Download or read book The Mental Load written by Emma and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new voice in comics is incisive, funny, and fiercely feminist. "The mental load. It's incessant, gnawing, exhausting, and disproportionately falls to women. You know the scene--you're making dinner, calling the plumber/doctor/mechanic, checking homework and answering work emails--at the same time. All the while, you are being peppered with questions by your nearest and dearest 'where are my shoes?, 'do we have any cheese?...'" --Australian Broadcasting Corp on Emma's comic In her first book of comic strips, Emma reflects on social and feminist issues by means of simple line drawings, dissecting the mental load, ie all that invisible and unpaid organizing, list-making and planning women do to manage their lives, and the lives of their family members. Most of us carry some form of mental load--about our work, household responsibilities, financial obligations and personal life; but what makes up that burden and how it's distributed within households and understood in offices is not always equal or fair. In her strips Emma deals with themes ranging from maternity leave (it is not a vacation!), domestic violence, the clitoris, the violence of the medical world on women during childbirth, and other feminist issues, and she does so in a straightforward way that is both hilarious and deadly serious.. If you're not laughing, you're probably crying in recognition. Emma's comics also address the everyday outrages and absurdities of immigrant rights, income equality, and police violence. Emma has over 300,000 followers on Facebook, her comics have been. shared 215,000 times, and have elicited comments from 21,000 internet users. An article about her in the French magazine L'Express drew 1.8 million views--a record since the site was created. And her comic has just been picked up by The Guardian. Many women will recognize themselves in THE MENTAL LOAD, which is sure to stir a wide ranging, important debate on what it really means to be a woman today.

Download or read book Releasing the Mother Load written by Erica Djossa and published by Appetite by Random House. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE CHILD PSYCHOLOGY GOLD AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE BY THE INSTITUTE OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY. "If you've ever felt like you're the only one struggling with motherhood, this book is for you."—Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author of Fair Play An empowering guide that helps you unburden the load of impossible expectations and reshapes your internalized ideals, expectations, and beliefs around motherhood. Every mom wants to be a good parent—but if you’ve found yourself burned out and overwhelmed trying to be “the perfect mom,” you’re not alone. “We get handed a rulebook of motherhood without realizing it,” says Canada's maternal mental health specialist and the founder and CEO of Momwell Erica Djossa. “That rulebook comes with an invisible load—a world of mental and physical tasks that keep us pushing toward perfection while barely being able to breathe.” Here she shares a guide to help you break free from the crushing burden of unrealistic expectations and reclaim the joy of motherhood while staying true to your own values. Join her to explore: Where the Mother Load comes from, and why it doesn’t serve us or our children The true emotional and physical cost of the many jobs, habits, and beliefs we carry Tools to establish strong boundaries, express your needs, and build a support system Practical guidance to help you create a healthy, balanced, and enriching approach to motherhood “You can chart your own journey in a way that is freeing, feels right to you, and reignites passions and dreams that you thought had died when you began to put everyone else’s needs first,” says Erica Djossa. Discover a new vision of motherhood that empowers you to parent more freely and with greater fulfillment—so you can finally release the Mother Load.

Download or read book The Mother Load written by Meredith Ethington and published by Dexterity. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved author and blogger Meredith Ethington shares her experiences, heart, and wisdom for mothers everywhere in her newest book, The Mother Load. Taking an honest look at her own journey as a mother, Ethington presents pieces of advice for each moment of motherhood—the good, the bad, the ugly, and every part of the in-between. Filled with raw, honest anecdotes, Ethington’s portrayal of motherhood is fully transparent—at times humorous, at times painful—never shying away from the tougher subjects of motherhood that may often get pushed under the rug. While motherhood may often feel like an uphill battle, Ethington is here to guide mothers inward, where they are encouraged to reflect upon their own journeys as mothers. Ethington’s book provides readers with insights on topics such as: - Nurturing yourself and caring for your mental health - Letting go of the idea of a “road-map” for motherhood - Practicing gratitude - Releasing expectations - Prioritizing authenticity over perfection Ethington draws from her own experience to present the lessons she has learned along the way, including the importance of self-care, balance, and grace amidst the busy day-to-day routine of many mothers. With Ethington’s poignant, vulnerable perspective on motherhood, mothers everywhere will be encouraged that the load they carry is one they never have to carry alone.

Download or read book Through Rex S Eyes written by Trish Burrows and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rex is a German shepherd dog that was born with a deep awareness of his purpose in life and many things he would encounter on his journey. As he dealt with the physical struggles of his body, he never veered far from his purpose with his human mom. Being a dog presented some limitations that required him to maneuver carefully through a human environment to achieve his goals. The blending of the spiritual awareness of Rex and his human mom allows a special bond to form, resulting in a unique relationship that greatly benefited them both. This book will take you deeper than just the events of daily life of Rex and will leave you looking at the deeper meanings of relationships with your animals and the humans in your life.

