Download or read book Hello My Name is Patricia And I am an Addict written by Patricia Ellis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-01-12 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for the 160 million people worldwide living with obesity or an unhealthy Body Mass Index Number. For the past 20 years I have been obese and tried over 100 diet plans, fads, green drinks, apple cider vinegars and fastings. And with no long term results. I have read so many books and attended boot camps. I still had no long term results. My heart attack I suffered inspired me to take action and seek answers on how I could be successful in breaking my addiction to sugar. I have successfully broke my addiction to sugar. This handbook is a A 30 Day Plan on How to Break the Addiction to Sugar and Live a Healthy Full Life. Being Active, Meditating, Praying, Reading your Bible and Living a Blessed Life.
Download or read book written by Patricia Holloran and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 28, 1996, Pat Holloran's life changed suddenly and forever when Drug Control confronted her for the theft of narcotics from the hospital where she worked. Pat was working full time on the night shift and taking care of her three children, her husband, and her severely disabled father. Stadol, a narcotic ten times stronger than Morphine, was her drug of choice. She started taking it to help her sleep. She kept taking it because she could not stop. "Walking Like a Duck" reveals the agony of enduring a punitive disciplinary process to preserve her nursing license; how it impacted her sanity and her career, and how her secrets and lies traumatized her marriage of over twenty years. "Walking Like a Duck" puts a face on addiction...and recovery.
Download or read book My Soul Then Sings written by Michelle Lindo-Rice and published by Urban Christian. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a sin not worth confessing? Ryan Oakes is keeping a huge secret, one that threatens his relationships with both his wife and son. As a new convert, his conscience prods him to tell the truth, but Ryan decides to employ every trick in the book to keep from confessing. When his marriage begins to suffer, he is forced to come clean—but at what cost? Patricia Oakes is troubled by her husband’s unusual interest in Karlie Knightly. She is reminded that the only time Ryan cheated on her was with Tiffany, Karlie’s mother. While she grapples with her fears, she can’t help but be flattered by Timothy Newhouse, a fellow surgeon on an especially difficult case. Will she seek solace in another man’s arms? Karlie Knightly’s boyfriend, Jamaal Weathers, is pressuring her to have sex, and Karlie isn’t trying to displease God. On top of that, brutal reviews on her debut song cite her as too sweet and inexperienced. Luckily, her best friend, Brian Oakes, has the perfect suggestion to help her find her edge. Against everyone’s advice, Karlie and Brian begin an adventure, which draws them closer. Will she uphold the commitment she made to God? Brian Oakes is enjoying college life and in particular, college girls. When Karlie discovers his deepest secret, he realizes he feels more for her than just a friend. Will Brian reform his ways and grab his chance at true love?
Download or read book The Way Up and Out written by Christy Elise and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The difficult subject of alcoholism is illuminated in a new and creative way through fantasy creatures and their separate journeys. The second section of the book gives insight into the Al-Anon program through one author's personal journey. The third section of the book gives an overview of A.A. and Al-Anon--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book The Power of Choice written by Patricia Ann Rini and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her drunken husband threatened to kill her and her children and fired a shotgun in her house, Patricia Rini fled with a few meager possessions, no self-esteem and no means to feed her children. She was so desolate that she prayed for her own death as a solution. Her prayers were answered in a different way. She learned to fight back and to heal. She started her life over, learned to support her family, joined a twelve-step program and doggedly struggled to overcome her codependency. She attended hundreds of A.A. and Al-Anon meetings. She regained her faith in God. She married a reformed, sober alcoholic, began counseling and boarding alcoholics in her home and became a highly sought-after speaker. Patricia suffered the loss of family members and many friends to alcoholism and codependency, but it was the murder of her husband that truly tested the fabric of the program she had learned through "trial by fire." She spent nine years recording her moving and inspirational story to help others who suffer to recover and lead meaningful, joyful lives. Patricia Ann Rini has spent the last 25 years sharing her experience, strength and hope with men and women who suffer from addictions and codependency. She has recently completed a workbook as a companion to The Power of Choice titled The Restoration of Mind, Body and Spirit-Breaking the Chains of Addictions. Upon release of the workbook, slated for release in May 2008, Patricia plans to begin teaching the material. Patricia and her husband, Bob, have eight children together and reside in Tennessee.
