Download or read book My Mother Always Called Me by My Brother s Name written by Daniel Ort and published by Orchises Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Will I Ever be Good Enough written by Karyl McBride and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book specifically for daughters suffering from the emotional abuse of selfish, self-involved mothers,Will I Ever Be Good Enough?provides the expert assistance you need in order to overcome this debilitating history and reclaim your life for yourself. Drawing on over two decades of experience as a therapist specializing in women's psychology and health, psychotherapist Dr. Karyl McBride helpsyou recognize the widespread effects of this maternal emotional abuse and guides you as you create an individualized program for self-protection, resolution, and complete recovery.An estimated 1.5 million American women have narcissistic personality disorder, which makes them so insecure and overbearing, insensitive and domineering that they can psychologically damage their daughters for life. Daughters of narcissistic mothers learn that maternal love is not unconditional, and that it is given only when they behave in accordance with their mothers' often unreasonable expectations and whims. As adults, these daughters consequently have difficulty overcoming their insecurities and feelings of inadequacy, disappointment, sadness, and emotional emptiness. They may also have a terrible fear of abandonment that leads them to form unhealthy love relationships, as well as a tendency to perfectionism and unrelenting self-criticism, or to self-sabotage and frustration.Herself the recovering daughter of a narcissistic mother, Dr. McBride includes her personal struggle, which adds a profound level of authority to her work, along with the perspectives of the hundreds of suffering daughters she's interviewed over the years. Their stories of how maternal abuse has manifested in their lives -- as well as how they have successfully overcome its effects -- show you that you're not alone and that you can take back your life and have the controlyouwant.Dr. McBride's step-by-step program will enable you to:(1) Recognize your own experience with maternal narcissism and its effects on all aspects of your life (2) Discover how you have internalized verbal and nonverbal messages from your mother and how these have translated into a strong desire to overachieve or a tendency to self-sabotage (3) Construct a step-by-step program to reclaim your life and enhance your sense of self, a process that includes creating a psychological separation from your mother and breaking the legacy of abuse. You will also learn how not to repeat your mother's mistakes with your own daughter.Warm and sympathetic, filled with the examples of women who have established healthy boundaries with their hurtful mothers,Will I Ever Be Good Enough?encourages and inspires you as it aids your recovery.

Download or read book Before We Get Old written by Toni Sears and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six years ago my mother requested that I should write a story about how things were when we all were young. The experiences we had and endured along the way while making memories that would last a lifetime. The things that we often sat around talking about on so many occasions and would laugh so hard we would be in tears. My mother felt that other people would enjoy some of our fondest memories from my childhood as she did her best to raise her children as a single parent most of the time. My family felt it was a blessing to be able to look back and laugh about it all, what my mother referred to as the good old days. There are some stories you would not believe, but they a true some are funny and some are sad. My mother passed away on Thanksgiving day of 2006 so I am really trying to keep a promise that I made to her and keep our fondest and most cherished memories from my childhood and share it with the world. That is what my mother wanted me to do, I really hope you enjoy Before We Get Old (the good old days).

Download or read book Psychology Library Editions Child Development written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 5953 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychology Library Editions: Child Development (20 Volume set) brings together a diverse number of titles across many areas of developmental psychology, from children’s play to language development. The series of previously out-of-print titles, originally published between 1930 and 1993, with the majority from the 70s and 80s, includes contributions from many respected authors in the field and charts the progression of the field over this time.

Download or read book The Hurricane of My Mother and Other Likely Stories written by Bill Murphy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These short essays are sometimes humorous, sometimes funny, sometimes smile and/or laugh inducing, although they sometimes sit there like cups of flat, lukewarm, recycled beer. Even then, however, it must be admitted, they are short. Mostly they're pretty funny.