Download or read book Balance the Mother Load written by Carly Cooper and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juggling two young kids and a full-time job derailed me. This book put me back on track and even had me laughing. Thank you, Carly! Lisi Harrison, best-selling author of The Clique series, The Alphas series, and Monster High series. www.lisiharrison.com You need this book if you consider yourself lucky when you have time to shave both legs your kids think its odd when you spend more than a few hours with them you think running out the door counts as exercise youre having a more intimate relationship with your smart phone than your spouse you think putting on clean clothes is dressing up you look forward to your annual pap just to have some me time So many moms neglect themselves and their well-being because they think its the only way to take care of their family. After all, isnt that what a good mom does? Carly Cooper, a certified life coach for moms, shares her unique R.E.I.N.V.E.N.T. System that she created to help busy, stressed-out moms shift this backward perception and get back in touch with who they really are. Using practical advice, tips, strategies, and hands-on exercises, you are shown exactly how to become the best woman and mom you can be by learning to have more freedom, more sanity, and more time to enjoy it all.

Download or read book The Mom s Guide to Growing Your Family Green written by Terra Wellington and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the multitude of green choices available, how can moms determine what will be best for their families—and the environment? Terra Wellington has the answers. This user-friendly and invaluable resource is packed with hundreds of easy green how-tos including: • Shopping: Get the most bang for your buck by purchasing organic foods that would otherwise have high pesticide residue, like apples, grapes, green peppers, peaches, and pears. • Kitchen: Save money and water by scraping—not rinsing— dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. Today's models are so efficient that rinsing is not necessary. • Home office: Screensavers don't save energy. Instead have the computer switch to sleep mode when idle.

Download or read book Asset Allocation Strategies for Mutual Funds written by Giuseppe Galloppo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-24 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an overview of the best-working strategies in the field of equity and fixed income mutual fund-based portfolio management. This timely research considers different market conditions, such as global financial crises, across various geographical regions such as the USA and Europe. Combining academic and practical findings, the author presents a practitioner perspective on mutual fund-based portfolio strategies, appealing not only to finance scholars but also professionals within the asset management industry. This book synthesizes a large part of the academic research to date on the mutual fund industry by drawing from the most widely cited academic journals. The author makes a systematic use of numerical examples to facilitate the understanding of Investment themes organized around several important topics: size, diversification, flows, active management, volatility, performance persistence and rating.

Download or read book We Laugh We Cry We Cook written by Becky Johnson and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becky Johnson and her daughter Rachel Randolph come from a long line of laughter. The female side of her family tree is dotted with funny storytellers, prolific authors, hospitable home cooks, and champion chatters. In We Love, We Laugh, We Cook, Becky—a butter and bacon loving mama—and Rachel—a vegan bean eating daughter—share stories of their crazy, wonderful, and sometimes challenging lives as Rachel becomes a mother herself. Becky is messy; Rachel craves order. Becky forgets what month it is; Rachel is an organizational genius. (At least before baby arrives.) Sprinkled throughout are the lip-smacking, nourishing recipes they love to make and share. From food for a family reunion of thirty, to lunch for a party of one in a high chair, to a hot meal for a sick friend, the authors demonstrate grace, acceptance, and love to others through the bonding gifts of humor, attentive listening, and cooking ... whether diners prefer beef or tofu in their stew.

Download or read book Mother Load written by Jennifer Walcott and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mother Load is a collection of memoir, inner monologue, poetry, and short story which let readers in on some of the realities of mothering from the 1940s to the early 2000' s. This kaleidoscope of courageous, sometimes raw, sometimes loving, narratives bring to the surface the tensions that haunt mothering relationships across generations. The pieces paint pictures of mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, daughters, and friends. Grief, anger, and loss are here as well as insights, perspective, and gratitude. Moreover, the silence in these relationships has been highlighted: what was assumed, what was unquestioned or undiscussable, what was too shameful or painful to be put into words. The women whose work is collected here differ from one another in a myriad of ways: family history and geographical location, class and racial identity, and education. But the unity among them lies in their commitment to reflection and to the desire to go closer to their own histories and those of their families, and to express the truths of their lives and their experiences. In telling these stories lies hope for better.

Download or read book 6th World Congress of Biomechanics WCB 2010 1 6 August 2010 Singapore written by Chwee Teck Lim and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 1747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biomechanics covers a wide field such as organ mechanics, tissue mechanics, cell mechanics to molecular mechanics. At the 6th World Congress of Biomechanics WCB 2010 in Singapore, authors presented the largest experimental studies, technologies and equipment. Special emphasis was placed on state-of-the-art technology and medical applications. This volume presents the Proceedings of the 6th WCB 2010 which was hold in conjunction with 14th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME) & 5th Asia Pacific Conference on Biomechanics (APBiomech). The peer reviewed scientific papers are arranged in the six themes Organ Mechanics, Tissue Mechanics, Cell Mechanics, Molecular Mechanics, Materials, Tools, Devices & Techniques, Special Topics.