Download or read book Addiction to Abundance written by Patricia P Kilty and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grab some tissues, while I take you on a journey of drug addiction, homelessness, toxic relationships, lack of self worth to been a successful online business owner and living a life of freedom. I stood in the middle of the road in my little night dress and bare feet clutching on to my nan’s hand. She was shaking telling my mum go get the front door keys, so she could lock the door. I looked at her and didn’t understand why she would say that. Have you ever felt so low the only way you can cope is through self abuse and self destruction? Addicted to abundance is an Irish girl’s struggle with pain, life, parenthood along with alcohol and drug addiction. The fight between your heart and your mind against the addict within you is not a fair fight. Some battles you win, some battles the addict wins. Just make sure, in the end you win the fucking war. I love me But I also love you & I want to help you know There is always love and light in every corner of darkness. Sometimes it’s in the form of your fight for survival of you and your son. Brave, honest and truthfully scary account of a life controlled love always Patricia P
Download or read book Her Cowboy s Twin Blessings and The Cowboy s Twin Surprise written by Patricia Johns and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can twin babies unite them? Her Cowboy’s Twin Blessings by Patricia Johns With orphaned twin infants to care for, Casey Courtright hoped to buy the ranch he works on—but he can’t match Ember Reed’s offer. Nevertheless, Casey agrees to show Ember the land she plans to use for her therapy center, but only if she’ll help him with the babies. And as the twins draw them together, Casey might just find that Ember is his perfect partner. The Cowboy’s Twin Surprise by Stephanie Dees Despite his too-rowdy past, former rodeo star Devin Cole’s stunned when the woman he married after a whirlwind romance shows up pregnant with his twins…demanding a divorce. He convinces barrel rider Lacey Jenkins to give him six months to show her he’s changed. But proving he can be a champion husband and father is the hardest—and most important—challenge he’s ever faced.
Download or read book The Tender Cut written by Patricia A. Adler and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting, burning, branding, and bone-breaking are all types of self-injury, or the deliberate, non-suicidal destruction of oneOCOs own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. Long considered a suicidal gesture, The Tender Cut argues instead that self-injury is often a coping mechanism, a form of teenage angst, an expression of group membership, and a type of rebellion, converting unbearable emotional pain into manageable physical pain. Based on the largest, qualitative, non-clinical population of self-injurers ever gathered, noted ethnographers Patricia and Peter Adler draw on 150 interviews with self-injurers from all over the world, along with 30,000-40,000 internet posts in chat rooms and communiqu(r)s. Their 10-year longitudinal research follows the practice of self-injury from its early days when people engaged in it alone and did not know others, to the present, where a subculture has formed via cyberspace that shares similar norms, values, lore, vocabulary, and interests. An important portrait of a troubling behavior, The Tender Cut illuminates the meaning of self-injury in the 21st century, its effects on current and former users, and its future as a practice for self-discovery or a cry for help."
Download or read book Yesterday s Mashed Potatoes written by Patricia Wilson and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When American novelist John Steinbeck told Patricia Wilson “It’s a helluva story, Pat, you should write it!” she didn’t know it would take her nearly fifty years to get around to it. Yesterday’s Mashed Potatoes: The Fabulous Life Of A Happy Has-Been tells the story of a third generation actress from a theatrical family, a child performer who grew up to become a star during Broadway’s “Golden Age” and a respected Hollywood actress. Set against an authentic backdrop of theatrical, TV, and film history, the story spills over with anecdotes of the celebrated—Jackie Gleason, Richard Burton, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Carol Burnett, and among others, Bob Fosse and Gene Kelly (“I wasn’t a dancer, and I was too tall for both of them!”) But Patricia Wilson’s personal life reads, in her words, “like a Danielle Steel novel!” This is a compelling tale of an everywoman’s journey through love, loss, success and sorrow. Yesterday’s Mashed Potatoes: The Fabulous Life Of A Happy Has-Been won First Place For Excellence In Writing at The Santa Barbara Writers Conference, 2007. “Fiorello! opened in 1959, won the Pulitzer Prize, and Patricia Wilson was one of its stars. She played Marie LaGuardia, wife of New York’s still most beloved mayor, and did it with uncommon grace, charm—and yes, loveliness. Every word sung or spoken by Pat possessed extraordinary intelligence and modesty, and she was crucial to the success of that show. Her reminiscences make delightful reading.”