Download or read book Back in the Hood written by Willie Moran and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These books tell the story of the life I lived. But now it's a story that must be told about how people can change. I'm a married man. My wife and I, Deatrol B. Moran, are changed people. We live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Download or read book Catching Ricebirds written by Marcus Doe and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable autobiography is a journey from terror, violence, and despair into freedom, peace, and joy. Catching Ricebirds: A Story of Letting Vengenance Go is Marcus Doe's true story as a Liberian refugee who lost his family and fled his country, and ultimately learns to forgive and find peace again. In this gripping autobiography, a refugee recounts his journey from fear, violence, and despair into freedom, peace, and forgiveness. Marcus Doe was born in Liberia, West Africa, in 1979. Affectionately nicknamed "Jungle Boy" by his family, he reveled in his childhood life and was hardly aware of the dangerous political climate swirling around him. But by mid-July 1990, a violent civil war erupted and Liberia was thrown into a time of fear, starvation, and death. Separated from his family, Marcus embarked on a remarkable journey to escape the war-ravaged country he loves and wounds that he carried in his memory. But God's light reached him in this darkness. Where he had been filled with hatred, Marcus slowly learned to forgive. Now his mission is to bring the hope and the peace of Christ to others. Marcus's life unfolds in four movements: first as a young boy living in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, during a perod of growing unrest; second as a refugee fleeing from rebel forces that would kill him and his family wihout a second thought; third as a wanderer in foreign countries -- Ghana, the United States -- unable to return to his childhool home; and finally as an adult, coming to grips with the loss he experienced and longing to see his own healing extended to others still haunted by Liberia's suffering. Fans of the New York Times bestseller Unbroken about Louis Zamperini will love this story as well, as it has similar themes of one man's struggle to find redemption in the face of incredible hardship.

Download or read book Little Seed written by Wei Tchou and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Little Seed is what I want the future of literature to be." —Sam Cohen, author of Sarahland Little Seed is an experimental memoir that braids together the narrative of the author's relationship with her brother and family with a deeply personal field guide to ferns. The chapters move associatively, commenting on each other indirectly and drawing out questions of assimilation, race, class, gender, nature and the general problem of being and knowing. When the author's brother has a psychotic break, the rigid structure of the book itself breaks apart and the protagonist adventures to the cloud forest of Oaxaca in order to truly live: to know the world by experiencing it rather than reading about it or following the direction of others. Some persistent themes throughout the book: What does it mean to be Chinese? What is love and how best to love? What really is a fern?

Download or read book Mariposa written by Ana Ramirez and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mariposa is a personal testimony of how there is hope even for the most lost person to find forgiveness, acceptance, and redemption. From childhood to adulthood, my life has been filled with domestic violence, alcohol, drugs, and gangs. The road I have traveled has been paved by rejection, selfishness, disobedience, and various forms of heartache and sorrow. The choices I have made led me to live a hard and lonely life. All along the way, Christ accompanied me and never let me go. He has protected me from death and rescued me from a compromised and lukewarm lifestyle. In this story, you will read how nothing is impossible with God. In life, we will face many tests over and over again; we will fail most of these tests. Do not lose hope. Remember that without these tests, there would be no testimony. God is faithful, and His love for us never fails us. Through this never-ending love, I have found peace, joy, and hope. No matter how dark the night has been or how fierce the storms have come, you can be sure that the arms of Christ have held you and will continue to hold you. "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come, the old has gone and the new is here" (Corinthians 5:17). Only by the grace of God can we be transformed from being a lowly worm: struggling to survive on our own strength. Hoping we are not squashed or eaten by a bigger bug. Until one day we realize we must give up and surrender our way of life. Our metamorphosis begins as we die to our flesh. We suddenly wake up from our sleep and break free from the cell that entrapped us. We find that we have been transformed and set free. Given a new identity and wings to fly. No longer a crawling worm but a beautiful mariposa.

Download or read book Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat written by Red Barber and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than fifty years Red Barber was the voice of baseball. The game was broadcast sporadically until the late 1930s, when Barber burst into prominence by bringing it home to radio listeners, play by play. More than half a century later, he could still be heard, broadcasting over National Public Radio from his retirement home in Tallahassee. Announcing for the Brooklyn Dodgers and later for the New York Yankees, he became a legend long before his death in 1992. Red?s story reveals the growth and changes in baseball over the years, the demands of sportscasting, and the difference between radio and television reporting. Here is Red giving major play-by-plays of his own life and career with characteristic wit and integrity.

