Download or read book No More Holiday Blues written by Wayne W. Dyer and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1993-10-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows readers how to recapture the true spirit of Christmas, Hanukkah, and other holidays, offering specific ideas for overcoming self-defeating attitudes, rekindling childhood excitement, and making holidays experiences of joy. Reprint.

Download or read book No More Holiday Blues written by Wayne W. Dyer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows readers how to recapture the true spirit of Christmas, Hanukkah, and other holidays, offering specific ideas for overcoming self-defeating attitudes, rekindling childhood excitement, and making holidays experiences of joy.

Download or read book Survival Lessons written by Alice Hoffman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author and cancer survivor tells how to hold on to joy in times of sorrow in this “absolutely beautiful book” (Sue Monk Kidd). The prize-winning author of such modern literary classics as Practical Magic, The World That We Knew, and The Marriage of Opposites, Alice Hoffman is also a cancer survivor. In Survival Lessons, she shares her transformative journey, showing us how to re-envision our own lives and relationships with our friends and family, and the significance of the everyday choices we make. Sorrow and joy are both part of the human experience, and the beauty of the world is easy to overlook during periods of crisis, illness, or loss. Here, Hoffman offers wit, wisdom, and comfort in “an optimistic instruction manual [for] anyone struggling with self-care in a time of trouble” (Story Circle Book Reviews). “In this gem of a book, Alice Hoffman acknowledges the sorrows of life, while reminding us of its joys. Survival Lessons is filled with love, insight, and lots of practical advice—including a crazy-good brownie recipe.” —Will Schwalbe, New York Times–bestselling author of The End of Your Life Book Club “Hoffman’s storytelling artistry enlivens each intimate, thoughtfully distilled, charming, and nurturing lesson in living.” —Booklist “[Survival Lessons] is not about [Hoffman’s] breast cancer per se but about making choices that will improve readers’ lives and relationships and remind them ‘of the beauty of life.’” —Library Journal “Full of smart intentions and kind reminders . . . Uplifting advice we’ll gladly take.” —Better Homes & Gardens

Download or read book Happy Holidays written by Wayne W. Dyer and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1986 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Dyer, the bestselling author of Your Erroneous Zones and The Sky's the Limit, offers uplifting and specific advice about how to avoid the holiday blues and recapture the sense of magical enchantment that the holiday season should provide. Illustrated.

Download or read book Lady Sings the Blues written by Billie Holiday and published by Crown. This book was released on 2006-07-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for fans of The United States vs. Billie Holiday, this is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred memoir of the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation—a fiftieth-anniversary edition updated with stunning new photos, a revised discography, and an insightful foreword by music writer David Ritz Taking the reader on a fast-moving journey from Billie Holiday’s rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood (where she ran errands at a whorehouse in exchange for the chance to listen to Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith albums), to her emergence on Harlem’s club scene, to sold-out performances with the Count Basie Orchestra and with Artie Shaw and his band, this revelatory memoir is notable for its trenchant observations on the racism that darkened Billie’s life and the heroin addiction that ended it too soon. We are with her during the mesmerizing debut of “Strange Fruit”; with her as she rubs shoulders with the biggest movie stars and musicians of the day (Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Clark Gable, Benny Goodman, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and more); and with her through the scrapes with Jim Crow, spats with Sarah Vaughan, ignominious jailings, and tragic decline. All of this is told in Holiday’s tart, streetwise style and hip patois that makes it read as if it were written yesterday.

Download or read book Holiday Blues written by Chris Emejuru and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-10-09 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take two teenage friends, cross their paths with two bad brothers during one holiday break, and this is what you get. The secondary school-attending friends are Jon, schooling out of town at Port Harcourt, and Lasy whose school is closer home to their small town of Aboh near Orlu in eastern Nigeria. Jon's story is one of mistaken identity and is tied to his older sister Mary to whom he has an emotional attachment. Lasy's story is that of pursuit of local fame that puts him in direct competition with bad brother number two, Chamberlain. Set in early 1980s Nigeria, HB captures a bit of the culture and social issues of the time: juvenile delinquency, exam fraud, poor infrastructure, bad electricity, corrupt policemen at road checkpoints, chaotic traffic, malaria, ghetto jungle justice, traditional customs and beliefs. You are also taken on panoramic trips within a rural setting in eastern Nigeria, from east across the River Niger to Lagos in the west, and within Lagos itself.