…..Harold S. “Hal” Prince “—lucid, touching, candid, human—I’ve applauded your singing and acting—now I’m delighted to applaud your writing.Brava! …..Sheldon Harnick “Yesterday’s Mashed Potatoes: The Fabulous Life Of A Happy Has-Been. has all the qualities of a fine novel: funny, sometimes painfully touching, with sharply defined characters, cinematic flair, pungent dialogue, big close-ups, eloquent flashbacks, and voice-over asides, it is theatrical and film history as well as personal memoir, an intriguing blend of the two.”…..Cork Millner , author: Hollywood Be Thy Name, The Warner Brothers Story “What a privilege to read this memoir! I was riveted, and impressed by the deep spiritual strength Pat expresses. The rich theatrical heritage of her parents and grandparents is not only important to her personal story, but to that of our country.”…..Preshy Marker, actress (A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum) “A lively and unpretentious autobiography! Patricia Wilson has written a book that can hold its own with the best of celebrity memoirs.”…..David Meyers, music historian
Download or read book In Therapy written by Sally Roberts and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Sally Roberts grew up in an alcoholic household and faced tremendous abuse. As an adult, she went on to become an alcoholic herself. In this personal narrative, she shares her life story, describing her struggles over the years and her eventual path to recovery. In seeking help, she began a descent into an extremely traumatised state due to the inappropriate advances of a counsellor and a cult-like rehab group. What resulted was a long and convoluted journey involving loneliness, alienation, and prostitution, as well as diagnoses of schizoaffective disorder and complex PTSD. In the end, Roberts received exceptional guidance and love along the way from the women of Rape Crisis, a phone support line; from psychiatric nurses and staff ; and from Jack, one of her counsellors who offered strength, commitment, compassion, and humour. Now she shares her story with the hope of reaching others in similar difficulties and helping them feel less alone. Candid and compelling, this memoir tells the story of one womans road through mental illness and addiction to recovery and hope.
Download or read book Murder by Dissent written by Patricia M. Muhammad and published by Patricia M. Muhammad. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protests, riots and someone who hides under the flame that scorches the possibility of improving race relations in America during the Civil Rights era. Jacqueline Sadie Thompson is a detective in a coloured precinct in New York. Lieutenant Davidson assigns her and Johnson murder cases which occurred during protests. They visit the scene. Someone tosses a Molotov cocktail where they stand. The building collapses. Thompson's British husband, William rescues her. Her partner suffers a coma. Johnson awakens. He recalls the disturbing notions his wife had concerning racial identity. Thompson faints at the station house and is put on leave. Her husband cares for her. Anderson, another detective, furthers their investigations. Johnson convinces one of his cousins to retrieve a book. The detective is aloof and does not disclose to anyone what he saw before the explosion. Jacqueline deduces a portion of it. Protests, riots and someone who hides under the flame that scorches the possibility of improving race relations in America during the Civil Rights era. Jacqueline Sadie Thompson is a detective in a coloured precinct in New York. Lieutenant Davidson assigns her and Johnson murder cases which occurred during protests. They visit the scene. Someone tosses a Molotov cocktail where they stand. The building collapses. Thompson's British husband, William rescues her. Her partner suffers a coma. Johnson awakens. He recalls the disturbing notions his wife had concerning racial identity. Thompson faints at the station house and is put on leave. Her husband cares for her. Anderson, another detective, furthers their investigations. Johnson convinces one of his cousins to retrieve a book. The detective is aloof and does not disclose to anyone what he saw before the explosion. Jacqueline deduces a portion of it. She is determined to solve the case. Her husband is determined to protect her. Who do they both need protection from?
