressors are a part of life that must be dealt with head on, and not to run from them. Mattie learned the topic of addiction having worked through the fight of getting clean herself from various mood-altering substances. This included street drugs as well as medication prescribed by a doctor and alcohol. This information will help others addicts who struggle and feel recovery is not possible. Your recovery is your responsibility and takes a dedicated effort to be successful. In writing Building ‘Me’ back: Brick by Brick it has helped her define the addictive behavior in her own life and pinpoint when the disease of addiction first manifested in her life and how to press through the obstacles that caused her to use. The earlier you pinpoint when your addiction started you are well on your way to healing through recovery. Through the lens of her own gripping story of addiction – Mattie shows that addiction is full of character defects that can span a lifetime of work to heal. But it can be accomplished with the 12 steps of Narcotics Anonymous. As the bricklayer need his trowel and mortar so does an addict need new tools to build this foundation all over again. Such tools as: Spiritual Principles, Sponsorship and other members life, hopes, and experiences heard at Narcotics Anonymous meetings. What has also helped her in her recovery is getting into a type of psychotherapy in which negative patterns of thought about the self and the world are challenged in order to alter unwanted behavior patterns or treat mood disorders such as her depression, and anxiety. Mattie ultimately realized that God allowed the stressors in her life to bless her and to reveal her weakness. She is grateful for the pressures that have pressed her closer to Him and caused her to allow God to be her strength. Through a realization down deep in her soul that her life had purpose to provide a powerful dynamic for blessing the lives of others.
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Download or read book Brick by Brick written by Charles R. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coretta Scott King Award-winners Charles R. Smith Jr. and Floyd Cooper deliver the compelling story behind the building of the White House, a powerful part of history rarely taught. The home of our president was built by many hands, several of them s
Download or read book Brick by Brick written by Heidi Woodward Sheffield and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award! A striking debut celebrating the warm bond between a little boy and his dad as they work hard to achieve their dreams Papi is a bricklayer, and he works hard every day to help build the city, brick by brick. His son, Luis, works hard too--in school, book by book. Papi climbs scaffolds, makes mortar, and shovels sand. Luis climbs on the playground and molds clay into tiny bricks to make buildings, just like Papi. Together, they dream big about their future as they work to make those dreams come true. And then one Saturday, Papi surprises Luis with something special he's built for their family, brick by brick.
Download or read book Brick by Brick written by Karen Sherman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a twenty-five-year career spent fighting for women’s rights around the globe at the expense of time with her family, Karen Sherman looked around and realized she didn’t really know her children and felt little connection to her husband. With her world—work, marriage, family—crashing down, she made the rash decision to move to Rwanda with her three sons. While her boys attended the international school, she worked to better the lives of women survivors of war. But as the survivors—Josephine, Ange, Grace, Euphraise, Debora, Yvette, and Teresa—shared their stories of grit and determination, building lives and raising families despite the brutal challenges of war, genocide, and inequality, Karen began to see how her work was connected to the abuse in her own past, and how it was preventing her from becoming the woman she wanted to be. The struggles of these survivors, she realized, were the struggles of women everywhere, regardless of place or circumstance: striving to balance work and family, fighting for real options and choices, trying to make their voices heard. The strength of these women helped Karen find her own way through conflict zones and battles with corrupt politicians. In the end, the journey brings her home to her family and to a renewed commitment to fighting for women around the world to live free from violence and abuse, in peace and with dignity.
Download or read book Brick by Brick written by David Robertson and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes radical yet always applicable, Brick by Brick abounds with real-world lessons for unleashing breakthrough innovation in your organization, using LEGO--which experienced one of the most remarkable business transformations in recent history--as a business model. As LEGO failed to keep pace with the revolutionary changes in kids' lives and began sliding into irrelevance, the company's leaders implemented some of the business world's most widely espoused prescriptions for boosting innovation. Ironically, these changes pushed the iconic toymaker to the brink of bankruptcy, showing that what works in theory can fail spectacularly in the brutally competitive global economy. It took a new LEGO management team--faced with the growing rage for electronic toys, few barriers to entry, and ultra-demanding consumers (ten-year old boys)--to reinvent the innovation rule book and transform LEGO into one of the world's most profitable, fastest-growing companies. Along the way, Brick by Brick reveals how LEGO: - Became truly customer-driven by co-creating with kids as well as its passionate adult fans - Looked beyond products and learned to leverage a full-spectrum approach to innovation - Opened its innovation process by using both the "wisdom of crowds" and the expertise of elite cliques - Discovered uncontested, "blue ocean" markets, even as it thrived in brutally competitive red oceans - Gave its world-class design teams enough space to create and direction to deliver built a culture where profitable innovation flourishes Whether you're a senior executive looking to make your company grow, an entrepreneur building a startup from scratch, or a fan who wants to instill some of that LEGO magic in your career, you'll learn how to build your own innovation advantage, brick by brick.
Download or read book Everybody in the Red Brick Building written by Anne Wynter and published by Balzer & Bray. This book was released on 2021 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the middle of the night, a chain reaction of noises wakes the residents of an urban apartment building, and then lulls them back to sleep"--
Download or read book Dreaming Up written by Christy Hale and published by Lee & Low Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of illustrations, concrete poetry, and photographs that shows how young children's constructions, created as they play, are reflected in notable works of architecture from around the world.
Download or read book Brick by Brick written by Lynn Donohue and published by Spinner Publications. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir with all the page-turning drama of a good novel, Brick by Brick tells the author's story of coming of age in the gritty South End of New Bedford, Massachusetts, as a tough teenage dropout without direction . . . until she took a job as a bricklayer.