Download or read book Holiday Blues written by Clarence R. Tucker and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Trouble No More written by Mark Westmoreland and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn on any classic rock station, and you’ll hear Southern Rock tunes that will make you stomp your foot and sing along to. The hard-rocking pioneers of the genre left behind a legacy of hard living that endures today. The stories in Trouble No More celebrate those pioneers. Find ramblers, gamblers, swindlers, and double-dealers within these pages, all striving to survive more than the Southern humidity. The authors bring the rough living of the Southern Rock genre to the page, and communicate the ache of the blues. There are twenty-two stories of heartbreak, murder, robbery, and barnyard brawls. Edited by Mark Westmoreland with stories by Bill Baber, C.W. Blackwell, Jerry Bloomfield, S.A. Cosby, Nikki Dolson, Michel Lee Garrett, James D.F. Hannah, Curtis Ippolito, Jessica Laine, Brodie Lowe, Bobby Mathews, Brian Panowich, Rob Pierce, Joey R. Poole, Raquel V. Reyes, Michael Farris Smith, J.B. Stevens, Chris Swann, Art Taylor, N.B. Turner and Joseph S. Walker.

Download or read book Santa s Tips to Surviving the Holidays written by Timothy Connaghan and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it is Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza or one of the other Winter Holiday's, "Santa's Guide to Surviving the Holidays," is the help you need to reduce stress and manage everything during the holiday season. The Holiday Season is a time to be with family and friends and enjoy life. Why get bogged down with hundreds of things to do and then find out you have no time for yourself. No time to enjoy!This book will help you understand why, when the days get shorter and a we lose some of our daylight, a bit of gloom can set in and we sometimes stress out or get depressed as the holidays approach. Then it gives you advice and tools to combat the gloom.It shows you how to plan, organize and handle all your holiday tasks, challenges and commitments, plus your day to day activities, and still have time for yourself, and time to truly enjoy the holiday season.Most important is how to do it 'Stress-Free!" By starting earlier in the year and spreading out your work, you reduce the stress that develops when we get close to the holidays and realize that there is still lots to do. "Santa's Guide to Surviving the Holidays" show you examples for everything from Un-cluttering your life, to getting a head start on your holiday planning and decorating, to scheduling your activities and events and doing all your holiday shopping. And most important, help in fighting the big "D," Holiday Depression.Includes: -Detailed Planning List with tasks to do each month, starting in July, August, September or October. You select when to start.-Suggestions and ideas on how to organize and plan-Sample planning guides, checklists-Advice on taking the kids to see Santa-Scheduling Santa to visit your home or company-Advice on teaching your children about the joy of giving, to -How to answer your child says, "My friends tell me there is no Santa."And much, much, more.Plus, along the way, National Santa Tim Connaghan has included some photos of his exploits and work during his fifty years of wearing the red suit.

Download or read book Undoing Depression written by Richard O'Connor and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling approachable guide that has inspired thousands of readers to manage or overcome depression — fully revised and updated for life in the 21st century. Depression rates around the world have skyrocketed in the 20‑plus years since Richard O'Connor first published his classic book on living with and overcoming depression. Nearly 40 million American adults suffer from the condition, which affects nearly every aspect of life, from relationships, to job performance, physical health, productivity, and, of course, overall happiness. And in an increasingly stressful and overwhelming world, it's more important than ever to understand the causes and effects of depression, and what we can do to overcome it. In this fully revised and updated edition — which includes updated information on the power of mindfulness, the relationship between depression and other diseases, the risks and side effects of medication, depression’s effect on thinking, and the benefits of exercise — Dr. O'Connor explains that, like heart disease and other physical conditions, depression is fueled by complex and interrelated factors: genetic, biochemical, environmental. But Dr. O'Connor focuses on an additional factor that is often overlooked: our own habits. Unwittingly we get good at depression. We learn how to hide it, and how to work around it. We may even achieve great things, but with constant struggle rather than satisfaction. Relying on these methods to make it through each day, we deprive ourselves of true recovery, of deep joy and healthy emotion. Undoing Depression teaches us how to replace depressive patterns with a new and more effective set of skills. We already know how to "do" depression—and we can learn how to undo it. With a truly holistic approach that synthesizes the best of the many schools of thought about this painful disease, and a critical eye toward medications, O'Connor offers new hope—and new life—for sufferers of depression.