Download or read book In the Name of Gucci written by Patricia Gucci and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping family drama—and never-before-told love story—surrounding the rise and fall of the late Aldo Gucci, the man responsible for making the legendary fashion label the powerhouse it is today, as told by his daughter. Patricia Gucci was born a secret: the lovechild whose birth could have spelled ruination for her father, Aldo Gucci. It was the early 1960s, the halcyon days for Gucci—the must-have brand of Hollywood and royalty—but also a time when having a child out of wedlock was illegal in Italy. Aldo couldn't afford a public scandal, nor could he resist his feelings for Patricia’s mother, Bruna, the paramour he met when she worked in the first Gucci store in Rome. To avoid controversy, he sent Bruna to London after she became pregnant, and then discretely whisked her back to Rome with her newborn hidden from the Italian authorities, the media, and the Gucci family. In the Name of Gucci charts the untold love story of Patricia’s parents, relying on the author’s own memories, a collection of love letters and interviews with her mother, as well as an archive of previously unseen photos. She interweaves her parents' tempestuous narrative with that of her own relationship with her father—from an isolated little girl who lived in the shadows for the best part of a decade through her rise as Gucci's spokesperson and Aldo's youngest protégé, to the moment when Aldo’s three sons were shunned after betraying him in a notorious coup and Patricia—once considered a guilty secret—was made his sole universal heir. It is an epic tale of love and loss, treason and loyalty, sweeping across Italy, England and America during the most tumultuous period of Gucci's sixty years as a family business.
Download or read book The Lost Coin written by Stephen Rowley and published by Chiron Publications. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Lost Coin, Stephen Rowley shares his lifelong journey—searching for his birth parents, seeking his true identity, and discovering his soul’s calling. We join him when, as a boy growing up in Iowa, he visits Chicago for the first time and is shocked by blatant racial segregation and sprawling urban poverty. We see Stephen as a young athlete sustaining a life-changing injury, then becoming radicalized at the University of Wisconsin, entering the field of education at Stanford, and becoming a visionary school administrator before being fired by a vindictive Silicon Valley school board. He plays golf with a Tibetan lama, and experiences transcendence in a vivid dream, ultimately becoming a psychotherapist in his sixties. We witness the heart-rending scene when he and his wife adopt their own son, and we join him for a poignant reunion with his birth mother, who, it turns out, had desperately hoped he might appear in her life after she’d given him up for adoption. As we accompany Stephen Rowley on this adventurous and reflective journey, we come to understand more deeply the trauma engendered when separating mother from child, and the unspoken restlessness and yearning for connection many adoptees feel. “It is my hope,” he writes, that we all “may discover the unique capacity within us to heal and even thrive, not in spite of the wounds we carry, but because of them.”
Download or read book Believe It or Not I m a Christian written by Patricia Friend and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are, at times, a great deal of hurting in a person's life. At these times, people are in so much grief and suffering. It takes a lot of understanding from others in order for the healing process to take effect. What happens when there is no one or any understanding from others? People in these circumstances are all alone and have great pain. When do the trials stop, or how do things get better? Sometimes in our lives we have to push through and never give up on life and on others in our lives. There is hope in the most difficult trials of life, but we have to look for it. To push through a hard thing is possible and happens on many occasions with people in hard places in their lives. I have learned that with God all things are possible and that healing does happen. It is possible to be healed and to become a whole person inside yourself. I was healed with God's help, and so can anyone if they put their trust in him. Hope for a person is just a prayer away.
Download or read book Downhill from Vimy written by Christopher Levan and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France, April 1917. In a brutal spring campaign, the Canadian Corps ascended and captured Vimy Ridge from the German Army. That victory turned Colonials into Canadians and might be considered the high watermark of nationhood. For many of the soldiers who fought to gain the heights at Vimy, life went downhill from that point forward. Bloodied and bruised from that April combat, in the fall of 1917 they slid down into the wholesale slaughter that became known as Passchendaele. Incredibly, the worst was yet to come. On December 6th of that year the largest human-made explosion over a living city took place in Halifax-the result of a munitions transport ship collision. Downhill from Vimy relives these historic events through the life of a wounded veteran, Gordon Davis-a survivor of all three 1917 disasters-and transports us into his nightmares as he struggles to retain sanity, recapture love, and regain his former place in Canadian society. Watch as Gordon loses his personal battle but, stubbornly, does not die. Instead he is filed away in a Veteran's hospital and forgotten. Gordon remains hidden for seventy-five years, locked in his own personal insanity until a jaded pastor slowly unravels his descent...Downhill from Vimy. Readers will be transfixed by this richly researched and wonderfully imagined story of love and loss....
Download or read book Log Home Design written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Log Home Design is the preferred, trusted partner with readers in simplifying the process of becoming a log home owner. With its exclusive focus on planning and design, the magazine's friendly tone, practical content and targeted advertising provide the essential tools consumers need – from the crucial preliminary stages through the finishing touches of their dream log home.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-06-23 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