Download or read book Brick by Brick written by Regnier Family and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catholic parents who fear that their teens and adult children may leave the Faith will welcome Brick by Brick, the encouraging story of André and Angèle Regnier, whose five adult children don't merely continue to go to Mass but have all even become Catholic missionaries! Better yet, concerned parents will learn from these remarkable pages how they, too, can raise their children to have a similar personal relationship with Jesus, live their Faith dynamically, and have evangelistic hearts—even while remaining ordinary, well-rounded, approachable people passionate about life in all its aspects. The Regnier parents are often asked, “How did you do it? How did you raise children who are so active in sharing and living their Faith?” Here you'll hear the answer from each member of the family, parents and children. From their many voices, real-life stories, and often amusing anecdotes emerge many wise principles and sure methods you can adapt to your own circumstances: family-proven best practices for raising children strong in the Faith.
Download or read book Overcoming Life s Disappointments written by Harold S. Kushner and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2006-08-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “No human relationship is without betrayal, irritation and annoyance, but Kushner makes clear that it’s what we do about such obstacles that matter” (Los Angeles Times Book Review) in this best-selling guide to being your best self, even when things don’t turn out as you’d hoped. The beloved author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Rabbi Harold S. Kushner here turns to the experience of Moses to find the requisite lessons of strength and faith—the lessons that teach us how to overcome the disappointments that life inherently brings. We can learn how to meet all disappointments with faith in ourselves and the future, and how to respond to heartbreak—how to weather the disillusionment of dreams unfulfilled, the pain of a lost job, divorce or abandonment, illness, and more—with understanding rather than bitterness and despair. With Kushner’s signature warmth, Overcoming Life’s Disappointments is a book of spiritual wisdom—as practical as it is inspiring.
Download or read book LEGO and Philosophy written by Roy T. Cook and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How profound is a little plastic building block? It turns out the answer is “very”! 22 chapters explore philosophy through the world of LEGO which encompasses the iconic brick itself as well as the animated televisions shows, feature films, a vibrant adult fan base with over a dozen yearly conventions, an educational robotics program, an award winning series of videogames, hundreds of books, magazines, and comics, a team-building workshop program for businesses and much, much more. Dives into the many philosophical ideas raised by LEGO bricks and the global multimedia phenomenon they have created Tackles metaphysical, logical, moral, and conceptual issues in a series of fascinating and stimulating essays Introduces key areas of philosophy through topics such as creativity and play, conformity and autonomy, consumption and culture, authenticity and identity, architecture, mathematics, intellectual property, business and environmental ethics Written by a global group of esteemed philosophers and LEGO fans A lively philosophical discussion of bricks, minifigures, and the LEGO world that will appeal to LEGO fans and armchair philosophers alike
Download or read book Kiln Construction written by Joe Finch and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2006-12-13 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building one's own kiln can be a daunting prospect, with the potential for numerous missteps along the way. This book aims to give confidence to those who seek to build their own kilns. Kiln Construction is a user-friendly guide that offers a thorough grounding in the basics of construction and also in-depth examinations of three kiln types—gas, oil, and woodfired—with diagrams and photos showing every step in the process. These designs have been thoroughly tried and tested and are in regular use by well-known potters. Comprehensive information on methods, materials, fuels, and kiln furniture is provided as well. Emphasizing practicality at every step in the process, this book will aid potters who are ready to build their own kilns and wish to gain both a greater understanding of kilns and more control and flexibility in their work. This approach will help readers navigate the difficult but rewarding process of kiln building.
Download or read book Hand Me Another Brick written by Charles R. Swindoll and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 1998-10-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do others look to you for leadership? Do you face a major task or shoulder heavy responsibilities? Do you want to take your leadership skills to a higher level? When Nehemiah confronted the task of rebuilding Jerusalem's wall, he was heartbroken by the damage he saw and nearly overwhelmed by the task that lay before him. Yet through the application of timeless leadership principles, Nehemiah completed this nearly impossible project, and laid a pattern for success which is just as valid for us today. Charles Swindoll brings his sensible and straightforward style to offer a deeply spiritual approach to the role of leader. Whatever the context, secular or ministerial, he demonstrates how to size up a task, organize and motivate a team, and respond to inevitable obstacles such as these: Unforeseen setbacks Unrelenting deadlines Criticism and outside resistance Personality conflicts Financial pressures and temptations The insights that Swindoll draws from Nehemiah's wise administration will change your approach to leadership forever.
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Download or read book Life Experiences Recollections Of Mary written by Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D. and published by Bradley Kuhns,Ph.D.,O.M.D.. This book was released on with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bradley W. Kuhns, son of Mary Basits took this wonderful ladies notes that she put on paper at the age 85 year- old. At 85-years-old she sat down and wrote approximately 200 (single-spaced pages on a Smith Corona typewriter.They were discovered after her death in 1989. So, Bradley decided to organize them as she put them down on paper (without) changing typos or grammar so as not to take away form the elderly woman's presence.
Download or read book Life Experiences and Recollections of Mary Basits Kuhns written by Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D. and published by Bradley Kuhns,Ph.D.,O.M.D.. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the life and times of Mary Basits Steinhauer from her birth in 1899 to her death in 1989. Mary sat down at age 85 years old and typed out over 200 pages (single spaced)of memories relating to her life. Following her death, her son, Bradley W. Kuhns put the pages into a book. He used all the same typos, and grammar errors that she had put down on paper so as to no take away from her authentic writings. It is worth reading the life of this wonderful ladies trials and tribulation as described by her through her eyes and writing.