Download or read book 8 Is Enough written by Shannon Alford and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV"No matter how difficult life becomes, we can develop a love relationship with God and choose the path to follow Him."/div

Download or read book Some Other Way written by Margot Johnson and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jayne Jones’s life is full as surrogate aunt to her birth daughter, given up in open adoption five years ago, and as leader of the Adopt-a-Dog service. She yearns to expand the overcrowded dog shelter on a coveted piece of adjacent land. When Dr. Evan Scott, her high school crush, returns, he complicates everything by becoming her formidable opponent. Back in his hometown to join a medical clinic that wants to expand onto the same property, Evan is ready to forget past hurts and embrace a fresh start with the cute girl—now attractive woman—he remembers. But should Jayne bare her heart to the good-looking newcomer? And will her secret change his mind?

Download or read book Advanced Tribology written by Jianbin Luo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Advanced Tribology" is the proceedings of the 5th China International Symposium on Tribology (held every four years) and the 1st International Tribology Symposium of IFToMM, held in Beijing 24th-27th September 2008. It contains seven parts: lubrication; friction and wear; micro/nano-tribology; tribology of coatings, surface and interface; biotribology; tribo-chemistry; industry tribology. The book reflects the recent progress in the fields such as lubrication, friction and wear, coatings, and precision manufacture etc. in the world. The book is intended for researchers, engineers and graduate students in the field of tribology, lubrication, mechanical production and industrial design. The editors Jianbin Luo, Yonggang Meng, Tianmin Shao and Qian Zhao are all the professors at the State Key Lab of Tribology, Tsinghua University, Beijing.

Download or read book Redheaded Rants of a God and Country Loving Patriot written by Allyson Scott and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part memoir, part "SOMEBODY-had-to-say-it", Redheaded Rants will take you on a trip to West Texas, and show you that your family is not as strange as you once thought they were.

Download or read book I Speak Boy written by Jessica Brody and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A phone-obsessed twelve-year-old girl, frustrated by the cryptic boys in her life, discovers a magic app that can read boys' thoughts in this modern-day retelling of Emma by Jane Austen. After a matchmaking attempt for her best friend, Harper, goes wrong, Emmy is fed up. Why are boys so hard to figure out? But then something amazing happens--she wakes up with a new app on her phone: iSpeak Boy! Suddenly Emmy has the information every girl wants to know--the super-secret knowledge of how boys think . . . and who they like! Now Emmy is using her magical app to make matches left and right. But can she use it to help Harper, the only person who doesn't seem to buy into Emmy's "gift"? And when her secret gets out and the app ends up in the wrong hands, can Emmy figure out how to undo the damage she's caused?

Download or read book Just This Moment written by Elizabeth Torres Psy.D. ABPP and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one ever can really imagine what is in store for you as a mother. So much is out of our control and unpredictable. Mothers days are long, the stakes feel very high, and there is so much responsibility. Rather than just enduring and being worn out by motherhood, Just This Moment describes, in simple and practical terms, how mindfulness helps moms who want to thrive in motherhood. In her book, Dr. Torres shares attitudes, mindsets, and real-life tools to help moms have more fun while taking advantage of the rich opportunities for growth that motherhood brings. She uses examples from her own life and her two decades of work as a clinical psychologist to explore common ground in motherhood. • Learn about the value of learning to live more in the present with kindness for yourself • Understand how the mind works and how to avoid unnecessary "optional suffering" • Explore mindsets and attitudes that promote ease and amplify the best of life • Empower yourself with techniques, tools, and Mindful Mama Mantras that support you being your best you on your motherhood journey Mindfulness skills help provide a home base for connecting with and appreciating yourself, trusting yourself, savoring life with all your senses, and being conscious and thoughtful about your choices

Download or read book What Happens After Dark written by Jasmine Haynes and published by Redwood Valley Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By day, Bree Mason is a mild-mannered accountant. But after dark, she gives herself over to Luke Raven and a world of sensual submission. Can a woman with so many secrets ever give more than just her body? While Bree wants more out of life, more out of her career, she’s ruled by fear and controlled by her secrets. And there’s a secret she’s hidden for years, even from herself. Until she can conquer it, she will never be more than a shadow of the woman she wants to be. For a year, Luke Raven has given Bree the dominance she begs for. Now Luke has developed a craving for so much more; he wants a relationship outside their strictly sensual affair. But does he have the power to help her exorcise her demons and free her from her past? “A romantic, sexy, honest hero…” Five-star Reader Review “Snares you from the very first scene…” Five-star Reader Review Previously published in 2011