Download or read book A Bad Woman Feeling Good Blues and the Women Who Sing Them written by Buzzy Jackson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the artistic heritage of numerous women blues singers, from Ma Rainey and Billie Holiday to Aretha Franklin and Tina Turner, exploring the messages within their songs and images while discussing their contributions to music and American history. 15,000 first printing.

Download or read book Busker s Holiday written by Adam Gussow and published by Modern Blues Harmonica. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning blues scholar and musician Adam Gussow, a taut, sexy first novel about the summer busking scene in Europe and a pair of wild-hearted young men who make a pitch for fame and glory, finding a girl or two along the way. Busker's Holiday is the story of McKay Chernoff, a Columbia University grad student with a harmonica in his pocket and a blues band in his background. Desolate and despairing after a disastrous romantic breakup, McKay decides to fly off to Paris and reinvent himself as a street performer. What follows is an epic summer voyage into the busking life, propelled by the mad exploits of Billy Lee Grant, a fearless young guitar shredder whose Memphis-to-Mississippi pedigree and Dylanesque surrealism make him, when he explodes into view, precisely the partner McKay has been yearning for. Burning like a latter-day Dean Moriarty, Bill goads McKay into a sun-drenched, all-night bender, stoked by wine, women, mushrooms, and trains, that careens down out of Avignon and across the French Riviera. What happens next--in Florence, Solingen, Amsterdam, Paris--is a story of purgatory, redemption, and love regained. Hope, in a word, as a modern troubadour returns from his wanderings, reborn.

Download or read book Breaking Anxiety s Grip written by Dr. Michelle Bengtson and published by Revell. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ours is an age of anxiety. We worry about our children, jobs, homes, health, and finances. News and social media feed our fears. Even the fear of missing out leads to anxiety. The solution isn't to rid ourselves of the sources of anxiety but to recognize that anxiety originates from a spiritual influence--and then use the weapons of power, love, and a sound mind to fight back and live in God's peace. Sharing her own story of emerging from the battle with anxiety as well as the stories of others, Dr. Michelle Bengtson reminds you of your identity as a follower of Christ and of the peace he promises you in spite of everything. She provides tools to cope with the crushing emotional burden of anxiety now, and, more importantly, shows you how to reclaim God's peace as a way of life so that you can break anxiety's grip.

Download or read book Living with Depression written by Deborah Serani and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the U.S., major depressive disorder afflicts more than 20 million adults and children every year. Living with Depression details the various forms and manifestations of depression alongside Serani's own personal and professional experiences with depression. Clinical definitions, updated research, and the promise of science serve not only as a resource guide for anyone who has depression or loves someone with this disorder, but also as a testament to those who live productively with mental illness"--

Download or read book Blues Philosophy for Everyone written by Jesse R. Steinberg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophy of the blues From B.B. King to Billie Holiday, Blues music not only sounds good, but has an almost universal appeal in its reflection of the trials and tribulations of everyday life. Its ability to powerfully touch on a range of social and emotional issues is philosophically inspiring, and here, a diverse range of thinkers and musicians offer illuminating essays that make important connections between the human condition and the Blues that will appeal to music lovers and philosophers alike.

Download or read book The Compassion Code written by Laura S Jack and published by Kat Biggie Press. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you knew that compassion was the antidote to healing our hurt, hate-filled world? With heartfelt, relatable stories, compassion coaching tips, and abundant loving action steps, The Compassion Code is an invaluable guide for how to shift our mindset, diminish hurtful viewpoints, and embrace the humanity in each of us.

Download or read book Beating the Holiday Blues written by Robert Grice and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Holiday Blues is a real phenomenon that begins in the fall when the days are shorter, and outdoor activity decreases and persists until spring. The condition also known as holiday depression or the Holiday Blues comes in two forms. One form is the clinical seasonal affective disorder. The second form has more to do with circumstances or environmental factors. Numerous factors contribute to the condition, including pre-existing depression, stress, and grief. The symptoms of the Holiday Blues include sleep disturbances, depression, anxiety, loneliness, fatigue, concentration problems, and suicidal thoughts. The treatment of the condition is multifaceted and includes getting out of the house, managing obligations, and practicing self-care. If necessary, seek professional help. The good news is that the condition is treatable. The purpose of this workbook is to provide a resource to help in reducing the symptoms of Holiday Depression. You can enjoy the Holiday Season again. Tags: Christmas, Depression, Holidays, mental health, Holiday Blues, mood disorders, self-care