Download or read book My Mother s Keeper Finding Strength Within The Bond written by Cheria Hollowell-Rush and published by Destiny Discovered Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strengthen The Bond will present: My Mother's Keeper...Finding Strength Within The Bond. I'm looking for mothers and daughters to write about how their bond has been interrupted because of the challenges that they've gone through or going through. Also, how their struggle helped each other to find their strength.

Download or read book My Father s Keeper written by Jonathan G. Silin and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Father's Keeper is the moving story of Jonathan Silin, a gay man in midlife who learned to care for his elderly parents as a series of life-threatening illnesses forced them to make the difficult transition from being independent to being reliant on their son. Their new needs and unrelenting demands brought them into intimate daily contact and radically transformed what had been a difficult and emotionally fraught relationship. My Father's Keeper chronicles the unexpected ways in which the ideas and skills Silin acquired as an early childhood educator, a specialist in life span development, and a compassionate witness to the devastation of the HIV/AIDS crisis came together with his interest in human psychology to deeply inform his thinking about the dramatic changes in his family's life and increasingly influence his role as his father's (and mother's) keeper. Through the months and years of his parents' decline, Silin reflects on their history as a family, recalling the pain of his father's psychological struggles through midlife and the uneasy, imperfect process of accepting his son as a gay man and accepting his son's partner into the family. My Father's Keeper is a book about beginnings and endings, loss and redemption, the ethics of intervention, and the pressing needs of two extremely vulnerable populations.

Download or read book My Mother s Keeper written by Ph. D. Sheila D. Williams and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was the one who gave birth to her, became her first friend and encouraged her to try school that scary kindergarten year, which led her to a lifelong love of education. Yet where author Dr. Sheila Williams learned most from her mother was during her mother's battle with clinical depression and later diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. Her autobiography, entitled My Mother's Keeper, chronicles Sheila's sometimes dysfunctional but endearing friendship with her mother, which endured a parental role reversal when her mother's mental health issues forced Sheila to be responsible for herself at age ten. Sheila later details her memories of still seeing the embodiment of the Proverbs 31 woman within her mom, as she later became her mother's primary caregiver. My Mother's Keeper is a moving tribute to the power of a mother-daughter bond that defied the odds, both externally and internally, and thrived in love until the end.

Download or read book From the Sphere to the Grave written by Kat Barrett and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2003-11-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crystal lives the first twenty-seven years of her life as a housewife and mother, out of place in her existence. She is a wild spirit who is suddenly unleashed into another world, far from her twentieth century reality. On Hyla, Crystal discovers that she is to be a high power sorceress, a healer, in a place of castles and dragons, where magic is real. The energy of the Orb propels her desires into reality, and fades her guilt of deserting her life on Earth. Lucas Tazarian is Hylas high sorcerer, a lone spirit, free in his life and his ideas. His existence is forever changed on the moon he carries Crystals life energy into Hyla to take its place in his adopted sisters flesh. The physical bodies on Earth and on Hyla are matching shells, but his sister and Crystal are two very different women. Taz isassigned to the task of turning Crystal into who she is destined to become. He is her teacher, her mentor and through the calling of the power they hold, becomes her lover, mate and protector. The possibilities of their existence together are endless, but so are the forces that aim to destroy their power, love and ultimately their lives. An adult fantasy, for those who like their reading fast paced. This book is meant to call forth a roller coaster of emotions. Visually suggestive, the text is occasionally sexual, or violent in nature.

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Download or read book Captive Heart written by Vivian Wood and published by Vivian Wood. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am a dark, ruthless man with a deadly mission. I’ll sell anything to earn my next million, be it guns or priceless art. A helpless little bird makes the mistake of crossing my path. A beautiful girl that can help me with my next arms deal. So I kidnap her, no matter how she screams and struggles. She’ll keep me company and warm my bed until the deal is done. She claims to hate me. She watches, waiting for the right time to run. But I see the look in her eyes when she thinks no one is around. Longing. Lonely. Hungry. I know her pain all too well. I think I will be the one to set my little bird free… All she has to do is submit to me first.