Download or read book Songs My Mother Sang to Me written by Patricia Preciado Martin and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1992-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motivated by a love of her Mexican American heritage, Patricia Preciado Martin set out to document the lives and memories of the women of her mother's and grandmother's eras; for while the role of women in Southwest has begun to be chronicled, that of Hispanic women largely remains obscure. In Songs My Mother Sang to Me, she has preserved the oral histories of many of these women before they have been lost or forgotten. Martin's quest took her to ranches, mining towns, and cities throughout southern Arizona, for she sought to document as varied an experience of the contributions of Mexican American women as possible. The interviews covered family history and genealogy, childhood memories, secular and religious traditions, education, work and leisure, environment and living conditions, rites of passage, and personal values. Each of the ten oral histories reflects not only the spontaneity of the interview and personality of each individual, but also the friendship that grew between Martin and her subjects. Songs My Mother Sang to Me collects voices not often heard and brings to print accounts of social change never previously recorded. These women document more than the details of their own lives; in relating the histories of their ancestors and communities, they add to our knowledge of the culture and contributions of Mexican American people in the Southwest.

Download or read book From My Mothers Womb written by Uncle Hector and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will help better understand the different relationships with ones family, friends and supervisors in life. To understand that there are problems that happen without a purpose and one must deal with one situation after the other and still keep positive to continue your travels through life.

Download or read book Vidal written by Vidal Sassoon and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vidal Sassoon's extraordinary life has taken him from an impoverished East End childhood to global fame. The father of modern hairdressing, his slick sharp cutting took the fashion world by storm and reinvented the hairdressers' art. Before Vidal Sassoon, a trip to the hairdressers meant a shampoo and set or a stiffly lacquered up-do that would last a week - or more. After Vidal Sassoon, hair was sleek, smooth and very, very stylish. Along with his lifelong friend and partner in style, Mary Quant, who he first met in 1957 and who to this day sports a Sassoon-style geometric bob, he styled the 1960s. As memorable as the mini - be it car or skirt - he is one of the few people who can genuinely be described as iconic. His memoirs are as rich in anecdote as one might hope and full of surprising and often moving stories of his early life - his time at the Spanish & Portuguese Jewish Orphanage in Maida Vale, fighting Fascists in London's East End and fighting in the army of the fledgling state of Israel in the late Forties. And then there's the extraordinary career, during which he cut the hair of everyone who was anyone, launched salons all over the world, founded the hairdressing school that still bears his name and became a global brand, with Vidal Sassoon products on all our bathroom shelves.

Download or read book I Can See written by Curt Young and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-10-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors collaborated on the book entitled I Can See for the special reason to pass onto their children and grandchildren that no matter what happens in life, they can always turn to God for comfort and guidance. He will always be there for them no matter what situation develops in their lives. Their hope is that this can be seen through this book. The pathway to Heaven and all we must do to travel it lies before us. Curt and Frank pray that after reading this book, you too will say, " I Can See."

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Download or read book Nothing But the Truth written by Yusuf Kodwavwala Dawood and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handbook offers rich data on all aspects of the ICT industry and usage in Nigeria. It estimates for example that the number of phone lines in Nigeria has increased from 8 to over 14 million; the number of registered ISPs from 160 to 373, the number of computers from 1.9 million to 5 million, and the number of internet users from 750,000 to over 2.4 million. A particular area of focus of the new edition is ICT usage in the media.

Download or read book Walk to Freedom written by Carolyn Merrimon and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is an autobiography of my life story. I was previously confined at Ft. Leavenworth United States Disciplinary Barracks located in Fort Leavenworth, KS. This is a Military Confinement Facility where military men and women, who have been court-martialed, are confined together. I was one of 13 females to make history, by being among the last females confined at Ft. Leavenworth United States Disciplinary Barracks, when the military established a military prison for females "only." at Miramar Naval Brig., in San Diego, Ca. I committed the crime of Larceny of one half million dollars hoping it would buy me the love I so desired from a man to fill the empty void in my life. I committed my crime not out of a need for money but out of the need to be loved and desired by a man. My ex-lover as well as co-conspirator in my crime was the key witness against me at my court-martial, of which I was sentenced to eight years confinement."--Back cover