Download or read book Nothing Special written by Dianne Bilyak and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of two siblings, one with Down syndrome, growing up in 1970s Connecticut is “rich in character, humor, hard-earned insights, and love” (Rachel Simon, author of Riding the Bus with My Sister). Nothing Special is a disarmingly candid tale of two sisters growing up in the 1970s in rural Connecticut. Older sister Chris, who has Down syndrome, is an extrovert with a knack for getting what she wants, while the author, her younger, typically developing sister, shoulders the burdens and grief of her parents, especially their father’s alcoholism. Dianne Bilyak details wrestling with their mixed emotions in vignettes that range from heartrending to laugh-out-loud funny, including anecdotes about Chris’s habit of faux-smoking Popsicle sticks or partying through the night with her invisible friends. Poet and disability advocate Bilyak strikes a rare balance between poignant and hilarious as she paints a compassionate and critical real-world picture of their lives. They struggle, separately and together, with the tension between dependence and independence, the complexities of giving versus receiving, the pressure to live as others expect, and in the end, the wonderful liberation of self-acceptance. “With charming specificity and hilarity, Bilyak writes frankly about her own identity, and that of her sister’s, comparing her own self-consciousness with her sister’s striking lack thereof . . . Bilyak hits home something that we so badly need to hear right now: that people with disabilities are not a monolith, and that there is no perfect way to love or be loved by them.” —Bekah Brunstetter, writer and producer for NBC’s This is Us

Download or read book Discover Your Purpose written by Rhys Thomas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this life-changing book, energy medicine expert Rhys Thomas shows you how to discover your life purpose and align your decisions with your deepest self, so your life is fulfilling, productive, and full of joy. Trying to meet everyone else’s expectations about the type of role you should play—whether in your job, your family, or society—can leave you constantly striving but ultimately dissatisfied. In this inspiring book, Thomas guides you in using the Rhys Method® Life Purpose Profile System to identify your purpose and reconnect with your passions, so you can find true happiness and fulfillment. This system of self-discovery encompasses five distinct soul-based profiles. Which one are you? - Creative Idealists are highly imaginative thinkers who sometimes self-isolate, feeling safer staying in their inner mental world than engaging with others. - Emotional Intelligence Specialists are empathic, sensitive, and compassionate but sometimes struggle with being overwhelmed and feeling unloved. - Team Players are loyal supporters who selflessly put others’ needs before their own, but they can fail to recognize their own strengths and needs. - Charismatic Leader-Charmers are energetic, dynamic, and capable, but they can become distrustful, self-centered, and even aggressive, in their relationships. - Knowledgeable Achievers are driven, self-disciplined, and organized big-picture thinkers. They sometimes lose touch with their emotions and push themselves too hard, becoming overly critical and judgmental. Once you identify your primary life-purpose profile, as well the other profiles you may inhabit, you can move toward your unique calling—embracing your strengths and rejecting unhealthy behaviors. Discover Your Purpose also helps you to better understand and relate to others through their profiles. Included in this book are resources and bio-energetic exercises designed for your individual profile to help you reach your fullest potential in mind, body, and soul.

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Download or read book The Evermore Keeper Book One Of The Destiny Scrolls written by Samantha Ashton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angela Meyler grew up attending normal schools alongside the pagan academy. From her mother, she learned how to fit in: studying, taking exams, making friends and practicing magic. Lindsey Isle, GA. Where her family resides practicing the magic which has flowed for generations-and where her destiny is kept a secret. Out with friends after her breakup, Angela meets William Enyalius. William is the same man she sees in her nightmares every night. Angela realizes the last thing she wants is to get involved-reluctant to see him again, she agrees to a meeting, knowing it's a horrible idea but can't stop the pull he has on her. But nothing is as it seems. Angela finds herself tangled in an ancient prophecy that appears to revolve around her, when athletes begin to turn up missing around the world and an evil god is behind it. Long lost family, friends and a soul mate she never knew she had will fight with each other and for each other to keep a century-long promise while staying alive...

Download or read book Hearings Before the Joint Commission on Postal Salaries Congress of the United States Sixty Sixth Congress First second Session s written by United States. Congress. Joint Commission on Postal Salaries and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Retrospect and Prospect in the Psychological Study of Families written by James P. McHale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assembles 11 of the leading thinkers and researchers in the field of family psychology to create a compendium summarizing both what psychology researchers have learned about the family and where the field should be going next. It evolved after the volume's contributors met with other distinguished family scholars to discuss family influences on child development and to ponder how this knowledge could be used to benefit families and children. This volume includes approaches to the family that feature multiple levels and topics of focal interest to benefit anyone interested in the family. Central topics include mothering, fathering, marriages, family group processes, sibling relations, and families as systems. In addition, three senior authors offer road maps to detect, and suggest (a) challenges in research on parenting, (b) marital and family dynamics, and (c) family systems in the years ahead. In keeping with the theme of how research affects the lives of families outside the university lab settings, this volume includes a chapter on the interface between family research and law. This book closes with a "big picture" analysis and critique of what is known and not known. Psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, and public policymakers interested in the family should especially find this volume of interest.

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Download or read book Continuing Bonds written by Dennis Klass and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996. This new book gives voice to an emerging consensus among bereavement scholars that our understanding of the grief process needs to be expanded. The dominant 20th century model holds that the function of grief and mourning is to cut bonds with the deceased, thereby freeing the survivor to reinvest in new relationships in the present. Pathological grief has been defined in terms of holding on to the deceased. Close examination reveals that this model is based more on the cultural values of modernity than on any substantial data of what people actually do. Presenting data from several populations, 22 authors - among the most respected in their fields - demonstrate that the health resolution of grief enables one to maintain a continuing bond with the deceased. Despite cultural disapproval and lack of validation by professionals, survivors find places for the dead in their on-going lives and even in their communities. Such bonds are not denial: the deceased can provide resources for enriched functioning in the present. Chapters examine widows and widowers, bereaved children, parents and siblings, and a population previously excluded from bereavement research: adoptees and their birth parents. Bereavement in Japanese culture is also discussed, as are meanings and implications of this new model of grief. Opening new areas of research and scholarly dialogue, this work provides the basis for significant developments in clinical practice in the field.

Download or read book Matria Redux written by Tegan Zimmerman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Matria Redux: Caribbean Women Novelize the Past, author Tegan Zimmerman contends that there is a need for reading Caribbean women’s texts relationally. This comprehensive study argues that the writer’s turn to maternal histories constitutes the definitive feature of this transcultural and transnational genre. Through an array of Caribbean women’s historical novels published roughly between 1980 and 2010, this book formulates the theory of matria—an imagined maternal space and time—as a postcolonial-psychoanalytic feminist framework for reading fictions of maternal history written by and about Caribbean women. Tracing the development of the historical novel in four periods of the Caribbean past—slavery, colonialism, revolution, and decolonization—this study argues that a pan-Caribbean generation of women writers, of varying discursive racial(ized) realities, has depicted similar matria constructs and maternal motifs. A politicized concept, matria functions in the historical novel as a counternarrative to traditional historical and literary discourses. Through close readings of the mother/daughter plots in contemporary Caribbean women’s historical fiction, such as Andrea Levy’s The Long Song, Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones, Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow, and Marie-Elena John’s Unburnable, Matria Redux considers the concept of matria an important vehicle for postcolonial-psychoanalytic feminist literary resistance and political intervention. Matria as a psychoanalytic, postcolonial strategy therefore envisions, by returning to history, alternative feminist fictions, futures, and Caribbeans.